[Economy 365]

According to a 2019 business report announced by listed companies, Shin Dong-bin, the chairman of Lotte Group, won the salary of 1,181,800 million won last year, becoming the number one major owner.

The chairman of Hyundai Motor Group's Hyundai Motor Group and the chairman of LG Group, Kwang-mo Koo, received KRW 5 billion and KRW 5.3 billion, respectively, and the salary increased significantly from the previous year.

Among professional managers, Jae-Hyun Bae, vice president of NCsoft, climbed to the top with 16.2 billion won including stock options.

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Last year, Samsung Electronics, which has the largest number of employees in Korea, is said to have renewed the largest number ever in Korea.

According to a 2019 business report published by Samsung Electronics, the number of domestic employees at the end of last year was 10,257, an increase of 2,246 from the end of the previous year.

Samsung Electronics' vice chairman Jae-Yong Lee announced in August 2018 that he plans to invest 180 trillion won in new investment and employ 40,000 people for three years.

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The IKEA city center store, which can be seen as 'Mini IKEA', enters Hyundai Department Store Cheonho in late April.

Hyundai Department Store said it will open IKEA's downtown store, Planning Studio, on the 9th floor of Cheonho Branch on the 30th of next month.

After entering Korea in 2014, IKEA has launched large-scale stores outside Seoul, such as Gwangmyeong, Goyang, and Giheung stores in Gyeonggi, but recently, it has been interested in selling 'premium-class' stores in the city center even if the rent is expensive.