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SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in said Monday the government will roll out measures to increase home supply to...
15:00 Jan. 18
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- The ruling Democratic Party (DP) has set out to find ways to get lucrative companies to share some of their profits with small businesses vulnerable to losses amid the co...
14:57 Jan. 18
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court on Monday sentenced Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong to 2 1/2 years in prison in a retrial of a bribery case involving former President Park Geun-hye and ordered h...
14:36 Jan. 18
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in said Monday the government will roll out measures to increase home supply to a level above market expectations, signaling a shift in priority from r...
14:34 Jan. 18
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- Foreign currency deposits at banks in South Korea hit a new high in December last year on increased retail holdings of the U.S. dollar deposits, central bank data showed ...
12:00 Jan. 18
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SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's exports of rechargeable batteries rose for the fifth consecutive year in 2020 despite the coronavi...
11:36 Jan. 18
By Nam Kwang-sik
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top construction equipment maker Doosan Infracore Co. said Monday that the number of its construction equipment sold here rose 18 percent ...
11:20 Jan. 18
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's exports of information and communication technology (ICT) products rose 3.8 percent in 2020 from a year earlier on the back of robust overseas demand for se...
11:00 Jan. 18
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's public institutions plan to hire more than 26,000 new employees this year in a bid to prop up the job market hit hard by the new coronavirus outbreak, the f...
10:50 Jan. 18
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's exports of rechargeable batteries rose for the fifth consecutive year in 2020 despite the coronavirus impact, data showed Monday.
Overseas shipments of r...
08:17 Jan. 18
Soaring debt risk
Authorities need to prepare exit strategy
All economic players ― households, businesses and government ― have recorded a surge in their debt due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is...
06:58 Jan. 18
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SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- One new case of highly pathogenic bird flu was reported from a local poultry farm on Sunday, raising the t...
21:12 Jan. 17
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SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- An appellate court will give a verdict on Monday for Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong in a retrial of a bribery...
11:57 Jan. 17
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- A majority of South Korean manufacturing companies expect their business conditions to stay in positive terrain this year, led by a recovery in the refining, chipmaking a...
11:47 Jan. 17
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's agricultural ministry said Sunday it is investigating a suspected case of highly pathogenic bird flu from a poultry farm.
The latest suspected case of th...
11:34 Jan. 17
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) -- An appellate court will give a verdict on Monday for Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong in a retrial of a bribery case involving former President Park Geun-hye.
Lee, vice chair...
08:00 Jan. 17
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SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea reported three new cases of highly pathogenic bird flu from local poultry farms Saturd...
21:52 Jan. 16
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Yonhap) -- One new case of highly pathogenic bird flu was reported from a local poultry farm Saturday, raising the total caseload to 63, the agriculture ministry said.
The case o...
19:44 Jan. 16
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Yonhap) -- The following are the top headlines in major South Korean newspapers on Jan. 16.
Korean-language dailies
-- 8 neighborhoods chosen in 'public redevelopment' project (Kyu...
08:56 Jan. 16