Lotte Group founder Shin Kyuk-ho, who started manufacturing chewing gum in 1948 in Japan and built the business into South Korea's No.5 conglomerate with interests ranging from retail to chemicals ...

A Hotel Lotte Co. logo is displayed on a window at the Hotel Lotte Seoul hotel in South Korea. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg South Korea’s fifth-largest chaebol has been further ...

South Korean prosecutors have arrested and charged Shin Dong-bin, chairman of Lotte.The conglomerate is one of the ten biggest companies in the country, and is its second largest entertainment player.

At least 23 Lotte stores have been closed across China since the South Korean conglomerate agreed to provide land for the controversial THAAD missile defense system.