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Moon Ihlwan

Moon Ihlwan

Moon Ihlwan is Seoul bureau chief at BusinessWeek, a position he assumed in February, 2000. Prior to his appointment, Ihlwan was senior correspondent in BusinessWeek's Seoul bureau, a position held since November, 1999. Ihlwan joined BusinessWeek in 1997. Prior to that, he worked for Reuters, where he began his career in 1980. He served as Reuters' deputy bureau chief in Singapore and Seoul. Ihlwan also helped run Bloomberg's Seoul bureau. He is a graduate of Sogang University.

Recent Articles by Moon Ihlwan

April 15, 2010

Innovation Close-up: LG Electronics

Last year, LG Electronics spent $1.2 billion to market its latest batch of flashy devices, including the LG Cookie, a $200 touchscreen phone that helped cement LG's ...

April 8, 2010

How Korea Fretted Its Way to Success

The Korean business community thrives on worry. And for most of the past decade its main fear has been what could be called the Big Squeeze Theory. With higher labor ...

March 1, 2010

Obama's Nuclear Power Plan Cheers Koreans

Few business executives outside the U.S. saw better opportunities in President Barack Obama's recent embrace of nuclear power than Kim Ha Bang. His company, South ...

February 16, 2010

Korean Tech Is Losing Its Cool

Seoul—For more than a year, Bae Jae Hyun wondered why her friends were so excited about the iPhone. She was happy with her Korean-made handset and puzzled by the ...

January 28, 2010

Hyundai Hopes to Avoid Toyota Trap

Since the start of the Great Recession, Hyundai Motor (005830:KS) has been a standout in taking advantage of the hardships of other automakers. The South Korean ...

January 25, 2010

Posco Looks for Solutions to its India Woes

Posco has been one sharp steelmaker. The company, based in Pohang on the Korean peninsula's southeastern tip, has long been a symbol that South Korea's old economy can...

January 6, 2010

Sony and Samsung's Strategic Split

This is a longer version of the story that ran in the Jan. 18, 2010 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Samsung Electronics and Sony (SNE) both were set to unveil new 3D ...

December 28, 2009

South Korea's Won Keeps Rising

Major South Korean exporters all got a nice boost from the weakness of the country's currency in the past two years. Even as rivals swam in red ink, companies such as ...

December 14, 2009

Apple Envy Drives Samsung Shakeup

At first glance, this might seem an odd time to push through a shakeup at Samsung Electronics. The Korean giant has weathered the financial crisis far better than ...

October 28, 2009

Hopes Fade for Rivals to India's Tata Nano

It has been almost two years since Tata Motors (TTM) unveiled a prototype of its $2,500 Nano at the January 2008 New Delhi Auto Expo. Analysts and reporters predicted ...