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By Kang Yoon-seung
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee on Tuesday held a virtual meeting with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the new head of the World...
22:30 Mar. 30
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SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases rose above 400 again on Tuesday as a string of cluster infections continued to...
22:09 Mar. 30
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SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases rose above 400 again on Tuesday as a string of cluster infections continued to...
18:51 Mar. 30
By Kang Yoon-seung
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee on Tuesday held a virtual meeting with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the new head of the World Trade Organization (WT...
17:00 Mar. 30
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- Samsung C&T Corp., the construction unit of Samsung Group, said Tuesday its consortium has clinched a US$1.56 billion project to build a terminal at Taiwan Taoyuan Inter...
15:34 Mar. 30
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SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases rose above 400 again on Tuesday as a string of cluster infections continued to ...
15:07 Mar. 30
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By Choi Kyong-ae
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- A global semiconductor chip shortage is set to spill over into Korean automakers as well, rais...
15:06 Mar. 30
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Motor Co. said Tuesday it will suspend production at a domestic plant that produces the IONIQ 5 all-electric model due to a chip shortage.
Hyundai plans to h...
14:49 Mar. 30
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- More than half of unmarried South Koreans in their 30s are living with their parents, a report showed Tuesday, as young people are delaying marriages amid an economic sl...
14:35 Mar. 30
March 31
1938 -- Sungshil High School in Pyongyang is closed after refusing to force students to worship at Japanese shrines. Japanese authorities introduced the requirement as part of cultural ...
14:00 Mar. 30
The following is the first summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday.
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World leaders call for global treaty for pandemic preparedness, response
SEOUL -...
13:34 Mar. 30
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korean savings banks reported 10 percent growth in their combined net profit for 2020, thanks to a modest rise in interest income, data showed Tuesday.
The com...
12:00 Mar. 30
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- Rice production costs in South Korea rose 6.5 percent last year as rice output fell due to a record-long rainy season and typhoons, data showed Tuesday.
Farmers spent...
12:00 Mar. 30
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korean banks' lending rates inched up in February amid a slight decline in deposit rates, central bank data showed Tuesday.
The average interest rate charged o...
12:00 Mar. 30
By Kim Eun-jung
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- SK E&S Co., the natural gas provider under SK Group, said it will invest 1.6 trillion won (US$1.4 billion won) over the next five years to develop an Aus...
11:36 Mar. 30
By Choi Kyong-ae
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- A global semiconductor chip shortage is set to spill over into Korean automakers as well, raising concerns that a prolonged supply glitch may derail loc...
11:35 Mar. 30
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SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases rose above 400 again on Tuesday as a string of cluster infections continued to emerg...
11:30 Mar. 30
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in instructed the government Tuesday to accelerate the emergency relief money payment that has just begun and the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, descr...
11:13 Mar. 30
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's agricultural ministry said Tuesday it has issued a new standardized guideline on animal experiments in line with the country's efforts to improve the welfa...
11:00 Mar. 30
SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will lower the maximum interest rate starting in July as part of efforts to ease financial burdens on low-income people, the financial regulator said Tuesday...
10:51 Mar. 30