Korea Tungsten Company FC is defunct

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...

n semi-professional football club that was based

Yeongwol Yeongwol County (''Yeongwol-gun'') is a county in Gangwon Province, South Korea. It is well known as the place where King Danjong, the sixth king of Joseon Dynasty, was exiled when he was forced to abdicate by his uncle, who became Sejo of Joseon ...

, Gangwon. The club was officially founded in 1956, by the

Korea Tungsten Company Korea Tungsten Company (KTC, Korean: 대한중석, pronounced ''daehan jungsuk'', Hanja: 大韓重石) was a major South Korean manufacturer of tungsten cutting tools, tungsten powder, and related metal-cutting products. It was the 28th-largest ...

is rated as predecessor of

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 ...

, and Daehan Tungsten FC is predecessor of

POSCO Atoms The Pohang Steelers (Hangul: 포항 스틸러스) are a South Korean professional football club based in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province that compete in the K League 1, the top flight of South Korean football. The Steelers were founded on 1 A ...

, too.

Honours

Domestic

Korean President's Cup The President's Cup National Football Tournament is a football competition, held by Korea Football Association, for South Korean semi-professional and amateur football clubs. This competition was originally one of major club competitions of So ...

** Winner (2) : 1965, 1966 ** Runner-up (1) : 1962 * Korean National Football Championship ** Runner-up (2) : 1962, 1968

Asia

Asian Club Championship 1967 The 1967 Asian Champion Club Tournament was the first edition of the annual Asian club football competition hosted by the Asian Football Confederation. Six teams, as their respective country's domestic champions, competed in a knockout tourname ...

Semifinalist

References

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