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Oil Price Rise Hits Stock Market

Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest maker of liquid crystal displays, is no longer optimistic about a recovery in LCD prices. LCDs are used in flat panel displays and a glut in production has...

Stock Market Reaches Five-Year High

There was undisguised pleasure in South Korea when US President Bush's State of the Union address adopted a reserved tone when he talked of the nuclear standoff with North Korea. The US is Seoul&#...

Borrowers Look to the Euro instead of the Dollar

There seems to have been a touch of desperation when the Bank of Korea cut interest rates to a record low of 3.25% on 11th November. With October inflation at 3.4%, near the top of the central bank...

Seoul Admits to Unauthorised Uranium Enrichment

China has replaced the US as South Korea's biggest trading partner, moving up from second place last year. China's rocketing industrial growth has been sucking in imports of semi-manufactures ...