All posts tagged "cj"

  • (Graphic: Cha Sang-won, Source: Job Korea)
    Samsung seen as intelligent; Hyundai Motor masculine

    By Yoon Sung-won Korean college students tend to associate the nation’s top conglomerates with conservative and authoritative images, a survey showed Wednesday. According to local recruitment information provider, Job Korea, collegians think Samsung has an intelligent image...

    • Posted December 24, 2015
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  • Lee Jae-hyun, the chairman of food and entertainment conglomerate CJ Group, in a wheelchair, is moved into a courtroom at the Seoul High Court, southern Seoul, on Dec. 15, 2015. (Yonhap)
    CJ chairman’s prison term upheld

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — A Seoul appellate court on Tuesday sentenced the chairman of food and entertainment conglomerate CJ Group to two years and six months in prison for embezzlement, breach of trust and tax evasion. Chairman Lee...

    • Posted December 15, 2015
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  • CJ CGV CEO Seo Jung speaks to reporters at a CGV-owned theater in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul, Wednesday evening. He said he will make the all-out effort to turn the nation's largest multiplex chain into the world's no.1 cinema company with 10,000 screens worldwide by 2020. (Courtesy of CJ CGV)
    Korean cinema chain CGV seeks to take over global market

    Korean multiplex aims to have 10,000 screens worldwide by 2020 By Park Si-soo CJ CGV will take over cinema chains in the United States and expand into India and Latin America with an ambitious goal of having...

    • Posted November 19, 2015
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  • Lee Jay-hyun, chairman of the CJ Group (Yonhap)
    Top court orders retrial for CJ head on corruption charges

    SEOUL, Sept 10 (Yonhap) — The nation’s top court Thursday returned to a lower court ruling that convicted the chairman of food and entertainment conglomerate CJ Group of corporate crimes. Lee Jay-hyun, who was indicted in 2013...

    • Posted September 10, 2015
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    CJ chairman given three-year prison term for embezzlement and tax evasion

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — A Seoul appeals court, partly overturning a lower court’s ruling, on Friday handed down a reduced jail sentence of three years to the chairman of food and entertainment conglomerate CJ Group, who is charged...

    • Posted September 12, 2014
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    Five-year prison term demanded for CJ chairman

    By Na Jeong-ju The prosecution asked the appeals court to increase the jail term for CJ Group Chairman Lee Jay-hyun to five years, Thursday, saying he deserved a harsher punishment. In February, Lee was sentenced to four...

    • Posted August 14, 2014
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  • Song Kang-ho, right, in a scene from “The Attorney”
    Truth behind Korea’s movie boom

    Koreans are watching more local films than ever, not that they have any say in it   By Yun Suh-young Kim Seon-hee had eagerly awaited the Korean release of “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” the second...

    • Posted January 8, 2014
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