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SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean striker Lee Dong-Gook is talking to five Japanese teams including Kyoto Purple Sanga after being released by English Premier League side Middlesbrough this week, his agent said on Thursday. "We cannot disclose all the teams under negotiation but we plan to make our pick...
Seoul - South Korea said Thursday that it was ready to hold talks with North Korea on sending food aid to its impoverished neighbour as the United Nations and aid agency warned it was facing famine. If there is an opportunity, we plan to have direct...
Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap [Yonhap headline: "Seoul To Slap Anti-dumping Duties on Chinese Benzoyl Peroxide"] Seoul, May 15 (Yonhap) - South Korea said Thursday it will slap anti-dumping duties on Chinese benzoyl peroxide for three years to protect the local...
South Korea's first astronaut has left hospital after treatment for severe back pain caused by her unexpectedly rough return to earth, officials said Wednesday. Yi So-Yeon, 29, had been admitted to an air force hospital in late April with dislocation and bruising of the vertebrae caused during...
Concerns are rising over side effect of bird flu drug Tamiflu on teenagers. Tamiflu is Swiss-based Hoffman-La Roche's antiviral for general influenza A and B but is also used to combat bird flu. However, worries have surfaced about the possibility of the medicine causing mental disorders among...
By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has agreed to cooperate fully on verifying its nuclear declaration, a U.S. official said on Tuesday as he displayed some of the 18,822 documents Pyongyang has given Washington about its plutonium program. The declaration is part of a broader...
Korean loanee to pen permanent deal South Korean international Kim Do-heon looks set to sign for West Bromwich Albion. The 25-year-old is hoping to make his move to the Hawthorns permanent after joining the Baggies on loan in January from Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma. Despite only making a handful of...
South Korean unit will buy 35 discount stores from smaller local rival E-Land Ltd for 1.13 billion pounds, Yonhap News reported on Wednesday. E-Land, a South Korean retailer, bought most of the outlets from France’s Carrefour in 2006 for 951 million pounds. Tesco is the world’s third-largest food...
BEIJING (Reuters) - But the Foreign Ministry did not say clearly whether China, whose role in recent years has shifted from aid recipient to aid donor as its economy soars, would accept the offers. Relevant departments of China and relief departments welcome the aid of international society and...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's president said Tuesday that Washington has accepted his government's plan to stop imports of U.S. beef if any new case of mad cow disease breaks out in the United States. Lee Myung-bak told a Cabinet meeting that Washington "accepted and acknowledged" his...
