SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — System integrators affiliated with South Korea’s family-run business groups increased internal transactions in 2014 despite the government’s efforts to curb excessive groupwide trades, data showed Monday. Internal transactions of the top 20 system integration subsidiaries of the family-run conglomerates, locally called chaebol, came to 8.36 trillion won (US$7.74 billion) [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean retailers and furniture makers are turning to the homeware business, a nascent industry awakened by the local opening of Swedish furniture giant IKEA that promises big growth ahead as South Koreans begin to renovate and decorate their aging homes. Over the past year, a handful of homeware stores [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Group, South Korea’s fifth-largest family-controlled conglomerate, will play a key role in creating a fund worth 40 billion won (US$35 million) to help develop the country’s film industry, the presidential office said Monday. Lotte will account for half of the proposed fund while Busan Bank and the Busan [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of dividends to be paid to the heads of South Korea’s top 10 business groups will reach an all-time high for the 2014 fiscal year, market data showed Sunday. According to the data provided by financial investment firms and Chaebul.com, a website that tracks the country’s conglomerates, [...]
SEOUL, Nov.28 (Korea Bizwire) – A five-year cycle to pick duty-free shop operators within Incheon International Airport has returned again, forewarning fierce competition ahead. The Korea Customs Service posted on November 27 on its website that it would receive applications for new retail shop operators in the immigration area past the departure gate. According to the bid notice, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – From now on, users of check cards (or debit cards) will be able to get their refunds right away within one business day, instead of three to six days presently. According to credit card industry sources on October 15, the five credit card companies including Shinhan, KB, Samsung, Lotte, and [...]
![[Quote] CEO of Lotte Group to Spearhead Retail Giant’s Global Push](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Lotte-Vice-Chairman-Shin-Dong-bin.jpg "[Quote] CEO of Lotte Group to Spearhead Retail Giant’s Global Push")
“To keep up with ever-changing consumer demands, we should harness the omni-channel strategy, with which we can seek for an opportunity to grow continuously.” “As Lotte Group has been a multi-channel retailing brand, we should put forth our utmost efforts to get over the limitations we are faced with. We ought to get a grasp [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A study said the average tenure of top-30 group CEOs is only 2.6 years. According to CEO Score, a website tracking corporate performances, based on a survey on 576 former professional CEOs except those related with owner families who were hired since January 1, 2000, the average lifespan of these corporate [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of domestic companies become increasingly crucial as South Asian and Southeast Asian countries centering on India ask them to expand the CSR activities. For example, India enforced a law making CSR activities compulsory for large companies last April. According to the law, companies [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Thanks to the Korea Wave, foreign consumers’ interests in Korean goods are hotter now than any other time. Responding to the trend, the market size of direct sales of Korean goods to overseas consumers through domestic Internet shopping sites is estimated at 200 billion won. Then, who will be [...]