Kolon Group chairman Lee Woong-yeul won an award from Business and Professional Women Korea for setting an example to encourage women’s participation in the workplace, the business group said on Monday.Lee was honored with the BWP Gold award for raising female employment to 39 percent at Kolon while adopting a quota system to secure work for female workers. He also introduced a mentoring system for women workers in need of career advice. The BWP Gold Award is a recognition given to an individual

While leading 47 affiliated companies at home and 65 abroad, LS Group chairman John Koo is a family-oriented master baduk player who likes simple dishes like sujebi.Wearing a jumper, he often goes to a small restaurant in an apartment complex in Daechi-dong, southeastern Seoul, for the hearty soup with dough flakes torn by hand.“People laugh when I say I waited alone in a line to get into a small restaurant, but that’s who I am,” Koo said.As the eldest of four brothers and two sisters, Koo place

PHNOM PEHN (Yonhap News) ― The red wooden gates of 400 Monivong Boulevard are difficult to find if you are not looking for them. Only a sun-bleached sign overhead marks them as the entrance to the compound of Pyeongyang Restaurant, a North Korean chain and one of Phnom Pehn’s most famous dining destinations. It’s also the place that Lee Un-yong and her fellow waitresses call home. Like many of the women who have worked here, Lee is a transitional employee. Now eight months into her three-year co

LG Group expected to pull off a recovery, helped by improvement in the IT sectorKorea’s major conglomerates grappled with worsening business conditions last year and LG Group suffered the most in terms of combined earnings, data showed Sunday.On the flip side of the dismal earnings coin, though, is that LG is widely expected to stage a recovery this year, thanks partly to the lower base in comparison and improving market position in key product categories. Based on the earnings reports filed und

BUSAN ― Pernod Ricard Korea has donated 100 million won ($88,800) to Busan to help the local government promote bicycling, the local unit of the French drinks group said Sunday.The funds will be used to help create a bike park and set up related facilities in the southeastern port city, said the company, which distributes Ballantine’s and Imperial whiskies, Chivas Regal scotch and Absolut Vodka. The donation also coincides with the launch of a limited edition of the company’s Imperial whisky ded