SEOUL (Yonhap) - South Korea's industrial electricity sales grew steadily last month on growing exports by the chemical, machinery and steel sectors, the government said Monday.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - President Lee Myung-bak said Monday Japan should teach its future generations a correct history amid heightened tensions between the two countries over Tokyo's attempts to renew it

SEOUL (Yonhap) - President Lee Myung-bak said Monday that South and North Korea should build mutual trust in order to open up an "age of peace and cooperation" on the divided peninsula.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - President Lee Myung-bak said Monday South Korea should guard against welfare populism, saying it could lead to national bankruptcy.

SEOUL (Yonhap) - Foreign investors have been pulling out money en mass from South Korea's securities market this month amid deepening worries over fiscal debt in Europe and the United States, the b

SEOUL (Yonhap) - President Lee Myung-bak called Monday for an ethical and responsible market economy as a way to cure a string of problems the global economy faces such as the fiscal crisis, high p

By Kim Young-gyo
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