SEOUL -- Fifty years ago to the day, the furnaces of South Korea's first integrated steelworks in Pohang fired into action, catalyzing the country's meteoric postwar recovery effort.
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POSCO's Pohang steel plant: origin of Japan-South Korea cooperation
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South Korea's first integrated steelworks, built in close coordination with Japan, opened in June 1973. (Photo courtesy of POSCO)
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