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Han Kang’s Nobel Prize opens new horizons for Korean literature
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FKCCI Gala
Dec 12, 2012
Conglomerates enter business hotel fray
Dec 11, 2012
Hotel business booming with over 10 million inbound tourists
Used car exports enjoy brisk market
Dec 11, 2012
Korea’s used car exports have been booming recently, with this year’s figures expected to hit a record high, largely driven by the favorable exchange rate and renewed awareness of Korean carmakers globally. According to the Korea Used Car Export Association on Tuesday, Korea exported 244,665 second-hand cars in the first nine months of this year. That compares to total exports of 248,275 cars last year. Of them, 169,548, or 69.3 percent, were passenger vehicles, while trucks and vans made up 21.
Samsung’s market capitalization gaining as Apple shares flag
Dec 11, 2012
The market value of Samsung Electronics’ listed stocks was worth $201.5 billion as of last week, which was about 40 percent of the value of Apple Inc.’s listed shares. These figures reflected a 13 percentage point increase compared to the end of August this year, according to KB Investment and Securities. At the same time, Apple’s worth was undermined, with its market capitalization now 2.5 times that of Samsung, down from when the iPhone maker’s stocks were worth four times the South Korean com
E-Mart to open 1st Vietnamese store next year
Dec 11, 2012
E-Mart Co., South Korea’s biggest discount chain operator, said Tuesday that it will open its first Vietnamese store next year and expand the total number of stores in the country to 14 by 2017.To that end, E-Mart has formed a strategic tie-up with Vietnam’s 7th largest conglomerate U&I Group and signed a preliminary deal with Savills Vietnam Co., a unit of British real estate agency Savills, for bilateral cooperation, the South Korean company said. “Our foray into the Vietnamese retail market i
Year end: The holidays vs. business as usual
Dec 11, 2012
Merry-making is in order for December, the season of Christmas, Hanukkah and other glad tidings. But Cho Song-yeon, a 32-year-old employee in the manufacturing industry, won’t be doing anything special because she’ll be working on Christmas Eve. A handful of local companies, including a couple of Samsung affiliates, will be giving employees a day off before Christmas, but at the majority of Korean firms, it will be business as usual right up until Lunar New Year’s in February.“It didn’t even occ
[Newsmaker] Samsung Electronics stock on record rise
Dec 10, 2012
Shares of top smartphone maker Samsung Electronics are getting ready to break the 1.5 million won mark as the Korean IT behemoth is gaining an edge in its ongoing global patent battle against Apple Inc.Samsung’s stocks were being traded at over 1.5 million won ($1,389) per share, up 1.62 percent from Friday, shortly after the market opening at 9:01 a.m. on Monday. The share price is setting a new record following foreign investors’ aggressive move to purchase the firm’s shares.Samsung Electronic
Samsung Engineering-led group wins $3b order
Dec 10, 2012
A consortium led by Samsung Engineering Co. has secured an order worth $3 billion to build a power plant in Saudi Arabia, South Korea’s largest industrial plant builder said Monday.Under the deal with Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corp., the consortium will build the 3,100-MW power plant in Yanbu, 350 kilometers north of the country’s second-largest city of Jeddah, in 48 months after it begins work.Samsung’s share in the project is valued at around $1.5 billion, according to the company
Producer prices dip by most in 3 years in Nov.
Dec 10, 2012
South Korea’s producer prices fell by the most in three years in November due to a fall in oil prices and the local currency’s ascent to the dollar, the central bank said Monday.The producer price index, a barometer of future consumer inflation, inched down 0.2 percent in November from a year earlier, compared with a 0.2 percent on-year gain in October, according to the Bank of Korea. The November figure marked the worst performance since November 2009 when the index fell 0.4 percent on-year.Com
Hyundai chief urges readiness for market slowdown next year
Dec 10, 2012
Hyundai Motor Group chairman Chung Mong-koo on Monday urged overseas operational chiefs to brace for a slowdown in the car market next year. Chung was briefed at a meeting with some 70 heads of global operations of Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors on this year’s sales performance and key issues across regions. He is said to have thanked them for supporting the Korean auto giant to achieve this year’s sales goal despite difficult economic conditions in key markets such as Europe and the U.S. Though t
CJ to shun expansion of its bakery chain for ‘fair economy’
Dec 10, 2012
CJ Foodville, the franchise business unit of local food giant CJ Group, announced Monday it would limit the number of its Tous les Jours chain bakeries to meet people’s demands for shared growth with smaller bakeries. The decision ― the first of its kind ― by the nation’s No. 2 bakery chain came amid intensifying disputes between bakery chain stores owned by conglomerates and mom-and-pop shops in the same neighborhood. Conglomerates’ bakery chains, armed with price competitiveness based on mass
Samsung, Hyundai dominate 2012 earnings
Dec 10, 2012
Other major groups see profitability worsen amid global uncertainty
MAN Truck head elected as new head of ECCK
Dec 10, 2012
The European Chamber of Commerce in Korea has elected Thilo Halter, chief executive of MAN Truck & Bus Korea, as its new chairman. Halter will be flanked by a pair of co-vice chairmen that include BMW Korea’s chief finance officer and vice president Hans-Christian Baertels. Formerly the EU Chamber of Commerce, the organization underwent a complete overhaul in September to register as a nonprofit organization with the Ministry of Knowledge and Economy. Halter, as the new chairman, has pledged to
Korea's trade volume tops $1 tln for 2nd year
Dec 10, 2012
Korea's exports and imports exceeded $1 trillion on Monday, breaching the $1-trillion mark for the second consecutive year, the government said."The trade volume came to over $1 trillion as of 11:06 this morning," Kwon Pyung-oh, a spokesman for the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, told reporters.Exports have so far amounted to $512.8 billion with imports coming to about $487.2 billion as of Monday, according to the ministry.The country's trade volume topped $1 trillion for the first time in its hi
Korean firms fined W3.3tr for cartels
Dec 9, 2012
Korean enterprises have paid more than 3 trillion won ($2.8 billion won) in antitrust fines in foreign markets over the past 16 years.According to the Fair Trade Commission, foreign antitrust regulators have imposed on Korean businesses, such as LG Electronics and Samsung SDI, fines totaling 3.31 trillion won for fixing product prices through methods such as cartel practices.The violation of the competition law was the most serious in the United States in terms of fines. The U.S. regulator has f
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