South Korea offers face-saving aid plan NZ Herald 4:20 AM Tuesday Jul 27, 2010 Email Print | WASHINGTON - Bitterness still lingers in South Korea over a painful international financial bailout in 1997. On the heels of the latest financial crisis, a powerful Seoul now wants to help other countries needing aid. | South Korea is working with the Inter...
Submarine focus for US-South Korea military drill BBC News The US and South Korea practised anti-submarine drills on the second day of joint exercises aimed as a show of strength to North Korea. | Officials said the drills in the Sea of Japan focused on detecting and destroying enemy submarines. | They follow the 26 March sinking of a South Korean warship, ...
South Korea unveils plan to re-privatize major financial company m&c | Seoul - The South Korean government announced Friday it planned to try to sell all or most of its majority share in one of the country's leading financial groups, nearly a decade after taking it over during the Asian financial crisis. | The Public ...
Seoul Premier Quits Amid Land Woes Wall Street Journal By EVAN RAMSTAD | SEOUL—South Korea's prime minister resigned Thursday over a controversial government-office development plan, as mounting troubles in the housing and construction industries threaten the country's rapid recovery from the globa...
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US and South Korea unveil drills in "show of force" Zeenews Seoul: The United States and South Korea announced on Tuesday the start of large-scale military exercises next weekend in a show of force meant to convince North Korea to curb its ...
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Gates shows unity with South Korea Denver Post | SEOUL — Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Seoul on Monday for a high-level show of unity expected to include the announcement of major military exercises by the Uni...
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Clinton, Gates visit Seoul amid tension with North Korea Inquirer | WASHINGTON DC, United States—US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates will visit Seoul Wednesday in a show of solidarity amid fresh tensions with ...
South Korea's prime minister offers to resign The Boston Globe | SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea's prime minister offered to resign Thursday after parliament shot down his efforts to scrap a plan that would relocate several government ministries out of the capital. | Chung Un-chan, an academic who was appointed i...
South Korea's prime minister offers to resign Newsvine | — South Korea's prime minister offered to resign Thursday after parliament shot down his efforts to scrap a plan that would relocate several government ministries out of the capital. | Chung Un-chan, an academic who was appointed in September...
South Korea's economy to gather speed; rate view unchanged The Guardian * Analysts lift 2010 growth forecasts * Growth forecast at 5.7 pct vs 5.0 pct seen in April * Policy interest rate seen up to 2.5 pct by yr-end * Won seen gaining in 2010 less than previous forecast By Cheon Jong-woo SEOUL, July 14 (Reuters) - South Korea's economy is expected to grow much faster this year than economists had forecast three months ...
