SEOUL, Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – As Samsung Seoul Hospital announced a partial shutdown due to the further spread of the MERS virus on June 15, an exodus of patients to other hospitals in the district has begun. Samsung Seoul is forcing its current patients and those with scheduled appointments to move to other hospitals [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Minor shareholders of Samsung C&T are siding with Elliott Associates as they agree with the hedge fund’s opposition to a merger proposal between Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries. Over the past two days, minor shareholders have gathered individual consent to give up their voting rights to 670,000 shares so [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the Korean government’s disclosure of a list of the hospitals affected by MERS, patient visits to these institutions have dropped drastically. Samsung Seoul Hospital, where 17 cases of the MERS virus broke out, had 18 percent of its medical staff isolated, and saw its number of daily visitors [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group chairperson Lee Kun-hee was observed on May 22 in a hospital room at Samsung Seoul Hospital, breathing on his own and not dependent on any life-support system, for the first time since he was admitted following a heart attack in May 2014. Online news portal The Fact [...]