By Nam Kwang-sik
SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- GS Engineering & Construction Co., South Korea's

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's resort county of Pyeongchang will take
a third tilt at hosting the Winter Olympic Games, Seoul's sports governing body
said Thursday.

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- POSCO, South Korea's No. 1 steelmaker, said Thursday
that it has completed construction of two steel-processing plants in India and

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced a cousin of
South Korean first lady, Kim Yoon-ok, to a three-year jail term for taking

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's investment in overseas securities fell
for the first time in 2008 as the global financial turmoil sparked stock

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Thursday that
it has granted "conditional" approval for a bid by eBay Inc. to take over Gmarket

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors said Thursday they have indicted two
Seoul residents without detention on charges of spreading false rumors that

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's second-highest defense official and the
commander of American forces here began talks Thursday to iron out differences

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- A local government in collaboration with several
major banks created a 240 billion won (US$177 million) loan payment guarantee

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks traded up 0.43 percent late
Thursday morning as optimism about first-quarter corporate earnings outweighed