UN chief gets hero's welcome in South Korea (Borneo Bulletin)

4 July 2008, 1:34 am

SEOUL (AFP) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon received a hero's welcome Thursday as he returned to his native South Korea for the first trip since taking up the post.... read more

South Korea 5-yr T-bond yield ends week up 30 bps (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

4 July 2008, 12:14 am

SEOUL, July 4 (Reuters) - The yield on South Korea's benchmark 5-year treasury bonds ended the week up 30 basis points on Friday, marking the biggest weekly surge in almost two months, on growing worries about accelerating inflation.... read more

UN chief urges South Korea to do more for world (Las Vegas Sun)

3 July 2008, 10:47 pm

Thu, Jul 3, 2008 (10:39 p.m.) U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called on South Korea to contribute more foreign aid and peacekeepers abroad, saying Friday his homeland owes the international community for its help rebuilding from the Korean War.... read more

UN chief urges South Korea to do more for world (AP via Yahoo! News)

3 July 2008, 10:15 pm

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called on South Korea to contribute more foreign aid and peacekeepers abroad, saying Friday his homeland owes the international community for its help rebuilding from the Korean War.... read more

South Korea Will Create $1.9 Billion Fund for Local Builders (Bloomberg.com)

3 July 2008, 6:59 pm

July 4 (Bloomberg) -- South Korea will create a 2 trillion won ($1.9 billion) fund to assist local construction companies in winning more overseas projects, the Ministry of Strategy and Finance said.... read more

Stalled in Seoul: How protests have humbled South Korea’s ‘Bulldozer’ (Financial Times)

3 July 2008, 3:10 pm

When Lee Myung-bak was preparing to take office as South Korea’s president in February, one of his top priorities was to dispatch a team of repairmen to Daebul industrial park in the south of the country.... read more