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SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- Actor Yoo Ah-in attended a court hearing held on Wednesday to decide whether to issue an a...
11:26 May. 24
By Kim Han-joo
SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- The government and the ruling People Power Party (PPP) agreed on Wednesday to review the possibility of disallowing downtown rallies by organizations with a...
10:42 May. 24
SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- Police raided the homes of two former directors of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Wednesday over allegations that they illegally meddled in the agency's hiring...
10:41 May. 24
SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court is set to decide Wednesday whether to issue a warrant to arrest actor Yoo Ah-in over his alleged use of five different illegal drugs.
The Seoul Central Di...
09:13 May. 24
SEOUL, May. 24 (Yonhap) -- The following is the weather forecast for South Korea's 12 major cities at 9:01 a.m. Wednesday.
Temperature (C) Condition Possibility
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09:01 May. 24
SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- The following are the top headlines in major South Korean newspapers on May 24.
Korean-language dailies
-- Yoon vows to take hard approach to labor unions' 'illegal ralli...
07:03 May. 24
SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- Mount Palgong, a 1,193 meter-high mountain lying between the southeastern city of Daegu and nearby North Gyeongsang Province, was granted national park status Tuesday, bec...
20:07 May. 23
SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- The answer sheets of 609 people in a state-administered exam last month were found to have been destroyed without grading after they were sent to the wrong place by mistak...
17:02 May. 23
SUWON, South Korea, May 23 (Yonhap) -- The chief of a Seoul-based private organization was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison on Tuesday on charges of colluding with a business tycoon embroiled in ...
16:31 May. 23
SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is considering requiring soon-to-be conscripts to take drug tests, the defense ministry said Tuesday, in a stepped-up fight against illegal drugs.
The minis...
15:47 May. 23
By Kim Han-joo
SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- Thousands of people, including a large number of lawmakers from rival parties and key political figures, attended a memorial service for late former Preside...
15:21 May. 23
May 24
1947 -- Former independence fighter and nationalist Yeo Un-hyeong launches a center-left party called the Geulloinmindang (Labor People Party) seeking to unify Korea, divided by the shar...
14:00 May. 23
DAEJEON, May 23 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean man has escaped from a detention center in the Philippines while waiting for repatriation home to face charges of killing his wife and abandoning her body...
13:48 May. 23
The following is the first summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday.
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Inflation expectations at 1-yr low in May
SEOUL -- South Korea's inflation expe...
13:00 May. 23
SEOUL, May. 23 (Yonhap) -- The following is the weather forecast for South Korea's 12 major cities at 9:01 a.m. Tuesday.
Temperature (C) Condition Possibility
...
09:01 May. 23
Weathering the war on the chip front
After the United States launched a war to redraw the global chip map, Korea's chip industry is also reshaping. The U.S. is ratcheting up tension with China aft...
06:59 May. 23
Stern warning for Korea Inc.
: Appalling future scenario due to rapid demographic decline
Three major global credit ratings agencies have all come to the same appallingly dismal conclusion regardi...
06:59 May. 23
Step for future
:Joint tribute a step forward to heal colonial past; three-way cooperation with US, Japan restored
South Korean and Japanese leaders' joint tribute to Korean victims of the 1945 Hi...
06:59 May. 23
SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- The following are the top headlines in major South Korean newspapers on May 23.
Korean-language dailies
-- Accumulated trade deficit with China reaches US$30 bln (Kyunghy...
06:59 May. 23
By Kim Han-joo
SEOUL, May 22 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Han Duck-soo met with the visiting head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday, highlighting the importance of recovering the multil...
20:30 May. 22