Memsift enters South Korean market through partnership

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 3
Keyword(s):  
South Korean ◽  
Korean Market

Pandemic damage to Japan’s tourism sector will linger

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefit ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Economic Damage ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Tourism Promotion ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Promotion Programme ◽  
Korean Market

Significance Tourists, especially from abroad, have almost completely disappeared. An average 3 million monthly visitors in 2019 shrank to 1,700 in May. The government’s tourism promotion programme immediately faced criticism and setbacks. The economic damage will be partly blamed on the Abe administration, which leaves office this month no longer able to claim the tourism sector as an unqualified success. Impacts Adding Tokyo to the tourism promotion scheme would significantly increase its economic benefit and its potential to spread COVID-19. Boosting tourism without boosting COVID-19 will be a pressing challenge for the new prime minister who will take office this month. International acrimony will keep tourism from the once-lucrative South Korean market depressed, regardless of COVID-19-related factors.

scholarly journals Why Do Local South Korean Market Leaders Supply Retailer Grocery Brands?

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young-Sang Cho ◽  
Steve Burt ◽  
John Dawson
Keyword(s):  
South Korean ◽  
Korean Market

scholarly journals Conceptualising contemporary retail divestment: Tesco's departure from South Korea

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 2739-2761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil M Coe ◽  
Yong-Sook Lee ◽  
Steve Wood
Keyword(s):  
Market Entry ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
The South ◽  
Global Business ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
Market Factors ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Korean Market

In this article, we critically analyse the September 2015 decision of the UK retailer Tesco to sell its highly profitable South Korean subsidiary Homeplus to private investors. For over a decade since market entry in 1999, Homeplus had grown steadily to achieve a market-leading position through a process of strategic localization in which Tesco's global business practices were selectively adapted to meet the specific needs of the South Korean market. Against this backdrop, we explain the exit decision through theorising the dynamic intersection of home and host market factors that developed contemporaneously from 2010 onwards. On the one hand, worsening market conditions and financial pressures in a post-crisis UK domestic market drove Tesco to refocus on its home operations and, ultimately, identify saleable assets to offset mounting debts. On the other hand, steadily growing resistance within the South Korean market from competitors, regulators, labour and consumers caused sales growth to stall and then start to decline. Our analysis contributes to the economic geography literature on retail divestment by conceptualising the relational process of divestment decision-making that encompasses the intersection of home and host market pressures as well as conditions across the wider portfolio of subsidiaries. The research is particularly distinctive in its profiling of this coevolution of drivers, and in distilling the different ‘domains’ of host market contestation. The analysis also has wider significance in the context of the broader literatures on economic globalization that have tended to focus heavily on processes of expansion and market entry and far less on the instances of failure and exit that are an integral and inevitable part of these wider dynamics.

scholarly journals Method Validation for Determination of Thallium by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Monitoring of Various Foods in South Korea

Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (21) ◽  
pp. 6729
Author(s):  
Yeon-hee Kim ◽  
Wook-jin Ra ◽  
Solyi Cho ◽  
Shinai Choi ◽  
Bokyung Soh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Limit Of Detection ◽  
Food Groups ◽  
Rare Element ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Plasma Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Korean Market

Thallium (Tl) is a rare element and one of the most harmful metals. This study validated an analytical method for determining Tl in foods by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) based on food matrices and calories. For six representative foods, the method’s correlation coefficient (R2) was above 0.999, and the method limit of detection (MLOD) was 0.0070–0.0498 μg kg−1, with accuracy ranging from 82.06% to 119.81% and precision within 10%. We investigated 304 various foods in the South Korean market, including agricultural, fishery, livestock, and processed foods. Tl above the MLOD level was detected in 148 samples and was less than 10 μg kg−1 in 98% of the samples. Comparing the Tl concentrations among food groups revealed that fisheries and animal products had higher Tl contents than cereals and vegetables. Tl exposure via food intake did not exceed the health guidance level.

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