With competitiveness gained after years of hardworking, POSCO, parent company of POHAN IRON & STEEL¼ˆfor short¼š POSCO¼‰¼Œ, has come on the international economic stage and edged into Global 500, the first among steel makers in Korea, and ranks 190 among Global 500 in 2007.Whit 19400 employees and tow largest Integrated Iron of the world¼Œ30 million tons throughput per year make POSCO be come the Fourth Iron Company. POSCO was evaluated the most competitive Iron Company 3 years in a row by magazine of 《World Steel Dynamics》, 5 years No.1 in 《Forbes》