YK Steel Busan is a scrap-based steel plant: an electric arc furnace melts recycled steel scrap into new crude steel. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of 930 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, rebar.
Process Route
Timeline
Emissions
2025
0.064 Mt CO₂e
0.08 t CO₂e per tonne of steel
Typical EAF route: 0.5–0.7 t/t
Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology
Capacity (ttpa)
Crude Steel
930
EAF
930
Production
Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.
Steel Units
Steel Products
billet, rebar
Ownership
Owner YK Steel Corp
Parent Daehan Steel Co Ltd [70.0%]; Yamato Kogyo Co Ltd [30.0%]
Workforce 336 employees
Country Context
South Korea crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Nearby Plants
Other Daehan Steel Co Ltd; Yamato Kogyo Co Ltd plants
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Location
Busan
Asia Pacific
South Korea
35.0838°, 128.9890°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 930 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1966
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled