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A view of the Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City’s Yeosu National Industrial Complex. The ‘Yeosu No. 1 Project,’ marking the second business reorganization of the domestic petrochemical industry which has been driven into a crisis by China’s low-price offensive, has finally received government approval. Yeochun NCC, Lotte Chemical, Hanwha Solutio...

Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong (right) and Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch are conversing at the Cheongwadae (Presidential Office) Guest House on April 3. According to foreign media outlets such as the Financial Times (FT) and the business community on July 22, news has been reported that Samsung Electronics is discussing an equity investment of up to 1 billion euros (a...

Minister of Employment and Labor Kim Young-hoon (center), Co-chair of the Samsung Electronics Labor Union Joint Struggle Headquarters Choi Seung-ho (right), and Samsung Electronics DS (Device Solutions and Semiconductor Business) People Team Head Yeo Myung-gu hold hands at the Gyeonggi Regional Employment and Labor Office in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, in May, when the labor-mana...

지난 4월 3일 청와대 영빈관에서 이재용 삼성전자 회장(오른쪽)과 아르튀르 멘슈 미스트랄 최고경영자(CEO)가 대화하고 있다. 7월22일 파이낸셜타임스(FT) 등 외신과 제계에 따르면, 삼성전자가 프랑스의 대표적인 인공지능(AI) 스타트업 미스트랄 AI(Mistral AI)에 최대 10억 유로(약 1조 6,9000억 원) 규모의 지분 투자를 논의 중이라는 소식이 전해졌다. 미스트랄 AI는 기업가치 약 200억 유로(약 30조 원)를 인정받는 신규 투자 라운드를 진행 중이며, 삼성전자는 기존 벤처 투자(Samsung Catalyst Fund)를 통한 소규모 투자를 넘어 핵심 전략적 투자자(SI)로 전면에 나서는 모습이다. 글로벌 빅테크 간 'AI 주도권 경쟁&...

Headquarters of Dutch semiconductor equipment company ASML. The ripple effect from the high performance bonuses paid by Samsung Electronics and SK hynix appears to be extending to core semiconductor equipment partners. Tension is rising as the number of labor union members recently surpassed 1,000 at the Korean branch of ASML, the Netherlands-based world’s largest semi...