SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks started higher Wednesday as investors bought steel and tech exporters, analysts said.

SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korean companies' profitability deteriorated to a seven-year low in 2008 as a weaker won led to foreign exchange losses, eclipsing their increased sales, the central

SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- The government and the central bank should keep their expansionary policies as it is premature to say the South Korean economy is beginning to recover, experts here said W

SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks were 0.04 percent higher late Wednesday morning after they traded in a tight range amid the absence of market-moving leads, analysts said.

DAEJEON, May 20 (Yonhap) -- A local court on Wednesday issued arrest warrants for 20 labor activists on charges of attacking riot police with bamboo spears and sticks.

SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., South Korea's third-largest steelmaker, said Wednesday that it has cut steel-plate prices to reflect declines in global commodity prices and weak d

SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has begun work to build a global university campus that could help transform South Korea into an educational hub for Northeast Asia, the government said Wednes

SEOUL, May 20 (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.

By Nam Kwang-sik

SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's financial markets are showing some signs of stabilization, but the nation's real economy still has a long way to go before seeing a full recovery, a survey o