SEOUL (Yonhap) - A foreign company has said it will offer a cruise tour to North Korea's scenic mountain resort next week, the latest sign that Pyongyang wants to revitalize the resort that is at t

SEOUL (Yonhap) - The number of wealthy South Koreans with assets of more than 1 trillion won (US$852 million) rose 32 percent this year from a year earlier with two self-made businessmen making the

By Chang Jae-soon

SEOUL (Yonhap) - A former vice culture minister, during an overnight questioning, denied allegations that he received a huge amount of money from a local businessman in return for influence peddlin

SEOUL (Yonhap) - The decrease in South Korea's rural population has slowed down sharply in the past five years as fewer people leave farms for cities and more urban dwellers opt to become farmers,

By Joshua Hall
Contributing writer

SEOUL (Yonhap)- A former vice unification minister has been named to lead a committee that oversees the inter-Korean joint industrial complex in North Korea, a unification ministry official said Mo

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korean stocks started higher on Monday as investor sentiment was boosted by progress in helping troubled European countries and U.S. jobs data, analysts said.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - Investment by South Korea's state-run pension fund in overseas properties jumped almost nine times this year, compared with that of the 2008 global financial crisis, according to d

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea's consumer prices are expected to remain unaffected by rising demand for winter vegetables mainly due to increased farm production, the finance minister said Monday.