By Tony Chang
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) -- Robert Mundell, a Nobel laureate in economics,
forecast Thursday that the slumping U.S. housing market will quickly recover as

Oct. 30, DAEJEON (Yonhap) -- South Korea's multipurpose satellite Arirang 3, now
under development, will likely be launched in Japan on a Japanese rocket in 2011,

By Yoo Cheong-mo
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak on Thursday praised Finance
Minister Kang Man-soo for playing a key role in concluding a US$30 billion

SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean provincial bank said Thursday it has
secured a US$60 million loan from an overseas lender as part of efforts to help

SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) -- KB Financial Group Inc., South Korea's third-largest
financial services group, said Thursday its net profit reached 568 billion won

By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) -- The Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld South
Korea's medical law which grants massage licenses exclusively to the blind,

SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world's largest
shipbuilder, said Thursday that its third-quarter net profit fell 33 percent

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SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks finished almost 12 percent higher

By Yoo Cheong-mo
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak said Thursday that North
Korean leader Kim Jong-il is one of three major factors undermining South Korea's

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