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For overseas subsidiaries, the job introduction can be seen as introducing the role of foreign workers at Samyang. It is recommended to read through each one. These are the basic roles across all positions.

Key Role of Global Samyang: Contributing to Sales Expansion by Developing Markets Based on a Broad Understanding of Overseas Subsidiary Countries and Quickly Incorporating Local Feedback.

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Overseas Subsidiary Management

Q. What is your role and responsibilities?
As an overseas sales and marketing manager, my role is to utilize the core competencies of our headquarters to explore new markets and directly target local customers, thereby driving sales growth. This involves deciding the scale, target, and goals of our marketing activities and establishing and managing our sales and distribution systems. In the corporate countries, I regularly conduct consumer and distribution status surveys to predict short-term and long-term changes, aiming to develop more effective global strategies.

Q. What is the significance and role of our department?
Our department plays a vital role in balancing the interests of various stakeholders and managing variables while aligning with the expectations of the headquarters, which may feel psychologically close but are geographically distant. Overseas residents are not only responsible for managing and supervising local organizations but also act as a liaison between the headquarters, local countries, and trading companies. Additionally, they coordinate opinions, maintain consistent communication, and manage performance across internal organizational units within overseas subsidiaries.

Q. What are the essential skills needed for this role?
The most crucial competencies include social and cultural knowledge and experience regarding the assigned country. Basic communication skills in the local language are also necessary for effective interaction with local hires. Other essential skills include responsibility, global market analysis, a sense of challenge for new tasks, organizational harmonization, and job expertise.

Sales Sector (Sales)

Q. What are your responsibilities?
I am responsible for exporting products manufactured in Korea to designated overseas regions and countries. As the representative of these countries, I must take ownership of the export process and lead every aspect of the value chain. This includes coordinating schedules with production and logistics and working with marketing to develop new products and promotional plans, ensuring smooth export operations. Furthermore, to expand sales in the assigned countries, I develop strategies based on market trends and manage various local partners (distributors) to establish their roles.

Q. What is the importance and role of our department?
Our department oversees the frontline sales of Samyang products, such as Buldak Bokkeum Myeon, overseas. This makes our role critical as we manage Samyang Food's overseas revenue. Effective communication is vital due to the need for coordination with various departments. Additionally, language proficiency and the ability to convey the significance of each country's specific characteristics to relevant departments are essential.

Q. What are the essential skills needed for this role?
A deep interest in the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of the assigned country is most required. The unpredictable nature of food exports often leads to unforeseen situations, necessitating quick decision-making and problem-solving skills in emergencies. It is also essential to continuously think strategically about how to generate and grow revenue in the assigned country.

SCM/Purchasing

Q. What are your responsibilities?
Supply Chain Management (SCM) involves designing and managing the flow of supply services from production, sales, logistics, and distribution to customers. The goal is to optimize the supply chain, ensuring timely and efficient delivery of products and services to customers while minimizing overall supply chain costs. Key tasks include:

1. Production Planning: Operating and planning production policies, managing production schedules, and overseeing production efficiency.
2. Sales and Material Management Planning: Operating and planning supply policies, managing demand forecasts, and controlling purchasing plans based on material requirements.
3. Inventory Planning: Managing inventory, controlling inventory aging, replenishing inventory at various centers, minimizing out-of-stock situations, and improving logistics efficiency.

Q. What is the importance and role of our department?
With the increasing demand for multi-product small-scale production due to market diversification and the sophistication of consumer needs, efficient manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain management have become essential. It is crucial to minimize the gap between supply and demand and reduce lead times from order to delivery. Our department continuously manages and strives to create a virtuous cycle of planning, demand, supply, and performance.

Q. What are the essential skills needed for this role?
A comprehensive understanding of supply, sales, and logistics processes is necessary, given the role involves building management processes for the entire supply chain. Based on this understanding, strategic and analytical thinking skills are required to analyze issues and propose optimized solutions from a company-wide perspective. Additionally, communication skills and leadership are needed to negotiate and lead discussions with various departments.

Food Research and Development (R&D)

Q. What are your responsibilities?
I oversee the entire process of new product development for Samyang Foods, including researching food materials to commercialize products and establishing long-term food development technology roadmaps. Key responsibilities include:

1. New Product Development and Improvement: Developing noodles, soups, snacks, etc., setting specifications, overseeing pilot and main production processes, and improving product quality.
2. Core Material Research: Conducting basic experiments such as preservation studies, researching global standard ingredients, analyzing farinograms and viscograms, texture analysis, and researching oils.
3. Food Safety and Regulation Establishment: Managing export-related documentation, reviewing global regulations, and handling release and renewal-related documentation, such as SAP registration and packaging standards.

Q. What is the importance and role of our department?
Our department plays a crucial role in continuously integrating food and science through research and development of food materials and products at the forefront of Samyang Foods’ product development. Beyond creating delicious products, we respond to the era's demand for healthy, eco-friendly food, considering consumer needs and safety to provide convenient, tasty, healthy, and safe food options, ultimately creating new food culture.

Q. What are the essential skills needed for this role?
The role requires individuals with relevant academic backgrounds in food science, biotechnology, microbiology, chemistry, or related qualifications (e.g., food technologist, nutritionist, cooking technician, sanitation engineer). A comprehensive understanding of food-related laws and global regulations is necessary. As a global company, proficiency in foreign languages is increasingly important to address issues in various countries. Additionally, staying informed about the trends in the fast-changing food industry, market insights, and the latest technologies is crucial. A proactive, ambitious mindset and a commitment to self-improvement are essential to lead the food industry.

Future R&D (R&D)

Q. What are your responsibilities?
Samyang Square Lab’s Future R&D Strategy Center is responsible for planning and managing research and technology development across the entire group. In the food research sector, we cover traditional food industry fields like noodles, snacks, sauces, and frozen foods, as well as new growth and technology fields such as healthcare, eco-friendly packaging, and sustainable future energy technologies, incorporating bio and chemical research. The Central Research Institute, Samyang Square Lab, analyzes technological and market trends and policy directions globally to develop strategies for technology development. We also support research and technology-related project management and introduce systems that promote joint growth for research institutes and researchers.

Q. What is the importance and role of our department?
Samyang Round Square has declared a vision to lead new food culture based on science and technology in response to rapidly changing market and technological trends. The foundation of this vision lies in Samyang Square Lab. The Future R&D Strategy Center plays a role in establishing and promoting innovative solutions for emerging challenges in the food industry, such as enhancing the functionality of food using health-promoting ingredients and developing alternative nutritional sources to address population growth. We build internal and external collaboration structures to tackle these issues and spread a culture of research innovation throughout the company.

Q. What are the essential skills needed for this role?
The role demands a keen interest and broad understanding of various research fields. It is essential to continuously explore not only one's major field but also new technology areas, understanding their content and related trends. Logical planning and strategic execution abilities are crucial to making these technologies applicable. Besides technical aspects, strong communication skills are required to coordinate interests among related departments, prepare effective materials for discussions, and facilitate direct negotiations and consultations among different departments.

Marketing (Brand Management and Marketing)

Q. What are your responsibilities?
I am responsible for planning overall product and marketing strategies for all product lines handled by Samyang. This involves monitoring market trends and consumer needs, analyzing various data to plan products best suited for current and future growth potential, and collaborating with research and development, design, manufacturing, consumer communication, and sales departments. After launch, I manage operations, inventory, sales, distribution, and logistics to drive revenue growth.

Q. What is the importance and role of our department?
Our department is crucial in developing and managing brands and products that form the foundation of Samyang’s connection with consumers, directly contributing to tangible profits. Through new brand and category strategies, we continually explore products and content that can lead the global K-food market.

Q. What are the essential skills needed for this role?
Key competencies include a sense of ownership over the brands, effective communication skills for working with both internal and external departments and partners, and logical problem-solving abilities to manage overall business metrics and drive brand growth. Strategic thinking is also crucial to identifying unique selling points that make products stand out in a crowded market and developing appealing strategies.

Data Science in Marketing

Q. What are your responsibilities?
I analyze consumer trends and market data necessary for all marketing activities, from product planning to post-launch operations, providing solutions to execution departments and insights for optimized decision-making for our brands. We collect, analyze, and systematize diverse data on domestic and international consumer preferences, brand perception, and sensory attributes to establish comprehensive decision-making criteria. Additionally, we manage new product launch guidelines to ensure successful market entry. As the leading department for new product development (NPD), we create environments that balance internal technologies, development capabilities, competition, and consumer trends and needs domestically and internationally.

Q. What is the importance and role of our department?
In an increasingly unpredictable business environment, effective and successful marketing activities rely on data analysis. We uncover future opportunity areas through consumer perception, behavior research, and trend analysis and provide diverse information and insights to facilitate efficient decision-making during execution. Our department also supports internal decision-making by analyzing consumer responses and sensory quality data, removing uncertainties, and enabling stable business operations.

Q. What are the essential skills needed for this role?
Solving business challenges requires accurate problem identification, hypothesis formation, and appropriate research and analysis methods. Systematic thinking and problem-solving skills are essential. Curiosity and interest in markets and consumers are necessary to derive insights from evolving market trends. This foundation enables us to capture rapidly changing market trends and provide relevant planning ideas and solutions to execution departments.

Brand Design Marketing

Q. What are your responsibilities?
I develop design concepts that encompass the entire brand to build a global brand identity. Starting with brand identity (BI) development, we handle product packaging, country-specific packaging, visual merchandising (VMD), spatial design, and promotional materials for online and offline events, covering all design areas generated by our company. By supporting company-wide promotional activities to convey the vision of Samyang Foods as a leader in the global K-Food market, we contribute to the growth of our global brand.

Q. What is the importance and role of our department?
As the visual headquarters for creating brand images, our department introduces the public to our brand through visual outputs (product packaging, VMD, promotional materials). We ultimately shape and consistently visualize a positive brand image. The visual presentation of products, companies, and individual brand identities applies to packaging, VMD, and online and offline promotional materials. Consistent brand image development enhances our brand’s value, targeting not only domestic but also international customers.

Q. What are the essential skills needed for this role?
As design professionals conveying brand images visually to customers, the ability to think from a brand perspective and express designs accordingly is crucial. Strategic thinking is necessary to consistently develop brand images through packaging, VMD, and promotional materials. Since collaboration with various organizations is essential, setting goals with internal departments and partners, developing designs, and executing collaborative processes are critical. Strong communication skills are needed to persuade and effectively collaborate.

Marketing Communication

Q. What are your responsibilities?
Our department establishes consumer communication directions and strategies for Samyang Round Square’s brands. We manage and operate internal and external marketing plans to maximize brand awareness and sales through close interaction between consumers and brands, overseeing on/offline campaigns, media advertising, and public relations.

Q. What is the importance and role of our department?
“Most people buy and consume products with their heads and hearts.” Although product features and benefits appear to be the criteria for product selection, emotional connection—liking the brand—ultimately drives purchasing decisions. Consumers typically recognize brands and form impressions through various touchpoints before seeing the products directly. Therefore, the core of marketing communication is to instill positive feelings and emotions about the brand and products. As the final stage of brand strategy, it is vital to create ongoing relationships and communication with consumers beyond the product itself, emphasizing a communication strategy that connects rather than merely delivering brand messages.

Q. What are the essential skills needed for this role?
Understanding the core target's needs based on each brand's characteristics and goals and discovering the most appropriate insights through marketing trends and consumer data is crucial. Since we handle diverse media and consumer communication channels within the marketing strategy, knowledge and experience with various media and channels like PR, production, and SNS are important. Additionally, the ability to translate brand concepts into consumer language, manage and control agencies and partners effectively, and create desired outcomes requires well-rounded communication skills.

HR Management Support

Q. What are your responsibilities?
I handle specialized HR areas, including recruitment, training, evaluation, compensation, payroll, employee relations, and retirement. My work involves recruiting top talent aligned with company management policies and strategies, managing HR systems and workforce operations, administering evaluation and compensation systems, planning/operating talent development and organizational culture programs, and reviewing/applying facility investments to improve work environments.

Q. What is the importance and role of our department?
HR is a strategic partner to management and an employee champion. Our department aligns human resource acquisition and development with the company’s business strategy, establishing competitive corporate culture, and creating HR policies following external environmental and legal requirements to support company performance. We also serve as a communication channel for employees, analyzing and resolving their needs, sometimes acting as counselors to ensure alignment between company goals and employee needs, bridging the gap between management and employees.

Q. What are the essential skills needed for this role?
Given HR’s significant impact on both the company and its employees, diligence, attention to detail, and analytical skills are essential. Understanding labor laws and related knowledge is necessary for all tasks, including recruitment, workforce management, training, evaluation, compensation, and global HR. Additionally, the ability to listen to and empathize with employee concerns, build organic relationships with related departments, and communicate effectively is crucial. As global business accelerates, cross-cultural understanding and foreign language skills are also essential.

Quality Assurance/Certification in Production/Logistics

Q. What are your responsibilities?
I manage the safety and quality of products by analyzing incoming raw material components, revising food safety-related documents, overseeing hygiene management, conducting worker hygiene training, and performing process inspections. I also maintain food safety systems like HACCP and FSSC22000, ensuring hygienic and safe products. To enforce strict product management, I handle specification management, continuous quality improvement, consumer claim prevention, process-specific microbial testing, self-quality inspections, water quality tests, and trace element tests, thereby securing quality competitiveness. We acquire and maintain certifications like HALAL and VEGAN, enabling a broader range of global consumers to access our products. Furthermore, we prepare for and respond to distributor-related third-party audits, site management, and improvement actions to ensure ongoing business relations.

Q. What is the importance and role of our department?
Through monitoring domestic and international regulations, we contribute to securing the competitiveness of domestic and export products by preventing risks related to raw material inspection, production management, product analysis, and potential hazards. We strive to provide safe products that consumers worldwide can trust by thoroughly inspecting whether our products meet various pre-set safety criteria. Before launching new products, we share safety and certification issues with relevant departments to prevent future quality problems. For any claims received, we conduct on-site cause identification, process problem-solving, and review measures to prevent recurrence, overseeing the most crucial safety aspects for a food company.

Q. What are the essential skills needed for this role?
A comprehensive understanding of food regulations, including food codes, food sanitation laws, food chemistry, food material studies, and foreign food safety laws in the US, Japan, China, and the EU, is essential. Knowledge of food safety management systems like HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) and FSSC22000 (Food Safety System Certification), as well as the ability to think broadly about supplier inspections, risk prevention, and verification, are required. Furthermore, understanding and maintaining analysis equipment and environments, ensuring traceability of output data, and verifying the validity of test results are necessary. Skills to understand and respond to the overall processes of raw material, production, and warehousing are required. Strong interpersonal skills are also essential for communicating and explaining quality assurance matters to related departments and external stakeholders.

Business Management and Strategic Planning

Q. What are your responsibilities?
I set strategic goals to achieve the organization’s vision and develop comprehensive plans to achieve these goals effectively. Given the importance of Samyang Food’s overseas business growth, we focus on identifying key challenges across the entire value chain in the global business environment and setting goals accordingly. This process involves reviewing and promoting investments in existing core businesses or new ventures, resolving structural issues that hinder goal achievement, such as inter-departmental collaboration issues, and performing various roles for establishing the company’s management direction and business strategy.

Q. What is the importance and role of our department?
Since the company's resources are limited, deciding how much of which resources to allocate to specific areas based on internal and external environmental factors is a critical decision for management. The Strategic Planning Team focuses on analyzing external competitive threats and opportunities to aid strategic judgment, making it a core department closest to management, responsible for setting significant business directions.

Q. What are the essential skills needed for this role?
Skills required for business management and strategy development include planning and analytical capabilities, knowledge of finance and accounting to interpret and analyze financial statements, and management accounting skills to estimate expected profits and losses, analyze factors of increase and decrease, and conduct investment feasibility analysis. Additionally, effective communication skills and logical writing abilities are needed to harmonize and reach consensus on data and opinions from various departments.

Finance (Referencing Other Companies)

Role Overview:
Finance is a crucial and indispensable area of company operations, providing financial information that supports decision-making by top executives and accounting information users. This role allows employees to understand the company's overall flow, offering opportunities to enhance personal skills and expand careers into diverse fields. The Finance Department consists of three teams: Accounting, Tax, and Treasury.

• Accounting Team: Reviews the company's accounting practices in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and performs monthly closings. They also prepare separate and consolidated financial statements and notes quarterly and handle external audit responses.
• Tax Team: Manages tax reporting and payment according to tax laws and policies, minimizing tax risks through ongoing review and management of revised tax laws. This contributes to enhancing company value and ensuring management stability. Key responsibilities include reporting and reviewing corporate tax, income tax, VAT, withholding tax, international tax, and local taxes such as corporate local income tax and acquisition tax.
• Treasury Team: Manages the company's liquidity systematically to ensure stable cash flow operations and enhance profitability through strategic decision-making. This team supports seamless operations in business, investment, and financial activities and carries out corporate disclosure tasks in compliance with various regulations, providing management-related information to potential stakeholders.

Q: Could you introduce your responsibilities and daily routine?
A: I handle withholding tax, VAT, and international tax-related tasks. My main duties include reviewing the consistency of accounting vouchers and supporting documents prepared by the operating departments. I regularly organize tax data to meet the deadlines for various taxes related to company management, and I handle reporting and payment tasks. I also provide guidance to the operating departments to ensure that various tax-related issues are handled in accordance with principles. In the area of international tax, I examine various measures to reduce tax risks, such as preventing double taxation and avoiding tax evasion between countries.

Q: What skills are essential for this role, and how can one prepare?
A: Basic knowledge of accounting and tax law is necessary, along with an interest in and understanding of the economy, which greatly aids in job performance. A proactive attitude towards learning and preparing for ever-changing and revised accounting standards and tax laws is essential. Finance is organically connected to all departments, and ultimately impacts the company's financial situation, requiring a sense of pride in the role. Especially in tax-related work, strong responsibility and adherence to principles are crucial due to its direct connection to the company's tax transparency.

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