SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung is sponsoring another round of Crufts in 2015, continuing its long-running sponsorship of the world’s largest dog show, an affiliation that started in 1993. According to an announcement from Samsung Electronics on March 5, Samsung will also exhibit a cutting-edge intelligent dog house, entitled ‘Samsung Dream Doghouse,’ during [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Jae-yong, vice president of Samsung Electronics, and his two sisters held a ceremonial New Year dinner meeting with new executives Monday, the first without their father present as he remains bedridden following last year’s heart attack. Lee Jay-yong, the only son of the patriarch of South Korea’s top [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The final issue of “Samsung & You,” the corporate bimonthly magazine published by Samsung Group, has featured Lee Kun-hee, the current group chairman incapacitated by a heart attack in May this year. The print magazine will move to the online space from the next issue after five years of publication. According [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung is spurring to the expansion of its business sector of batteries for electronic vehicles as a new cash cow for the group, amid the ailing group chairperson Lee Kun-hee and the falling sales of its smartphones. Vice Chairperson Lee Jae-yong of Samsung is known to pay particular attention in the sector [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Everland Inc., a de facto holding company for the whole Samsung Group affiliates, announced a plan for public offering following the footsteps of Samsung SDS. It is likely the IPO would be in the first quarter next year. On June 3, the company held a board of directors [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 18, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A study showed the possibility for a female employee to be promoted to an executive officer in Korea’s ten major groups is 1 to 1,430. On the contrary, the possibility for a male counterpart was 1 to 90. According to CEO Score, which examined the current executive [...]