By Hwang Doo-hyong
WASHINGTON, April 6 (Yonhap) -- The commander of U.S. forces in South Korea Wednesday expressed concerns about further provocations from North Korea.

SEOUL (Yonhap) -- South Korea's state-run ocean research center built an observation system that provides a customized map of ocean currents in waters off Somalia to help a Korean warship patrol pi

SHANGHAI, March 13 (Yonhap) -- A team of South Korean officials arrived in Shanghai on Sunday to investigate an alleged sex-for-influence scandal involving a Chinese woman and several South Korean

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SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) -- The capital adequacy ratio of South Korean banks edged down in the fourth quarter of 2010 from three months earlier due to their payouts of year-end stock dividends, the

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By Yoo Jee-ho
GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korean male shooter Pak Myong-won
became the country's first double gold medalist of the ongoing Asian Games

By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's offer of a
long-term inter-Korean reunification strategy and a special tax to fund the

SEOUL, June 22 (Yonhap) -- Hankook Tire Co., South Korea's largest tiremaker,
said Tuesday that it plans to supply high-performance tires to U.S. carmaker Ford
Motor Co.

SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's exports to Greece and Iceland nearly
doubled in April from a month earlier thanks to an economic turnaround despite