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Preparing for Chuseok holiday

S-Oil CEO Othman Al-Ghamdi, left, makes songpyeon, Korean traditional half-moon-shaped rice cakes, for company employees and local residents before the Chuseok holiday at Ewha Womans University Sungsan Social Welfare Center in Mapo, western Seoul, Thursday. / Courtesy of S-Oil

Sep 8, 2016

Spreading Korean language

Asiana Airlines Senior Vice President Cho Young-seok, second from left, poses with dignitaries at the Korea Education Center in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday. Asiana donated 3,737 Korean books and other education materials to the center and a local school for children who want to learn Korean. They are, from left, Im Byung-ryul, president of an association of small and medium-sized Korean businesses in Almaty; Cho Sung-kwan, president of the Korean residents’ association in Almaty; and Jeon Seung-min, Korean consulate general in Almaty. / Courtesy of Asiana Airlines

Sep 8, 2016

Recruiting high school students

High school students learn how to wear makeup for job interviews at Home plus headquarters in western Seoul, Wednesday. The discount store held a job fair to recruit high school graduates as interns. / Yonhap

Sep 7, 2016

Innovative products

Chungbuk Center for the Creative Economy & Innovation General Manager Yoon June-weon, left, introduces products made by startups and small businesses to foreign journalists visiting Korea under the Seoul National University and LG Group’s joint press fellowship program at the center in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, Tuesday. / Courtesy of LG Group

Sep 6, 2016

Chairmanin US

Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Mong-koo talks with Kia Motors America’s chief designer Tom Kearns at Kia’s design center in Fountain Valley, California, Monday (local time). Chung is touring the group’s U.S. headquarters and other facilities to promote the sales of high-end and eco-friendly vehicles./ Courtesy of Hyundai Motor Group

Sep 6, 2016

Cooperation for Olympics broadcasting

KT Senior Vice President Kim Hyoung-joon, right, shakes hands with Korea Expressway Corp. (KEC) Executive Managing Director Choi Kwang-ho, after signing an agreement at the KEC headquarters in Gimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province, Monday, to cooperate on a broadcasting network for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics./ Courtesy of KT

Sep 5, 2016

For Chuseok

Children try on traditional Korean hanbok clothing ahead of the upcoming Chuseok holiday at Lotte Mart in Seoul Station, Sunday. The retail outlet is selling children’s hanbok for between 39,000 and 79,000 won until Sept. 14. / Yonhap

Sep 5, 2016

Park Hotel-K2 alliance

Park Hotel Group CEO Allen Law, center, shakes hands with K2NET CEO Min Cho-heung at Park Hotel Alexandra in Singapore, Friday, after signing a management contract for Park Hotel Yeongdeungpo in Seoul. Under the accord, the Singapore-headquartered hotel chain in Asia will manage the new hotel the Korean firm is scheduled to open in early 2017. The partnership marks the first hotel project for K2NET, a manufacturer and distributor of wireless credit card terminals. / Courtesy of Park Hotel Group

Sep 4, 2016

Cooperation with Russia

Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) President & CEO Kim Jae-hong, left, poses with Maxim Shereikin, right, Russia’s chief of the Agency for Technological Development, after signing a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in technology in Vladivostok, Friday./ Courtesy of KOTRA