SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's central bank said Monday it will supply
US$2.5 billion to local banks as the country's trade balance and overseas

SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will spend 20 trillion won (US$15.7
billion) to buy bad debts and purchase assets from ailing companies this year as

By Tony Chang
SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Han Seung-soo on Monday called for
national unity and efforts to build a first-rate state based on the lessons

DAEJEON, May 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korean scientists said Monday they have
succeeded in developing a human vaccine against Influenza A, which can be used to

SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 1.59 percent lower late
Monday morning on renewed worries about a global economic recovery, analysts
said.

By Kim Hyun
SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is not considering closing a joint
industrial venture in North Korea despite the "crisis" it faces after Pyongyang's

SEOUL, May 18 (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, May 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korean laboratories have secured a deal to draw
up plans for optimal radioactive treatment and waste storage for an experimental

SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- Renault Samsung Motors Co., the South Korean unit of
French automaker Renault SA, said Monday it has started mass production of its

SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- A Vietnamese traveler has been quarantined at a South
Korean airport after showing symptoms similar to those of Influenza A, local