Korea Steel
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Korea Steel makes steel bars and rods, long, shaped pieces of steel used in construction, shipbuilding, automobiles, and machinery, by melting recycled scrap metal in an electric furnace and rolling the resulting steel billets into a wide range of sizes and profiles.
It supplies these finished steel products to industries that treat steel as a fundamental raw material. Listed on KOSPI, Korea's main stock exchange, the company pursues a strategy of producing a broad, specialized mix of product types to adapt to swings in industrial demand.
Summary is AI-generated and may contain errors · figures from DART filings
Korea Steel in five facts
What does Korea Steel do?
Korea Steel makes steel bars and rods, long, shaped pieces of steel used in construction, shipbuilding, automobiles, and machinery, by melting recycled scrap metal in an electric furnace and rolling the resulting steel billets into a wide range of sizes and profiles.
Where is Korea Steel listed and in which sector?
Korea Steel (Korean name: 한국특강) trades under KRX code 007280 on KOSPI, the main board of the Korea Exchange. It is classified in the Materials sector, Steel.
How large is Korea Steel?
Its market capitalisation was US$46.1M on 2026-10-21, which puts it in this site's small-cap group. US$ amounts are converted from won at 1 USD ≈ ₩1,325 (2026-10-21).
What were Korea Steel's latest annual revenue and operating profit?
For fiscal year 2025, Korea Steel reported revenue of US$579M, operating profit of US$8.9M and net income of US$2.3M, per its annual report on DART (data retrieved from DART on 2026-09-08). Revenue was down 0.2% on the previous year.
Where does this data come from?
Financial statements and filings come from DART, Korea's official corporate-filing system. Share prices, market capitalisation and trading status come from KRX. Company summaries are AI-generated from the filings and may contain errors; financial figures are mapped directly from DART.
Data sources and last updated
- Filings and financial statements
- DART (dart.fss.or.kr), Korea's official corporate-filing system
- Prices, market cap, trading status
- KRX (Korea Exchange), via FinanceDataReader
- Latest annual financials
- Fiscal year 2025, data retrieved from DART on 2026-09-08
- Share price and market cap
- Close of 2026-10-21
- Currency
- US$, converted from won at 1 USD ≈ ₩1,325 (2026-10-21 close)
- Company data updated
- 2026-10-21
- Company summary
- AI-generated from filings; may contain errors. Information only, not investment advice.
- DisclosureOct 7
- DisclosureSep 14
- Change in shares held by the largest shareholderSep 1
- Report on large shareholdings (5% rule) (standard)Sep 1
- Cash/in-kind dividend decision
Korea Steel declared a cash dividend of US$0.07 per share, equal to about 6.72% of the recent share price.
Dividend · Mar 16 - Change of 30% or more in revenue or profit/loss structure (15% for large companies)Earnings · Jan 26