SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top 30 business groups reduced the number of their executives by about 500 over the past year due mainly to downsizing and business restructuring moves, data showed Wednesday. The total number of senior executives at the 30 largest conglomerates was 9,632 as of May 16, down 484, [...]
CHUNGJU, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A new solar cell plant being built for Hanwha Q CELLS Korea is in the spotlight as a model of regulatory reforms. Since last year, one of the hottest topics in business circles is the government’s so-called ‘forward-looking regulatory reforms’. The goal is to amend unreasonable regulations that stifle economic growth. [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanwha Techwin Corp., a defense unit of major South Korean business group Hanwha, is set to take over a defense affiliate under power and construction equipment conglomerate Doosan, for 700 billion won (US$600 million), industry sources said Wednesday. Hanwha Techwin was picked as the preferred bidder for Doosan DST, beating [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanwha Galleria, a retail unit of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha, said Tuesday it will partially open its first duty-free store at 63 City Building in downtown Seoul next week. Hanwha Galleria plans to open 60 percent of the proposed space in the gold-tinted skyscraper in Yeouido, a must-stop destination [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye granted special pardons Thursday to high-profile businessmen and more than 6,500 others ahead of Liberation Day. “I decided to grant special pardons in order to help forge national reconciliation and revitalize the economy as well as to boost people’s spirits,” Park said in a Cabinet meeting. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanwha Group has recently completed construction of its 24MW solar power plant in Japan, cementing its leading position in the Japanese solar power market. Hanwha Q CELLS Japan had a completion ceremony for the Hanwha Solar Power plant in the city of Kitsuki on January 15. The Kitsuki plant is built [...]
![[Quote] Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt Highly Appreciates Hanwha Q CELLS](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Q-Cells_Thalheim_Solar_Valley-800x450.jpg "[Quote] Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt Highly Appreciates Hanwha Q CELLS")
“Hanwha Q CELLS is one of the outstanding and successful business models in making investments in Germany. Only in two years after the Hanwha Group took over the operational business of the now-defunct Q-Cells SE, Hanwha Q CELLS started operating in the black” “Hanwha Q CELLS, which jumped up to be a leading solar PV company in [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Hanwha Engineering & Construction announced on June 9 that it has completed the construction of the world’s largest domed performance hall, the Philippine Arena, near Manila recently. The indoor arena which was completed on May 30 was built on the total area of 74,000 square meters with 51,000 seats [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Female job seekers in Korea seem to have had a tough time in the job market last year. In 2013, as the growth rate of employment of male workers has become nearly twice that of female workers at the top-ten conglomerates, the proportion of female employees has declined [...]