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Daewoo (UK: / ˈ d eɪ. uː / DAY-oo; US: / ˌ d eɪ ˈ w uː / day-WOO; Korean: 대우; Hanja: 大宇; IPA:; literally "great universe" and a portmanteau of "dae" meaning great, and the given name of founder and chairman Kim Woo-choong) also known as the Daewoo Group, was a major South Korean chaebol (type of conglomerate) and automobile ...
Since the 1st overseas branch was established in Sydney, Australia in August 1969, After that, as of 2016, POSCO DAEWOO has 109 branches and legal persons in 58 countries. Particularly in 1988, the company became the first Korean corporation which successfully enter the German and Chinese market.
Daewoo Group was founded by Kim Woo Choong in March 1967. Daewoo's emergence was inseparable from South Korea's rapid transformation from an agrarian country, racked by a long history of hostile invasions and lacking essential resources, to a land where the centrally planned "economic miracle" has become a fact of life.
Daewoo, owned by the Daewoo Group conglomerate, entered the automobile field on a large scale in the 1980s and had won nearly a fifth of the market before entering into financial receivership and reorganization in 2000.
Dec 10, 2019 · SEOUL (REUTERS) - The founder of the defunct Daewoo Group, Kim Woo-choong, has died after watching the conglomerate he built into a symbol of South Korea's manufacturing prowess become one...
Dec 20, 2019 · At the height of his success, Daewoo group founder Kim Woo-choong personified South Korea’s unlikely transformation, out of the ashes of brutal civil war, into a manufacturing...
The Asian financial crisis and its aftermath finally took its toll on the expansion-minded Daewoo and forced both Daewoo and the Korean government to decide how to dissolve the chaebol. Kim Woo-Choong started Daewoo in 1967 as a small textile company with only five employees and $10,000 in capital.
