Economy - The Korea Times

Urging Assembly to pass bills

Halla Holdings Vice Chairman Im Kee-young, center, and other group executives write their signatures at the headquarters building of Mando in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province, Thursday. Halla Group executives took part in a nationwide signature collecting campaign, spearhead by business associations, in a bid to press the National Assembly to pass economy-related bills./ Courtesy of Halla Group

Jan 28, 2016

Craze for Xiaomi

Customers line up to buy discounted smartphones at a Daiso outlet in Jongno, central Seoul, Wednesday. Daiso offered a special discount on 300 smartphones — including the Xiaomi Hongmi 3 and Hongmi Note 3 — of 99,000 won ($82.4)./ Yonhap

Jan 27, 2016

GM Korea sales workshop

GM Korea CEO James Kim, left, thanks flag-holding employees representing its sales outlets throughout the nation, who participated in a two-day workshop at Phoenix Island Resort in Jeju, Wednesday./ Courtesy of GM Korea

Jan 27, 2016

For small merchants

KB Financial Group Chairman Yoon Jong-kyoo, right, makes a fist together with Financial Supervisory Service Governor Zhin Woong-seob, second from right, after buying a woolen hat at a traditional market in Mapo, western Seoul, Tuesday, as part of efforts to encourage people to shop at traditional markets in preparation for the Lunar New Year holiday which falls in the second week of February./ Courtesy of KB Financial Group

Jan 26, 2016

Meet YuMi

A worker collaborates with an industrial robot named YuMi at a workplace of ABB, a Swiss-based power and automation technology group. ABB will introduce the world’s first dual-arm industrial robot at the 29th Semicon Korea from Jan. 27 to 29 at COEX in southern Seoul./ Courtesy of ABB Korea

Jan 26, 2016

Cyber money

Models promote “SSG” cyber money which can be used at emart and other Shinsegae Group retailers at the Yonsan e-mart in Seoul, Monday. / Yonhap

Jan 25, 2016

Chinese online marketers invited

Chinese online marketers, known as power creators there, make videos while they tour around the Galleria Duty Free 63, in the 63 City Building, in Yeouido, central Seoul, Friday. “Power creators”, compared with power bloggers, mainly produce video content and post it on social networks and video sharing sites, sometimes in collaboration with big companies. Galleria invited them to promote its newly opened duty free shop./ Courtesy of Galleria Duty Free 63

Jan 24, 2016

LG's PuriCare sales jump

An LG Electronics employee contributing to the production of air purifiers at the firm’s manufacturing facility in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, Sunday. The company said that sales for its air cleaner lineup “PuriCare” have seen a threefold increase in January, compared to a year ago./ Courtesy of LG Electronics

Jan 24, 2016

Promoting mutual growth

LG Innotek CEO Park Jong-seok, sixth from left in the front row , poses with company officials and chiefs of its subcontractors during an event to promote mutual growth at an R&D center in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, Friday. / Courtesy of LG Innotek

Jan 22, 2016

Media art awards

Han Seong-kwon, right, head of Hyundai Motor Group University, with Park Je-sung, second from right, during a ceremony to mark the carmaker’s first media art contest, at the university campus in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, Thursday. Park, the grand prize winner, received 80 million won and will be given space to display his art in the university’s exhibition hall. / Courtesy of Hyundai Motor Group