Creditors to pump 800 bln won into troubled Hynix
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Yonhap) -- Creditors of Hynix Semiconductor Inc. agreed Tuesday
to inject 800 billion won (US$596 million) into the world's second-largest memory
Foreign, defense ministries to announce key 2009 policies next week
By Yoo Cheong-mo
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's foreign, defense and unification
ministries will announce their key policy goals for 2009 in a joint briefing to
Parliament wraps up rice subsidies probe without clear conclusion
(ATTN: ADDS opposition party's move in paras 8; RECASTS paras 3, 7)
By Shin Hae-in
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Yonhap) -- An independent parliamentary probe into a government
Dongkuk Steel to spend 469 bln won for capacity expansion
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Yonhap) -- Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., South Korea's third-largest
steelmaker, said Tuesday that it will spend 469 billion won (US$350 million) over
S. Korea`s illiteracy rate drops by one-third since 1970
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Yonhap) -- Close to 1.7 percent of South Korean people do not
know how to read and write the Korean language, close to the level of advanced
Seoul shares plunge 3 pct on auto, tech falls
(ATTN: ADDS bond yields at bottom)
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks tumbled 2.99 percent Tuesday as
S. Korean Bond Yields on Dec. 23, 2008
S. Korean Bond Yields on Dec. 23, 2008
Today (%) Previous Session (%) Change (%P)
1-year TB 3.74 3.76 -0.02
Seoul shares plunge 3 pct on auto, tech falls
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks tumbled 2.99 percent Tuesday as investors dumped automakers and tech shares, analysts said.
