Chōsen Anthracite Company
Native name | 조선무연탄주식회사 朝鮮無煙炭株式会社 |
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| Founded | 1927 |
| Defunct | 1945 |
| Fate | Abolished |
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The Chōsen Anthracite Company, Ltd. (
collieries around Korea. It was founded in 1927 by the Mitsubishi zaibatsu of Japan by integrating the anthracite mining operations around Heijō, eventually becoming the largest coal-producing company in Korea - 74.9% of the coal distributed in Korea was produced by the Chōsen Anthracite Company.[1]
In 1935, majority control of the Chōsen Anthracite Company went to the Oriental Development Company (Japanese: Tōyō Takushoku Kabushiki Kaisha), which transformed the Chosen Anthracite Company into a multipurpose company which, in addition to the production and distribution of coal, built and operated ports and railways.[1]
On 17 December 1943 the Chōsen Anthracite Company opened a
Genzan North Port Station.[2]
Following the
partition of Korea and the establishment of North Korea, the company was abolished. The Muncheon Port Line, along with all other railway lines in the country, was nationalised on 10 August 1946, becoming part of the Korean State Railway.[3]
References
- ^ a b 일제의 조선무연탄주식회사 설립과 조선 석탄자원 통제
- ^ 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 5070, 27 December 1943
- ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6.
