SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- Most savings banks in South Korea are judged to be financially sound amid growing worries that their financial statuses might have deteriorated due to increased bad debts,

SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors have raided the house of the Orion Group chief in expanding their investigation into allegations that he spearheaded the formation of the group's slush fund, o

SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak gave credentials to South Korea's new ambassadors to China, Japan and the United Nations on Monday, asking them to exercise diplomacy that befits S

SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- The much-disputed selection of the site for South Korea's new science belt was finally completed with the picking of the Daedeok district in the central city of Daejeon, 1

SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- Samsung LED Co., the light-emitting diode (LED)-making unit of Samsung Group, said Monday that it will spend 164.3 billion won (US$151 million) to expand production capaci

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SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will reassess security risks for its reconstruction workers and troops in Afghanistan amid a series of rocket attacks on their base following the death of Osam

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SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top football league will be broadcast live every weekend by a U.S.