In difficult times, teamwork is the backbone of recovery. This fact has been emphasized more than ever by the COVID-19 pandemic as reflected in Samsung C&T’s newly published 2020 CSR Report. “COVID-19 served as an important reminder of the lesson that without harmonious cooperation with society and the environment, no enterprise can be sustainable,” wrote Lee …
Anthropogenic climate change and our response to it continue to remain near the top of the agenda in terms of global problems that humanity must tackle. In the 2020 World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, the climate crisis was one of the top priority discussion items, while in late 2019 the European Commission announced a European Green …
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Samsung C&T Fashion Group’s traditional casual brand Beanpole has launched its own three-dimensional fashionable face masks fitted with filters that can be washed and re-used, bringing together all the necessary elements of a mask that is not only practical, but also attractive. In designing the mask, Beanpole used 3D pattern technology including incisions and lines …
Giant Pandas are famous for their cute appearance and as the protagonist of many popular animations. Everland Zoo in South Korea received a pair of pandas, Ai Bao (爱宝, age 7, female) and Le Bao (乐宝, age 8, male), four years ago. And now, Everland announced on July 22 that the happy couple had given …
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Samsung C&T’s efforts to improve profitability in addition to performance gains at subsidiary BioLogics have led to an increase in quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) operating profit, despite a drop in year-over-year (YoY) revenue due to COVID-19 and completion of large-scale projects, etc. KRW 7.223tn in revenue and KRW 238bn in operating profit, QoQ decrease in revenue by …
Global fashion brand Juun.J unveiled its Spring/Summer 2021 collection digitally this week at Digital Paris Fashion Week. This event, held from July 9 to 13, was the first of its kind ever held by France’s La Fédération de la Haute Couture et la Mode. Part of Samsung C&T’s Fashion Group, the youth and street culture-inspired …
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It seems fertilizer not only helps crops grow, but can be the source of a fruitful career too. Having been with Samsung C&T Trading & Investment Group for nearly 30 years, Principal Professional Park Hun-bae has spent those decades accumulating expertise in the fertilizer business. In 1992, Park joined what is now known as the …
It has been a month now since Caribbean Bay re-opened with a greatly enhanced focus on safety and security. The way that the water park has approached public health has created an experience quite different from what park-goers are used to and has even attracted international attention. It illustrates that Caribbean Bay is committed to …
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According to one old saying, clothes make the man. If this principle can be extended to a building, then the exterior of a building “makes” the whole structure. When you think about the simplest kind of an enclosed building, there are four walls with a roof on top where the walls hold up the roof …
When is a curtain not a curtain? When it’s a wall! Read More »
What were the fashions and lives of Koreans who lived in the 1950s and 60s like? By the 1970s the nation would come to rise, phoenix-like from the ashes, to become the Miracle on the Han River, but in the period immediately after the 1950-53 Korean War, the country was still working overtime to rebuild …
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