By Hwang Doo-hyong
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (Yonhap) -- The United States Friday lamented the reported

By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's state-run oil corporation paid US$450
million for a 50 percent stake in a U.S.-owned Peruvian energy company that

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By Sam Kim
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean lawmaker on Friday quoted the American

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean lawmaker Friday quoted the top U.S.
commander here as proposing to keep his key army corps command in the country

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at bottom)
By Kim Hyun

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SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance minister-designate said Friday

SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Yonhap) -- A leading labor umbrella group offered a public apology
on Friday for the recent sex scandal involving one of its ranking officials, amid

SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Yonhap) -- The number of South Korean cinema goers surged 27
percent in January from the same month last year, a local report said Friday,

SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Yonhap) -- SK Broadband Co., South Korea's second-largest operator
of broadband Internet, said Friday it swung to a loss in the fourth quarter due

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Yonhap) -- North Korea may test-fire short-range missiles near a
fragile western sea border with South Korea to bolster its saber-rattling