SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- SeAH Special Steel Co., a South Korean steelmaker, will start trading its shares on the Seoul main stock market this week, the local bourse operator said Monday.

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SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- Unionized workers of SC First Bank, the South Korean unit of Standard Chartered Plc, on Monday launched a one-day general strike in protest against the management's move t

RABAT, May 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Twelve people were killed and another 25
were injured in a strong bomb blast that rocked a marketplace in the

SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korean banks' lending rates declined in April from a 13-month high seen in March mainly because banks competitively tried to expand loans, the central bank said Mond

SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korean firms' direct financing surged 62 percent in April from a month earlier as companies rushed to raise funds amid the central bank's expected interest rate hike

SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's financial regulator said Monday that it is pushing for a regulatory revision to allow financial holding companies to buy a controlling stake in state-owned W

SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak instructed his aides on Monday to speed up the envisioned relocation of public corporations and agencies to provincial regions for the sake of the

SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's defense ministry will start this week a large-scale environmental survey of former U.S.