SEOUL, June 6 (Yonhap) -- The bacteria scare in Europe is unlikely to affect South Korea mainly because the country has banned imports of European vegetables, the country's disease control agency s

(ATTN: ADDS Lee's comments in last 2 paras; photo) SEOUL, June 6 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak urged North Korea on Monday to end its pursuit of tensions with South Korea and choose the "path

SEOUL, June 6 (Yonhap) -- Employees working for South Korea's 30 largest conglomerates topped 1 million in 2010, up 90,000 compared to the year before, the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) sai

SEOUL, June 6 (Yonhap) -- Senior prosecutors held an emergency meeting Monday to discuss how to respond to a parliamentary committee's decision to scrap an elite investigation team charged with han

SEOUL, June 6 (Yonhap) -- The emergence of BRICs economies in recent years poses both opportunities and risks for the global economy, which needs to be carefully monitored, a government report said

SEOUL, June 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's smaller-sized budget carriers may start flight operations to Vietnam under a new arrangement reached between Seoul and Hanoi, the government said Monday.

SEOUL, June 6 (Yonhap) -- Railroad operations connecting Seoul and the port city of Busan returned to normal after train traffic was effectively halted for more than five hours when a piece of dril

SEOUL (Yonhap) - The number of foreign residents in S. Korea rose 1.5-fold in five years to top 590,000 in 2010, a nationwide census showed Monday.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - A team of European Union officials were to enter North Korea on Monday on a visit aimed at assessing food shortages in the impoverished communist nation, a source said.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korean scientists said Monday that they have developed a new type of power storage technology using nitrogen and graphene that could speed up growth in next-generation electr