By Kim Young-gyo

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- Global semiconductor companies are scurrying to win the high-stakes race to develop the future generation of memory chips, as profits from existing dynamic random access

HONG KONG, July 18 (Yonhap) -- China will spend 2.5 billion yuan (US$386.8 million) to boost the supply of pigs in an effort to curb soaring pork prices that have been stoking high inflation, gover

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is set to adopt weekly forecasts of water quality near the four major rivers under a multi-billion dollar refurbishment project next month in a bid to better

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korean listed firms' facility investment more than tripled in the first half from a year earlier, the bourse operator said Monday, amid the country's solid economic

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- Domestic gold prices set a fresh record high on Monday on the back of recent surges in international prices of the precious metal and the weak U.S.

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Japan will start working-level consultations early next month on the return of more than 1,200 volumes of ancient Korean royal archives that Japan took du

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak called Monday for concerted efforts to curb rising consumer prices, instructing aides to set up a prices-monitoring team and to make the issue a f

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., South Korea's leading shipbuilder, said Monday that it will start building a plant in Russia later this month that produces power switchgear

SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- Next year's presidential election is expected to be close and the ruling party is doomed to fail if it assumes that former leader Park Geun-hye will maintain her current