Young Female Prodigies Drive Korean Mobile Phone Industry

Female executives are holding their own in the nation's male-dominated mobile phone industry with its third-largest handset maker Pantech Group and frontrunning wireless carrier SK Telecom leading the way, reports the The Korea Times.

Pantech Group, hired Chen Su, an ethnic Chinese with a strong connection to Korea, as head of its Chinese division earlier this year.

SK Telecom took the business world by surprise when Korea's top wireless carrier recruited 28-year-old Yoon Song-yee and assigned her as its executive member in March of this year.

The hiring of Yoon as SK Telecom's vice president made her its youngest executive member ever as well as in the entire telecom industry. "

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