POSCO, Korea’s largest steelmaker, said Thursday that it has appointed Liang Ho-young as its first female executive, to head the company’s overseas subsidiary Qingdao Pohang Stainless Steel in China.
Liang, who was in charge of sales of hot-rolled stainless steel in Korea, was promoted to the job of overseeing POSCO’s Qingdao unit due to her fluency in Chinese and long-standing experience in overseas marketing of stainless steel.
The Korean steel giant also promoted another female executive Choi Eun-joo as the chief financial officer of POSCO A&C, the architecture unit of POSCO. Choi used to head a business strategy team at POSCO.
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