SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Yonhap) -- Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok said Friday he respected and welcomed the central bank's decision ...

Banks' home-backed loans added 6.2 trillion won from a month earlier to 896.8 trillion won in September, also slowing from an ...

SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Friday a new defense cost-sharing deal between South Korea and the United States ...

"While inflation is showing a clear trend of stabilization, household debt growth has begun to slow with tightened ...

SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks rose late Friday morning as the Bank of Korea (BOK) cut its key rate for the first time in more than three years. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock ...

Writer and poet Han Seung-won answers reporters' questions about his daughter Han Kang's Nobel Prize in Literature at his ...

Lotte Shopping aims to earn 3 trillion won of the sales target in 2030 from overseas markets, while targeting an operating profit of 1.3 trillion won in the same year, the company said in a statement.

SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Yonhap) -- Former Industry Minister Bang Moon-kyu is expected to be appointed the new South Korean ambassador ...

SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Yonhap) -- Jennie of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK made her highly anticipated solo comeback with the release of ...

SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Yonhap) -- Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung on Friday urged North Korea to retract its recent move to cut off ...

SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's central bank on Friday cut its key benchmark interest rate, its first pivot in its ...

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