By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- The farm ministry said Monday that it will front-load

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- The government said Monday that it will front-load
more than 60 percent of its 2009 infrastructure budget in the first half as part

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- Amid a major overhaul of the public sector, the
government said on Monday it plans to revise job evaluation rules to allow

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will invest billions of dollars to foster
environmental industries and create jobs to help ride out the global financial

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's central bank said Monday it auctioned
off US$3.35 billion to local banks which have been suffering from a dollar

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's exports plunged 25.5 percent in December
from a year earlier mainly due to deteriorating overseas business conditions,

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- Ssangyong Motor Co., the South Korean unit of China's
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC), said on Monday it cannot pay its

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- North Koreans defecting to the South will undergo a
12-week rehabilitation program beginning in March, officials said Monday.

(ATTN: CHANGES dateline to add Seoul, UPDATES with defense ministry's earlier position from 3rd para)
BEIJING/SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has conveyed to South Korea that

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 1.35 percent higher late
Monday morning as investors, heartened by the government's economic stimulus