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![[Doosan Group]](../images/k/kr$doosn.gif) image by Randy Young, 27 August 2023
 
image by Randy Young, 27 August 2023
Doosan Group is a multinational heavy industrial conglomerate headquartered 
in South Korea. Founded in 1896, it is the oldest continually operating company 
in the country and consistently ranks in the top 10 largest heavy equipment 
manufacturers in the world. Among its subsidiaries are the Bobcat Company in the 
US and Ṧkoda Power in the Czech Republic. The company also owns and operates the 
Doosan Bears professional baseball team in South Korea's KBO League.
The 
flag of the Doosan corporation can be seen in photographs online, particularly 
at 
https://facilityexecutive.com/doosan-bobcat-headquarters-going-for-sustainable-gold 
(photo link
https://facilityexecutive.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Doosan-Bobcat-North-America-HQ-Entrance.jpg) 
with the Bobcat Company flag in the background. The flag consists of the Doosan 
logo centered on a white field. The logo features the word "DOOSAN" in 
italicized, white, capital letters stretched across tilted squares of dark blue, 
light blue, and green.
Randy Young, 27 August 2023
Here is a photo from Kaesong Industrial District. Can anyone identify the 
flag? Probably the flag of a South Korean construction company.
Jens Pattke, 10 April 2016
It belongs to the Hyundai Asan (현대아산) company, who is a part of building the 
park. There is a variant of this flag as well, minus the logo text, at
https://www.hhi.co.kr/About/about08 and
http://isplus.live.joins.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=19558351&ctg=1000&tm=i_lf 
in Hanja (Chinese characters taken and used for Korean and have Korean 
pronunciation).
Zachary Harden, 10 April 2016
Yes, this is a branch flag of the Hyundai Asan Group. 
Jens Pattke, 11 April 2016
![[Hyundai Motor Company]](../images/k/kr$hyun.gif) image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 November 2010
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 November 2010
Hyundai Motor Company (officially 현대 자동차 주식회사 = Hyŏndae Chatongch’a 
Chusik-hoesa) is a South Korean automobile manufactor founded in 1967, doing 
business worldwide and since 1998 part of Hyundai Kia Group. See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Motor_Company.
Its logo shows a stylized slanted "H" with round cutouts inside a horizontally 
lying elipsis. Apart from the litteral meaning, at
this page
it is said that the logo is also supposed to be symbolic of the company's desire to expand.
The ovaloid shape indicates the company's global expansion and the slanted, stylized 'H' is symbolic of two people (specifically the company and customer) shaking hands.
At  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patrulha_GNR.jpg a blue
flag with white logo and lettering, on a 2:3 background and flying freely
from a vertical pole indoors is shown in use as of 2008 in Portugal, in
what may be a sample of worldwide usage.
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patrulha_GNR.jpg a blue
flag with white logo and lettering, on a 2:3 background and flying freely
from a vertical pole indoors is shown in use as of 2008 in Portugal, in
what may be a sample of worldwide usage.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 November 2010
![[Korea Electric Power Corporation]](../images/k/kr$kepco.gif) image by Randy Young, 24 April 2016
image by Randy Young, 24 April 2016
"Korea Electric Power Corporation, better known as KEPCO, (한국전력공사:Hanguk 
Jeollyeok Gongsa). is the largest electric utility in South Korea, responsible 
for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity and the 
development of electric power projects including those in nuclear power, wind 
power and coal. The South Korean government owns a 51% share of KEPCO. KEPCO 
traces its origins to Hanseong Jeongi Hoesa (Hansung Electric Power Company), 
founded in 1898. The announcement of the Chosun Electricity Control Decree by 
the Colonial Korean government in March 1943 saw the integration of several 
electric companies into the Korea Electric Power Company. The Korea Electric 
Company (KECO), established through the integration of the Korea Electric Power 
Company and two distribution companies, Gyeongsung Electric Company and South 
Korea Electric Company, opened on July 1, 1961. In 1982, KECO became a wholly 
government owned entity and was renamed the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO)."
Source:
https://home.kepco.co.kr/kepco/EN/A/htmlView/ENAAHP002.do?menuCd=EN010102
The official page for corporate identity and logo use is located
here.
For additional information go to: KPECO (official 
website)
The flag is a white horizontal background with the
logo 
in the middle, as seen
here.
Source: 
http://www.newstomato.com/readNews.aspx?no=400625 
Esteban Rivera, 10 April 2016
Yes, this is a branch flag of the Hyundai Asan Group. See this image of the 
Kepco flag.
Jens Pattke, 11 April 2016
![[Moorim SP]](../images/k/kr$moorm.gif) image by Randy Young, 14 August 2023
image by Randy Young, 14 August 2023
Moorim SP is a South Korean paper products company headquartered in Seoul. 
The company was founded in 1956 as Moorim Paper Manufacturing, and continues 
today as Moorim SP, with several individual subsidiary companies focusing on 
specific parts of the business, including paper production, chemical 
development, and processing. (https://moorim.co.kr:13002/main/main.php)
The flag of Moorim SP, flown outside its corporate headquarters in the 
Gangnam District of Seoul, features the company's logo centered on a white 
field. The logo itself has the company name "MOORIM" in blue capital letters 
beneath a green curved line between two thicker, vertical green lines.
 Randy Young, 14 August 2023
![[Pohang Iron and Steel Company]](../images/k/kr$posco.gif) image by  Eugene Ipavec, 13 January 2010
image by  Eugene Ipavec, 13 January 2010
The flag of the Pohang Iron and Steel Company or POSCO, based in Pohang, 
South Korea, is visible in a Yahoo News 
photo. Blue with rounded white company 
name.
Eugene Ipavec, 13 January 2010
![[Samsung Corporation]](../images/k/kr$samsung.gif) image by  D.M.S., 20 April 2014
image by  D.M.S., 20 April 2014
Here is the flag of the Samsung company, a South Korean corporation.
D.M.S., 20 April 2014
The 
photo shows a shot of the flag, and
the national flag before a building (headquarters?) on a backdrop videoscreen as shown on TV news show.
Rob Raeside, 20 April 2014
Samsung may seem to have a variant flag from the one we display currently. 
There's this
flag 
that actually has more letters in the Korean inscription below than the one we 
have on our site.
Sources:
http://phys.org/news/2014-08-samsung-apple-truce-patent-war.html 
http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/hires/2014/asamsungelec.jpg 
Esteban Rivera, 07 February 2015
The flag has the Hangul script 삼성전자, which is the name of Samsung 
Electronics, the flagship subsidiary of Samsung Group.
Randy Young, 08 February 2015