Dongbu Steel, which specializes in cold rolling, produces various steel products by as much as 2,500,000 tons in scale, and generate KR ￦200 billion in sales revenue in its plants in Asanman, Incheon, and Pohang. The Asanman plant, which was established in 1999, is particularly equipped with the latest production lines and automated logistical systems for production with the least unit cost. Therefore, its competency is recognized internationally. Also, Dongbu Steel has diligently developed new technologies, and has succeeded in developing a new process for the high-purity, multi-crystal silicone, a raw material in semiconductors, to export its technologies to Germany. It has also developed powdered, pure iron for metallurgy that is used as the basic material for electric and electronic products for automobiles. By laying the groundwork for the active developments in the ultra-modern, new material production, it is growing to become the world’s leading general materials company.

Dongbu Electronics operates two CMOS wafer fabrication facilities within South Korea's well established semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure. Based in Bucheon and Sangwoo, these world class facilities are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment to process 200mm (8-inch) CMOS wafers. The combined throughput of these two facilities, currently at 50,000 wafers per month, is expected to grow to 70,000 wafers per month in 2006. DongbuAnam currently offers a broad range of foundry-compatible CMOS processing for volume production in the following geometries: 130nm, 0.15㎛, 0.18㎛, 0.2㎛1, 0.25㎛, and 0.35㎛. Both Logic and Mixed-Signal chip designs are supported as well as High Voltage (LCD drivers and power management); Embedded Memory (Flash, EEPROM, SRAM) and CMOS Image Sensor applications.

Dongbu Hannong Chemicals is Korea’s greatest general agricultural-chemical company, producing various chemical products, including pesticides, fertilizers, and seedlings. It particularly produces more than 30% of all pesticides in the Korean market today. Korea’s largest alloy steel production and petrochemical field that produces SM and PS are the other major business areas of Dongbu Hannong Chemicals. Currently, it is concentrating on developing next-generation BIO products by combining bioengineering technology and chemical technology, and is expanding its business sector into developing new materials, new medicines, and new bioengineering technologies. For example, it is the world’s second developer of a medicine for cerebral apoplexy with the organic cooperation of five affiliated research institutes.

Dongbu Fine Chemicals succeeded in producing raw materials for pesticides, completely relying on imported materials for the first time in Korea. Its technological power in low-toxic raw materials for pesticides, herbicides, intermediates in the medical field, highly functional adherence, and powered magnetic cores for the electronic information telecommunication field have been recognized worldwide.

Dongbu Corporation, which was established in 1969, succeeded as a first-generation penetrating company into the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia, in the early 1970s to lay the groundwork for the current Dongbu Group. Its outstanding technological power and construction capacities in civil engineering, architecture, and plant and housing businesses have been widely recognized. It leads the world in the SOC business and in the industrial development investment complex construction business. In 2000, it merged with Dongbu Express, one of Korea’s three greatest general logistics companies, to expand its capacity into the logistics sector. Since then, it has been providing general logistics services, connecting the world with ground and sea-borne routes with passenger transportation, freight transportation, port loading and unloading, storage, and international transportation. Dongbu Engineering has been a general consultant in project validity and supervisory business in the implementation and design in the CM information industry for the general construction environment.

Dongbu Insurance is a general property damage insurance company, covering all properties, such as car insurance, various long-term insurance policies, fire insurance, and marine insurance. Bain & Company, a business administration consulting firm, chose the company as one of 10 Korean companies that has achieved world-class growth in three divisions, including net sales and profit price investment earnings, in the last 11 years. Its excellent financial stability, high profitability, and outstanding business capacity have widely been recognized. For two consecutive years, AM Best, a worldwide credit evaluation firm that specializes in insurance companies, ranked the company “Excellent.”

Dongbu Life Insurance is a life insurance company that has advanced business administration know-how through its alliances with the United States’ Aetna and France’s AXA. It is at par with these advanced countries’ counterparts in efficient administration in sales, marketing, and profitability. In particular, its asset management profitability and productivity per capital is proudly top-ranked in Korea’s insurance industry.

Dongbu Securities, as proven by the fact that it received an A-class ranking in administration from the Korean Securities Commission in 1998, is aiming to become a customer-centered asset management securities company based on its excellent financial stability. Each of Dongbu’s financial sectors, including Dongbu Mutural Savings Bank, which is trying to become Korea’s leading local bank, Dongbu Asset Management, which specializes in the management of valuable securities, and Dongbu Capital, which specializes in credit management, is providing various financial products and services to customers in the insurance, securities, and banking industries. It is developing into becoming a world-class financial group in the 21st century.