SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak praised a contingent of Navy commandos as "heroes" of South Korea on Monday, lauding their daring raid in January to free a seized freighter from S

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SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co.

SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks turned 0.27 percent lower late Monday morning, reversing their earlier course, as foreign and institutional investors reduced holdings of tech blue chi

SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- Samsung C&T Corp., a South Korean trading and construction company, said Monday it has clinched a US$171.9 million deal to build a subway section in downtown Singapore

SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones, said Monday that it has sold more than 1 million units of the Galaxy S2 smartphone to domestic

SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik on Monday vowed full government readiness to cope with North Korea's provocations while visiting a western border island shelled by the commun

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SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- The number of jobs offered by South Korea's listed companies soared to a record high last year as companies increased employment on the back of their strong earnings, data

SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean military intelligence officer was abducted by North Korea near its border with China in 1998, but returned home later that year, a military source said Mond