Push-up, the flower of bare-body workouts, completely conquered │ Hankyung Magazine
Someone said that reading isn’t something you can’t do because you don’t have enough time, but that you should make time for it. The same goes for exercise. Still, if you’re tired of going out and exercising, I recommend that you start exercising right now. A representative of the bare body exercise, a variation of […]
Maekyung “shocked” by Supreme Court ruling on direct employment of POSCO subcontractors Hankyung “confusion”
The Supreme Court ruled 11 years after the first lawsuit was filed that the in-house subcontractor workers at POSCO’s Gwangyang Works were employees of POSCO. On the 28th, the Supreme Court 3rd Division (Chief Judge Ahn Cheol-sang and Supreme Court Justice Heung-gu Lee) confirmed the lower court judgment in favor of the plaintiff in two […]
Old Controversies Suppressing Growth of Distribution Companies │ Hankyung Magazine
Mart opening hours restrictions, home shopping transmission fees, etc… Industry “It was right then, but it is wrong now” [비즈니스 포커스] As online shopping becomes the mainstream, the number of people who visit large supermarkets has decreased significantly. photo = Yonhap News “We made standards to protect local self-employed people and small business owners, but […]
A Word of the Week U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Needs to Build a Stable Supply Chain through Korea-US Friendshoring │ Magazine Hankyung
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen headed to LG Chem first during her two-day visit to Korea. Secretary Yellen visited LG Chem on July 17 and requested that South Korea actively participate in ‘friend-shoring’ promoted by the US. Joe Biden’s administration is focusing on building friendshoring in semiconductors and key minerals with allies in the European […]
Ministry of Food and Drug Safety Begins Preliminary Review of Pfizer Vaccine for Ages 5-11 │ Magazine Hankyung
Photo = A 5-year-old child receives a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) vaccine at the headquarters of the Louis County Department of Health in Berkeley, Missouri, USA, on November 6th. UPI Yonhap News The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced on the 1st that Pfizer has started reviewing the data as it submitted clinical data […]
26 million tweets poured over the two days of the BTS concert │ Hankyung Magazine
The fever of the global group BTS’ offline concert ‘BTS PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE – LA’ heated up the global Twitter. According to Twitter on the 30th, over 26 million tweets were poured out on Twitter around the world during the two days from the 27th to the 28th of the last BTS concert. […]
Naver executive generation change… Choi Soo-yeon, born in 1981, appointed CEO │ Hankyung Magazine
[비즈니스 플라자] Choi Soo-yeon, Naver CEO nominee. Photo = provided by Naver Naver has appointed Choi Su-yeon, who was born in 1981, as the next CEO, who will take office in March next year, as the head of the global business support department. Kim Nam-sun, who was born in 1978, was selected as the next […]
The Financial Supervisory Service urgently convenes a central bank… Let’s take a look at loan interest rates │ Hankyung Magazine
Chan-woo Lee, senior vice president of the Financial Supervisory Service (second from the right), speaks at the ‘Conference on the Status of Bank Household Loan Interest Rate Operation Status’ held at the Bank Hall in Jung-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 19th. Photo = Reporter Kim Tae-rim The Financial Supervisory Service urgently convened executives […]
BOK expects to raise key interest rate first by early next year in the wake of US tapering
As the US Federal Reserve (Fed) declared the start of tapering (reducing asset purchases) on the 3rd (local time), the BOK maintained its ‘preemptive’ policy rate hike stance that began in August until early next year and then made no haste. It is expected that the Fed will follow the trend. This is in consideration […]
IMF slightly downgrades global economic growth rate to 5.9% … Korea maintains
photo credit: Yonhap News The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) slightly lowered their forecasts for global economic growth this year to reflect the re-spread of COVID-19 and disruptions in the supply chain. In its ‘World Economic Outlook’ report released on the 12th local time, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted […]
