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Native name | 포항종합제철 주식회사 (Until 2002) 주식회사 포스코 (Since 2002) |
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Revised Romanization | Pohang Jonghab Jecheol Jusikhoesa (Until 2002) Jusikhoesa Poseuko (Since 2002) |
Company type | Public |
KRX: 005490 NYSE: PKX LSE: PIDD TYO: 5412 | |
Industry | Steel Industrial manufacturing |
Founded | April 1968 |
Founder | Park Tae-Joon |
Headquarters | Pohang, South Korea |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Choi Jeong-Woo (Chief Executive Officer) |
Products | Steel, flat steel products, long steel products, wire products, plates |
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Number of employees | 29,648 (2009) |
Subsidiaries | POSCO International POSCO E&C |
Website | www |
POSCO (formerly Pohang Iron and Steel Company) is a South Korean steel manufacturer headquartered in Pohang, South Korea. It had an output of 42,000,000 metric tons (41,000,000 long tons; 46,000,000 short tons) of crude steel in 2015, making it the world's sixth-largest steelmaker by this measure.[2] In 2010, it was the world's largest steel manufacturing company by market value.[3] Also, in 2012, it was named as the world's 146th-largest corporation by the Fortune Global 500.[4]
POSCO currently operates two integrated steel mills in South Korea, in Pohang and Gwangyang. POSCO previously operated a joint venture with U.S. Steel, USS-POSCO Industries, in Pittsburg, California, United States, but U.S. Steel acquired full ownership of the facility in February 2020.
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