SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korean banks have decided to kick an ailing
builder and a shipbuilder out of the market and place 14 construction firms and

SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- The number of counterfeit South Korean banknotes
discovered nationwide fell 1.5 percent on-year in 2008 as the circulation of new

SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's investment in foreign securities
nose-dived in 2008 due to bearish stock markets worldwide and a volatile local

SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's population will begin to shrink after
2018, a government report said Tuesday, raising fears that the nation's growth

SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- While the global auto industry has been reeling from
what many economists say is the worst economic slump since World War II, the

By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's competitiveness in the information
technology (IT) sector reached 90 percent of that held by the United States in

SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 2.76 percent lower late
Tuesday morning as investor sentiment was dented by gloomy corporate earnings

SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's central bank said Tuesday it has
provided over US$3 billion in loans to local banks, which have been suffering

SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the European Union (EU) have made
'significant' progress in their negotiations for a free trade accord, trade

By Nam Kwang-sik
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Engineering Co., South Korea's largest
engineering firm, said Tuesday that its net profit rose 29 percent on-year in