SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is set to adopt weekly forecasts of water quality near the four major rivers under a multi-billion dollar refurbishment project next month in a bid to better

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korean listed firms' facility investment more than tripled in the first half from a year earlier, the bourse operator said Monday, amid the country's solid economic

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- Domestic gold prices set a fresh record high on Monday on the back of recent surges in international prices of the precious metal and the weak U.S.

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Japan will start working-level consultations early next month on the return of more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean royal archives that Japan took du

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak called Monday for concerted efforts to curb rising consumer prices, instructing aides to set up a prices-monitoring team and to make the issue a f

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., South Korea's leading shipbuilder, said Monday that it will start building a plant in Russia later this month that produces power switchgear

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- Next year's presidential election is expected to be close and the ruling party is doomed to fail if it assumes that former leader Park Geun-hye will maintain her current

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- The combined sales of Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp.

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- A local military manpower agency said Monday it will invite dozens of young South Koreans living overseas this week to help them experience the military service in their

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- The nuclear envoys of South Korea and Japan were to meet in Seoul on Monday to discuss ways to deal with North Korea's nuclear program and the latest diplomatic spat over