SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's largest automaker Hyundai Motor Group will seek to significantly increase its sales of energy-efficient hybrid cars next week, group officials said Tuesday,

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CHEONGDO, South Korea/HANOI, May 24 (Yonhap) -- A Vietnamese woman was killed by her South Korean husband in a rural South Korean town on Tuesday, police said, triggering memories of a similar trag

SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is mulling an early imposition of tariffs on rice imports in a bid to better cope with its growing rice reserves amid dwindling consumption of the staple grain

SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks closed 0.29 percent higher on Tuesday as investors hunted for bargains such as automakers and oil refiners, analysts said.

WASHINGTON, May 24 (Yonhap) -- Fresh allegations of chemical dumping by the U.S. military in South Korea surfaced Tuesday, amid an investigation into a U.S.

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SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- Hana Financial Group Inc., South Korea's fourth-largest banking group by assets, said Tuesday it is negotiating conditions with Lone Star Funds to extend a deal to buy Kor

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SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- Bosch Korea, the South Korean unit of the world's largest auto parts supplier Robert Bosch GmbH, seeks to boost its sales here by over 10 percent this year on strong deman