BUSINESS
LG Innotek unveils faster wireless charger
Smartphone accessory manufacturer LG Innotek has unveiled a 15-watt wireless charging pad for commercial use, the company said Wednesday. The 15-watt wireless charging transmitter pad can charge a c...
Oct 12, 2016
Samsung BioLogics wins approval for IPO
Samsung BioLogics Co., a medicine-producing subsidiary of South Korea's Samsung Group, on Thursday won preliminary approval from the nation's bourse for its listing plan. It allows the firm to start...
Sept 29, 2016
[Super Rich] Superrich doctors take scalpel to old management
“The reluctant executive” was how Forbes magazine described Shin Chang-jae, the chairman of Kyobo Life Insurance, in a cover story in 2010. Despite being the firstborn son of Kyobo Life founder Shin...
[DECODED] SK runs on harmonious kinship, so far
Chey’s cousins run old businesses almost independently
Sept 27, 2016
[DECODED] Chey's control tightens at SK
The way SK Group reorganized its whopping 88 affiliates and subsidiaries into a holding company structure -- billed as an advanced model of multi-company governance -- is a subject of fervent study b...
[DECODED] Chey leads SK’s global search for growth
The chief executives of key SK companies have been busy doing homework lately. In front of SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and his fellow CEOs, they have to make a presentation next month on ways to ...
Sept 26, 2016
[DECODED] Who is Chey Tae-won?
Behind high drama and chaebol image, an unassuming and embracing boss
[Super Rich] Chaebol modelling for own business
Instead of hiring glamorous TV stars, some Korean superrich have opted to model for their own business in print or on TV. Commercials featuring big bosses tend to give audience a sense of trustworth...
Sept 22, 2016
[Super Rich] Hur Young-in, Korea’s undisputed bread king
A mega hit Korean television drama “Bread, Love and Dreams” in 2010 features a Korean bakery chaebol’s illegitimate child overcoming all varieties of hardships with passion to make quality bread. Al...
Ottogi vows to enhance social responsibility
Ottogi Co., a leading food company in South Korea, vowed to continue being devoted to its corporate social responsibility programs. “CSR is one of the most important roles of a company,” a spokesman...
Overseas Korean businesspeople to gather for conference in Jeju
Some 1,000 Korean businesspeople from around the world will hold a meeting on the southern resort island of Jeju later this month to expand business opportunities and discuss ways to contribute to th...
Sept 21, 2016
LG Chem chief rated as top local CEO
The chief of LG Chem Ltd., a chemical unit of South Korean conglomerate LG Group, has been rated as the best performer among CEOs of the country's top 500 companies, data showed Wednesday. According...
Sept 7, 2016
Samsung to shut down streaming radio service in US
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday said it will shut down its two-year streaming radio service, Milk Music, next month, amid media reports that the service has failed to appeal...
Aug 22, 2016
SK Telecom becomes top-paying firm in Korea
SK Telecom Co., South Korea's biggest mobile carrier, became the highest-paying company in the country with an average salary of 67 million won ($60,497) for the first half of the year, according to ...
Aug 18, 2016
Foreign startups pitch at accelerator program in Korea
A group of international entrepreneurs from across the world pitched their business ideas on Wednesday at a startup acceleration event hosted here by the South Korean government. The K-Startup Grand...
Aug 17, 2016