Dongkuk Steel Mill Co, Ltd. () is a steel company with its headquarters in the city of

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. Founded on 7 July 1951, its manufacturing plants are located in

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, Incheon,

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and

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. Its main products are steel plates mainly for shipbuilding, beams, sections and bars mainly for

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. Dongkuk Steel is the parent company of the Dongkuk Steel Group with several subsidiaries including

Union Steel Dongkuk Steel Mill Co, Ltd. () is a steel company with its headquarters in the city of Seoul, South Korea. Founded on 7 July 1951, its manufacturing plants are located in Pohang, Incheon, Dangjin and Busan. Its main products are steel plates mainl ...

. Dongkuk Steel Mill is the second largest EAF steel producer in Korea behind Hyundai Steel. Dongkuk Steel mill is the world's forty-ninth largest steel maker among IISI member companies (2009). The current chairman is Mr. Sae Joo Chang. The company is a member of the Dongkuk Steel Group.

Competitors

* Hyundai Steel (the new name of

Hyundai INI Steel Hyundai Steel Co., Ltd, or HSC (formerly known as HYU, and Crab Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.) is a steel making company headquartered in Incheon and Seoul, South Korea, and a member of the Hyundai Motor Group. It manufactures a wide variety of produc ...

) *

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* Korea Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. *

Hyundai Hysco Hyundai Hysco Co., Ltd. () was a steel company of Hyundai Motor Group, headquartered in Ulsan, South Korea. Hysco produced automotive steel sheet products and various steel pipes. The company was merged with Hyundai Steel in July 2015. History Hy ...

* BNG Steel *

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* Sinhwa Steel * SeAH Steel

External links

Dongkuk Steel Korean website

Dongkuk Steel English website
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