South Korea president to meet Aung San Suu Kyi BBC News South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is visiting Burma, the first time a South Korean leader has visited the country since a bomb attack 29 years ago. | The North Korean attack, during a visit by former President Chun Doo-hwan to Rangoon in 1983, killed 21 people. | Mr Lee met Burma's President...
S. Korean exports to U.S. jump 11.3% thanks to FTA Xinhua | SEOUL, May 20 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's exports to the United States jumped 11.3 percent for two months right after the implementation of the South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA), a customs data showed Sunday. | Shipments to the United State...
S. Korea's corporate financing shrinks 21.7% in April Xinhua | SEOUL, May 20 (Xinhua) -- South Korean companies' direct financing through issuing stocks and bonds shrank 21.7 percent last month due to a drop in corporate bond issuance caused by tighter regulation, the financial watchdog said Sunday. | Corporat...
S. Korea's economic growth expected to accelerate in 2013 Xinhua | SEOUL, May 20 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's economic growth was expected to accelerate in 2013 compared with 2012 due to faster export growth and solid domestic demand, a state-run think tank said Sunday. | The Asia's No. 4 economy was forecast to expa...
S. Korea's corporate defaults grow in April Xinhua | SEOUL, May 20 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's corporate bankruptcies grew last month due mainly to an increase in defaults of service companies, the central bank said Sunday. | The number of companies that went belly-up stood at 110 in April, up 20 from ...
Euro crisis sparks sell-off on Asian bourses Jakarta Post | Stock markets across Asia plunged to their lowest levels in four months yesterday as Greece's debt crisis and increasing concern over shaky Spanish banks triggered a savage sell-off. | The move by rating agency Moody's to downgrade 16 Spanish banks...
>Amkor Technology to build plant in South Korea Seattle Post | CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Amkor Technology Inc., a specialist in packaging and testing computer chips, said Friday that it will build a $350 million semiconductor testing and packaging plant in South Korea. | The new plant will be built in the Inche...
Tallest Lego Tower Breaks Record In South Korea Huffington Post | For iconic Denmark toymaker Lego, the sky may no longer be the limit. | The world’s tallest Lego tower ever was constructed in South Korea this week at 105 feet tall to commerate the 80th anniversary of the of the founding of the toy maker The Da...
