Aju Group () is a large

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n '' chaebol'' (conglomerate), offering

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, industry, logistic, financial,

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and

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products.

History

Aju group started as Aju industries(아주산업) in 1960 as a construction which mainly did business on construction materials. In the 1960s, Aju helped replace wooden

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s to concrete ones as part of the government's the "rural distribution of electricity" project. Starting from the 1970s they begin to sell hume pipes. In the 1980s, the company opened

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factories in

Mangu-dong Mangu-dong is a ''dong'', neighbourhood of Jungnang-gu in Seoul, South Korea. See also *Administrative divisions of South Korea South Korea is made up of 17 first-tier administrative divisions: 6 metropolitan cities (''gwangyeoksi'' ), 1 ...

References

External links

Aju Group Homepage
Chaebol Conglomerate companies of South Korea {{SouthKorea-company-stub