SEOUL (Yonhap) - Despite an official order in 2006 to limit overnight interrogations by prosecutors in order to protect human rights, their frequency surged nearly 2.5-fold over the past three year

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea's finance minister Tuesday called for more "aggressive and swift" measures in tackling the eurozone debt problem to prevent it from growing into a global financial cris

SEOUL (Yonhap) - The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Tuesday agreed to launch joint city marketing activities with New York City as part of efforts to increase the world's awareness of South Korea

SEOUL (Yonhap) - The implementation of the signed free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States will likely cause billions of dollars in damages to South Korea's farming industry, a government

SEOUL (Yonhap) - GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of U.S. automaker General Motors Co., unveiled its new mid-size Malibu sedan for the domestic market on Tuesday.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korean banks' household loans fell for the first time in eight months in September as lenders joined the regulator's move to curb growing household debt, industry data showed

SEOUL (Yonhap) - A group of nine North Korean defectors who have been under protective custody in Japan for nearly three weeks is set to arrive in Seoul on Tuesday by air, a foreign ministry offici

SEOUL (Yonhap) - North Korea's state media rejected preconditions for resuming long-stalled talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - The LPGA Tour makes its annual stop in South Korea this week with some of its top-ranked golfers.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korean stocks began sharply lower on Tuesday on overnight U.S. losses stemming from mounting European debt fears, analysts said.