SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. air force will deploy 12 F-15E fighter jets to South Korea from next month to help defend the Asian ally, officials said Friday.

SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's ruling party chief said Friday he believes a parliamentary probe should be launched, if necessary, to look into the snowballing savings bank corruption scand

SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's fiscal deficit in the first quarter of this year shrank from a year earlier as economic recovery helped boost the government's tax revenue, the finance minis

BUSAN, May 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's prosecution on Friday sought the death sentence for the leader of a group of Somali pirates for a maritime murder attempt, as well as lifetime imprisonment f

KOTA KINABALU (Sabah, Malaysia), May 27 (Bernama)-- The Asian Wetland Symposium (AWS), an international platform that highlights wetland conservation, is coming back to Malaysia - this time to Saba

SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's education is the 29th most competitive in the world, Seoul's education ministry said Friday, marking a six-notch rise in the global ranking from the previous

SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korean and U.S. officials on Friday geared up to collect groundwater samples near a U.S.

SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors said Friday they are trying to determine whether a former state auditor and aide to President Lee Myung-bak received a bribe from a corruption-ridden savings b

(ATTN: UPDATES with remarks by BOK official in paras 6-7)
By Kim Soo-yeon

SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks opened slightly lower on Friday, weighed down by electronics makers, analysts said.