SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak warned Thursday there is still a long way to go before South Korea's economy recovers, saying that it now "stands somewhere in the middle of a lo

SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- The number of international passenger ship users heading into and out of South Korea plunged more than 20 percent in the first quarter as a protracted economic slowdown

SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea posted a record-high monthly trade surplus in March as imports contracted at a faster pace than exports amid a global economic downturn, a government report

By Nam Kwang-sik

SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 2.14 percent higher late Thursday morning as investor sentiment was lifted by overnight gains in U.S. markets, analysts said.

By Lee Joon-seung

SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is seeking to become one of the top 10 trading nations in the world this year by expanding the global market share of its products, the government said Thurs

SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- GM Daewoo Auto & Technoloy Co., the South Korean unit of General Motors Corp., introduced a revamped Tosca mid-size sedan Thursday in a bid to increase sales and sal

SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- eBay Inc. signed a deal Thursday to buy a 34.21 percent stake in Gmarket Inc., South Korea's top on-line retailer, for US$413 million, industry sources said.

SEOUL, April 16 (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.