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Call Kim Ssang Su a man of the people. On a chilly night in the picturesque mountains south of Seoul, Kim, CEO of LG Electronics Inc., holds aloft a paper cup filled to the rim with soju, a clear, sweet potato-based Korean alcohol with a vicious bite. Surrounding him are a dozen of the 300 LG suppliers' managers whom Kim has spent the day lecturing and rallying. They have also been hiking up a snow-covered mountainside?necessary training, he says, for the grand plans he has for South Korea's second largest electronics firm...
...renaissance a star. Despite having made just five films, Jun has become famous throughout much of Asia, smiling on magazine and TV ads from Sapporo to Singapore. Her TV campaign for Olympus digital cameras helped hike the company's brand recognition by more than 15%, according to advertising company LG Ad. My Sassy Girl was seen by more than 5 million people in South Korea and sat on top of the box office for two weeks in Hong Kong, where local films and Hollywood exclusively rule. Now comes her new movie Windstruck, which reunites her with Sassy writer and director...
...Middle East and is counting on preferential oil contracts as Iraq's petroleum industry gets back on its feet. Last year Mitsubishi signed a deal to procure 40,000 barrels of crude per day from the southern city of Basra. In South Korea, top firms like Hyundai Construction and LG Electronics are hoping to reap rewards in Iraq. Hyundai has already won two contracts worth $240 million to build a hospital and repair dams. And the need to bolster economic relations with the U.S. was a major factor for Thailand to send troops to Iraq. Since dispatching soldiers, Thailand, which...
...name and, in theory, the phone will call. Sprint PCS sells three such phones--the Samsung A600 ($350), VGA1000 ($260) and new VI660 ($230). Verizon Wireless introduced similar voice recognition last fall in the Samsung i600 Smartphone ($500) and this week follows it up with the VX4500 from LG ($120). We programmed the four new models with identical phone books. The three Samsungs immediately displayed a knack for recognition. Hard consonants and names with several syllables seemed to be easy for all, but the LG alone struggled with short words like Dad or Jenn, both of which it mistook...
...accounts have mounted so quickly at card companies that the country's largest issuer, LG Card, recently nearly ran out of money and had to temporarily suspend its ATM cash-advance service. LG was bailed out last week with a $1.69 billion emergency loan package provided by its creditors, mainly banks. LG isn't the only issuer in trouble. Of South Korea's nine major card companies, eight lost money in the first half of 2003; losses at Samsung Card, the country's second-largest issuer, totaled $850 million in the first nine months of the year. Two banks, Korea...