SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Sunday further stepped up its rhetoric
against the South, suggesting that downplaying Pyongyang's recent warnings could

SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak said the country is now facing
the century's worst economic crisis, but that hope and positive thinking will

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SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) -- Parliament is scheduled to open an extraordinary

SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will allow passengers on cruise ships to
disembark at all ports in an effort to help fuel tourism, the government said
Sunday.

SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's "misery index" measured by inflationary
prices and job market conditions rose sharply last year as the domestic economy

SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) -- Daewoo Electronics Co., South Korea's third-largest
electronics manufacturer, said Sunday that its production of front-loading

SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) -- Despite the central bank's aggressive efforts to ease
its monetary policy, South Korea's major banks still remain wary of providing

SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) -- A human rights monitoring agency under the United
Nations recently urged North Korea to improve human rights conditions of its

SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) -- Capacity utilization levels of small- and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) fell to record low levels in December as economic woes ate

By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) -- The government said Sunday that it will greatly ease
land development and planning permission rules in the country's free economic