- CEO
- Jang Hoon Rhee
- Full Time Employees
- 192
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Household/Personal care
- Address
- 80-61, Tancheonsaneopdanji-gil Gongju-si SC South Korea 32610
- IPO Date
- Dec 24, 1996
- Business
- Dongnam Chemical Co., Ltd. manufactures and distributes surfactants and fine chemicals primarily for textiles, agricultural pesticides, cleaners, household and personal care products, and general industrial applications in South Korea and internationally. The company produces non-ionic surfactants, cationic surfactants, anionic surfactants, and amphoteric surfactants under the PEG and MONOPOL brands; fine chemical products under the FMD and MBC brands; emulsifiers, softeners, defoamers, antistatic agents, dyeing auxiliaries, and sorbitan fatty acid ester derivatives for sectors including rubber, polymer, paint, pulp and paper, metal finishing, electronics, food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics; as well as low-foaming cleaners, household softener bases, kitchen and bathroom cleaners, dishwashing detergents, sterilization agents, shampoo bases, and shaving cream raw materials. Founded in 1965 and headquartered in Gongju, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea, with prior operations noted in Incheon, Dongnam Chemical also engages in real estate rental business and serves markets in China, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Turkey, the U.S., and Vietnam. In recent developments, the company completed an equity buyback of 19,311 shares worth KRW 661 million in September 2025, following an authorization for up to 20,000 shares announced in February 2025 aimed at stock price stabilization, and entered an exclusive distribution agreement with Emsa Quimica in March 2025 for high-performance surfactants in home and personal care.