SK Innovation Vice Chairman Koo Ja-young inks a deal on a joint venture with Wang Tianpu, president of Sinopec Group, in Beijing on June 28, as Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Yoon Sang-jick, who accompanied President Park Geun-hye on a state visit to China, looks on. (Photo: MOTIE)…

Chairman Park Sam-koo of the Kumho-Asiana Group and also chairman of the Korea-China Friendship Association, right, meets with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping when he visited Seoul on Dec.18-19, 2009. Xi has now been promoted to the President of China. (Photo: Kumho-Asiana)Chairman …

A view of an AmorePacific store exclusively for InnisFree, a Natural cosmetics brand in Shanghai, China, in April, last year, and the cosmetics firm plans to open 17 more of such stores in majorcities including Beijing in China in the days ahead.AmorePacific Corp. has a special relationship wit…

(photos from left) Chairman Sohn Kyung-shik, V. Chmn. Lee Mee-kyung,  V. Chmn. Lee Chae-wook, Pres. Lee Kwan-hoon of CJ Co., Pres. Kim Chul-ha of CJ Cheiljedang. (Photo: CJ Group)CJ Group has launched the Group Management Committee to fill the management vacuum created by its Chairman Lee Jae-h…

Hanjin Transportation Co. President Suk Tai-soo (right) and Incheon Port Authority  President Kim Choon-sun hold an contract on the New Incheon Port 1-1 Container A Terminal Project they signed on June 27. (Photo: IPA)The consortium led by Hanjin Transportation Co., the priority bidder for…

Kim Young-hwan, director general of the FTA Information & Business Center How can Korean companies, particularly SMEs, make the most of the preferential tariff treatment of free trade agreements, including the Korea-U.S. FTA? “Company CEOs will have to pay more attention to post verificat…

KOTRA President Oh Young-ho gives his commemorative speech at a ceremony to mark the 51st anniversary at the KOTRA headquarters in Seoul on June 20.  [   Photos on courtesy of KOTRA]  Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) President Oh Young-ho delivered his commemorati…

A view of Chao Praya River that cuts through downtown Bangkok, Thailand,  one of the major rivers to be included in the Thai government’s rivers management project, for which the Korean consortium led by K-water has been named the priority bidder on two of the nine segments of t…

GS Group Chairman Hur Chang-soo  GS Group Chairman Hur Chang-soo, chairman of the Federation of Korean Industries, has set the ‘creative economy’ as its future vision in accordance with the Park Geun-hye government initiative for building the creative economy.   While presiding ove…