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 POSCO Tower, Seoul | |
Native name | 포항종합제철 주식회사 (Until 2002) 주식회사 포스코 (Since 2002) |
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| Revised Romanization | Pohang Jonghap Jecheol Jusikhoesa (Until 2002) Jusikhoesa Poseuko (Since 2002) |
| Company type | Public |
| KRX: 005490 NYSE: PKX (POSCO Holdings Inc.) | |
| 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 |
| Revenue |  KRW 75.16 trillion (2021)[1] |
| KRW 9.25 trillion (2021)[1] | |
| KRW 7.22 trillion (2021)[1] | |
| Total assets | KRW 79.08 trillion (2020)[1] |
| Total equity | KRW 47.68 trillion (2020)[1] |
| Owner | National Pension Service (6.38%) |
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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