Sohn asks for equal opportunities, not special treatment
Business Focus (BF): You are the first woman to become CEO of a financial company, which is rare in the financial industry. Coming in as a human res..

Prudential Life Korea President Sohn Byoung-ok sets example as 1st woman CEO
The general perception is that highly successful businesswomen tend to be workaholics who put their jobs ahead of family commitments in order to com..

Running a company is ��total art��
Every Friday in 2005, Ko Jae-ho, now CEO of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, flew more than 400 kilometers from the firm��s shipyard on G..

Korea's first uranium mine on the horizon?
The government found uranium more than 30 years ago near Daejeon, but decided not to extract because it was too cheap. Now a small Australian compan..

National pride in the making
One of the first things Steve Jobs did in 1997 when he returned to Apple, which he founded but was expelled from in 1985, was to ditch a host of non..

Perseverance is Ampelos�� middle name
When Ampelos Group Chairman Kim Dong-woo opened his business to ship medical and high-tech products to Central and South America in 1996, Cuba was h..

V-Society far from thriving
V-Society began in the early 2000s when its 21 founding members met every Thursday in search of new business insight while networking and sharing in..

V-Society
Not many people knew about V-Society. Since its foundation in 2000 the fraternity of domestic business leaders and entrepreneurs has formed an exten..

��Korea offers global test bed for new businesses��
Korean consumers are choosy in product and service selection and fast-changing in preferences, offering foreign businesses a chance to use the marke..

Who is Cheong Mun-kuk?
Cheong Mun-kuk is the first Korean president and CEO of Allianz Life Insurance Korea, the Seoulbased subsidiary of the global giant insurance group ..