SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- With the 2011 World Championships in Athletics about 100 days away, the South Korean host city of Daegu is ready to welcome the big names of track and field and host one o

SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has expressed its concerns to the United States over Washington's recent decision to launch an anti-dumping investigation on South Korean refrigerators, offici

SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's leading mobile carrier SK Telecom Co.

SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's overseas direct investment jumped during the first quarter of this year from three months earlier as investment expanded in mining and other resources-develo

SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak met with the governor of the U.S.

SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak instructed aides Monday to make sure to sternly punish those involved in illegal withdrawals of deposits from a soon-to-be-suspended savings bank,

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SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's defense ministry will gradually eliminate at least 30 posts for general-grade officers by the end of 2015, a senior official said Monday, detailing reform me

SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak plans to state his position Tuesday on the government's selection of the central city of Daejeon as the site for a "science-business belt," a massi

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