SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top business group Samsung said Wednesday
it will reshuffle its management this month in the first executive shake-up since

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- Lotte Group, South Korea's fifth-largest business
conglomerate, said Wednesday it expects the government to give a final nod for it

By Shin Hae-in
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- "Iljimae Returns," an upcoming prime time TV drama to
be aired by Korea's major broadcaster MBC, tells a lot just by its name.

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- Hit by the economic downturn and a deluge of foreign
films, South Korean movies saw their worst sales in eight years in 2008, a local

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean scientists have developed a high-tech
process to extract commercially viable chemical compounds from a biodiesel

By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's foreign minister said Wednesday that his
country is seeking various ways to expand its role in Afghanistan, hinting

(ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead; TRIMS throughout; ADDS background on Lotte Group in
final para)
By Sam Kim

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean government on Wednesday issued
heightened bird flu warnings for overseas travelers following the spread of the

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- The government said Wednesday that it will invest 829.5
billion won (US$642 million) in information technology (IT) sector research this

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will seek to clinch a free trade deal with
the European Union (EU) at an early date as negotiations are in their last stage,