South Korea Case Studies Samples For Students

1.0 Introduction
The battle of the Chosin reservoir is also known as Changjin, a campaign that was developed in the early times during the Korean War in 1950s. It was aimed at driving the United Nations out from the North Korea. The first campaign was supposed to drive out the X corps out of the Eastern North Korea during the severe winter weather; they called it the 1st Marine Division. This campaign at last succeeded in removing the X corps but the people of china did not achieve the objective of isolating and destroying the 1st Division, but instead ...

I recall an incident 6 years ago when I was in high school, which to this day continues to baffle me. The incident was a negotiation involving my father and a potential employee at one of his shops. My father had been in the process of setting up a new business and had opted to carry out the interviews for his potential employees at home. Not only did he feel that this would provide a less intimidating atmosphere for his potential employees, but also that it would allow him to comfortably express his culture and expectations without too much effort. My father is ...

Abstract

The paper analyzes the viability and available options for a business idea by Kevin Andes and Min-Guk Kim of starting a coffee shop business in South Korea. The two individuals are both endowed with theoretical and practical background in business and management practices. Their choice of strategy have to be guided by a number of factors such as; mode of entry, market size, barriers to entry and competition. They have two main options of either franchising or coming up with a new brand all of which depend on whether product differentiation or brand forms the strongest influence on business outcome within the market. ...

Executive Summary

South Korea is one of the vibrant democracies and leading economies in Asia. The country is heavily populated, and the majority of the citizens show active involvement in both the new and traditional media. It is essential to mention that the South Korean constitution protects and promotes the freedom of the media, and this explains why the country is one of the media-rich countries in the world. The South Korean press and mass media enjoy the freedom of expression. In essence, the South Korean communication system is vast. There are multiple national television networks and radio stations, telephone facilities, ...

Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation

The Seoul Metropolitan Rabid Transit is a significant an influence transportation structure embedded in Korea’s capital, Seoul. The Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation hereinafter also referred to as “SMRT” was founded in 1994. SMRT operates the biggest and most extensive metropolitan subway system in Korea with 148 stations and serves 2.7 million passengers daily with a reach of 152 kilometers (Moon, Kim & Park, 2013). SMRT is an important component of the public transportation system in Seoul and the fourth biggest metropolitan subway corporation in the world. It has a huge customer base and more than 6,000 workers ( ...

The corporate governance in United States, Japan and South Korea is experiencing some drastic changes in how they handle their stakeholders such as suppliers, customers and shareholders. The paper compares how the three models of corporate governance make their strategic decisions based on the shareholder values. However, there is a big difference in how these companies are implemented based on the countries (Larcker & Tayan, 2).
There are some new improvements in the models of USA and the global corporate governance over time. For instance, the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance of 2004 were revised in 2014. The new, updated ...

English

a) The NSC - 68 (National Security Council Paper Number 68) was written in 1950 and displayed the strategy, the aim of which was to win the Cold War and to resist the Soviet Union. The creators of the NCS – 68 created the guideline the main points of which were: isolation from the other countries, the beginning of war, the renewing of the negotiation with the Soviet Union, and the prompt development of the military forces, nuclear arms, economics, and politics in the free world. The creators emphasized on the last point, arguing that it will help the US ...

Introduction

KIA Motors is a company that is run on a stringent Confucian culture and it is under a president. Byung Mo Ahn is the president of the company which has its headquarters at Korea. The company is known to have a culture a culture that is suffocating for the Americans. This is because it is defined as a culture where there is a King, who is the controller of everything and even worse he knows everything. The subjects just have to follow the militaristic system which according to numbers has worked for the company and its sister Hyundai.

The ...

It is important for a company that is entering a new market to know its channel structures and strategies. These existing channels and strategies should be aligned with the goals and objectives of the company to fast track the achievement of corporate goals and objectives (Lee & Carter, 2005). The factors that affect the structure and the strategies available to global markets include the nature of customers, product, and environment (Keegan & Green, 2016).
In my final project, I chose to establish Disney Store in a new market within South Korea because it has market opportunities for the children’s products. ...

Questions for the Wal-Mart Case

Questions for the Wal-Mart Case

This section highlights all those successful strategies which Wal-Mart could pursue in future as these strategic decisions have proved to be fruitful for the company which are discussed as follows:

Joint Venture in Mexico

When entering and operating in any known or unknown marketplaces, Wal-Mart may consider entering the new location through joint venture with a local or domestic firm. This strategy was already pursued in Mexico where Wal-Mart acquired market leadership and launched WALMEX. Instead of employing robotic model of supply chain, as done in the United States, Wal-Mart may consider entering into distribution contracts with local ...

Tsunaya continues to witness increased growth in terms of revenue and profits. By first quarter of 2012 ending March, the company’s revenue had grown to $790 million. This is up from $745 million witnessed in 2001. Tsunaya mainly deals in video rentals, magazine retail and book retails. The company operates through a platform where it encourages loyalty among its customers. Through the T card loyalty membership, the company has managed to have over 35 million subscribers by 2010.
Despite the revenue growth over the past years, Tsutaya can still increase its sales of video rentals, books, and magazines. ...

Cyworld Case Study

Cyworld had 21 million users and earned revenue of $95 million in 2007 from three main sources i.e. $65 million from paid items (music, virtual gifts, etc.), $15 million from mobile networking, and $15 million from advertising. The social media marketing was an emerging industry with significant potential for both existing and digital marketing agencies during 2007-2008. Indeed, the user base was still expanding combined with emergence of new online platforms for social and professional networking. Therefore, the new CEO should focus on advertising and mobile networking in the future because it is anticipated that the business entities, celebrities, ...

Business

Question one

The South American auto market involves three major countries that deal in the motor production;Argentina, Venezuela, and Brazil. The market is characterized by fierce competition and strict government restrictions that play a role in dictation of market aspects such as entry and importation. Weak currencies and introduction of trade limitations in some of the countries have also affected the auto market outlook since it has affected profitability and manufacturing. For instance, the Brazilian currency has weakened and has affected investment and sale in the country.
The region is a steadily growing motor market with Ford standing as ...

Introduction

The report is a comparative examination of two electronic based companies. The Samsung group and the Mitsui group companies. Samsung group is largest Korean conglomerate. Samsung accounts for 16.5% of the Korean exports and thus becoming the pride of the Korean people. Samsung was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chul (Chang, 2000). From its time of inception Samsung has rapidly grown to become one of the leading electronics producing companies in the world. The company specializes in semiconductors, digital appliances and media, system integration and memory. Samsung join the electronic industry in the 1960s and since then it has become ...

The case study reveals that there are a number of challenges faced by Tesla. These challenges rose up when the environmentalist came up with laws and regulations so as to limit the fuel emission from cars. Then technology chipped in which called out for making car models which are based on the latest form of innovative technologies in terms of fuel consumption. Many international car manufacturers have also joined the automobile industry including the companies from Korea, Japan, and China. Due to the increase in care manufacturing companies, the competition has also soared for Tesla.
There were some questions ...

VOLKSWAGEN CASE STUDY

Executive summary:
Volkswagen is the leading manufacturer of car products. This company holds Volkswagen group and produced a variety of models. Recently, Volkswagen has been involved in the emission scandals of their equipped vehicles. The company vehicles are equipped with software that was cheating on emission tests. Hence, Volkswagen is the top selling brand of Volkswagen group. Since 1975 the company has been treated as world largest automaker in the world. Volkswagen has the most cars of the automobile manufacturer which has multiple revisions of model names. In this, the crisis management of the Volkswagen emission scandal has been ...

Business

2016-03-24
The current paper is devoted to the company Samsung Electronics and its functioning in the 1990s-2000s. Samsung Electronics Company is a part of the Samsung Group that it the largest conglomerate in South Korea (Official Site of Samsung, 2016). The main business directions of the Samsung Group were electronics, trade and services, finance. There were five directions of Samsung Electronics at those years. One of them is the Semiconductor Business. Let’s analyze this sector and its competitive environment in the 1990s-2000s in more detail, analyze data and evaluate the advantages of Samsung Electronics (Ellet, 2007).

Chinese Firms on the Market of Semiconductor Products

A lot ...

Carnival PLC is a cruise company which carries out its operations in places like North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. It is the largest cruise ship operator in the world which owns 11 brands of cruise lines. The company also offers numerous holiday and vacation products to a base of customers with different tastes and preferences. These customers come from different backgrounds, communicate in different languages as well as having different ways of spending their leisure time. In addition, the company is in ownership of a tour company that complements the operations of the cruise. The tour company combined with all the ...

Introduction: Issue Identification

The mobile phone business sector is one of the fastest growing industries not only in the United States but in the rest of the world. Industry experts have previously released reports suggesting that the industry grew by at least 7.3 percent in the year 2013 , which was actually a sharp rebound from the mediocre growth rate the mobile phone market industry got a year before. The market growth rate in 2012 was 1.2%. Some of the most prominent names in the said industry are Samsung Electronics, Apple, Sony Electronics, Lenovo, and Blackberry, just to name a few. The two biggest players are ...

Strength

The government has played a very fundament role in ensuring the insurances owners buys the liability insurance hence pushing for a gross income of $20,000 per capita. The organization also gets the government support in the sense that the Korean government has the duty of regulating the financial industry. It thus means that all market participants are bonded by certain guideline and policies. Presents of the five teams have increased the overhead cost but it has significantly been advantageous to the organization especially in the provision of quality services and the general operations for both the headquarters and the entire ...

3004IBA SEMINAR PREPARATION – NO REFERENCING NECESSARY

Seminar week and time:(insert week and time of your seminar)
Goal of analysis: IMPLEMENT THE PROJECT SUCCESSFULLY AND ON TIME
A. Case introduction (describe relevant case background and scope of analysis):
Management is a synergy of four dominating things which predominantly are, planning, organizing, leading and controlling and all of these things are essential to lead a team with perfection. This particular analysis is all about issues prevailing in living and working in the Korean market by minimizing the level risk and maximizing the level of interaction among the employees working in different workplaces in Korean ...

Q.1 Why did the contraction of the US and Japanese economies and the rise in the value of the Yen hurt Sony’s exports from Japan?
In the early years of operation, Sony had the luxury of operating in a currency that was not only weak against the dollar, but also highly controlled by the government. Japanese foreign exchange policies favored companies and industries that the government wanted to succeed, especially in export markets. The strong Yen was due primarily to a strong Japanese economy, large trade surpluses and the largest-foreign exchange reserves in the world. Japan also had low unemployment, low ...

Part 1: Interests

- Achieving a salary similar to or above that of a similarly ranked employee within the United States ($90,000 a year, plus $15,000 bonus and another $15,000 with each new product released). In order to ensure a similar standard of living as similar employees within the United States.
- Through proper remuneration, I will be able to achieve a higher status to other managers at a similar level, putting me in a better position to negotiate and carry out my duties.
- Recovering the income my wife is going to lose, and therefore, suffering no financial loss with the move, or a ...

The current issues faced by 122164 Canada Ltd. can be divided into root causes and their symptoms.

Thus, the symptomatic issues are the recent difficulties in Australia and South Korea, as well as the limited commitment of some of the franchisees.

The real problem of the company is the lack of a clear strategic orientation.

Analyzing the case data

The current situation mostly refers to the relationships between the company and its franchisees. NYF’s and SSBC’s further international expansion offers numerous opportunities in terms of enlarging customer base, getting access to new resources and experimenting with local menus. ...