SEOUL, June 1 (Yonhap) -- DGB Financial Group Co., the holding company of regional lender Daegu Bank, will start trading its shares on the Seoul main bourse next week, the local bourse operator sai

SEOUL, June 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded a mere 0.1 percent higher late Wednesday morning as investor sentiment was weighed down by a report that the country's consumer prices overshot

SEOUL, June 1 (Yonhap) -- Lotte Department Store, a unit of South Korea's No.

SEOUL, June 1 (Yonhap) -- Despite North Korea's apparent refusal, South Korea's foreign minister renewed his country's invitation on Wednesday to Pyongyang's reclusive leader Kim Jong-il to join do

SEOUL, June 1 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., South Korea's leading shipbuilder, said Wednesday that it has won a US$1.12 billion deal to build two drill ships.

SEOUL, June 1 (Yonhap) -- Samsung SDI Co., a South Korean maker of hybrid car batteries, said Wednesday that it is aiming to rake in 13 trillion won (US$12.1 billion) in 2015 by focusing on its hyb

BUSAN, June 1 (Yonhap) -- Two of the four Somali pirates convicted last week of maritime robbery and hijacking a South Korean-owned freighter have lodged an appeal against the court decision, their

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, June 1 (Yonhap) -- More than a thousand players, coaches, referees and officials of South Korea's top professional football league vowed on Wednesday to root out corrupt p

SEOUL, June 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's trade surplus shrank sharply in May from the previous month as imports grew at a faster clip than exports due to high international energy prices, a governme

SEOUL, June 1 (Yonhap) -- Woori Finance Holdings Co., South Korea's second-largest banking group by assets, said Wednesday that it is seeking to establish a bank unit in Cambodia jointly with the g