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POSCO International

South Korean company

POSCO International Corporation (Korean: 포스코인터내셔널) is South Korea's largest trading company and a subsidiary of POSCO. The company was founded by Kim Woo-choong in 1967 as Daewoo Industrial Co., Ltd, which ran its business in trading and construction. In 1999, the company faced at least $50 billion in debt, and Daewoo became formally dismantled.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2000Founded1

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POSCO International Corporation (Korean: 포스코인터내셔널) is South Korea's largest trading company and a subsidiary of POSCO.2

Corporate structure

POSCO International is part of a group headed by POSCO. 22 entities, 6 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • POSCO Pohang-si, South Korea
    • 주식회사 포스코인터내셔널 70.71% · Seoul, South Korea
      • Posco International Deutschland Eschborn, Germany
      • CENTRUX LNG PTE. LTD. Subsidiary · 서울, South Korea
      • POSCO INTERNATIONAL INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Gurgaon, India
    • POSCO International Seoul
    • POSCO Energy Subsidiary · Seoul
    • POSCO India Subsidiary · Bhubaneswar
    • 포철기연 Subsidiary · Taein-dong, South Korea
    • Roy Hill Holdings Stake · 12.5% · Perth Airport, Australia
    • POSCO FLOW CANADA INC. Subsidiary · 100% · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
    • 포스코기술투자 주식회사 Subsidiary · 100% · Pohang-si, South Korea
    • POSCO INDIA PROCESSING CENTER PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · 93% · Gurgaon, India
    • 포스코에너지(주) Subsidiary · 74.7% · Seoul, South Korea
    • (주)포스코이앤씨 Subsidiary · 52.8% · Pohang-si, South Korea
    • POSCO ASIA COMPANY LIMITED (浦亞實業有限公司) Subsidiary · 경상북도, South Korea
    • POSCO AUSTRALIA PTY LTD Subsidiary · Sydney, Australia
    • POSCO Canada Limited Subsidiary · Pohang, South Korea
    • POSCO MAHARASHTRA STEEL PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Mangoan, India
    • POSCO MEXICO SA DE CV Subsidiary · Altamira, Mexico
    • POSCO- INDIA PUNE PROCESSING CENTER PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Pune, India
    • PT POSCO INDONESIA JAKARTA PROCESSING CENTER Subsidiary · Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
    • Elkview Mine Owned · British Columbia, Canada
    • FC Pohang Steelers Owned · Pohang, South Korea
    • Greenhills Mine Owned · British Columbia, Canada
    • Jeonnam Dragons FC Owned · Gwangyang, South Korea

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Founded by Kim Woo-choong in 2000.1

Leadership

Who has led POSCO International, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

  • steel

Listed on Wikidata.1

Operations

POSCO INTERNATIONAL Corporation has its head office in 134, Teheran-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea. Its global network consists of over 80 overseas branches and subsidiaries.

Business sectors

As of Jan 2023, after the merge with POSCO Energy, the company restructured in the following ways. The main purpose of organizational change was to boost energy business through the completion of LNG value chain, and global trading in the sectors steel/agro/eco-friendly materials.

Energy - E&P, Gas operations, Energy(LNG, Solar, Wind, Hydrogen), Resource development

Steel - Export/Import/Triangular sales: Semi-finished Goods & Long Products, Wire Rods, Thick Steel Plates, Steel Products for the Energy Industry, Hot-Rolled Steel Sheets, Cold-Rolled Steel Sheets. Coated Steel Sheets, Color Steel Plates, Electrical Steel, Automotive Steel Sheets, Stainless Steel, Steel Building Materials, Lithium-ion Battery Materials. Domestic processing and distribution: POSCO Mobility Solution, eSTEEL4U

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Agro - Grain trading, Palm oil, Cotton business

New Growth Business - Bioplastics, Eco-friendly car parts, Public infrastructure

Splits steel processing and manufacturing sectors as subsidiary, and names POSCO SPS, which changed its name to POSCO Mobility Solution.

Criticism

Posco has been criticised for running gas projects in Myanmar that financially benefit the country's military junta. Posco runs the Shwe gas project, and have been named by the Guardian as one company profiting from its "operations that have helped prop up the military regime". The EU has also sanctioned MOGE, which owns a 15% stake in the Shwe gas project run by Posco.

Posco's subsidiary company, PT Bio Inti Agrindo (BIA) has faced criticism in Papua New Guinea for clearing 270 square kilometres of rainforest for a palm oil plantation between 2012 and 2018. The company has also been involved in disputes with indigenous communities about land rights. In 2020 the company adopted a new deforestation policy and said it would compensate some areas that it had deforested.

According to eco-business.com, "Posco International, which has 34,000 hectares of palm oil plantations in Papua and produced about 80,000 tonnes of palm oil last year, will also require third-party suppliers to observe its No Deforestation, No Peatland, No Exploitation (NDPE) policy."

From Wikipedia’s article on POSCO International, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 2000Founded Founded1

Sources

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