South Korea’s Lotte Mart has been ranked among Vietnam’s 50 best workplaces, highlighting the increasingly fierce competition for talent among foreign retailers operating in one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing consumer markets. The ranking, released by Vietnamese research firm Anphabe, is based on a survey of 73,000 respondents across 18 industries and 650 companies. For the first time, the survey included

(Photo=Norsk Kjernekraft) Europe’s nuclear revival is gaining momentum, and one of the clearest signs is coming from an unexpected place: Norway. The country has advanced a proposal to build small modular reactors (SMRs) into a cross-border environmental review, a move that underscores how aggressively European governments are now pursuing nuclear energy as they try to secure long-term, low-carbon power. For

Photo=Shinsegae Shinsegae Department Store’s Centum City location in Busan has surpassed $1.5 billion USD in annual sales, marking the third consecutive year the store has achieved this milestone. This is the first time a Shinsegae branch outside Seoul has exceeded this level for three straight years. Shinsegae announced on November 26 that Centum City reached the sales milestone as of

Photo=Seoul City Seoul has begun early-stage negotiations with retail giant Shinsegae Central and Seoul Express Bus Terminal Co. to redevelop the aging Seoul Express Bus Terminal into a massive mixed-use district—an overhaul city planners say could reshape mobility and commerce in Gangnam much like how Hudson Yards transformed Manhattan’s West Side. The project, spanning roughly 1.57 million square yards, sits

Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong met Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, in Seoul to discuss broader collaboration in semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and advanced telecom technologies, the company said Monday. Samsung hosted Ambani at its Seocho headquarters on Nov. 25, where executives from Samsung Electronics, Samsung Display, Samsung SDI, Samsung Engineering & Construction, Samsung Heavy Industries, Samsung