Talk:Lotte Corporation

"Nationality" of Lotte
Lotte Holdings is nothing but a Japanese company, which is registered in Tokyo, owned by a Korean. Koreans, don't contort the truth for ever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.80.248.73 (talk) 04:44, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Nationality of Lotte company is Korea-Japanese. The President CEO is Zainichi Korean-Japanese. His son is in charge Korean Lotte Company. So whats your point??

The Korean nationalists are back again... is there no end to this silliness of changing the presidents name between Korean and Japanese? I propose that anyone who does this create an account/sign in and put their arguments on this talk page, otherwise, it'll get reverted to the Japanese name. See my earlier comment below for why I think it should stay Japanese. pogo 5 July 2005 18:10 (UTC)

Lotte was founded in JAPAN after WWII. Several years later (more than a decade, I think), Lotte Group started operations in South Korea. It would be ridiculous to assert that it is originally a Korean company, just like it would be ridiculous to assert that Computer Associates is a Chinese company because founder Charles Wang was born in Shanghai. pogo 23:50, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

LOL I should have known some Korean was going to want to change this article for seeming to indicate that Lotte can be considered a Korean or a Japanese company. Nice try, buddy, but I think this is really, really distorted the way you wrote it. --Ce garcon 04:37, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Correction, there's a whole horde of you guys here. I suspect this is somehow related to the whole Dokdo obsession somehow. :-) "Dokdo, uri ddang!" "Lotte uri huesa!" --Ce garcon 04:43, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

-No, it's not a sin, but it is unfortunate if you try to introduce any bias into this article so that you can say that Lotte is strictly a Korean company to boost the Korean ego. --Ce garcon 20:32, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

My opinion: Split this entry into two; since Lotte in Japan (the confectionary company) and the Lotte in South Korea (conglomate) are not really related; they just happened to be started and owned by the same person. To say, they even have different logos. Samuel Curtis 18:06, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Either way, the article could do with a rewrite or clean up I reckon. There are discrepancies due to partial edits and insertions. The opening line is confusing due to the mix up between the 'confectionery' and 'group'. I think the confusion lies in the fact that 'conglomerate' does NOT constitute a single company; what is known as Lotte is not the same entity as the conglomerate in Korea. Legally, the confectionery and holding company in Japan - trade marked as Lotte - is a Japanese company with the headquarters in Tokyo, which is later mentioned in the management section (in contradiction to the opening paragraph and title). I think some of you are confusing the founder, the lotte group in Japan and the branched out conglomerate in Korea, which also house a lot of subsidiaries (a lot of which are indeed Korean). This means we need to split this into 2 articles at the very least (and no, not the same as 'Korean confectionery' article on Lotte). More precise segmenting and detail is the key here. I'll do so at some point if nobody else does.86.166.78.140 (talk) 21:12, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

(Though it's 9 years later) As a Korean user coming through, it should be officially known that Lotte is a company that was founded in Japan. Can't really matter if a Zainichi Korean owns the company or not. Though I agree on this aspect I would like to strongly pinpoint that the people who started this topic of unnecessary dispute are from suspected pro-Japanese users (noticeably as you can see the user Pogo having interests in Japan). No 'Korean nationalists' came through, just you guys ranting out of nowhere again. HanSangYoon (talk) 06:21, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Discrepencies
Some differences between the English version and the Japanese version. The Japanese version only states that the Lotte founder started business in Tokyo in 1945, started manufacturing of chewing gum using the ingredient chicle in 1947, then founded Lotte in 1948. The English version only states that Lotte was founded in Korea in 1948. The English version doesn't tell where he was doing business during 1945-1947, while the Japanese version doesn't tell where he was doing business during 1946-1948. Without reading both, one would think he was only in one country instead of both during that period. Also, I think more sections could be created for this article. —Tokek 13:58, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Good call... The change from Tokyo to Seoul must have been vandalism. (Whoever made that edit also claimed that "Takeo Shigemitsu" is a Korean name.) Later on, the article says that the company was established in Korea in 1967 after normalizing relations with  Japan, and that the company started in the 1940s by selling candy to postwar Japanese children; none of this would make sense if the company were founded in Seoul.  On that note, it seems odd to mention in the first sentence that the founder spends half of his time in each country, since it is unlikely that this was the case at the time of the company's founding.  Maybe this could be noted lower down in the article? -- Calcwatch 21:24, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Nationality Issues continued
Shin was described as a South Korean national. Deleted the word "national" since it seems simpler and clearer to just leave it at "south korean". Whether Lotte is Korean or Japanese is a moot issue. It was founded in Japan by a Korean. Let's just leave it at that.Melonbarmonster 04:08, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Lotte Hotel
ethnic squabbles aside, could somebody comment on the Lotte Hotel aspect of the company. Why are they not listed? Also, does anybody know what's happening with Lotte Super Tower and Busan Lotte Tower? DaronDierkes (talk) 09:02, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Fits gum
We either need a section on the gum, or a new page. 72.199.100.223 (talk) 02:13, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

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removing shin family feuds
Im removing this section because it has virtually nothing to do with the lotte conglomerate 97.103.129.121 (talk) 08:15, 28 February 2024 (UTC)