Shinsegae
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| Shinsegae | |
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| Hangul: |
신세계
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| Hanja: |
新世界
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| Revised Romanization: | Sinsegye |
Shinsegae(신세계) is a South Korean department store, headquartered in Seoul, Korea. Shinsegae was originally a part of the Samsung business group, separated in the 1990's from the Samsung group along with CJ Group (Food/Chemicals/Entertainment), Saehan Group (Electronic Media/Apparel/Textiles), and the Hansol Group (Paper/Telecom). It owns the brands Shinsegae and E-mart, and is in direct competition with Lotte Shopping and Hyundai Department Store Group.
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[edit] Stores
- Main store, in Jung-gu, Seoul
- Gangnam store, in Seocho-gu, Seoul
- Yeongdeungpo store, in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
- Incheon store, in Incheon
- Masan store, in Masan, Gyeongsangnam-do
- Gwangju Shinsegae, in Gwangju
- Gunsan store, in Gunsan, near Kunsan AB
- Jukjeon store
[edit] Discount store
E-mart (이마트) is a large discount store chain founded in South Korea, has stores in China and Korea and is a subsidiary of Shinsegae. Domestically, E-mart is the biggest discount store chain followed by Carrefour (now Homever) and Home plus owned by Samsung and Tesco.
In late May 2006, Shinsegae revealed plans to buy all 16 of the Wal-Mart locations in Korea. [1] The country's Wal-Mart outlets were re-branded as E-mart on October, 2006.
[edit] Subsidiary
- Shinsegae Construction
- Shinsegae Food System
- Shinsegae International
- Aisarang
- Chosun Hotel
- Shinsegae Dream Express
- Starbucks
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Shinsegae Homepage
- Shinsegae E-mart Homepage
- Emart.com is a US-based online shopping comparison site. No relation to Shinsegae
- Shinsegae to Take Over Wal-Mart Korea
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