By Yoo Cheong-mo
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Monday called
for closer cooperation between South Korea and Japan in overcoming the global

By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- The worldwide economic slump triggered by the U.S.
financial crisis is causing South Korea's exports to contract much faster than

(ATTN: UPDATES with gov't plan to hire college graduates as interns in last three
paras)
By Yoo Cheong-mo

(ATTN: UPDATES headline, throughout with prosecutor quote)
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- A brother of former President Roh Moo-hyun denied

SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's women's handball squad has secured a
flight out of Thailand from an airport away from Bangkok where anti-government

SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- SK Telecom Co., South Korea's leading wireless carrier,
gained more customers than its rivals in November, maintaining its lead in the

(ATTN: UPDATES with more measures from N. Korea in paras 10-12, activists' plan to
send leaflets at bottom)
By Shim Sun-ah

SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- Pounded by a deepening economic slump at home and
overseas, South Korean automakers are slashing daily overtime, suspending weekend

SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the United States will hold next week
their first regular military dialogue since the U.S. presidential election, a

(ATTN: ADDS paras 2, 6-9 with environmental group's funding reform, detail)
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors sought an arrest warrant for Choi Yul, a