SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak plans to award state decorations and prizes to Yonhap News Agency and other organizations and individuals Monday for their roles in making last ye

SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- Retired stars who played for the country's two biggest college basketball programs in the 1990s will renew their rivalry in an exhibition match this weekend, organizers s

SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks closed 0.6 percent lower on Monday as foreign investors unloaded their holdings amid persistent worries over the Greek debt crisis, analysts said.

SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- The financial regulator's recent decision not to allow KDB Financial Group Inc. to bid for a controlling stake in Woori Finance Holdings Co.

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SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- More than 60,000 elementary, middle and high school students dropped out of school nationwide in 2009 and some 20 percent of them were from Seoul, a report showed Monday.

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SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- Officials from South Korea and the European Union (EU) on Monday gave high marks to a free trade accord between the two sides and said the trade pact will serve as a mode

SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has dramatically cut its goal of building 100,000 houses by next year, a government source said Monday, amid the North being economically squeezed by the inte

SEOUL, June 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korean actor-singer Ryu Si-won won an auto racing event in China over the weekend, his racing team here said Monday.