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SKT Appoints Group's Strategic Expert, Marking Pinnacle in 'AI Company' Transformation
SK Telecom (CEO Ryu Young-sang, hereinafter SKT) has restructured its board of directors this year, including the appointment of Kang Dong-soo, head of SK Group's Portfolio Management (PM) division, a...
2025-03-27 목요일 | 김재훈 기자
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"Investing Despite Trillion-KRW Losses"... Chung Eui-sun's New Business '3 Picks'
'Autonomous driving, AI (Artificial Intelligence), and robotics' are the three future businesses that Chung Eui-sun, Chairman of Hyundai Motor Group, has set his sights on. Despite annual trillion-KRW...
2025-03-26 수요일 | 곽호룡 기자
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Intensified Competition, Trump Risk, and Oversupply... Samsung Biologics CEO John Rim Faces Mounting Challenges Amid Uncertainty
Even as Samsung Biologics (hereinafter referred to as Samsung Bio) continues its strong growth, aiming for annual revenue of KRW 5 trillion this year, uncertainties persist.Former U.S. President Donal...
2025-03-25 화요일 | 김나영 기자
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John Rim’s 4 Years That Changed the Bio Landscape: From Latecomer to ‘Samsung’s Savior’
If you were to name the next-generation growth engine to follow semiconductors in the Samsung Group, it would undoubtedly be the bio business. While other core divisions faced downturns, Samsung Biolo...
2025-03-25 화요일 | 김나영 기자
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‘Another K-Miracle’ Hanwha Aerospace, Hyundai Rotem, and LIG Nex1
Global geopolitical tensions are heightening interest in South Korea's defense industry more than ever before.European and Middle Eastern countries are actively pursuing military modernization project...
2025-03-24 월요일 | 신혜주 기자
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Koo Kwang-mo Invests in Canadian Lithium Extraction Company, Accelerating 'Cleantech' Growth
LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo has made his first investment in the cleantech sector this year. Cleantech is one of the future businesses Koo has personally selected, with cumulative investments excee...
2025-03-21 금요일 | 김재훈 기자
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Samsung Electronics 'Trapped in the KRW 50,000 Swamp'... "Vows to Secure Competitiveness in AI and Robotics"
Samsung Electronics apologized to shareholders for its poor performance and stock price last year, promising to restore fundamental competitiveness. Vice Chairmen Han Jong-hee of the DX Division and J...
2025-03-20 목요일 | 김재훈 기자
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Hyundai Motor Suffers KRW 700 Billion Loss in China, While Kia Achieves Profit Turnaround
Kia Corporation has achieved a profit turnaround in China for the first time in eight years, contrasting sharply with Hyundai Motor Company, which has posted losses in its Chinese operations for six c...
2025-03-19 수요일 | 곽호룡 기자
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SK Innovation's Credit Rating Downgrade Spiral... Battery Division Faces KRW 1 Trillion Loss Concerns This Year
SK Innovation's battery business struggles are leading to a vicious cycle, with credit rating downgrades increasing the burden of raising investment funds.On March 14 (local time), global credit ratin...
2025-03-18 화요일 | 곽호룡 기자
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Is Coupang's 41-Trillion-Won Empire in Danger? The Advance of Naver and Daiso
Naver and Daiso are emerging as major threats to Coupang, which became the first company in South Korea’s retail industry to achieve 41 trillion won in revenue last year. They are countering Coupang ...
2025-03-17 월요일 | 박슬기 기자
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Naver Focuses on 'AI Enhancement,' Kakao on 'Stabilization'... Contrasting Atmospheres in Board Restructuring
Naver and Kakao will hold their regular general shareholders' meetings on the same day for the first time in about 12 years. However, the two companies are approaching this with distinctly different a...
2025-03-14 금요일 | 김재훈 기자
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US Asset Management Firm Rises to 4th Largest Shareholder of LIG Nex1 in One Swoop, Will They Engage in Shareholder Activism?
Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (APLP), a US asset management firm, has been continuously purchasing shares of the domestic defense company LIG Nex1 (CEO Shin Ik-hyun) since the beginning of this...
2025-03-13 목요일 | 신혜주 기자
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Why HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Focuses on 'Surface Ships' and Hanwha Ocean on 'Submarines'
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (Co-CEOs Lee Sang-kyun and Roh Jin-yul) and Hanwha Ocean (CEO Kim Hee-cheol) announced last month that they would cooperate as 'one team' for naval vessel export projects. ...
2025-03-12 수요일 | 신혜주 기자
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Netmarble's Surprise Leadership Change... Signal for Netmarble Neo's IPO Relaunch?
As Kwon Young-sik, co-CEO of Netmarble, resigns from his position as representative director and internal director after about 11 years, expectations for the re-launch of the IPO (Initial Public Offer...
2025-03-11 화요일 | 김재훈 기자
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Vice Chairman Shin Hak-cheol of LG Chem to Extend Term by Two More Years... Expectations for a CEO Approaching His 70s
Shin Hak-cheol, the last remaining CEO in LG Group born in the 1950s, is expected to extend his term by up to two more years. LG Chairman Koo Kwang-mo seems to have determined that an experienced ex...
2025-03-10 월요일 | 곽호룡 기자
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MBK Forced into a Corner as Homeplus Faces Corporate Rehabilitation Fallout
MBK Partners, the majority shareholder of Homeplus, has been pushed to the brink. The firm acquired Homeplus a decade ago with KRW 2.7 trillion in leveraged buyout debt but failed to manage it effecti...
2025-03-07 금요일 | 박슬기 기자
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SKT's 'A dot' vs. LG U+'s 'ixi-O'... The Battle for AI Ecosystem Expansion Begins
SK Telecom (CEO Yoo Young-sang, hereinafter SKT) and LG Uplus (CEO Hong Beom-sik) are ramping up their competition to expand their AI assistant ecosystems. SKT’s ‘A dot (A.)’, which has already tak...
2025-03-06 목요일 | 김재훈 기자
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Last Year’s Jackpot, Pharma Firms Bet Everything on the Next Blockbuster Drug
Last year marked a significant milestone for South Korea’s pharmaceutical and biotech industry in new drug development. Two domestically developed new drugs were successfully introduced within two ye...
2025-03-05 수요일 | 김나영 기자
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Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun to Receive Salary from Kia Starting This Year
Kia has decided to start paying a salary to Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun, who has been serving as an inside director at the company since 2019. Despite holding this position for years, C...
2025-03-04 화요일 | 곽호룡 기자
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Hyundai E&C · Hyundai Engineering, Consecutive Safety Accidents and Performance Decline... Crisis of the "Construction Powerhouse"
Hyundai Engineering (CEO Joo Woo-jung) is suffering a severe blow to its reputation as a "construction powerhouse" due to repeated safety accidents and poor financial performance. Once a leading const...
2025-02-28 금요일 | 두경우 전문위원
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Naver's Stock on the Rise, AI Momentum Begins with Commerce
After plummeting to KRW 100,000 range at one point, Naver's stock has been on an upward trajectory this year, showing signs of recovery. This rally is attributed to the company's record-breaking perfo...
2025-02-27 목요일 | 김재훈 기자
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HD Hyundai Liquidates Loss-Making Bio Subsidiary and Starts Over
Jung Ki-sun, Executive Vice Chairman of HD Hyundai, is set to dissolve the group's bio subsidiary, HD Hyundai Future Partners, nearly six years after its establishment. Going forward, the group's hold...
2025-02-26 수요일 | 신혜주 기자
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Pharmaceutical DNA in Kolmar Korea and COSMAX... True Commitment to R&D
The global expansion of Korean cosmetics is accelerating rapidly. Last year, exports surpassed USD 10 billion, setting a new record. At the core of this K-beauty boom are the two major ODM leaders, Ko...
2025-02-25 화요일 | 김나영 기자
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S-OIL’s Cautious Approach to Fundraising: Focus on Controlling Borrowing Expansion
S-OIL appears to have carefully considered its fundraising strategy. Despite being evaluated as one of the highest-rated AA-grade companies, the company cannot overlook the sharp increase in its outst...
2025-02-24 월요일 | 이성규 기자
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"A Spectacular Comeback"—CJ CheilJedang’s Kang Shin-ho Expands K-Food Influence Overseas
Kang Shin-ho, CEO of CJ CheilJedang, has significantly improved profitability within a year of taking office, leveraging the company’s core food business. Key products such as Hetbahn, Bibigo Kimchi,...
2025-02-21 금요일 | 손원태 기자
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'Solid Performance Amidst Recession' - S-Oil · GS Caltex, What’s Their Secret?
Despite the economic downturn last year, GS Caltex and S-OIL managed to differentiate themselves by leveraging their lubricant and petrochemical divisions, respectively.The combined annual operating p...
2025-02-20 목요일 | 곽호룡 기자
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한국면접관협회,면접 실전지침서 ‘면접관의 시선’ 출간
한국면접관협회(회장 권혁근)이 오는 22일 출판사 리커리어북스(대표 한현정)과 공동기획한 『면접관의 시선』을 출간한다고 18일 밝혔다.9월초부터 전국 주요 온오프라인 서점에서 판매되는 이 책은 대기업, 공공기관, 민간기업 등 다양한 채용 현장에서 활동한 현직 면접관들이 직접 집필에 참여했다. 실제 면접 장면과 판단 기준, 질문의 의도를 생생한 사례와 함께 담아냈으며, 단순한 면접 기술서가 아니라 면접관과 지원자 모두에게 유효한 ‘실전 지침서’다. 『면접관의 시선』은 지원자에게는 면접이라는 관문을 통과하기 위한 현실적인 전략과 통찰을, 면접관에게는 지원자를 올바르게 평가하고 읽어 내는 방법에 대한 실질적인 가이드
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[신간] 탄소를 모르면 기업은 망한다
전 세계는 ‘탄소 책임 경제(Carbon Accountability Economy)’로의 대전환기에 진입했다. 탄소는 규제의 대상을 넘어 국가 정책과 글로벌 시장을 재편하는 핵심 자산으로, 기업의 지속가능성과 직결되는 전략 변수로 자리 잡았다. 글로벌 탄소 시장의 설계자이자 실전 전문가인 Richard Yoon은 30여년간 금융, IT, ESG 분야를 넘나들며 축적해 온 현장 경험을 바탕으로 ‘탄소를 모르면 기업은 망한다’를 집필했다. 이 책은 국가 온실가스 감축목표(NDC), 기업의 탄소 전략, 국제 감축사업, 탄소크레딧 거래까지 아우르며 기업 경영과 투자의 관점에서 탄소경제를 통찰하는 전략적 실무 지침서다.특히 탄소를 가치있는 자산으로 바라보는 인식에