(Yonhap Interview) S. Korea's G20 hosting to be equivalent to Seoul Olympics: scholar
By Hwang Doo-hyong

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SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Saturday

By Byun Duk-kun
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee
Myung-bak, joining world leaders Friday in a forum tackling the global economic

SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's five influential business organizations
welcomed Friday news that the nation will host the Group of 20 summit in November

By Byun Duk-kun
PITTSBURGH, United States, Sept. 25 (Yonhap) -- The economic summit of the
world's 20 major economies, the G-20, will be on the threshold of becoming a

By Byun Duk-kun
PITTSBURGH, United States, Sept. 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will host a G-20
economic summit next year when it will also take the chairmanship of the forum,

SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Yonhap) -- A consortium led by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the
world's largest shipbuilder, has placed another formal offer to acquire trading

By Lee Youkyung
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Yonhap) -- Standard & Poor's said Friday the South Korean
economy is expected to expand 4.3 percent next year on rising demand in emerging

SOKCHO, South Korea, Sept. 25 (Yonhap) -- Nearly a hundred elderly South Koreans
gathered in this coastal border town Friday as they prepared to meet with

By Tony Chang
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Yonhap) -- The North Korean people's human rights won't be
improved unless the communist country completely abandons its nuclear weapons