'Empowering women is a business imperative'

The title of former LG Group executive Yun Yuh-soon's latest book, "The Time to Awaken Half" (a direct translation of its Korean title), carries a message that goes beyond gender equality: Organizations that fail to recognize and develop women's potential waste half their talent. Yun, 71, is best known as LG Group's first female executive. She joined LG Academy, the group's human resources development center, in 1995 at age 40 and became its first female executive in 2000. She later served as pr