Yonhap News Summary

The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency
on Tuesday.

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(LEAD) N. Korea promotes industry veterans in Cabinet reshuffle
SEOUL -- North Korea promoted industrial veterans to Cabinet posts in its latest
reshuffle, a signal of Pyongyang's stepped-up economic drive, a Seoul spokesman
said Tuesday.
A reshuffle in the communist state is usually inferred when new faces appear in
its media as the country does not publicize such moves.
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Seoul set to launch "emergency economy government"
SEOUL -- South Korea will launch what the nation's president has termed an
"emergency economy government" this week as the country strives to boost its
slumping economy, an official said Tuesday.
President Lee Myung-bak will sit in Thursday on the first meeting of a new
presidential council solely tasked with boosting the country's slumping economy,
a spokeswoman for the presidential office said.
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(LEAD) Seoul stocks rise 1.76 pct on tech gains
SEOUL -- South Korean stocks rose 1.76 percent Tuesday, gaining for a fourth
session, as tech shares jumped on ascending chip prices, analysts said. The local
currency gained against the U.S. dollar.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) gained 20.71 points to
1,194.28. Volume was heavy at 437.82 million shares worth 5.49 trillion won
(US$4.18 billion), with winners outpacing losers 599 to 242.
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Seoul publishes unified dictionary on literary terms used by both Koreas
SEOUL -- While the two Koreas have drifted apart politically, they may get to
understand each other a little better in terms of literature via a recently
published encyclopedia containing over 700 literary terms used in Seoul and
Pyongyang.
Dozens of South Korean authors, literary critics and professors spent more than
two years preparing and revising the "Literary Dictionary of the Korean Century,"
which aims mainly to bridge the gap between the literary phraseology of the two
divided countries. It is the first compilation of terms used together and
separately in the two Koreas since the their division in 1948.
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N. Korea unveils 2008 list of top 10 athletes, includes eight females
SEOUL -- North Korea has released a 2008 list of its top 10 athletes, with two
Beijing gold medalists sharing the highest honors. All but two were female.
North Korea released a similar list at the end of 2007. The 2008 version,
released by the official Korean Central News Agency and monitored Tuesday in
Seoul, included six who scored a medal at the Beijing Olympics in August.
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Voting on strike closes at Ssangyong Motor, but counting delayed
SEOUL -- Unionized workers at Ssangyong Motor Co., the ailing South Korean unit
of China's Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., wrapped up voting Tuesday on a
proposed strike, but the union delayed counting to increase leverage in talks
with its Chinese parent.
Ssangyong, the smallest automaker in South Korea, is sinking deeper into a
liquidity crisis and may face liquidation unless SAIC pumps a hefty supply of
capital into the debt-ridden carmaker.
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