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SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korean banks' lending rates climbed to a
seven-year high in October as their funding costs expanded amid a credit crunch,

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SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors raided the home and the company office of

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SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- A court accepted a family's request on Friday to stop

SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded 1.26 percent higher late
Friday morning as institutions and foreigners expanded purchases of large-cap
shares, analysts said.

SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- The main opposition party leader on Friday flatly
declined an invitation by President Lee Myung-bak to meet at his home next week,

SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- A court accepted a family's request to stop treatment
for a mother in a vegetative state on Friday in a ruling that approved

SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- A group of South Korean tourists left for North
Korea's ancient border city of Kaesong, a South Korean tour operator said Friday,

SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's major banks are selling stocks and bonds
in a hastened effort to firm up their fundamentals as they anticipate more assets

By Byun Duk-kun
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Yonhap) -- An Army private suspected of setting off a hand
grenade inside an Army barrack has confessed to carefully planning the act out of