Italian luxury fashion brand Fendi’s chandelier-concept Christmas tree is lit up in front of the Galleria Department Store’s eastern Luxury Hall in Apgujeong-dong, southern Seoul. (Yonhap) (khnews@heraldcorp.com)

I start this series with my favorite fried chicken recipe because people of all ages love it. Anything fried just tastes better, but it is more than that. Fried chicken is arguably one of the most popular comfort foods around the world and it brings back childhood memories of good times shared with close friends and family. There are many different ways to fry chicken and I am sure that everyone has their own favorite family recipes. You may like it hot and spicy or you may prefer it sweet a

According to Statistics Korea this week, the volume of transactions made via online shopping reached 14.72 trillion won in September, marking the largest since the agency began collecting relevant data in 2001. Compared to last year, the surge was 30.7 percent. The same increase rate was seen in October 2018. The biggest surge in transactions were made in food services and grocery items. (khnews@heraldcorp.com)

As the world pensively watches the cutthroat US presidential election unfold to uncertain weeks ahead, Democrat candidate Joe Biden appeared to have the upper hand, as of Thursday here. South Korean industries have been bracing for either scenario, with prospects varying among major exporting industries of information technology, energy, batteries, steel, pharmaceuticals and others. With the trade protectionism trend expected to remain part of the mainstream, the tone of the trade war between

Among 6,871 executive-level members of South Korea’s top 100 companies by revenue, 286 of them are women, according to a report by global headhunting firm Unico Search on Wednesday. This accounted for 4.1 percent of the total. It was up 42 from 286 last year. Conglomerates have been moving to increase the ratio of women in their C-suite, such as Samsung Electronics which had pledged in 2011 to raise the proportion to 10 percent.  (khnews@heraldcorp.com)

It is a privilege, on behalf of Seoul Foreign School and our Communications and Marketing team, to accept this honor from The Korea Herald celebrating our efforts in educational advertising.  Seoul Foreign School is an international school in Seoul established in 1912. Home to more than 1,450 students, SFS offers a 109-year legacy of educational excellence.  SFS is a Pre-K 2-12 International Baccalaureate World School and Foundation to Year 9 British School for students ranging in ag

Defining the modern society as a risk society, risk management scholars insist one of the visible characteristics of the risk society is unidentified risk factors increasing while borders between countries disappear. The COVID-19 crisis is a disaster explicitly showing such features. Since the virus is invisible, it is difficult to contain it. Having started from somewhere, it has put the entire globe into a pandemic. It goes also the same to traditional disasters. The enormous amount of smo

This is the era of fourth industrial revolution. Traditional marketing platforms are rapidly receding in their stature now that we have big data-based artificial intelligence entering the realm of decision-making. Digital advertisement quotes had already begun to surpass the TV advertisement quotes since 2016, and this year, in 2020, they are expected to account for over 50 percent of the entire advertisement market. Digital marketing refers to the extensive marketing activity of pitching prod

Korea’s five finished automobile companies showed contrasting sales performance results in October compared to their respective reports in the same month last year. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s crippling effects on the global economy and consumer reception toward newly launched vehicle models, Kia Motors’ sales picked up both overseas and domestically, while Renault Samsung’s sales more than halved. (khnews@heraldcorp.com)

At the recent e-Leaders 2020 meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Korea ranked first in the Digital Government Index, which the OECD conducted for the first time. The latest result, a consecutive achievement after the OECD ranked Korea first in the OUR (Open-Useful-Reusable) Data Index in 2019, showed that Korea is leading the world’s digital government transition and innovation. The Digital Government Index measures the level of digital transformation an

Assuming that the Samsung family inherits the shares of the late Chairman Lee Kun-hee at the legal ratio (1.5 for wife and 1 for children), his wife Hong earns the largest amount of 5.9 trillion won ($5.2 billion). Each of the three children, including Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, will inherit 3.9 trillion won. If so, the value of Vice Chairman Lee’s equity holdings will exceed 10 trillion for the first time, and he will be the largest holder of shares in South Korea.