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A number of global companies in electronics, materials, chemicals and offshore business are relocating their regional head offices or research and development facilities to Korea in light of its techn...
Updated : 2013.05.20 20:41
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Korea and New Zealand started negotiations to conclude a free trade agreement in 2009. But there has been little progress due to differences over certain issues, including Korean farmers’ concern abo...
Updated : 2013.05.20 20:41
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With the continued depreciation of the yen, concerns about Japanese investment into Korea have been rising. The rapidly weakening yen was devalued by more than 20 percent against the dollar between Oc...
Updated : 2013.05.06 20:02
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European outdoor wear and equipment brands such as Millet of France were hanging by a thread when demand in Korea began to jump over 30 percent each year as hiking became fashionable and hikers starte...
Updated : 2013.04.22 19:49
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The economic downturn has dealt a blow to overall department store revenue in recent years, but sales of premium cosmetics have remained intact.The proliferation of “brand shops” of low-priced beaut...
Updated : 2013.04.08 19:57
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While Koreans’ rising presence on the global stage is hard to ignore, how to do business with them as a non-Korean is an increasingly tricky area little covered in English-language literature. Don So...
Updated : 2013.04.08 19:56
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The head of a search firm that has found more than 1,300 executives for its client companies since 2000 advises experienced workers to stay at one employer for at least three years.“My advice is to d...
Updated : 2013.03.25 19:29
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The light-emitting diode is like the hydrogen-powered car of the lighting industry. One day, energy-efficient LED lighting will replace all fluorescent lamps. Inefficient incandescent bulbs will soon ...
Updated : 2013.03.11 20:09
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When Johnson & Johnson Vision Care introduced its first daily disposable contact lenses in 1997, it didn’t know its next major product would be developed in Korea.“Circle lenses produced by local ma...
Updated : 2013.02.25 19:42
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Marketing and advertising used to be all about the creative side, but in this fast-evolving digital world, weaving the latest technologies into an effective formula is increasingly important, accordin...
Updated : 2013.01.28 19:46
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The year 2013 will be the investors’ struggle for a comeback amid a low-yield environment, making high-yield bonds and emerging market equities attractive, said Philip Poole, global head of macro and...
Updated : 2013.01.14 20:39
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Global asset management firm BlackRock has predicted that bonds of Northeast Asian countries and Chinese real estate will be the best pick for global investors in 2013.“Asian and emerging market fixe...
Updated : 2013.01.14 20:39
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Like Coca-Cola, nobody knows what it is made of.The viscoelastic material was initially developed to cushion and support astronauts’ backs from the massive pressure during lift-off in the early 1970s...
Updated : 2013.01.14 20:22
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Nonprofit organization the TIDE Institute is hosting a three-day workshop in English for foreigners planning start-up ventures at Kyungil University next week.Developers, designers and entrepreneurs are invited to come together to share ideas, form teams, build prototypes and find out if t...
Updated : 2013.01.08 19:43
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The Financial Supervisory Service is fine-tuning details to launch an investigation into the Korean operation of U.S.-based asset management firm AllianceBernstein Ltd., which made public its stock trading four years after the required timing, regulatory officials said Monday. While the fi...
Updated : 2013.01.07 20:09
