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The world’s first project to build a large-scale power generation ship was launched on Tuesday in Seoul as three Korean industrial giants and German-based Siemens signed a memorandum of understanding...
Updated : 2013.12.10 19:54
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Samsung Card, one of the biggest credit card companies in Korea, will create a spin-off in charge of operating its customer service call centers, providing full-time job positions for its 1,300 contract-based employees currently working at the centers, according to news reports. The credit...
Updated : 2013.12.06 20:12
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Samsung Group conducted its year-end reshuffle Thursday, saying that performance and competence of each figure were the focus of its decisions.The largest family-run conglomerate in Korea promoted 475 executives, of which 51 senior vice presidents were promoted to executive vice president,...
Updated : 2013.12.05 20:04
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The average life expectancy of babies born in 2012 rose slightly from a year earlier, a government report showed Thursday, apparently on improving medical services.Babies born last year were expected to live an average of 81.4 years, up from 81.2 years tallied in 2011, according to the rep...
Updated : 2013.12.05 20:02
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More than half of the 31 CEOs of Samsung Group’s subsidiaries were found to have come from Samsung Electronics following the group’s major executive reshuffling on Monday.News reports noted that 17 of the 31 CEOs of affiliates are from the electronics arm, the group’s core subsidiary.Ei...
Updated : 2013.12.03 19:47
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MANILA ― The state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. is developing a project to build a 300-megawatt coal-fueled power plant with Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction, Korea’s oldest shipbuilder, i...
Updated : 2013.12.03 19:44
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In 2013, the central business district office market saw its vacancy rate rise due to new supply. In the first half of the year, three projects totaling an approximate gross floor area of 161,323 squa...
Updated : 2013.12.03 19:41
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Mercedes-Benz Korea on Tuesday said it named Choi Duk-jun from its Chinese operations as the new vice president of sales.Choi, 49, is currently head of network development at Mercedes-Benz China and w...
Updated : 2013.12.03 19:39
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A Korean-American has been elected as the new leader of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea for the first time in the organization’s 60-year history.James Kim, the general manager and CEO of Mi...
Updated : 2013.12.02 19:44
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Korea’s largest conglomerate Samsung Group is expected to conduct its year-end personnel reshuffle starting Monday, a move that is widely expected to have huge repercussions as the Samsung Electronic...
Updated : 2013.12.01 19:29
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Hoping to latch on to an unprecedented uptrend in construction overseas and offset the slump of the domestic market, the heads of major Korean builders have recently been ramping up overseas business trips.The frequency and the length of the visits were especially conspicuous for large-siz...
Updated : 2013.11.26 19:47
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In a major effort to overcome its prolonged financial crisis, the nation’s 17th-largest conglomerate Dongbu Group bit the bullet and decided to sell off several of its core assets.But its self-rescue...
Updated : 2013.11.19 19:44
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RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, California ― New Pride Corp., an intermodal company, is one of two U.S.-based companies, along with Access Bio, that is listed on Korea’s tech-heavy KOSDAQ market. Behind the compa...
Updated : 2013.11.19 19:40
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POSCO chairman and CEO Chung Joon-yang conveyed his willingness to resign to the chairman of the company’s board of directors to pave the way for new leadership, company officials said on Friday.Chun...
Updated : 2013.11.15 17:19
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Growth of the Asian hotel market appears to have slightly slowed this year, but it holds a promising outlook for the mid- and long term, according to a report by a global real estate consulting firm.I...
Updated : 2013.11.12 19:35
