Lotte held the 2025 diversity forum at the Lotte Human Resources Development Institute Osan Campus on the 17th. The theme was "Weave You & Me (weave you and me, become us)."
Since 2013, Lotte has worked to spread these values, including by establishing a charter that codifies respect for diversity and the elimination of discrimination. From 2021 to 2020, it held a forum focused on female talent, and since 2021 it has expanded the meaning to gender, generation, disability, and nationality and has been holding a diversity forum.
This year, the focus was on the need to respect global diversity encompassing various nationalities and backgrounds. It reviewed how global corporations manage diversity and related trends, and major overseas subsidiaries such as LOTTE Chilsung Beverage and Lotte Mart shared real-world cases and results.
About 250 people attended the event, including Ko Jeong-wook, CEO of LOTTE Corporation, Park Doo-hwan, head of HR Innovation at LOTTE Corporation, HR executives and Heads of Team from affiliates, in-house communications staff, and foreign employees. About 700 employees in Korea and abroad also joined online. Considering the nationalities of participants, a real-time interpretation service using artificial intelligence (AI) was provided.
A Lotte official said, "For sustainable growth in the global market, a culture in which talent from diverse backgrounds respect one another is essential," adding, "We will continue to work to expand within the group a culture that embraces diversity across the four areas of diversity—nationality, gender, age, and disability."