All posts tagged "SK"

  • Chey Min-jeong (Yonhap)
    SK heiress to serve at border unit

    By Yi Whan-woo An heiress of South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate SK Group is on a mission to protect the country’s western maritime border from North Korea as a naval officer, according to military officials, Tuesday. They said...

    • Posted March 1, 2016
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  • (Graphic: Cha Sang-won, Source: Job Korea)
    Samsung seen as intelligent; Hyundai Motor masculine

    By Yoon Sung-won Korean college students tend to associate the nation’s top conglomerates with conservative and authoritative images, a survey showed Wednesday. According to local recruitment information provider, Job Korea, collegians think Samsung has an intelligent image...

    • Posted December 24, 2015
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  • (Yonhap)
    SK to compensate employees with work-related leukemia

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it plans to compensate employees suffering from what they claim is an occupational disease, although clear links to the working environment have not been...

    • Posted November 25, 2015
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  • Bundles of 10,000-yen banknotes are stacked in front of an electronic billboard showing real-time currency exchange rates at a Korea Exchange Bank branch in Seoul. (Yonhap)
    S. Korean conglomerates still sitting on $496 billion of cash

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korean conglomerates are still sitting on large amounts of cash, wary of economic uncertainties and weak domestic demand, despite government pressure for them to spend more on wages, dividends and facilities, data showed...

    • Posted December 17, 2014
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  • Kim Kwang-hyun (NEWSis)
    Unable to reach an agreement with SD, Kim Kwang-hyun goes back to SK

    Kim Kwang-hyun will not be pitching in the U.S. next year.  The 26-year-old South Korean left-hander has failed to reach an agreement with the San Diego Padres, Kim’s South Korean club announced on Thursday. The SK Wyverns in...

    • Posted December 11, 2014
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    SK Telecom raided over alleged illegal private data collection

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — State investigators raided the headquarters of SK Telecom Co. in Seoul on Tuesday over suspicions that the country’s top mobile carrier illegally collected its users’ health records. A joint team of prosecutors and government...

    • Posted December 2, 2014
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  • SK Telecom employees demonstrate the new network virtualization technology "Orchestration." (Courtesy of SK Telecom)
    SK develops core 5G network technologies

    By Yoon Sung-won SK Telecom, the nation’s largest mobile carrier, has developed two core technologies for the fifth-generation (5G) mobile network, the company said Tuesday. It says that the development of the network virtualization technologies will support...

    • Posted November 26, 2014
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