SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- The government will toughen country-of-origin rules to
secure fair trading by providing accurate product information to consumers,

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SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is working with other nations to offer

By Nam Kwang-sik
SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Engineering Co., South Korea's largest plant

SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- The ability of South Korean manufacturers to repay debt sank to an eight-year low in 2008 as a severe business slump sharply cut their cash receipts, the central bank sai

SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has barred a non-governmental organization from going ahead with a planned meeting with its North Korean counterpart in China, citing frozen political relatio

SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a South Korean electronics parts maker, said Thursday its second-quarter earnings rose nearly nine-fold from a year earlier on high demand

SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks inched up 0.07 percent late Thursday morning, led by financial shares, analysts said.

SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- Controversy is brewing again in South Korea over a new law that allows industrial groups to take a bigger stake in financial holding companies, paving the way for them to

SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- The Korea Interbank Offered Rates (KORIBOR) as posted by Yonhap Infomax, the financial news and information arm of Yonhap News Agency, at 11:00 a.m.

SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's land and transport ministry said Thursday that it spent 15.96 trillion won (US$12.74 billion) during the first half of this year mainly to stimulate the reg