SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- Family members of South Korea's top 30 privately owned conglomerates, or chaehol, pocketed roughly 13 trillion won (US$12.1) in earnings from stocks in the past year, a re

SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- Family members of South Korea's top 30 privately owned conglomerates, or chaehol, pocketed roughly 13 trillion won (US$12.1) in earnings from stocks in the past year, a re

SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- Renault Samsung Motors Co., the South Korean unit of French automaker Renault SA, said Friday that it started selling the updated QM5 crossover utility vehicle across the

MOSCOW, July 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korean artists clinched five prizes, including two top vocal prizes, in one of the world's most prestigious classical music competitions.

SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- The Korea Interbank Offered Rates (KORIBOR) as posted by Yonhap Infomax, the financial news and information arm of Yonhap News Agency, at 11:00 a.m.

SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- A quarter of South Korean small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have no interest in doing business in North Korea should the two sides reunify, a survey showed Friday

INCHEON, July 1 (Yonhap) -- A delegation for PyeongChang's 2018 Winter Olympics bidding committee on Friday left for Durban, South Africa, the site of the vote to determine the host city.

By Lee Youkyung

SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has strengthened its border controls to try to stem the steady stream of defections to South Korea, a private aid group claimed Friday.

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