SEOUL (Yonhap) - Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-largest mobile phone maker, said Wednesday that it has sold more than 5 million units of Galaxy S2 smartphone in about three months sinc

SEOUL (Yonhap) - Major South Korean companies are set to recruit more employees in the second half of the year than a year earlier as the economy is on a solid growth path, a poll said Wednesday.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea's top regulator said Wednesday that the watchdog plans to conduct stricter stress tests on local banks' foreign currency liquidity conditions in a bid to shield the cou

SEOUL (Yonhap) -- Yoo Byung-soo, the reigning scoring champion in the K-League for Incheon United, has joined a Saudi Arabian club, the Incheon team said Wednesday.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - Russia has finalized a team of 83 athletes for the World Championships in Athletics in Daegu that starts next month, the international athletics governing body said Wednesday.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea is considering allowing a civic organization to provide anti-malaria supplies to North Korea, the aid group said Wednesday.

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DAEGU (Yonhap) - With a month to go before the World Championships in Athletics open in this southeastern metropolitan city, support for a successful staging of the event has been pouring in from d

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By Kim Soo-yeon

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea was to conduct an exercise off its southeastern coast later Wednesday to help improve the country's ability to deal with threats from Somali pirates, the government sai