Late LG chairman remembered as model leader

JINJU, South Gyeongsang Province — Late LG Honorary Chairman Koo Cha-kyung was highlighted as a role model for Korean entrepreneurs at an international forum on entrepreneurship in Jinju on Tuesday, which reviewed his business strategies and achievements. The sixth session of the two-day 2025 Jinju International Forum on Entrepreneurship coincided with the 100th anniversary of Koo’s birth. The forum noted that, thanks to Koo and the founders of other major Korean conglomerates, including Samsung, GS and Hyosung, Jinju has become recognized as the birthplace of some of the country’s largest enterprises with global reach. Speakers at the session emphasized how Koo strengthened LG by setting ambitious goals unprecedented in Korea during the 1970s–90s. Jung Yeon-sung, chair of the Awards Selection Committee of the Korean Academy Society of Business Administration (KASBA), said Koo was both visionary and decisive in restructuring the conglomerate to align with global trends of the time. “Koo’s entrepreneurship was a balanced mixture of his personal values (opportunity, challenge aWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times