The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Friday.
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SEOUL -- Global K-p...
17:14 Feb. 22
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- The number of foreigners who arrived in South Korea jumped by almost 16 percent in January from a year earlier as more foreigners visited the country during the winter va...
13:52 Feb. 22
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's industry ministry said Friday it hosted a meeting with its Turkmenistan counterparts on expanding economic ties between the two countries.
The Ministry o...
11:00 Feb. 22
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- Daelim Industrial Co. said Friday it has received a US$132 million order to build a refining plant in Malaysia.
Under the deal with Petron Malaysia, Daelim Industrial ...
10:55 Feb. 22
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) – The South Korean government said Friday it will move to lift regulations to pave the way for the country's No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc.'s to build a semiconductor cluster...
10:25 Feb. 22
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- The state-controlled Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) said Friday that it posted a net loss in the fourth quarter of 2018 due to rising fuel costs coupled with the redu...
09:58 Feb. 22
INCHEON, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- Construction of a third bridge linking Incheon with Yeongjong, an island where the Incheon International Airport is located, is scheduled to begin in the second half of...
08:59 Feb. 22
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., South Korea's top nuclear plant maker, said Thursday that it would raise 500 billion won (US$444 million) by selling stocks an...
17:02 Feb. 21
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's trade watchdog said Thursday it has concluded that Taiwanese and Italian stainless steel bars adversely impacted the domestic industry, adding it plans to i...
14:50 Feb. 21
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Heavy Industries Co., a major South Korean shipbuilder, said Thursday that it has clinched a deal worth a combined 870 billion won (US$774 million) to build four ...
10:32 Feb. 21
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean railway system and plant equipment maker, said Thursday it secured a 90.6 billion won (US$239 million) diesel-electric locomotive order ...
09:32 Feb. 21
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- Unionized workers at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world's largest shipyard by sales, voted on Wednesday to strike in opposition to the planned takeover of Daewoo Shi...
19:10 Feb. 20
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Steel said Wednesday that it has successfully developed an H-beam that is highly resistant to both heat and earthquakes.
The new product can withstand 36 kg of...
15:00 Feb. 20
SEJONG, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's industry ministry said Wednesday it hosted conferences in Australia and New Zealand to induce businesses from Oceania to make more foreign-direct investmen...
11:15 Feb. 20
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance minister said Wednesday that Seoul will become the first country in the world to start commercial operations of fifth-generation mobile network serv...
09:27 Feb. 20
SEJONG, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's industry ministry on Wednesday announced its first batch of locations to establish what it calls smart industrial zones, which will utilize high-end inform...
08:30 Feb. 20
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- Assets owned by top 60 conglomerates amounted to 2,048.35 trillion won (US$1.81 trillion) as of end-September last year, with SK Group close to grabbing the No. 2 spot fr...
08:25 Feb. 20
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- Workers at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., a major shipyard in South Korea, voted on Tuesday to strike to oppose Hyundai Heavy Industries Co.'s proposed tak...
16:31 Feb. 19
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- State-run Korea Resources Corp. (KORES) said Tuesday that production has started at a Panama copper mine it has invested in.
In 2012, a South Korean consortium, led by...
15:50 Feb. 19
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Yonhap) -- The global ranking of Incheon International Airport, the gateway to Seoul, measured in terms of international passenger traffic, jumped by two notches to fifth last year,...
15:05 Feb. 19