SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – SK C&C, Korea’s third largest IT system developer, aims to increase its footprint in the big data service market by expanding and strengthening its related task forces. The IT firm announced that it plans to transform its existing big data task force into an official division, providing composite big data [...]
“Social-cause marketing is a way to instill self-confidence in the members of the corporation and ultimately enliven the corporate brand, as well as solving some of the social problems. For Korea’s large companies whose growth is slowing in the world market, cause marketing is an important strategy to consider.” “The most important condition for success [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Chemicals will expand its business for blood preparations by investing 100 billion won. The unit for blood derivatives posted about 60 billion won in sales revenue last year. The company said on November 7, “We plan to increase the plasma fractionation capacity by five times to 600,000 liters from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — SK C&C, a total IT services provider under the SK Group affiliation, said in a regulatory filing on November 4 that its consolidated operating profit for the third quarter was 71.1 billion won, 18.9 percent higher than a year ago. The sales revenue rose 10.5 percent to 613.4 billion won [...]
![[In-depth] SK Group Announces Blueprint to Transform Daejeon into a Silicon Valley](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14480387419_11e66e21c3_z.jpg "[In-depth] SK Group Announces Blueprint to Transform Daejeon into a Silicon Valley")
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Group will invest more than 90 billion won (US$83.8 million) in the cities of Daejeon and Sejong to transform the areas into a Silicon Valley-like tech hotbed. The group announced its plan on October 10 in a ceremony to launch the Daejeon Creative Economy Innovation Center in which the President [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s National Pension Fund has suffered huge losses, as its significant exposure to the nation’s ‘blue-chip’ stocks — such as Samsung Electronics and Hyundai – under-performed a broader drop in the stock market of late. This year, the national fund made additional investments in the top 10 public conglomerates, also [...]
![[Quote] Former Chairman Chey Tae-won in Prison to Greet SK Group Members](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/SK-Chey.jpg "[Quote] Former Chairman Chey Tae-won in Prison to Greet SK Group Members")
“Now I am living my days feeling sorry that I cannot be with you, all of the SK Group employees, although I know what is occurring to our company and all of you are fighting desperately in the middle of a tough situation.” “I am striving to find what I can do and what matters [...]
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 [...]