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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn speaks during a news conference at the IMF's Spring meetings in Washington, Saturday, April 12, 200
(photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite)
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...
The nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier the USS George Washington leads a South Korean warships during joint military drills on South Korea's East Sea on Monday, July 26, 2010
(photo: AP / Yonhap, Lee Jung-joon)
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...
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, front left, and Korean Minister of National Defense Kim Tae Young, front right, depart the Ministry of Defense building in Seoul South Korea, Tuesday July 20, 2010.
AP / Cherie Cullen
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 ...
Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) Robert M. Gates delivers a speech during the inaugural Marine Corps Association Annual Dinner at the Crystal Gateway Marriott.
US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Molly A. Burgess
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...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates; Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff conduct a press conference on the new Nuclear Posture Review at the Pentagon on April 6, 2010.
US DoD / Mass Communication Specialist Chad J. McNeeley
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...
Trade
A South Korean man cleans a window reflecting stock price at the Korea Stock Exchange in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008. South Korea's central bank slashed its key interest rate Monday in a bid to boost the economy and stock market amid the global financial crisis. The country's president said the government would cut taxes and boost public s
(photo: AP / Lee Jin-man)
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 ...



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