The Women’s News (Representative: Hyo-Seon KIM) and Emerald Club of Japan (Representative: Sugahara Tomomi) signed an MOU for their future exchanges at The Women’s News on March 11.Emerald Club is the biggest network of business women in Japan established in 2010, having its branches in 8 cities inc
Last spring, H&M, the world's second largest fast fashion chain, launched a clothing collecting initiative worldwide under which the company turns the old clothes and textiles into new products and incentivizes consumers to take part in the program by giving them a discount on one item of their
Kakao Corp., the country’s largest mobile messaging service, agreed to buy Daum, the second largest internet portal. Daum will be renamed Daum Kakao which will have a market value of over 3.4 trillion won and be listed in October .At a joint press conference held at The Plaza Hotel on May 26, Daum a
Experts pointed out that the Park administration has to increase the rate of women in the workforce on par with men to achieve per capita GDP of $40,000, one of its national agendas.At the conference on ‘Womenomics,’ co-hosted by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies and Goldman Sachs, Kathy Matsui
“Career interruption,” a problem plaguing women for so long, has become one of the top priorities for this administration.President Park Geun-hye declared at the press conference on the 6th and the cabinet meeting the next day that she would “create a Korea where no woman has to suffer from career i
Along with the rise of powerful women in all sectors, the auto industry is also welcoming more women executives. As of Jan. 3rd, Hyundai Motors and Kia Motors each has one female executive on the board. Choi Myunh-hwa is Hyundai's managing director, and Chae Yang-seon is Kia's assistant mana
On the list for this year’s “Best Companies by Female Consumers” were a total of 19 companies including Samsung Electronics and Amore Pacific.On October 30, the committee for “Best Company” (Chairman Gil Jeong-woo, lawmaker) revealed 19 winners who have successfully boosted corporate productivity by
“In 2006, as I began this business, I announced to establish branches in the Middle East and Europe. Everyone tried to dissuade me from doing so. No one at the time thought Europeans would ever come to travel in Korea. Some even called me “crazy.” But 7 years later, I was proven right.” Han Junggyue
14 years in international sales …“Business trip with a 3-month-old baby”Just three years after the foundation of the company, SLS received “5 Million Dollars Top Export” awardFull support from her husband and two childrenNext year’s goals…Establish a local subsidiary in China and Boost domestic dema
The population of economically active women in Korea amounts to 10 million. Many believe the nation's future growth potential depends on efficient utilization of the female workforce. Activities of women CEOs are especially arresting our eyes. The number of companies run by women is 15,940 in 2007,
With the enactment of the Women's Business Support Act in 1999, the Korean government started to support female-owned business and assist women in starting their own businesses. With the passage of last June's revised bill, which expands the definition of "businesswomen" from "female executi
A move to institutionalize or revise laws to attach an economic value to housework done by a full-time homemaker has recently gained steam in the Korean society. Rep. Lee Kei Kyung of the Grand National Party(GNP), a woman activist-turned lawmaker, introduced an income tax revision bill on May 18 wh
Womenlink Korea has taken issue with the value-added tax (VAT) levied on disposable sanitary napkins (menstrual pads). It organized a seminar on August 20 on the theme 'The Problem of Levying VAT on Sanitary Napkins" to discuss concrete ways to make sanitary napkins tax-free.VAT, which is levied
Women groups are out to gain financial independence.The forerunner is KWAU, which held a launching ceremony on June 20 for a sponsors' association headed by KWAU advisor Lee-Lee Hyo Jae, lawyer Lee Se Joong and singer PattiKim. The presidents, together with 30-odd committee members, will be enli