Doosan Group
Hangul:	두산
Hanja:	斗山
Revised Romanization:	Doosan
McCune-Reischauer:	Doosan

The Doosan Group is a large South Korean industrial and construction conglomerate (chaebol). The group owns the Doosan Bears baseball team as well as consumers-oriented businesses such as publishing, food, household goods, magazines and fashion. It also has an advertising subsidiary. In 2005 it won an $850 million contract to build a desalination plant in Saudi Arabia.[1] Image File history File links Doosan. ... Hangul (Korean: 한글, hangeul) is the native alphabet of the Korean language, as opposed to the non-alphabetic hanja system borrowed from China. ... It has been suggested that Sino-Korean be merged into this article or section. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean (Korean: 국어의 로마자 표기법; 國語의 로마字 表記法) is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ... Chaebol are South Koreas business conglomerates. ... Doosan Bears(두산 베어스)is the Korean professional baseball team founded in 1982. ... Desalination or desalinization refers to any of several processes that remove the excess salt and other minerals from water in order to obtain fresh water suitable for animal consumption or irrigation, and if almost all of the salt is removed, for human consumption, sometimes producing table salt as a by...

History

1896~1946 Doosan began in 1896 as a small store in Baeogae, Seoul, founded by Park Seung-jik. His successor, Park Doo-byung, expanded the store into the Doosan Store in 1946.

1950~1969 Doosan established Oriental Brewery in 1952. In the 1960s, the group set up Doosan construction & Engineering, Doosan Food & Beverage and Doosan Machinery.

1970~1979 After the oil shocks, the group sold off weaker subsidiaries An Energy Crisis is any great shortfall (or price rise) in the supply of energy to an economy. ...

1980~1995 Doosan started its publishing and advertising businesses.

1996~ The group undertook an intensive business restructuring

2001~2005 Doosan took over Korea Heavy Industries (now Doosan Heavy Industrial & Construction) in 2001 and Daewoo Heavy Industries & Machinery (now Doosan Infracore) in 2005. Doosan Heavy Industrial & Construction products include power plant facilities and desalination plants. Doosan Infracore produces excavators, lift trucks, machine tools, and engines.

Source: http://www.doosan.com/english/main/english.pdf.

External links

• Doosan Group Web Site
• Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Web Site
• Doosan Infracore Web Site