SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – SK C&C, Korea’s major total IT services provider, said on September 3 that it would take part in the upcoming 21st ITS World Congress to be held in Detroit, the United States, for five days between September 7 and 11. The ITS World Congress is the world’s largest conference on intelligent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Chey Min-jeong, 23-year-old daughter of SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won, has drawn public attention by applying for an officer spot in the Navy. This is the first time for a daughter of Korea’s chaebol family to volunteer for military service. After conducting an interview and physical examination last month, she [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A study said the total amount of penalties and punitive charges imposed on Korea’s top-30 business groups for the past three years surpassed 2 trillion won. By amount, LG Group topped the list with almost 40 percent in the total. In terms of the number of cases, Samsung Group was ranked [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – SK C&C, the holding company of SK Group, posted highest-ever profit during the first quarter in its history. As the only listed company among big-three IT service companies in Korea, it recorded 523.8 billion won of sales and 55.5 billion won of operating profit, 3.2 percent and 42.7 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – As the financial results of Korea’s major corporations worsen, the corporate tax receipts paid by the companies have also shrunk. According to the Financial Supervisory Service and FnGuide, a financial information provider, on May 7, the 87 affiliate firms within the top-ten business groups posted the pretax net profit at 50.9 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Ever since a top conglomerate in Korea decided to let advertising agencies outside their league of affiliates bid for their projects, it has been pitching and tossing in the ad world. The agencies affiliated with the big fishes have submerged while independent ad firms and foreign agencies [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 15, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean conglomerates and financial service firms have almost doubled their presence in Hong Kong since the global financial debacle in 2008. However, according to Yonhap News Agency, European firms and financial companies are moving to leave the “Pearl of Asia” in droves, raising concerns among Korean companies [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Dec 30 (Korea Bizwire) – SK C&C, an SK Group company specializing in IT services such as IT consulting, outsourcing, system integration, and system maintenance, will accelerate its move into the big-data market in the new year. The company said this on December 29, adding its 50-person big data task force would be expanded [...]