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Lotte Group is a corporate group started by Korean businessman Shin Kyuk-ho in Tokyo on June 28, 1948, starting with the Japanese Lotte Co., composed of Lotte Holdings (Japan) and Lotte Corporation (South Korea). [ 1][ 2] Shin expanded Lotte to his ancestral country, South Korea, with the establishment of Lotte Confectionery in Seoul on April 3 ...
Location of South Korea. South Korea is a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. [1] Highly urbanized at 92%, [2] South Koreans lead a distinctive urban lifestyle; half of them live in high-rises [3] concentrated in the Seoul Capital Area with 25 million residents [4] and the world's sixth-leading global city [5] with the fourth-largest economy [6 ...
The Literature Translation Institute of Korea ( Korean: 한국문학번역원, LTI Korea, formerly known as Korean Literature Translation Fund) was founded in 1996 by the Government of South Korea with the aim of promoting Korean literature and culture overseas. LTI Korea regularly sponsors translation and publication of Korean works to promote ...
From the late 19th century and until 1945, ethnic Koreans worked with the Empire of Japan. Some of these figures contributed to or benefitted from Japan's colonization of Korea, and some actively worked to counter the Korean independence movement. These people are now considered by much of Korea to have been collaborators with Japan, and thus ...
Korean literature is the body of literature produced by Koreans, mostly in the Korean language and sometimes in Classical Chinese. For much of Korea's 1,500 years of literary history, it was written in Hanja. It is commonly divided into classical and modern periods, although this distinction is sometimes unclear.
List of largest companies of South Korea. Corporate headquarter buildings of Big 4 Chaebol groups; Samsung, Hyundai Motors, SK, and LG (Clockwise from top left) This article lists the largest companies in South Korea in terms of their revenue, net profit, total assets and market value according to American business magazines Fortune and Forbes.
This is a list of English-language book publishers.It includes imprints of larger publishing groups, which may have resulted from business mergers. Included are academic publishers, technical manual publishers, publishers for the traditional book trade (both for adults and children), religious publishers, and small press publishers, among other types.
Byeolmadang Library at Starfield COEX Mall in seoul. South Korean literature is literature written or produced in South Korea following the division of Korea into North and South in 1945. [1] South Korean literature is primarily written in Korean, though English loanwords are prevalent. [2]