Korean Entrepreneurs, Biography, Park Tae-joon, POSCO, Born in 1927

Park Tae-joon (born 1927) was a South Korean entrepreneur who was the founder of the steel giant POSCO.

He was born in 1927 in the Gyeonggi Province of South Korea.

Park Tae-joon was a graduate of Seoul National University, where he studied engineering.

He was the president of the Korean Industrial Technology Institute from 1969 to 1971.

He founded POSCO in 1968, which was a steel manufacturing company that quickly rose to become the world’s fourth largest steel producer.

Park Tae-joon served as the chairman of POSCO from 1977 to 1987.

He was awarded the Order of Merit of National Foundation in 2003, as well as the Order of Service Merit in 2009.

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