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OCI - Becoming a global leading green energy and chemical company, the South Korean way

We have been gradually changing the mainstream business of Korea,” says Woo-Hyun Lee, vice chairman & representative director of OCI Company Ltd, which manufactures specialty chemicals and materials and is on track to become a global leading green energy and chemical company.

Lee adds: “In the 50s and 60s we had the garment and shoe industries; Samsung’s first business was making sugar. In the 1970s we started building apartments and construction

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