[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Celltrion announced on the 15th that it was the only domestic bio company to be selected as a global top 5% company in the biotechnology sector of the 'Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA)' conducted by the global credit rating agency S&P Global. CSA conducts ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) evaluations of approximately 7,690 companies worldwide, selects the top companies in each industry, and lists them in the 'Sustainability Yearbook 2025'. Among them, separate trophies are awarded to companies in the top 1%, 5%, and 10%. Celltrion was recog
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Funeral home business specialist Boram funeral company Development (CEO Oh Jun-oh, Lee Chang-woo) reported that its sales increased last year, but its operating profit decreased by approximately 36% compared to the previous year. As of the end of 2024, the debt ratio has also improved significantly compared to the previous year (2063%), reaching 666%, but it is still at a dangerous level. In addition, there are structural challenges such as a decrease in operating profit and net profit, a decrease in cash assets, and accumulated deficits. In particular, as ma
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Hanyang Construction (CEO Heon-Wook Kim) saw its sales increase last year, but its operating profit and net profit decreased significantly, and its debt ratio increased, deteriorating both its profitability and financial soundness. There is a significant risk of contingent liabilities such as PF guarantees, and potential risk factors include loans of 27.7 billion won for internal transactions with special related companies and five lawsuits with a lawsuit amount of 1.5 billion won. In addition, liquidity management has become more important due to a decrease
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Global luxury beauty brand Sulwhasoo is accelerating its conquest of the U.S. luxury beauty market by entering Macy's, the largest department store chain in the U.S. Founded in New York in 1858, Macy's Department Store has approximately 420 stores across the United States. Sulwhasoo began opening stores in Macy's online channel, 'Macys.com', in February, and in Flushing, New York, Santa Anita, and South Coast Plaza in LA in March. Sulwhasoo plans to introduce its representative products, including First Care Essence, Essential Oil Revitalizing Cream, and Jins
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Nongshim's snack 'Banana Kick', which became famous as Blackpink Jennie's favorite snack, has been transformed into a donut in the United States. Nongshim, in collaboration with dessert cafe 'Knotted', has introduced the signature menu 'Banana Kick Cream Donut' at Knotted's first overseas store located in Westfield, LA, USA. It features a rich cream with Banana Kick's unique soft and sweet taste and aroma, topped with Banana Kick. Nongshim and Noted plan to launch ‘Banana Kick Cream Latte’ in the future to further expand local consumers’ interest in Banana Ki
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] KAI announced on the 16th that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Defense Command Commander Rashed Al-shamsi and his party visited the headquarters and inspected the production facilities for major aircraft, including the KF-21. This visit was promoted as part of exchanges and cooperation between the air forces of the two countries, and during the visit, the UAE Air Force visited KAI and inspected the development and production facilities for the KF-21, FA-50, etc. In particular, Airforce Warfare Center (AWC) Commander Azan Al-Nuaimi, who accompanied the insp
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] The eco-friendly paper pack developed by Kolmar Korea won the grand prize in the packaging category of the 'Red Dot Design Award 2025', one of the world's top three design awards. This is an achievement that proves global design competitiveness, following paper tubes and paper sticks. The Red Dot Design Award is considered one of the world's top three design awards, along with Germany's iF Design Award and the United States' IDEA Award. This award-winning design is the 'One-hand Pump Paper Pack'. It has been recognized for its practicality and eco-friendlines
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] It was confirmed that SK Broadband paid out 334.2 billion won in dividends, including final dividends and interim dividends, at the shareholders' meeting in March 2024, far exceeding its net profit (255.7 billion won). This is an 'excess dividend' exceeding 130% of net profit, and SK Group's duality in dividend policy has once again come under fire. SK Broadband revised its articles of incorporation in 2023 to introduce an interim dividend system and paid out KRW 133.4 billion to minority shareholders such as Taekwang Industrial (16.75%) and Mirae Asset affil
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Native burger and chicken brand Mom's Touch announced on the 17th that its first directly-operated store in Tokyo, 'Shibuya Mom's Touch', which celebrated its first anniversary on the 16th of this month, had surpassed 700,000 cumulative visitors and 5 billion won in sales. Shibuya Mom's Touch, which opened in April 2024 in the same location where a McDonald's in Japan had operated for 39 years, has surpassed 700,000 cumulative visitors as of March of this year. If you count the customers who have used Shibuya Mom's Touch over the past year, it would be enough
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] SK Telecom's 2024 business report is shocking as it reveals a major reduction in AI (artificial intelligence) personnel and organizations. SK Telecom, which declared its leap to become a 'global AI company' by revealing that 40% of its 5,286 full-time employees were AI-related personnel just one year ago, is causing a stir in the industry as it revealed in its business report that it has drastically reduced the size of its AI workforce. ◆ AI manpower, 'drastically reduced' at the industry's highest level SK Telecom has been actively promoting its transformati