...spearhead new technologies for future growth, its president Juergen Koenig said Tuesday. The world’s oldest pharmaceutical and chemical group has been expanding its sphere into new fields such as ele...cent years. As part of its growth strategy, it acquired Swiss biotech company Serono in 2007 and U.S. life-science firm Millipore last year. Now Korea has emerged as a next investment target, Koenig ...

... ago, the second consecutive quarter of such rapid growth. The amount translates to 19.18 million won per head, which is almost 80 percent of gross national income per capita. “We believe that Korea’s ratio of household debt to disposable income is one of the highest globally, and it continues to rise,” Moody’s senior analyst Choi Young-gil said. “Moreover, a high proportion of this household debt burden consists of interest-only, floating-rate mortgages which means that there is little natural amortizati...

Podotree, a local mobile application venture firm, is gearing up for overseas business expansion, with the goal of becoming the top player in the Japanese and U.S. markets, the company’s chief executive said Tuesday. In an interview with The Korea Herald, CEO Lee Jin-soo said the company released its Cube Dog 3-D Toy mobile application in global app stores, except the Japanese market, on Tuesday...

...ow, had never dreamed of being hired through such an online service before. Formerly employed at L&S Investment and AT&T, Chung posted his resume on the Korean Linknow site without pinning much hope ... an interview by Linknow founder Shin Dong-ho, who liked his resume and seated Chung as the company’s CEO in January. “I never thought a service like Linknow could take off in a country where people ...

...ld soon be applied to the rest of Europe because of the deadly E. coli bacteria scare. The country’s consumer protection watchdog said in a statement that the ban covered “raw vegetables” including t...n Russia of vegetables produced in all EU countries,” the Russian statement said. The agency chief’s Gennady Onishchenko urged Russians to eat only locally-grown greens, adding that all vegetables al...

... change of the time period. The movie is set in a future world where the world is controlled by God’s rules. The protagonist, the Priest (played by Paul Bettany), defies God’s rules and starts on a jo...ntervene.” Why was Hollywood attracted to Hyung’s works? “I think ‘authenticity’ is the key. There’s no answer to what attracts Hollywood, but I think being ‘you’ is important. It’s important to sole...

...nternational biographical publication for his work in cardiovascular disease treatment and research. Chosun University Medical School professor Koh Young-youp, 47, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who in the World since its 2009-2010 edition, as well as by Medicine and Healthcare and in the 2011-2012 edition of Science and Engineering. The U.S.-based Marquis Who’s contains short biographies of those whose achievements have been widely recognized. Koh was also included in two other distinguished biographical publications in 2010. He was n...