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Leadership & Management
Kyobo Life chief says data can overcome uncertain future
Jan 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
KT taps current CEO Ku as sole candidate for next chief
South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp. has named current chief executive Ku Hyeon-mo the sole candidate for its next CEO during a board meeting o...
Dec 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Hyundai Heavy Industries Group changes its name to HD Hyundai
HD Hyundai held a 50th-anniversary vision declaration ceremony at its Global R&D Center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, on Monday where it announ...
Dec 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Fortune 500 has just 16 Korean companies: study
Sixteen South Korean corporations are on Forbes' Global 500 list, a survey found.Critics say the distribution of the nation's leading companies is to...
Dec 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Women break glass ceiling in South Korea's advertising sector
Major advertising agencies in South Korea have appointed women to the position of vice president. Because advertising is a field in which women are a...
Dec 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Technocrats dominate major Korean companies’ leadership
Technocrats dominated the management of South Korea’s top 10 business groups, as technical specialists with deep understanding of business took...
Dec 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung tightens belt to gird for worsening economic conditions
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, is drastically cutting costs while maintaining investments in fu...
Dec 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Young Poong Precision emerges as key to Korea Zinc control; shares surge
Shares of Young Poong Precision Corp. are flying high as the company is emerging as the key to the control of Korea Zinc Co., which in turn is the co...
Nov 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Lotte to replace construction unit CEO due to liquidity crisis
Lotte Group will replace the head of its construction unit, hit by a liquidity crisis stemming from project financing, to ease investor concerns over...
Nov 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Korean startup CEOs’ ethical scandals emerge as major risk factor
Several South Korean startups have recently been hit hard by their CEOs’ unethical behavior and business-related misconduct, leading to a loss...
Nov 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung Elec's brand value rises to $87.7 billion
Samsung Electronics' brand value has broken the $80 billion mark. Korea's flagship company saw such value grow in double digits for the second year i...
Nov 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Select Korean companies seek to raise cash reserves
Several corporations have recently sold stocks and real estate apparently to boost liquidity and repay maturing debts amid the "three high" era of hi...
Nov 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Ex-LG Elec purchase head named Starkist CEO
Dongwon Group, a South Korean seafood and logistics conglomerate, announced on Monday that it has appointed Um Jae-woong, LG Electronics Inc.’s...
Oct 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Jay Y. Lee inaugurated as chairman of Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co.'s leader Jay Y. Lee was promoted as the company's chairman on Oct. 27.Samsung Electronics' board of directors approved the ap...
Oct 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
CJ Group reshuffles CEOs with woman at helm of Olive Young
South Korea’s CJ Group carried out a CEO and executive reshuffle on Oct. 24 around two months earlier than previous year-end promotions to impr...
Oct 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Korea's Hyundai Mobis CEO Cho elected ISO president
South Korean auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co.’s CEO Cho Sung-hwan has been elected as the next president of the International Organization fo...
Sep 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Hanwha's heir apparent promoted as group's vice chair
South Korea’s Hanwha Group promoted its petrochemical and energy unit Hanwha Solutions Corp. CEO Kim Dong Kwan as the group’s new vice ch...
Aug 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Hyundai Mobis CEO runs for ISO president as first Korean candidate
Hyundai Mobis Co. CEO Cho Sung-hwan has registered as a candidate for the next presidential election of the International Organization for Standardi...
Jun 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Chung Ki-sun joins KSOE boardroom, to take helm at Hyundai Heavy
Hyundai Heavy Industries Group’s heir apparent Chung Ki-sun has been appointed as a co-chief executive and a registered director of Korea Shipb...
Mar 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Kakao co-CEO nominee resigns after stock option exercise
Alex Young-joon Ryu, a nominee for new co-CEO of South Korea's top mobile messenger app Kakao Corp., on Monday offered to step down, after his dispos...
Jan 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
SK Vice Chair Chey Jae-won reinstated into leadership after eight-year hiatus
Chey Jae-won, the younger brother to SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, returned to the conglomerate’s leadership on Dec. 17, after an eight-year ...
Dec 17, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung’s mid-tier executive reshuffle: More female and foreign faces
Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday carried out its year-end reshuffle of mid-tier executives, marked by the highest number of promotions for female ...
Dec 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung reshuffles three major CEOs, combines mobile and consumer electronics units
Samsung Electronics Co., in a surprise move, has merged its mobile and consumer electronics businesses into a single unit, and replaced chief executi...
Dec 07, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Samsung, Hyundai Motor, SK leaders on overseas business trips
Leaders of South Korea’s three big conglomerates – Samsung, Hyundai and SK – are meeting with their major partners and business lea...
Dec 06, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Koo Ja-eun takes helm of Korea’s cable, machinery conglomerate LS Group
Koo Ja-eun, chairman of South Korea’s LS Mtron Co., a machinery and components maker, will lead the country’s 14th-largest conglomerate f...
Nov 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
CJ Group Chief unveils $8.5 billion investment plans for growth
South Korea’s CJ Group, which operates the country’s largest food and beverage company CJ Cheiljedang Corp. as well as entertainment gian...
Nov 04, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
LG, CJ join other Korean firms to run offices in Washington
WASHINGTON D.C. – South Korea’s major business conglomerates are heading to Washington D.C. to run offices handling regulatory and govern...
Nov 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
SK Group to reform governance structure with stronger board of directors
SK Group will undergo a major governance reform with significant empowerment of the board of directors in making key management decisions. The group ...
Oct 12, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Hyosung Group Chairman Cho seeks growth opportunities in US market
South Korea’s Hyosung Group is looking to the US market for growth as the textile and chemicals conglomerate is expanding facilities in America...
Sep 13, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Summary of Samsung's $200 billion investment plans
Samsung Group said on Tuesday it will invest a combined 240 trillion won ($206 billion) investment over the next three years in its core businesses in...
Aug 24, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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