SEOUL (Yonhap) - North Korea has pressed its people to donate money to build a powerful and prosperous nation by next year, a move that has triggered public discontent amid chronic food shortages,

SEOUL (Yonhap) - Citibank Korea Inc. paid the highest salary among major banks in the country in the first half of this year, industry data showed Thursday.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea and the World Bank will launch a fund aimed at providing support for developing countries to push for their "green" growth projects, Seoul's finance ministry said Thurs

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea's Lotte Engineering & Construction Co. said Thursday that it has clinched a US$110 million deal to build a Hyatt hotel in the capital of Mongolia.

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SEOUL (Yonhap) - POSCO, South Korea's leading steelmaker, said Thursday that it will set up a venture in Colombia for iron ore and coal resource development in the Latin American country in an effo

SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea is expected to propose holding talks with Japan on Thursday to discuss the issue of Tokyo's sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, a senior government

SEOUL (Yonhap) - Several rockets fell near the South Korean embassy in Afghanistan this week, but no casualties were reported, a foreign ministry official said Thursday.

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SEOUL (Yonhap) - The size of the South Korean construction market sank to a six-year low last year due mainly to a prolonged slump in the domestic property market, a report said Thursday.