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Passengers can carry beverages on airplanes
Apr 12, 2016
The Transport Ministry will partially allow passengers to carry beverages when they board an airplane on international routes, official said Tuesday.According to its announcement published in the government bulletin, travelers will be permitted to bring cold, lidded beverages purchased at duty-free zones and from areas beyond security check-ups. Hot beverages, such as coffee and tea, are not included in the list. (123RF)Previously, passengers were only allowed to take liquid items such as cosmet
Korean steelmakers accused of dumping in U.S.
Apr 12, 2016
U.S. steelmakers have accused South Korean rivals of selling their products at unfairly low prices in America after receiving illegal state subsidies, a trade body here said Tuesday.ArcelorMittal USA and two other American steel companies have filed antidumping and countervailing duty petitions against cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate makers from South Korea, Austria, China, Brazil and eight other countries, according to the Washington office of the Korea International Trade Association.
Hotel Lotte steps up overseas push
Apr 12, 2016
Hotel Lotte, one of South Korea‘s leading hotel chains, said Tuesday it will seek more deals for managing overseas hotels to help expand its global reach. Officials of the hotel said Tuesday that the firm is working on deals to manage hotels in the Yantai and Shenyang areas of China, in addition to those in Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar, and Russia‘s Samara, by 2018. Lotte City Hotel Tashkent Palace (Yonhap)Hotel Lotte previously outlined plans to operate up to 50 hotels across the world
From a Korean orphan to NFL owner
Apr 12, 2016
No one would have thought that superrich NFL owner Kim Pegula had a sad past. The co-owner of high-profile professional American football teams -- along with her husband Terry Pegula -- has an estimated combined net worth of a whopping $4 billion, according to Forbes. Kim Pegula (left) and Terry Pegula, owners of NFL Buffalo Sabres and Buffalo BillsHowever, Kim started her life penniless. Abandoned in front of a police station in Seoul, Kim became an orphan when she was five years old. Nonethele
KEB Hana, Woori chosen as won clearing house in China
Apr 12, 2016
The Bank of Korea said Tuesday that it has appointed branches of KEB Hana Bank and Woori Bank in Shanghai, China, as clearing houses for won-yuan direct trading when the market opens. The envisioned currency market in Shanghai, scheduled to launch within the first half of this year, is Korea’s maiden step to allow offshore trading of its currency. China is Korea’s biggest trading partner, accounting for some 25 percent of its exports. Hana Financial Group (Yonhap)In Seoul, the won-yuan market op
Franchise coffee shops hit by cheap coffee amid economic slowdown
Apr 12, 2016
Major franchise coffee shops in Korea saw their revenue fall in 2015 in the face of tougher competition with cheap take-out coffee amid economic slowdown, heading to another tough year, data showed Tuesday.Homegrown coffee brands have sprung up in Asia's fourth-largest economy over the past decade to capitalize on the growing population of coffee drinkers, but their growth has slowed recently in the saturated domestic market. Adding to their woes, low-cost coffees at convenience stores and mini
Mutual growth through partnership between public and private sectors
Apr 12, 2016
With a sluggish economy and growing tension on the Korean Peninsula, the beleaguered government is desperately trying to seek a “breakthrough.” We cannot smoothly exit the current situation without taking any initiatives, just as we had surmounted past trials. For instance, construction and engineering companies have been suffering dues to losses from overseas projects and decreasing market share due to the curtailed or suspended number of oil and gas projects after the oil price drop in recent
[Photo News] CJ chairman meets with Heilongjiang secretary
Apr 11, 2016
CJ MEETS WITH HEILONGJIANG -- CJ Group chairman Sohn Kyung-shik (left) and Wang Xiankui, secretary of China’s Heilongjiang province, meet at the CJ E&M headquarters in northwestern Seoul on Monday to discuss ways to expand their collaborative partnership in the realms of business and culture. CJ currently operates an animal feed factory boasting annual output of 70,000 tons and three CGV movie theaters in Heilongjiang province. (CJ Group)
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Hyundai Heavy faces $100 mil. additional tax
Apr 11, 2016
Tax authorities in Seoul have slapped Hyundai Heavy Industries with an additional tax of 120 billion won ($104 million), the shipbuilder confirmed Monday. The National Tax Service recently notified the nation’s leading shipbuilder of its decision to impose the additional tax allegedly on a charges of corporate tax evasion. Its investigation into the country’s top shipbuilder began in April last year. Hyundai Heavy Industries (Yonhap)Hyundai Heavy Industries’ spokesperson said, “It is true that t
CJ CheilJedang’s kimchi probiotic approved by U.S. food regulator
Apr 11, 2016
Korea’s leading food maker CJ CheilJedang said Monday that an herbal probiotic found in Korea’s traditional cabbage dish kimchi has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.Lactobacillus plantarum CJLP133 is now recognized as a new dietary ingredient by the FDA. It joins a handful of Korean ingredients already approved by the U.S. regulator including cynanchum wilfordii, ecklonia cava, black ginseng and bio-germanium.Lactobacillus plantarum CJLP133 (CJ CheilJedang)“The approval of
Cigarette warning labels spark questions about fairness
Apr 11, 2016
The tobacco industry is raising questions about fairness as new graphic warning labels have to be affixed on cigarette packs by year-end.According to industry officials, it is unfair to force such graphic labels on cigarettes but not onto other harmful products such as alcohol. Warning images for cigarette packs released by the Health Ministry on March 31 (Yonhap)“We have no choice but to follow the law once it’s implemented, but the images are overly graphic, beyond the point where they can be
Organica’s Honest Bars starts sales in Japan
Apr 11, 2016
TOKYO, Japan -- Korean natural food company Organica began selling its signature health bars -- Honest Bar -- in Japan for the first time starting April 1, the company said Monday. Nearly 2,000 bars were sold during the first 10 days of sales, according to official figures from Niku No Hanamasa, a top Japanese supermarket chain that is selling Honest Bar here. Hanamasa headquarters in the Ginza district of Tokyo. Kim Ji-hyun/The Korea Herald“It’s a great start,” said Natsuki Tomizawa, executive
[Herald Interview] ‘Flexible employment crucial for Korea’ : ManpowerGroup
Apr 11, 2016
The Korean government’s push to create a more flexible labor market, which includes plans to ease employment regulations and expand the use of temporary workers, has been hotly debated in the country over the past few years. Despite controversy, President Park Geun-hye’s proposed labor reforms are aligned with the structural changes that labor markets around the world are now undertaking, according to the chief of U.S.-based global staffing agency ManpowerGroup. “We think that Korea’s proposed l
S-Oil sponsors 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics
Apr 11, 2016
Korea’s leading refinery S-Oil said Monday it will support the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics as a sponsor to successfully hold the world sports festival.S-Oil CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher and president Cho Yang-ho of the organizing committee for the Winter Olympic Games signed a sponsorship agreement. The refinery will provide oil products as needed for operating vehicles to transport athletes and committee members during the games. S-Oil CEO Nasser Al-Mahasher (left) poses with Hanjin Group chairm
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