Hanwha Group held a four-day workshop with its newsletter writers from 13 countries to strengthen communication with the group’s affiliates around the world, the company said Wednesday.

A total of 38 members in charge of publishing Hanwha’s Global Newsletter participated in the event. The nation’s eighth-largest conglomerate has published a monthly newsletter in four languages -- English, Chinese, German and Japanese -- since September last year.

The group of writers are Hanwha employees assigned to report the latest news on the group’s operations in and out of the country.

The newsletter aims to facilitate communication between workers around the world and to keep them up to date with the group’s overseas expansion. Hanwha has been named one of the world’s top 500 businesses by US magazine Fortune. The size of the group’s overseas network has expanded through a series of high profile merger and acquisitions of companies specialized in solar energy, defense and petrochemical segments. As of 2015, Hanhwa had 27 percent of its employees working for the group’s overseas divisions.

“To become a world-class enterprise, promoting communication is important for Hanhwa, said the group’s Vice President Choi Sun-mok at the workshop.

“To reach the goal, (newsletter) writers need to accomplish the mission of promoting communication and the exchange of culture.”

By Cho Chung-un (christory@heraldcorp.com)