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Electric vehicles
Kia EV9 poised to hit 50,000 unit mark in a year on strong exports
Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, is poised to sell 50,000 units of its flagship all-electric sport utility vehicle EV9 within one yea...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Tencent-backed Shift Up seeks June IPO at $2.6 bn value
South Korean gaming firm Shift Up Corp. is eyeing an initial public offering on the main Kospi in June, with an enterprise value of 3.48 trillion wo...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korea’s Shinsegae building unit to raise $478 mn to cut debts
South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group’s building unit, suffering amid difficulties in the local real estate project financing sector, is s...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hanwha Q Cells eyes solar power business diversification
Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar power unit of South Korean chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group, is striving for revenue stream diversificatio...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Netmarble leverages existing IPs, M&As to keep growth
Expectations are growing high that Netmarble Corp., South Korea’s second-largest game developer and publisher, will extend its growth streak t...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Kia premieres EV3 to boost global electrification push
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, on Thursday premiered the EV3, its low-cost electric sport utility vehicle (SUV), to reboot...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Broadband's Filmotalk surpasses 6.6 mn cumulative views
South Korea’s internet service provider SK Broadband Co. announced on Wednesday that the cumulative viewership of its offline film talk concer...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Korea’s Mobase to build US plant as it wins $733 mn Hyundai deal
SUWON, Gyeonggi Province -- Mobase Electronics Co., a South Korean automotive electronics parts maker, is planning to establish a plant in the US as...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung’s new AI PC to hit global market in mid-June
Samsung Electronics Co. will start offering the Galaxy Book4 Edge, a new addition to its latest flagship Galaxy Book4 laptop series and powered by b...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
NewJeans' Ditto hits 600 mn streams on Spotify
Ditto by K-pop girl group NewJeans has surpassed 600 million streams on Spotify.Spotify, the world's largest music streaming platform, announced on ...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung hits highest US smartphone market share in 4 years
Samsung Electronics Co. has achieved its highest market share in the US smartphone market in four years, thanks to its first AI phone the Galaxy S24...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Netmarble sells stake in BTS label HYBE stake for $161 mn
South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp. is selling a stake in HYBE Co., the label behind global K-pop sensation BTS, for 219.9 billion won ($161...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
NHN Cloud sets sights on GPU cloud service with Nvidia’s H100
NHN Cloud Corp., a cloud computing unit of South Korea’s internet company NHN Corp., is setting its sights on a graphics processing unit (GPU)...
May 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver, SoftBank to discuss Japan JV’s ownership change
South Korea’s top online portal Naver Corp. and Japan’s SoftBank Corp. will kick off talks this week, during which they are expected to ...
Apr 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai launches the ST1, its 1st electric work van with futuristic styling
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Wednesday it is launching the ST1, its first fully electric work van that can be retrofi...
Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Microsoft CEO to meet with Samsung, SK Hynix, LG, SK Telecom chiefs
Microsoft Corp.’s top executives will meet with leaders of South Korea’s four top technology companies next month to discuss ways to str...
Apr 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Polestar 4 electric SUV coupe to hit South Korean roads in June
The Polestar 4 electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) coupe is set to make its debut in South Korea in June and targets deliveries from October, Swedi...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
South Korea’s chip design firms go abroad to tap $426 billion market
South Korea’s chip design companies are turning their sights overseas to tap into the 593 trillion won ($426 billion) system semiconductor mar...
Apr 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean unicorns’ failed global expedition causes growth concern
Woowa Brothers Corp. and Viva Republica Inc., South Korea’s most valuable unicorns, have pulled the plug on some of their overseas businesses ...
Apr 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, LG look to Europe with AI-powered built-in kitchen appliances
MILAN, ITALY – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are big names in the US home appliances market. The two South Korean electronic...
Apr 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Manyo’s Pure Cleansing Oil to hit US Costco shelves in July
South Korea’s naturalism cosmetics company Manyo Co. has hit the jackpot in a deal to supply its best-selling face cleansing product, Pure Cle...
Apr 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Samsung Electronics' key M&A man returns; big deals in the offing
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker and leading smartphone and electronics maker, has been absent from the mergers and a...
Apr 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Korea’s makgeolli market hits brakes amid whiskey fad
The market growth of South Korea’s traditional milky and often sweet rice wine, makgeolli, has slowed after the country’s younger genera...
Apr 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Korean firms' bond sales hit record in Q1 amid rate cut signal
Corporate bond issuance in South Korea hit a record in the first quarter of this year amid growing expectations of the Federal Reserve’s rate ...
Apr 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Korean big tech firms join Korea’s AI strategy council
The South Korean government has launched an artificial intelligence strategy council, jointly with domestic big tech firms such as Naver Corp. and K...
Apr 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung Q1 profit soars, set to benefit from Taiwan quake, AI chip demand
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Friday its first-quarter operating profit likely rose more than tenfold...
Apr 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Foreign buying of Korean stocks hit record high in Q1
Foreign investors gobbled up a record 15.8 trillion won ($11.7 billion) worth of stocks listed in South Korea during the first three months of this ...
Mar 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to supply $752 million in Mach-1 AI chips to Naver, replace Nvidia
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, will supply its next-generation Mach-1 artificial intelligence chips to Naver Corp....
Mar 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
BTS, Blackpink economy: Korea’s IP rights trade surplus hits record high
While the economic impact of US singer Taylor Swift is so powerful that pundits coined words like “the Taylor Swift economy,” no less st...
Mar 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Big Tech engineers rush to Korea’s AI chip startups as potential looms
Big Tech engineers are flocking to South Korea’s promising startups specializing in artificial intelligence chips, a fast-growing sector in th...
Mar 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)