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From straw to steel and beyond
Dongkuk Steel Group may not be the nation's first steel manufacturer or its biggest, but that hasn't kept it from making a contribution to the Korean steel industry. This year is particularly significant for the steel conglomerate as it celebrates …
Blind lead the non-blind on fortune-telling street
Are you curious when and where you will find the love of your life? Do you want to know if your studious teenage son can get into a good college of his choice? Or are you dying to know if your boss will finally give you a much-delayed promotion this …
KT ventures into a new era
Korea's fast evolving telecommunications industry can be traced through the history of the KT Group, founded in December 10, 1981, as Korea Telecom Authority - a spin off from the Ministry of Information Communications (now Korea Communications Commi…
Discount outlet street now brims with brands
Park Jin-ok, 34, a Busan resident, says that ever since the late 1990s, she's been a frequent visitor to Munjeong-dong's discount outlet street (Munjeong-dong Rodeo street) in southeastern Seoul. As she tried on two Jill Stuart summer dresses, disc…
Former sea captain steers food giant
When StarKist, a U.S. tuna producer, was sold in full by parent company Del Monte to Dongwon last October, Americans might have wondered who this Korean company and its mother entity, Dongwon Group, were. But Dongwon Group, known for its canned tun…
Sweet maesil wine just getting better with age
In the 1960s, the late Bohae Brewery Co. Chairman Lim Kwang-heng visited a winery in Europe, which inspired him to want to make a wine from fruit grown in Korea. After much consideration, he chose maesil, also known as Chinese plums or Japanese apric…
Spicy slices of rice cake in Sindang
Most of the tables at a large restaurant in an alley in Sindang-dong, central Seoul, were occupied on a recent Friday at noon. The clientele ranged from men in their 60s to teenage students. A black steel tray was delivered to each table, brimming wi…
Hansol grows beyond paper roots
So much for the death of paper. Despite numerous predictions over the years that the Internet and other high-tech forms of communication would render paper obsolete, it seems just as commonplace as ever. At the center of Korea's paper-making i…
Lotte's fine formula for sweet chocolate success
Ghana Chocolate, famous for its commercial slogan, "With Ghana even solitude is sweet," made its debut in 1975. It is the oldest brand of chocolate manufactured by a Korean company. Ghana, which is made by Lotte, also holds the No. 1 spot in the l…
Artists take their work to the streets
Artist Shin Min-kyung looks forward to Saturdays, when she hauls a table and a bag of her artwork, mainly jewelry that she has made by hand, to the Hongdae Free Market, near Hongik University in northwestern Seoul. Shin is among a growing number of …