SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- The Korea Interbank Offered Rates (KORIBOR) as posted
by Yonhap Infomax, the financial news and information arm of Yonhap News Agency,
at 11:00 a.m.

By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- The government will nearly double its support for
infrastructure projects within the country's special economic zones to fuel

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- In more bad news for South Korea's economy, corporate
capital spending will fall 2.5 percent this year from the same period a year ago

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- A record number of working-age South Koreans "simply"
gave up looking for work amid a severe economic slump in January, data showed

PARIS, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- Rolita Ahn, widow of Ahn Eak-tai, the composer of
South Korea's national anthem, died of old age in Spain on Monday, the South

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korea will hold its Arirang Festival, the
world's largest mass gymnastics show, from August to mid-October, a U.S. tour
agency said Tuesday.

By Shin Hae-in
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- Braving an early morning cold spell, hundreds of South

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak has tapped the head of the
maritime police to be the new chief of the National Police Agency, the

By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korean delegates left Tuesday for Moscow to
attend a six-nation meeting on peace and security in Northeast Asia, holding out

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks got off to a weak start Tuesday as
large caps lost ground, analysts said.