SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korea needs urgent food aid worth US$346 million
to help millions of people get through the new year, the World Food Program said

SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea plans to host the 2014 International
Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) to help boost interest in a field critical to

By Yoo Cheong-mo
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- The Japanese government has decided not to include any

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By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- A hospital that has been treating a woman in a

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SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's currency rose 1.86 percent against the

SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- A user of Apple's portable media player the iPod has
claimed that his device exploded owing to a battery problem, South Korean media
reported Wednesday.

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By Tony Chang
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- The chief of South Korea's largest cable news channel

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SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- POSCO, the world's fourth-largest steelmaker, said on
Wednesday it is considering investments in Indonesia as part of an effort to

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