talent

Automobiles Hyundai Motor launches global talent recruitment program

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has launched a global talent recruitment program, beginning April 1 via its official hiring webs...

Business & Politics US Chamber of Commerce sees Korea’s business penalties as trade barrier

The US Chamber of Commerce, the country’s largest lobbying group, told Washington that South Korea’s penalties on businesspeople are amo...

Economy Korea to create new visa for high-quality foreign talent

South Korea said on Wednesday it plans to create a new visa to attract high-level foreign talent for advanced industries such as artificial intellig...

Leadership & Management Samsung lowers bar on hiring foreign talent in South Korea

South Korea’s biggest business group Samsung has sweetened the pot to win the technology talent war by lowering the bar for new hires of forei...

Leadership & Management SK to nurture 10,000 AI talent, introduce Board 2.0 to enhance governance

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, said on Monday it plans to nurture 10,000 artificial intelligence professionals over the ...

Tech, Media & Telecom South Korean developers fret over inflow of Indian talent

South Korea is opening its doors wide to Indian developers, causing some concerns that the inflow of highly talented software developers from the So...

Business & Politics Hyundai Motor Group to nurture young talent in Indonesia

Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday that it held the inaugural ceremony for the first cohort of H-Jump School Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia, the...

Investment banking Junior bankers choosing track records over name value

A number of junior bankers at the Korean offices of major global investment banks such as Morgan Stanely and J.P.Morgan have resigned since July wit...

Tech, Media & Telecom LG CNS, Seoul National Univ. to establish DX talent program

South Korea's LG CNS Co. signed an agreement with Seoul National University's Department of Industrial Engineering on Tuesday to develop talent in d...

Beauty & Cosmetics Cosmax, China's Jiangnan Univ. to cooperate joint research

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's largest cosmetics original development and design manufacturer (ODM), said on Thursday that it signed a strategic memoran...

Korean startups S.Korea's early stage VC funding down amid dearth of targets

Early stage startup funding has plummeted in South Korea as venture capitalists shifted to late-stage venture firms with stable business models amid...

Investment banking Samsung Securities’ IB head to quit amid talent outflow

Lee Jae-hyun, who has led one of Samsung Securities Co.'s investment banking divisions for two years, has recently expressed his intention to quit, ...

Korean chipmakers HBM chip war intensifies as SK Hynix hunts for Samsung talent

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc., just like its global peers, has largely designed and produced semiconductors in-house, including high-bandwidt...

Beauty & Cosmetics S.Korea's Vegan J. enters Amazon USA

South Korean eco-friendly cosmetic brand Vegan J. announced on Friday that it sells its products on Amazon, the largest e-commerce platform in the U...

Corporate strategy SK Innovation to adjust business portfolios for long-term growth

SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s top energy company, is slated to adjust its business portfolios for long-term growth while not planning to sl...

Arts Hyundai Card, MoMA partner to support young artists, curators

South Korea’s leading credit card company Hyundai Card Co. said on Tuesday it is collaborating with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New Yor...

Artificial intelligence LG Group’s AI academy to foster young talent bears fruit

On April 6, at LG Inwhawon, called LG Academy in English, in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, 99 college students and twenty-somethings were wrestling wit...

Artificial intelligence LG Elec expands workforce to enhance AI cyber security

LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, is actively increasing its workforce to improve artificial intelligence cyber security...

Aerospace & Defense KASA, Korea’s NASA, embarks on hunt for space talent

South Korea seeking to join the global space power club is set to recruit about 120 local and foreign space experts for the country’s space ag...

Banking & Finance KB Kookmin Bank opens KB Prasac Bank in Cambodia

KB Kookmin Bank announced on Monday that it held an opening event for the integrated commercial bank KB Prasac Bank PLC in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on ...

Batteries S.Korea's EcoPro to seek local talent in Hungary

South Korean battery materials manufacturer EcoPro Co. announced on Monday that it partnered with the Debrecen Vocational Training Center in Debrece...

Regulations Delays in court rulings raise business risks for South Korean companies

Less than five years ago, Invossa, a cell and gene therapy for osteoarthritis, was expected to hit the global market with great fanfare.Developed by...

Corporate restructuring Naver, Com2uS slash workforce to downsize new businesses

South Korea’s leading online platforms and gaming publishers such as Naver Corp., Com2uS Corp. and Kakao Corp. have joined global Big Tech com...

Korean chipmakers Samsung to relocate packaging unit workplace to lure talent

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, is set to relocate its advanced packaging department’s workplace in South Kor...

Metaverse UAE, Korea’s Naver Z join hands for virtual reality tech

South Korea’s Naver Z Corp., the operator of virtual world platform Zepeto, said Monday it will join forces with the United Arab Emirates&rsqu...

Artificial intelligence South Korea lags behind US, China in AI talent pool

South Korea lags far behind advanced countries in nurturing artificial intelligence (AI) talent due to the lack of proper skills development program...

Banking & Finance DGB partners with Vietnamese IT company

South Korea's DGB Financial Group announced on Monday it signed a business agreement with the global IT company FPT Software at the FPT Group headqu...

Business & Politics Lotte's chemical units look for talent from US universities

Lotte Group's two chemical units in South Korea searched for talent in US universities.Lotte Chemical Corp. and Lotte Fine Chemical Co. organized ...

Bio & Pharma CJ CheilJedang searches for global bio talent in Boston

South Korean food and bio giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. on Monday said its Chief Technology Officer Hwang Yun-il, CJ CheilJedang BIO executive Yoon Seo...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor, Georgia Tech partner for future mobility tech

Hyundai Motor Group has chosen Georgia Tech as its new academic partner in the US to work together on developing sustainable mobility technologies a...