• All set to win
    At the South Korean World Cup team’s training center in Paju, Gyeonggi province, team members enter the press conference room. "We don’t need any further preparation," team memb...
    May.16,2006 10:50 KST
  • Sinsegae announces it will pay inheritance taxes
    Shinsegae Group has recently announced that it will pay inheritance taxes in transferring the group's managerial control to heir-apparent Chung Yong-jin. The amount of taxes, se...
    May.16,2006 10:33 KST
  • Will sea change in conglomerate practices stick?
    Criticisms are mounting over illicit wealth transfer practices by owners of big industrial conglomerates, or chaebol. Public opinion demands the chaebol patriarchs change their ...
    May.16,2006 10:23 KST
  • [Cartoon] Too little, too late
    Jeong Yong-jik of the Shinsege group and Lee Jae-yong of Samsung are trying to land in a target area that says "Legitimize your position of power in your conglomerate while avoi...
    May.16,2006 09:38 KST
  • Would common Asian currency patch regional grievances?
    Finance ministers from Korea, China, and Japan met recently during the Asian Development Bank meeting in Hyderabad, India, and agreed to study the possibility of a common curren...
    May.16,2006 09:22 KST
  • South Korean opinion continues shift toward center
    College students in their 20s were the most liberal population group in South Korea, while the self-employed in their 50s who were born in the northern part of South Korea and l...
    May.15,2006 11:02 KST
  • [Cartoon] Uri Party Bus Backfires on Road to Gwangju
    With Gwangju becoming a hotly contested region in upcoming elections, the ruling Uri Party was on its way to events remembering the massacre there in May 1980. But it keeps gett...
    May.15,2006 10:56 KST
  • Chairmen rule the roost at Samsung and Hyundai Motor Corp.
    Hyundai/Kia Motor Group Chairman Chung Mong-koo's peculiar style of human relations management has been referred to as "Elevator HR." One high ranking company official...
    May.15,2006 02:06 KST
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