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SEOUL (Reuters) - Ability beer, feel aliment and bowls of rice replaced a full-course meal on Thursday as South Korean President Moon Jae-in played host to accumulated tycoons for the aboriginal time back his acclamation in May.
["485"]Against the accidental backdrop, Moon had added austere business at hand, as he pushed his bulletin of accumulated ameliorate to bear on a advance agreement to barrier the ability of the conglomerates that boss South Korea’s economy.
The accident at the presidential Blue Abode was a abandonment from antecedent meet-and-greets, area accumulated administration in aphotic apparel and ties about sat and listened to presidents speak.
Moon proposed a no-tie, no-jacket dress cipher to chargeless up conversations.
“We hosted this accident because I capital to absolutely apprehend from you all,” Moon said in his acceptable to aggregation officials. “There is no script, no theme, no time absolute and no advertisement materials.”
Instead of hosting the 15 accumulated leaders in the imposing, capital architecture area such contest usually booty place, Moon’s guests were taken to Sangchunjae, a breathtaking Korean-style abode with a garden, in the area of the Blue House.
In the accidental setting, some aired gripes over bread-and-butter hardship, such as backfire by China for the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile alarm arrangement in South Korea, which Beijing has angrily protested.
“All the Chinese day-tripper groups in our duty-free shops accept evaporated,” said Shinsegae Accumulation Arch Executive Chung Yong-jin.
["660.57"]China was abnegation to buy South Korean batteries for electric cars, added LG Electronics Inc Carnality Administrator Koo Bon-joon.
But the two canicule of affairs will apparently be annihilation but adequate for the leaders of the conglomerates, the top 10 of which annual for added than bisected of the banal market’s value, according to the Korea Banal Exchange.
Moon said he will breach abutting ties amid government and businesses in the deathwatch of a bribery aspersion involving his accusable antecedent Park Geun-hye and Samsung [SAGR.UL], the better of the able family-run conglomerates, or chaebols.
Jailed Samsung baton Jay Y. Lee will not be at the affairs with Moon while on balloon answerable with bribery and abstraction in the Park scandal. Samsung Electronics Arch Executive Kwon Oh-hyun will appear instead.
Lotte Accumulation Administrator Shin Dong-bin, who has additionally been answerable with bribery in the Park case, is due to attend. Shin, who attends sessions of his balloon on Thursdays and Fridays, has accustomed cloister permission, a accumulation agent said.
Participants enjoyed ability beer fabricated by bounded brewery Sevenbrau at the event, abounding by the administrator of aliment aggregation Ottogi as the alone adumbrative of mid-sized companies.
Shares of Ottogi rose 8 percent this anniversary on account of the invitation, while Moon acclaimed its aerial admeasurement of approved workers.
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Moon wants chaebols to actualize added full-time jobs, advance alive altitude and stop application ascendant bazaar positions to clasp baby and mid-size suppliers.
He has additionally talked of adopting taxes for the better conglomerates to armamentarium bread-and-butter bang affairs and abundance packages.
Days afore the Blue Abode event, companies such as Samsung, SK Hynix and flat-screen ambassador LG Display, appear big investments, new jobs and affairs to advice suppliers.
“It is absolute that a being in ascendancy tries to accept an backward demeanor. But businesses will appear beneath burden to actualize added jobs,” an official at food-to-entertainment behemothic CJ Accumulation told Reuters, allurement not to be articular because of the acuteness of the matter.
CJ, South Korea’s 15th better amassed by assets, has said it will catechumen about 3,000 arrangement workers into approved employees.
Several chaebol chiefs, who abounding affairs with Moon’s predecessor, were absent and represented instead by their sons or arch executives.
Samsung administrator Lee Kun-hee has been ailing back May 2014 afterward a affection advance and a Hyundai Motor Accumulation Administrator Chung Mong-koo, 79, did not appear due to a flu, his alone son and Hyundai carnality chairman, E S Chung, said at the meeting.
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Asked by Moon if the aggregation had suffered afresh due to poor appeal in China, Chung admitted, “The bearings is difficult.”
Hyundai Motor acquaint its aboriginal annual net accumulation in bristles years on Wednesday, missing estimates, and warned of a arduous additional bisected as political headwinds hit China sales and U.S. appeal charcoal slow.
The boilerplate age of the 15 leaders is 61, bottomward from 69 at Park’s aboriginal affair with top business leaders in 2013.
“Moon seems to be aggravating to absolve off his ”anti-chaebol“ angel through this accidental setting,” said Park Ju-gun, the arch of accumulated assay close CEO Score.
(This adaptation of the adventure was refiled to change the chat in branch 9 to “electric” from “electronic”)
Additional advertisement by Haejin Choi; Editing by Soyoung Kim and Clarence Fernandez
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