[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] UNIQLO Korea's educational support initiative"Slow Together" has received international recognition from the communications industry, earning a Certificate of Excellence in the Data in Campaign Planning and Development category at the 2026 IN2 SABRE Awards Asia-Pacific. The initiative was also named a finalist in the Fashion & Beauty category at the 2026 SABRE Awards Asia-Pacific, further highlighting its communications and social impact achievements. Organized by PRovoke Media, the SABRE Awards are widely regarded as one of the world's leading public rel
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Driven by expanded sales of medium and heavy-duty tractors in North America, TYM significantly boosted profitability in the first half of this year and increased its interim dividend. However, concerns are being raised that it is unclear whether the improved performance will immediately lead to the restoration of trust in the corporate governance structure, as risks surrounding the three siblings of the owner family overlap, including the confirmed criminal conviction of Vice President Kim Shik, the administrative lawsuit regarding accounting sanctions agains
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Indong FN (CEO Jang Ki-kwon), a domestic mid-sized women's clothing company that operates the women's contemporary fashion brands SHESMISS, LIST, and SISTINA, saw a slight increase in sales in 2025, but its operating profit and net profit decreased by double digits. In particular, while the operating profit margin retreated from 11.9% to 9.4%, the company's interim and final dividends totaled 14 billion won, amounting to 68.6% of net profit. Selling and administrative expenses increased, the gross profit margin decreased, and the growth rate of the cost of go
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Healing Paper, the operator of the beauty and medical platform Gangnam Unnie, announced that it would provide app points worth 50,000 won per person and financial fraud compensation insurance up to 10 million won to customers affected by the personal information leak, but the reaction from the victims is cold. Given that the leak involved highly sensitive information—going beyond mere names and contact details to include which hospitals consulted, booked, and paid for which procedures, whether the procedures were actually performed, and even some consultation
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] It has been revealed that SJ Group (CEO Lee Joo-young) invested 26.2 billion won in lifestyle businesses of the food service and entertainment nature amidst the dual burden of declining sales and expanding operating losses in 2025. The consolidated operating loss was 15.86 billion won, a 389.9% increase in the scale of the loss compared to 3.23 billion won in the previous year, and cash flow from operating activities also turned into an outflow of 12.23 billion won. In addition, loans to SJG Plus, a related party, increased by 25.0% from 4 billion won to 9 bi
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Nike Korea Co., Ltd. (CEO Chase Lewis Taylor) increased its operating profit and net profit by nearly 118% and 160%, respectively, despite a decline in sales. However, the direct reason for the performance improvement was a decrease in the cost of goods sold rather than an increase in sales, and it was found that the purchase of goods from group affiliates, which accounted for approximately 74% of domestic sales, and large-scale transfer pricing adjustments influenced the profit margin. Nike Korea (address: 30F, Gangnam Finance Center, 152 Teheran-ro, Yeoksam
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Hyundai Motor Group's software affiliate, FortyTwoDot (CEO Park Min-woo), posted 27.707 billion won in revenue in 2025 but incurred 377.497 billion won in operating expenses, resulting in an operating loss of 349.79 billion won. While revenue increased by 10.93%, the operating loss widened by 98.68% and the net loss by 107.52%, respectively, and the operating loss ratio deteriorated to -1,262.44%. Ending cash and cash equivalents increased to 338.851 billion won, but this was the result of 500.317 billion won flowing in from a paid-in capital increase in the
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Although PR agency Welcome Associates (CEO Yang Seung-deok) increased its operating profit and net profit despite a decline in revenue in 2025, its financial leverage increased sharply in the background. While the improvement in profitability is confirmed, the key points to watch are how an advertising agency with tens of billions of won in revenue will recover the business profits from large-scale asset acquisitions and how it will secure funds to repay borrowings. Despite a 2.19% decrease in revenue to 9.8 billion, net profit increased by 71% According to t
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Now Dongin Architects (hereinafter Now Dongin Architecture, CEOs Park Byung-wook, Kim Su-hwon, and Ahn Dae-ho) received a typical "outwardly splendid, inwardly poor" report card, succeeding in external growth last year but seeing profitability plummet. With operating profit evaporating by more than 85% year-on-year due to soaring cost of goods sold, financial soundness is being threatened by risks of potential bad debt (contingent liabilities), such as legal disputes amounting to approximately 6.6 billion won and guarantees for other companies. In particular,
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Henkel Consumer Brands Korea (formerly Henkel Homecare Korea, CEOs Kim Young-mi and Kim Kwang-ho) turned from a profit in the previous year to a loss, recording an operating loss of 2.518 billion won and a net loss of 2.281 billion won in 2025 amidst stagnant sales. Nevertheless, the company paid an interim dividend of 7 billion won to its 100% controlling shareholder, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA of Germany, in the same year, and its total equity at the end of the year decreased to 634 million won. Henkel Consumer Brands Korea Ltd. is the domestic consumer goods