SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's economy will contract 2.5 percent in
2009 amid the deepening global recession, JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Friday,

SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan had
telephone talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday, with the

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SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- KT Corp., South Korea's top fixed-line and Internet

By Byun Duk-kun
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- The presidential office decided Friday to withhold its

SEOUL, Jan. 23 (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, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- S-Oil Corp., South Korea's third-largest refiner, said
Friday that it swung to a loss in the fourth quarter of last year due to a weaker

SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- Korean Air Line Co., South Korea's top flag carrier,
plans to attract more foreign passengers and add more routes this year as part of

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SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of

By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- Han Duck-soo, appointed South Korea's new ambassador
to the United States, will likely assume the post as early as middle of next

SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of
computer memory chips, said Friday it posted its first-ever quarterly loss in the