{"id":179373,"date":"2019-11-28T20:51:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=263295"},"modified":"2019-11-28T20:51:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:51:25","slug":"lg-electronics-reshuffles-top-brass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/28\/lg-electronics-reshuffles-top-brass\/","title":{"rendered":"LG Electronics reshuffles top brass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tLG Electronics appointed the head of its Mobile Communications and Home Entertainment divisions Kwon Bong-seok (pictured) as its new CEO, effective from 1 December, an apparent reaction to a hefty decline in net income during Q3.<\/p>\n<p>Kwon, described by the company as a \u201cstrategist who combines technology and marketing\u201d, joined LG Electronics in 1987 and held a number of management positions across several divisions. He will replace current CEO Jo Seong-jin, who is stepping down from the role after around three years at the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>He headed the company&#8217;s Home Entertainment since 2015, with the Mobile Communications role added at the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, LG Electronics said the executive was &#8220;the best person for digital transformation, a key task of global IT companies&#8221;, and brought &#8220;a high understanding and capability of big data, AI, connectivity, and contents\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, the appointment comes a matter of weeks after LG Electronics revealed a hefty 30.5 per cent annual decline in net profit [1] during Q3, with signficant reductions in sales and operating profit at its Mobile Communications unit a key factor.<\/p>\n<p>The Korea Times reported the Home Entertainment unit will be led by Park Hyoung-sei, current EVP of its TV Business Operation Centre, and the mobile business by Lee Yeon-mo, currently executive director at the division.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/asia\/asia-news\/mobile-unit-weighs-on-lg-financials\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LG Electronics appointed the head of its Mobile Communications and Home Entertainment divisions Kwon Bong-seok &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/lg-electronics-reshuffles-top-brass\/\">LG Electronics reshuffles top brass<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/28\/lg-electronics-reshuffles-top-brass\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":787,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,2457,5861,2185,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-KF7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/787"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179398,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179373\/revisions\/179398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}