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Millions of South Korean voters are heading for polling stations to choose a president to succeed Roh Moo-hyun.
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South Korea's foreign minister cemented his position as the front-runner to succeed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday, the only one of six candidates to escape a veto in an informal U.N. Security ...Comment
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South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak told the country on Monday that his government would achieve annual economic growth of about 6 percent in 2008, while preventing inflation from rising sharply.
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S.Korean bans UCCs from portal sites ahead of election    SEOUL, Feb.
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The new president-elect of South Korea says the North must ditch nuclear weapons and boost human rights.
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South Korea might put forward a candidate  to take over from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan when his  term expires in 2006, a South Korean official said Sunday.
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SEOUL -- The politically charged film "The President's Last Bang" is a shot at the heart of the South Korean establishment.
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Lee Myung Bak sweeps to victory in South Korea's Presidential election on promises to revitalize the economy
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The daughter of South Korea's assassinated president Park Chung-hee on Monday launched a bid to be the country's first woman leader in a race dominated by her main challenger for the opposition conservative's nomination.
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Scandal-tainted Lee Myung-bak set to become South Korea's next president, exit poll shows
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Conservative opposition candidate Lee Myung-Bak will win Wednesday's presidential election, according to two TV exit polls broadcast as voting ended.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- North and South Korea held working-level military talks Friday, the first dialogue between the two countries this year, as Seoul's conservative president-elect prepared to take office with calls for a tougher stance toward Pyongyang.
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Lee Myung-Bak won South Korea's presidential election by a landslide Wednesday, as voters backed the former Hyundai chief executive to revive the economy and disregarded fraud allegations against him.
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South Korea's parliament voted Monday to launch an independent investigation into fraud allegations against the leading presidential candidate just days ahead of the vote.
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SEOUL, Dec. 18 -- Because he embodies a brand that voters here are itching to buy, Lee Myung-bak seems almost certain to be elected Wednesday as president of South Korea.
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South Korea's constitutional court said it would rule Thursday on the legality of a criminal investigation into next president Lee Myung-Bak over his alleged links to a 2001 share manipulation scandal.
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South Korea's foreign minister sought to cement his front-runner status in the race to succeed Kofi Annan as UN chief, vowing that if elected he would try to make the world body leaner and more efficient.