Hyundai Corporation () is a South Korean company founded in 1976 as part of the

Hyundai Hyundai is a South Korean industrial conglomerate ("chaebol"), which was restructured into the following groups: * Hyundai Group, parts of the former conglomerate which have not been divested ** Hyundai Mobis, Korean car parts company ** Hyundai ...

chaebol A chaebol (, ; ) is a large industrial South Korean conglomerate run and controlled by an individual or family. A chaebol often consists of multiple diversified affiliates, controlled by a person or group whose power over the group often exc ...

''. It is a general trading company providing export and import services with a wide variety of products including marine vessels, industrial plants and machinery, commercial automobiles and rolling stock, steel, chemical products, and general commodities. Hyundai Corporation owns Qingdao Hyundai Shipbuilding in China. It also owns in partnership with

POSCO POSCO (formerly Pohang Iron and Steel Company) is a South Korean steel-making company headquartered in Pohang, South Korea. It had an output of of crude steel in 2015, making it the world's fourth-largest steelmaker by this measure. In 2010, i ...

Pos-Hyundai Steel (steel trading & coil service center) at Irungattukottai near Chennai, India. It has 32 worldwide offices. In December 2009,

Hyundai Heavy Industries Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI; ) is the world's largest shipbuilding company and a major heavy equipment manufacturer. Its headquarters are in Ulsan, South Korea. History HHI was founded in 1972 by Chung Ju-yung as a division of the ...

(once a sibling company in

) purchased a 50% plus-one-share majority stake in Hyundai Corporation, and installed new management on January 1, 2010. Hyundai Corporation recorded sales of

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41,000,000,000,000 in 2001. It was the highest sales in Korea as a company. Hyundai Corporation was awarded

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25,000,000,000 Export-Tower Award, due to its export was $25,280,000,000 (1999 July-2000 June). During the same period, those the company behind Hyundai Corporation such as Samsung, LG, SK, Daewoo recorded its export respectively $22,500,000,000, $12,300,000,000, $5,800,000,000, $5,800,000,000.

Hyundai Corporation's business fields

*Trading; Ships, Automobiles, Machinery, Plant, Electric & Electronics, Chemicals, Steel & Metal, Coal, and other raw materials etc. *Project Organization; Power Plants, Roads, Off-Shore Facilities, and Industrial Plants etc. *Resource Development; LNG in Yemen/Oman/Qatar, Coal Mine in Drayton Australia, and 11-2 Gas block in Vietnam etc. *Overseas Investment; Qingdao Hyundai Shipbuilding in China, Inti Industrial Complex in Indonesia, POS-Hyundai Coil Center etc.

External links

* http://www.hyundaicorp.com/en * http://www.qingdaohyundai.com

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