Dongbu Steel considers your personal information as important and we observe the law about ¡°Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection Act¡±
The company informs you how your personal information provided is used through the privacy policy and what steps are being taken for your privacy protection.

The company will post an announcement on our webpage (or individual notice) if any revision is made with the privacy policy.

¥ï This policy comes into force from November.1, 2011.

Personal information items to be gathered

The company gathers personal information below for various inquiries, counseling, reporting, recruiting, etc.

¥ï Items: Full Name, Home phone number, Home address, Cellular phone number, E-mail, Social security number

¥ï How to gather: Homepage (various counseling, inquiry, reporting, and checking recruitment result)

Purpose of gathering and use of personal information

The company use gathered personal information for the purposes below.

¥ï Check the recruitment result, Inquiry, Counseling, Reporting, and Announcement delivery

Holding and use period of personal information

In principal, any relevant information should be destroyed after achieving the purpose of gathering personal information. But following information are kept for the purposes below for the specified period of time

¥ï Recruitment
- Items: Full Name, Social Security Number
- Reason: Personnel Policy
- Period: 3months from the document screening process result announcement

¥ï And others
- Items: Full Name, Home Phone Number, Home Address, Cellular Phone Number, E-mail
- Reason: Documentation management policy
- Period: 1 year from the acceptance date of Counseling, Enquiry, Reporting

Procedure and method of personal information destruction

In principal, any relevant information should be destroyed after achieving the purpose of gathering personal information. The procedure and the method of destroying the information are written below.

¥ï Procedure
After the purpose of gathering your personal information is achieved, it is kept for the specified period of time under internal policy and other privacy protection policy (refer to specified period of time) and then destroyed. Personal information is never used for other purpose except for legal issues.

¥ï Destruction method
- Technical method that makes unable to regenerate the record is used for the personal information being saved as electronic file format.

Provision of personal information

In principal, your personal information should be kept confidential except for the cases below

- If a preliminary agreement is made
- If it is to be used for the legal issues and investigations

Trust of gathered personal information

The company never entrust any of your personal information without your agreement. We will announce you about a truster and entrusted tasks and also seek the prior consent from you whenever circumstances require it.

User and legal representative¡¯s right and means of executing the right

User can request for checking, revising, and withdrawing one¡¯s own personal information registered.

Or if you contact the personal information manager by writing, call, or e-mail, we will take an immediate action with it.

If you have requested for the correction of personal information error, we never use or provide any of your information until the correction is completed. Besides, if the incorrect personal information is already provided to a third party by mistake, we will let a third party know about the revised information.

The company deals with the personal information which has been withdrew or deleted by the specified ¡°Holding and use period of personal information¡± and never let it opened or used for any other purpose.

Auto-collection device of personal information¡¯s installation, management and refusal

Never runs the device for collecting auto-generated personal information such as Cookie while you are using an internet service.


The company has designated the related department as well as the personal information manager to protect all of your personal information and deal with complaints related to it.

- Personal information manager: Kim Joo-ah
- Phone number: 02-3450-8392
- E-mail: jooah@dongbu.com

You can report any complaints regarding privacy protection while you are using our service to the personal information manager or the appropriate department. We will try our best to give you the prompt reply.

If you need any report or counseling about other privacy invasion, contact the institutions below
 1. Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee (www.1336.or.kr/1336)
 2. Korea Association of Information and Telecommunication(www.eprivacy.or.kr/02-580-0533~4)
 3. Supreme Prosecutor¡¯s Office Internet Criminal Investigation Center(http://icic.sppo.go.kr/02-3480-3600)
 4. The National Police Agency¡¯s Cyber Terror Response Center(www.ctrc.go.kr/02-392-0330)