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By Sam Kim

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party-irregular workers bill"; UPDATES throughout with lawmakers' comments,
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By Kim Soo-yeon
SEOUL, July 7 (Yonhap) -- The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) said
Tuesday it plans to sell dollar-denominated bonds worth more than US$5 million

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, July 7 (Yonhap) -- Three South Koreans who tested positive for the new
H1N1 flu this week were soldiers who had been stationed at an international

By Kim Deok-hyun
SEOUL, July 7 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean court has ordered an accounting firm to
reassess the viability of Ssangyong Motor Co., which is under bankruptcy

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, July 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top defense technology institute is
pushing to develop electronic bombs by 2014 that can knock out equipment within a

By Park Bo-ram
SEOUL, July 7 (Yonhap) -- Capital transfer by overseas Koreans to their home
country nearly quadrupled in the first five months of this year from a year

By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, July 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea welcomed the U.N. Security Council's
condemnation Tuesday of North Korea's ballistic missile launches over the

By Nam Kwang-sik
SEOUL, July 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's leading synthetic fiber maker Kolon
Industries Inc. said Tuesday that it will invest 13.5 billion won (US$10.6

SEOUL, July 7 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second largest
handset maker, said Tuesday its newest phone had been released in about 70