Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
The state-invested Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) said it plans to support smaller firms by extending more loans from late July as they are facing greater pressure under the slowing economic growth, Yonhap news agency reported.
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Russia's promised food aid to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been shipped to a border city in the DPRK, the official KCNA news agency reported Wednesday.
The aid, whose quantity was unspecified in the report, a ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Leaders from Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa and South Korea and the Group of Eight (G8) nations held a major economies leaders meeting on Wednesday to discuss climate change and energy.
The meeting ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Inter-Korean trade went up sharply in the first half of 2008 year-on-year despite the frozen relationship between the two Koreas after President Lee Myung-bak took office in late February thanks to the increase of commercial trade, the Sout ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak Monday reshuffled the Cabinet, replacing three ministers, a presidential spokesman said.
The president replaced the agriculture minister, the education minister and the minister for health and we ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
South Korean banks' lending rates rose for the second consecutive month in May as market interest rates advanced, the South Korea central bank said Thursday.
The average lending rates for households and companies reached 6.96 percen ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
South Korea has shipped 1.22 million U.S. dollars worth of anti-malaria supplies to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to help prevent the spread of the disease over the summer months, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
South Korea's customs authorities announced a set of measures Thursday to ensure the safety of U.S. beef.
Earlier in the day, the government published a legal notice of a recent Korea-U.S. beef deal on its newsletter, the final admi ...
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