Seoul to use extra budget to create jobs
SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government will spend an additional 4.9 trillion won (US$3.54 billion) this year to create 550,000 new jobs, the presidential office said Thursday, amid
N. Korea detains two American journalists
SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has detained two American journalists on its northern border, a diplomatic source here said Thursday.
Allies reach deal on military base pollution clean-up
By Lee Chi-dong
(News Focus) Doubt remains over effect of stimulus package
SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- The latest fiscal spending measure by the government to generate jobs could ease the deepening economic downturn by providing work opportunities for hundreds of thousand
President says job creation key to overcoming economic crisis
By Byun Duk-kun
Daewoo Logistics to lose millions after Madagascar coup
By Ben Hancock
N. Korean premier to meet with China's Hu
BEIJING, March 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korean Premier Kim Yong-il was set to meet
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday for talks that sources say will likely
Number of bankruptcies falls for 2nd month in Feb.
SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- The number of South Korean corporate bankruptcies
declined for the second straight month in February mainly because teetering
Seoul stocks down 0.67 pct in late morning
SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks edged down 0.67 percent late
Thursday morning as institutional investors dumped blue-chip shares to take
profits, analysts said.
The Korea Interbank Offered Rates (KORIBOR)
SEOUL, March 19 (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.
