'The Iron Lady Who Broke the Glass Ceiling', Who Is the First Female President of POSCO Group Companies?

Yoo Kyung Lee, New President of NTB

[Asia Economy Reporter Park So-yeon] POSCO Group has appointed its first female president.

On the 21st, POSCO implemented an organizational restructuring and regular executive appointments. A notable aspect of this personnel change is the expansion of female executives.

The woman who broke the glass ceiling in POSCO Group is Lee Yoo-kyung (53), Head of the Equipment and Materials Purchasing Office. Lee was appointed as president of the B2B e-commerce company N2B, becoming the first female president within POSCO Group companies.

President Lee joined POSCO in 1990 as part of the first female recruitment class and gained attention each time she was promoted, including becoming POSCO's first female team leader. She graduated from Korea University with a degree in English Language and Literature and earned an MBA from Ewha Womans University.

She has served as Head of Marketing at POSCO M-TECH, Group Leader of Raw Material Transport in Raw Material Office 1, and Group Leader of Ore in Raw Material Office 2. Since January 2018, she has been leading the Equipment and Materials Purchasing Office.

Alongside President Lee, Oh Ji-eun (54), Executive Director of the Production Technology Strategy Office, was promoted to Senior Research Fellow at the Technical Research Institute. Oh is also from the first female recruitment class and is POSCO's first female factory manager.

Meanwhile, POSCO established the Industrial Gas & Hydrogen Business Division and the Logistics Business Division directly under the CEO. Vice President Yoo Byung-ok, Head of the Purchasing and Investment Headquarters, was appointed as head of the Industrial Gas & Hydrogen Business Division, and Vice President Kim Kwang-soo, head of the U.S. representative office, was appointed as head of the Logistics Business Division, both heavyweight executives within the group.

Under these two divisions, a total of five executive-level offices were newly created, deploying a large number of outstanding personnel within the group. Additionally, POSCO Chemical's Energy Materials Headquarters, which promotes secondary battery materials such as cathode and anode materials, was reorganized into the Energy Materials Business Division, expanding its organization and workforce.

Jung Dae-heon, Head of the Anode Materials Office at POSCO Chemical, who has successfully led the anode materials business, was promoted and appointed as head of the business division. Executives and outstanding personnel from POSCO and POSCO International were assigned to the newly established Strategy Office and Marketing Office under this division.

In the steel sector, Jang In-hwa stepped down as Head of the Steel Division to become an advisor, and Kim Hak-dong, Head of the Production Technology Headquarters, was promoted and appointed as the new Head of the Steel Division. Lee Si-woo, Director of the Gwangyang Steelworks, was promoted and appointed as Head of the Production Technology Headquarters, and Lee Joo-tae, Head of the Management Strategy Office, was promoted and appointed as Head of the Purchasing and Investment Headquarters, marking a generational change in the top management.

Kim Ji-yong, head of the Indonesian steel plant PT.KP, who led the normalization of management, was appointed as Director of Gwangyang Steelworks. Other division heads such as Jeon Jung-sun, Head of Global Infrastructure Division; Jung Tak, Head of Marketing Headquarters; and Jung Chang-hwa, Head of Management Support Headquarters, were retained.

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