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Park Jin-hai

Korea Times K-Culture Reporter

Park Jin-hai primarily focuses on K-dramas, entertainment shows and actor interviews. Beyond that, she also pens articles covering the broader arts scene, with a particular emphasis on classical music, dance and various aspects of lifestyle. Since joining The Korea Times in 2013, she has made significant contributions in the realms of hallyu (Korean wave), industry news and international affairs.

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Hyundai Mobis leads CSR activities beyond borders

Primary school students take part in a hands-on experiment during a Hyundai Mobis junior engineering class in Beijing, in this June file photo. The world’s sixth-largest parts maker has been offering the science classes as part of its corporate social responsibility activities overseas. / Courtesy of Hyundai MobisBy Park Jin-haiHyundai Mobis is stepping up its efforts to bring corporate social responsibility (CSR) beyond its national borders.Since 2010, Hyundai Mobis’ CSR activities have centered on the “four movements.” The Safe Movement hands out transparent umbrellas to reduce child traffic accidents, while the Green Movement aims to create more green areas. Through the Happy Movement, it runs child engineering classes. From 2014, it has also included the Easy Movement to support transportation for disabled children.  The world’s sixth-largest parts maker is now actively transferring its activities to other nations, aiming to contribute to resolving social issues across its global market.“We have already been engaged in many charity activit

Jul 28, 2015By Park Jin-hai
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GM Korea reaches agreement with labor in wage talks

GM Korea President and CEO Sergio Rocha, right, poses with student participants at the 2015 Korea Auto Science Camp at the company’s headquarters in Bupyeong, Incheon, Tuesday. The automobile company said it sponsors the camp which will be held at the Sangnok Resort in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, from Tuesday through July 31. / Courtesy of GM KoreaBy Park Jin-haiGM Korea announced Tuesday that it had reached a tentative agreement with its union in this year’s wage talks.Following the lead of Renault Samsung Motors, which among domestic automakers concluded wage talks, Monday, GM Korea is also close to finalizing an agreement without the threat of a strike.Industry watchers say that the management and unions of local automakers, struggling in the domestic and overseas markets, are trying to close talks early as the sense of crisis is shared by both sides.The agreement included pay raise as well as future plans to raise local plants’ production quota.Under the agreement, the company will raise the base payment by 83,000 won, while giving a 6.5 million wo

Jul 28, 2015By Park Jin-hai
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Auto and ship makers begin two-week-long summer leave

By Park Jin-haiWorkers at major local car manufacturers and ship builders will take a two-week summer vacation en masse starting from next week.Local manufacturers including Hyundai Motor, Kia Motors, GM Korea and Renault Samsung Motors as well as Hyundai Heavy Industries, Samsung Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) will give summer vacations.For Hyundai and Kia, all their production lines and company offices will stop operation between Aug. 3 and Aug. 7. The two largest carmakers will encourage employees to spend the vacation in local resorts, rather than overseas. Each employee will be given a 300,000 won summer vacation bonus.  GM Korea and Renault Samsung employees will have vacation during the same period. GM Korea will give a bonus of 50 percent of ordinary wages.Renault Samsung will give 800,000 won to workers as well as a 7 million won bonus after finishing annual wage talks.Ssangyong Motor’s summer vacation is scheduled to start between July 31 and Aug. 5.Of the local shipbuilders, DSME started the summer vacation first on Mond

Jul 27, 2015By Park Jin-hai
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Korando C LET 2.2 with bigger diesel engine gives powerful performance

New Korando C LET 2.2By Park Jin-haiIf the popular Tivoli compact SUV stands at the center of the revival of Ssangyong Motor, equally important for the carmaker is its Korando lineups.Since its first generation in 1974, the Korando SUV has been a great success for Ssangyong Motor. It is loved by many in local and overseas markets, being a steady seller for decades.The Korando C, launched in 2011 with a classy, comfortable and clean design concept, sold more than 210,000 units over four years. On July 2, Ssangyong Motor ambitiously launched the upgraded Korando C diesel with a larger engine, to lure customers looking for a city-friendly off-roader.I had the chance to test drive the latest Korando diesel, the new Korando C LET 2.2, on the 50 kilometer round trip in and around the Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, over the weekend.From outside, no significant difference is clear from its previous model. Its design element in many parts shared, telling that it makes the big Ssangyong SUV family with the Tivoli. The six colored cluster that contributed to the trendy design transformation

Jul 27, 2015By Park Jin-hai
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Chrysler recalls more than 6,000 cars over faulty Takata air bags

By Park Jin-haiFiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is voluntarily recalling more than 6,000 vehicles sold here because of their faulty Takata air bags, which has already have led to the recall of tens of millions of cars around the world, the land ministry said Friday.The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said that the cars’ air bag inflator may ignite with excessive force, in some cases causing its metal cartridge to crack and injure the driver or passengers of the car when deployed.The recall affects 6,322 cars sold by FCA Korea, the local importer and distributor of Chrysler vehicles.They include 5,672 Chrysler 300C passenger cars produced between April 21, 2004 and June 19, 2008; 595 Dodge Dakota pickup trucks produced between Oct. 15, 2004 and May 24, 2011; and 55 Dodge Durango SUVs produced between April 21, 2004 and June 19, 2008.  Takata air bags have led to the recall of more than 30 million vehicles in the United States alone.In a separate case, Japanese automaker Nissan Motor is recalling 296 cars sold here because of a defective engine start button. Th

Jul 24, 2015By Park Jin-hai
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Montblanc honors BIFF honorary director Kim

Kim Dong-ho, center, this year’s winner of the Montblanc arts patronage award, stands with Montblanc Korea CEO Sylvain Costof, left, and Lutz Bethge, chairman of the Montblanc Cultural Foundation, at Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, Thursday. / Courtesy of Montblanc KoreaBy Park Jin-haiKim Dong-ho, founder of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) and now the honorary festival director, received the Montblanc arts patronage award on Thursday for his contribution to developing BIFF into Asia's largest film festival.Kim founded the BIFF and it has grown into one of the most significant film festivals in the region over the past 19 years. He dedicated the past five decades to build the foundation for artists, including working to establish art centers and a foundation for the welfare of artists.   “If Montblanc was a writing instrument to record history, for me movies are the record of peoples’ lives,” said Kim, during the award ceremony at Dongdaemun Design Plaza, in Seoul, Thursday.Lutz Bethge, chairman of the Montblanc Cultur

Jul 24, 2015By Park Jin-hai
Montblanc honors BIFF honorary director Kim
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POSCO boosts ties with KEPCO, KT in IT, energy

POSCO Research Institute President Kwag Chang-ho, right, poses with Kim Rak-hyun, left, KEPCO Economy & Management Research Institute president, and KT Economics & Management Research Institute Senior Vice President Park Dae-su, center, after signing a memorandum of understanding to study the convergence between energy and ICT at POSCO’s headquarter in southern Seoul, Friday. / Courtesy of POSCOBy Park Jin-haiSteelmaker POSCO, which recently announced a full-scale restructuring plan, has teamed up with KEPCO and KT to study the convergence of energy and information and communications technology (ICT).The trio signed an agreement Friday whereby their respective research institutes will cooperate in energy, telecommunications, manufacturing and ICT, seeking new business strategies for overseas markets.“Based on the achievements each research institute has independently accumulated so far, this will give us new opportunities to cooperate in various fields of study,” said Kwag Chang-ho, POSCO Research Institute (POSRI) president, during a signing ceremony a

Jul 24, 2015By Park Jin-hai
POSCO boosts ties with KEPCO, KT in IT, energy
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Hyundai E&C takes lead in L. American construction market

Employees work at the construction site for the Bello Wastewater Treatment Plant that Hyundai Engineering & Construction is building in Colombia. Hyundai E&C and Spain’s Acciona Agua won the $350 million project in March 2012. The construction is scheduled to be completed in March.By Park Jin-haiHyundai Engineering & Construction (E&C) is looking into new opportunities in the Latin American market.While local builders heavily depend on the Middle East construction market, Hyundai E&C has been focusing on Latin America for its next growth engine -- and it is making unprecedented inroads.“One of the major achievements was the contract to build an oil refinery in Venezuela last year,” said a Hyundai E&C official.Hyundai E&C, with China’s Wison Engineering, won a $4.8 billion contract in November to build much of the plant for the oil refinery in Puerto La Cruz.It was the third contract the company has won in Venezuela since it entered the market in 2012, and the largest project given to a Korean company in Latin Ame

Jul 23, 2015By Park Jin-hai
Hyundai E&C takes lead in L. American construction market
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Hyundai Motor to pay midterm dividend

By Park Jin-haiHyundai Motor, the nation’s largest automaker, will deliver a 1,000 won midterm dividend per share to boost shareholder profits this year.The total payout is 268.6 billion won.Previously, Hyundai pledged to increase dividends as well as return profits in the midterm as part of its shareholder-friendly policy, after investors turned their backs on the company's controversial 10.5-trillion land purchase from KEPCO.It is the first time Hyundai has returned profits in the midterm.The company approved the dividend payment at an emergency board of directors' meeting Thursday morning.Shareholders as of June 30 will be entitled to the dividend.Under the Korean Capital Market Act, the payment of midterm dividends should be completed within 20 days of the decision, thus it is projected to be completed by mid-August.“We will continue to increase the dividends,” Lee Won hee, the carmaker's chief financial officer, said. “We plan to up our dividend to 15 percent in the short term, and to 25-30 percent, the global automotive companies’ average, in the l

Jul 23, 2015By Park Jin-hai
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Pernod Ricard launches low-alcohol spirit drink

Models display Pernod Ricard’s new low-alcohol spirit Eclat by Imperial, which has pomegranate flavor to cater to female drinkers’ delicate taste, during a launch event in southern Seoul, Wednesday. The mild drink, with 31 percent alcohol content, is priced at 36,300 won. / YonhapBy Park Jin-haiPernod Ricard has launched a low-alcohol spirit drink here, targeting female customers.The new beverage, named Eclat by Imperial, is a whisky-based spirit with a pomegranate flavor and alcohol content of 31 percent, lower than the 40 percent of other whiskies.As the name Eclat means radiance, the new drink sells in a curved bottle. The imperial blended Eclat has less alcohol which female drinkers can enjoy for its light and smooth taste.“Eclat is created for women who are leading the various lifestyle changes in modern society,” said Pernod Ricard Korea CEO Jean Manuel Spriet during Eclat’s launch ceremony in southern Seoul, Wednesday.“With the iconic Eclat brand, we will continue to appeal to women drinkers of high tastes that are looking for tren

Jul 22, 2015By Park Jin-hai
Pernod Ricard launches low-alcohol spirit drink
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