SEOUL, June 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's military has established a defense command to better shield five frontline islands near the Yellow Sea border from possible North Korean attacks, officials

SEOUL, June 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 1.14 percent higher late Tuesday morning as investors snapped up tech and bank shares, shrugging off concerns about the eurozone debt crisis, a

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SEOUL, June 14 (Yonhap) -- POSCO, South Korea's leading steelmaker, said Tuesday that it completed construction of a plant that processes steels used for shipbuilding in an effort to meet growing d

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SEOUL, June 14 (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, June 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top financial regulator said Tuesday it is not desirable for KDB Financial Group Inc.

SEOUL, June 14 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors said Tuesday that they are looking into allegations that a former opposition lawmaker received kickbacks from a troubled savings bank in return for business f