SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- A cable TV announcer died, apparently after jumping from her apartment building on Monday, police said, after she was surrounded by controversy over her romance with a bas

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BEIJING, May 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is traveling across China for the third time in just over a year, apparently to study and learn from China's economic reform, but his ins

SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak hosted a reception Monday for volunteer workers carrying out aid projects overseas, a mission that he believes symbolizes South Korea's rise to bec

SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance minister-designate said Monday that he supports the government's tax reduction plans, his first official remarks on the nation's economic policy afte

SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- Inappropriate medical treatment is believed to be partly to blame for the death of a new Army recruit after a training exercise last month, military investigators said Mon

BEIJING, May 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may be seeking to broaden support for his hereditary succession plot by meeting with former Chinese President Jiang Zemin in the eastern

SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will send a delegation of government officials and energy company executives to Turkmenistan this week to help local firms develop natural gas in the central A

SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will soon unveil a set of measures for inducing cuts in mobile phone charges in an effort to ease people's financial burdens and help curb high inflationary pr

(Yonhap Editorial) SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- The country's automakers are being shaken by their roots because of a single engine part.