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SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- Friday's closing prices (KRW) of KOSPI 200 stocks traded on the main Korea Stock Exchange. DWEC 6,180 DN 40 Donga ST 97,000 UP 1,700 FARMSCO 13,350 UP 350 Kangwo

SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks ended lower Friday as investors sold tech stocks for profit-taking. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index shed 13.51 points, or 0.64 percent, to 2,094.12. The broad index bucked overnight

(ATTN: EXPANDS dateline; ADDS more info throughout) KUALA LUMPUR/SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was killed with the highly toxic VX nerve agent, a statement by Malaysian police showed Friday. Traces

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SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on Friday pledged to build more public rental homes across the country to help young adults and senior citizens struggling with high housing costs. During a ceremony welco

SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- Popular K-pop girl group TWICE will make a foray into the Japanese music market in June, the group's management agency said Friday. The group will drop its Japanese-debuting compilation album titled "#TWICE" composed of i

SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Friday launched a vicious personal attack on the South Korean foreign minister, calling him an idiot and traitor who begs for tougher international pressure on its nuclear ambitions. The invective came amid

By Yoo Jee-ho SAPPORO, Japan, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korean men's cross-country skiing team won bronze in the 4x7.5-kilometer relay at the Asian Winter Games on Friday. The team of Kim Magnus, Hwang Jun-ho, Park Seong-beom and Kim Min-woo finis

(ATTN: UPDATES with more details throughout; Minor edits) SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- An elderly man unsatisfied with the capital city's development policy stabbed himself while Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon was delivering a congratulatory speech at an op

Feb. 25 1981 -- Chun Doo-hwan, a former Army general who staged a military coup in December 1979, is elected as South Korea's 12th president by the electoral college he handpicked. Chun's predecessor, Park Chung-hee, was assassinated by his int

By Yoo Jee-ho SAPPORO, Japan, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- The men's slalom race in alpine skiing at the Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan, was postponed Friday due to "adverse weather conditions." The organizers of the competition at Sapporo Teine said

The following is the first summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Friday. ---------------- S. Korea urges N.K. to admit its involvement in killing of Kim Jong-nam SEOUL -- South Korea on Friday called on North Korea to ack

SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- Moon Jae-in of the main opposition Democratic Party remained unchallenged in a presidential opinion poll despite a slight fall, data showed Friday. In the survey conducted this week by Gallup Korea, Moon received an appr

SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Friday called on North Korea to acknowledge that it is behind the killing of its leader's half-brother and cooperate with Malaysia's probe into the case. In its first official response to the death of Kim J

(ATTN: REWRITES headline, lead; UPDATES with more info throughout) SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- The half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was killed with the toxic VX nerve agent, a statement by Malaysian police showed Friday. Traces of th

SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korean businessman Kwon Oh-gap earned his second term as the country's pro football league chief on Friday. The K League said its senior delegates approved the nomination of Kwon to be the commissioner. The 66-year

SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- An elderly man stabbed himself while Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon was delivering a congratulatory speech at an opening of an exhibition at the city hall Friday, municipal officials and witnesses said. The man, presumed to b

SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's opposition parties on Friday condemned Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn for distributing souvenir watches with his title inscribed on them. The controversy sparked after a photo of the watch

SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- Kwanghee of South Korean boy band ZE:A will enlist in the Army for his mandatory military service in March, according to sources in the broadcasting industry on Friday. The singer, 29, will join the South Korean Army on

SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's parliamentary defense committee chief said Friday he has sent a letter to his counterpart in the U.S. Senate, requesting the designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism following the alleged assas

By Yoo Jee-ho SAPPORO, Japan, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korean women's cross-country skiing team captured bronze in the 4x5-kilometer relay at the Asian Winter Games on Friday. The team of Je Sang-mi, Han Da-som, Ju Hye-ri and Lee Chae-won finishe

By Yoo Jee-ho SAPPORO, Japan, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- Biathlete Kim Yong-gyu won the bronze medal in the men's 12.5-kilometer pursuit event at the Asian Winter Games here on Friday. Kim finished third with the time of 39:58.7 at Nishioka Biathlon Stad

SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea said that it has been "faithfully" enforcing sanctions adopted by the United Nations Security Council against North Korea, according to a report the Seoul government recently submitted to the council. South Ko