SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea is reviewing a plan to finance embryonic stem cell research from next year, President Lee Myung-bak said Friday, as the research is emerging as one of the next-generati

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SEOUL (Yonhap) - Sales of European luxury goods in South Korea have increased sharply since the implementation of the country's free trade deal with the European Union (EU), industry sources said F

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korean stocks traded 3.31 percent higher late Friday morning, as investor sentiment improved on European central banks' coordinated plan to lend eurozone banks U.S.

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SEOUL (Yonhap) - Japanese Ambassador Masatoshi Muto on Friday called for South Korea to resume bilateral free trade talks with Japan, saying a successful agreement between the two Asian economic po

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea and China will hold a meeting later this month to exchange views on current economic conditions and discuss possible policy cooperation, the finance ministry here said

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SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea's spy agency has detained a North Korean defector for an alleged assassination attempt against a fellow defector acting as an anti-North Korean activist, an intelligenc

SEOUL (Yonhap) - A cousin of President Lee Myung-bak is currently under a prosecutors' probe on suspicion that he swindled investors out of a massive amount of money by using his family ties to the