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SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- Nobel prize laureate Paul Krugman said Tuesday the

SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean listed companies' earnings plunged 81.5
percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, weighed down by a global

By Sam Kim
HWACHEON, South Korea, May 19 (Yonhap) -- Underneath a string of valleys grown
lush in the May sun lie tens of thousands of men who fought decades ago in what

SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- The number of South Korean corporate bankruptcies
declined in April for a fourth month thanks to a set of economic stimulus

SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- Nobel prize laureate Paul Krugman said Tuesday the
worst phase of the global economic crisis is over but massive lingering debts

SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- The growth of bank loans to companies accelerated in
the first quarter from three months earlier mainly because government credit

SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean banks' mid- and long-term overseas
borrowing jumped in the first five months of this year as state bond sales and

By Sam Kim
HWACHEON, South Korea, May 19 (Yonhap) -- A joint team of U.S. and South Korean
officials said Tuesday they have excavated a collection of bone fragments and

SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and former U.S.
President Bill Clinton called for immediate efforts to fight global warming and

By Shin Hae-in
SEOUL, May 19 (Yonhap) -- Representatives from about 80 major cities around the
world opened an international forum in Seoul Tuesday to chart strategies in the