By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will hold its first "dirty bomb" attack
exercise to assess the preparedness of its emergency response system, the

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Yonhap) -- The growth of South Korea's facility and construction
investments sharply slowed in the first nine months of this year as companies

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SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Yonhap) -- The producers of "D-War," a fantasy blockbuster that
topped South Korea's box office in 2007, have broken a distribution contract with

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks opened 2.3 percent lower Monday as
Wall Street losses in the previous session weighed down on blue chips here,
analysts said.

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Monday's weather forecast
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Yonhap) -- The following is the weather
forecast for South Korea's 12 major cities at 9:00 a.m. Monday.

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Dollar opens at 1,400.0 won UP from 1,399.2 won
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By Yoo Cheong-mo
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak said on Monday that South
Korea has an important role to play in mediating between advanced and emerging

Principle and speed