SEOUL (Yonhap) - The following are the major cultural and tourist festivals to be held in South Korea in October.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - An estimated 500,000 North Koreans have cash assets worth more than US$100,000, a researcher at the South Korean state-run institute said Friday, indicating a stark gap between ric

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korean stocks traded 2.87 percent higher late Friday morning on eased European financial woes, analysts said.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea has posted a trade surplus with the European Union (EU) since its free trade deal with the economic block came into effect in July, customs data showed Friday.

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By Kim Deok-hyun and Lee Haye-ah

SEOUL (Yonhap) - Container cargo processed at South Korea's seaports rose 14.7 percent on-year last month on growth of both trade and transshipment cargo, the government said Friday.

By Kim Eun-jung

SEOUL (Yonhap) - SC First Bank, the South Korean unit of Standard Chartered Plc, said Friday that it will carry out a voluntary early retirement program for executive-level employees in a bid to bo

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korean stocks got off to a strong start on Friday, tracking overnight gains on Wall Street underpinned by a European Central Bank (ECB) plan to support the region's strugglin

SEOUL (Yonhap) - The cost of insuring South Korea's sovereign debt against default climbed the most in 32 months, growing two times faster than that of eurozone countries, data showed Friday.