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Economy
Korea’s inflation picks up 5.2% in January on high utility prices
South Korea’s headline inflation accelerated 5.2% year on year in January, reversing its course of slowing in the past two months due to gains...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Chem, Samsung SDI ink $33 bn EV battery material deal
POSCO Chemical Co., a battery material unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., and Samsung SDI Co., the world’s No. 6 ele...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
JW Pharma to put AI into new drug ingredient development
South Korea's drug developer JW Pharmaceutical is expanding the scope of its artificial intelligence (AI) uses from new drug research to the develop...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
AI tech of Samsung Research recognized via machine translation award
Samsung Research, the research and development (R&D) hub of Samsung Electronics Co., has proven its excellence in artificial intelligence-based ...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Four out of ten exporters expect raw material prices to rise again this year
A survey revealed that a large number of South Korea's major exporters expect troubles ahead for this year due to rising raw material prices and sup...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
MBK, Unison agree on tender offer for Korea’s Osstem Implant
MBK Partners, a leading Asian private equity firm, and Unison Capital Korea agreed on a tender offer to acquire management rights of Osstem Implant ...
Jan 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Bank's retirement pension soars 15% to $107 bn last year
Retirement pensions at banks in the fourth quarter of last year emerged as a haven for money that tried to generate a stable return, shunning away f...
Jan 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Poongsan’s sale of ammunition, artillery shells surges on Ukraine war
Poongsan Corp., one of South Korea’s leading copper smelters and defense equipment makers, saw its sales of ammunition and artillery shells su...
Jan 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LIG Nex1 opens AI research lab jointly with Korea Robot Institute
LIG Nex1 Co. said on Wednesday that it held an "AI Co-Lab" opening ceremony at the Seoul office of the Korea Institute of Robot and Convergence (KIR...
Jan 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Epikar inks MOU with Singapore's NTU Research Center
South Korea's auto distribution digital solutions company Epikar said on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for R&...
Jan 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
Lotte Chem to sell Pakistan unit for $156 mn to finance other projects
Lotte Chemical Corp. is set to sell its Pakistan unit for 192.4 billion won ($155.8 million won) to a chemical company in the country as the South K...
Jan 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ECM/DCM
S.Korean brokerage lowers stock forecast for S-Oil over poor prospects
South Korea's Eugene Investment & Securities on Monday cut S-Oil Corp.'s target share price from 140,000 won ($113.5) to 133,000 won due to a lo...
Jan 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Korean cosmetics shares rise as China reopens borders
Shares in South Korean cosmetics brands are gaining momentum after brokerage houses lifted their target prices on expectations that China’s bo...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korea resumes egg imports in 13 months due to soaring prices
As egg prices soared due to the spread of bird flu or avian influenza, the South Korean government resumed imports of eggs to ease price pressure.It...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Hancom Frontis to develop AI digital human, 3D scanning project
Hancom Frontis, a Hancom Group company specializing in the metaverse, said on Tuesday that it has signed a three-way agreement with the Tech Univers...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Cosmax shows off advanced beauty tech at CES with Seoul Nat'l Univ.
Cosmax, a cosmetics original design manufacturer (ODM) of South Korea, said on Tuesday that it unveiled the beauty technology developed jointly ...
Jan 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
KSOE to develop large-capacity fuel cells with Europe's research center
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), an intermediate holding company of HD Hyundai Co., has decided to develop fuel cells for mar...
Jan 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Diverging lithium, nickel prices unnerve Korean battery makers
The prices of lithium and nickel, key minerals for electric vehicle batteries, have been diverging since late last year, which is set to further wid...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Daewoong, Onchorus to undertake research on mRNA anticancer drugs
Daewoong Pharmaceutical said on Thursday that it has signed a joint R&D and commercialization agreement with America's biopharmaceutical venture...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Innovators at CES 2023
Golfzon to showcase portable golf simulator at CES 2023
Golfzon Co., a global indoor golf equipment maker, will participate in CES 2023 in Las Vegas to showcase its "Wave Play" product line, which targets...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
K-defense sector to reach annual export of $16 bn for two consecutive years
The South Korean defense market is forecast to sign export contracts worth more than 20 trillion won (15.7 billion) combined this year on the back o...
Jan 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
S.Korea's top 2 LPG importers E1 and SK Gas cut supply price
South Korea's two major importers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), E1 Corp. and SK Gas Corp., have both cut their supply price of LPG in the first ...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Solvay named preferred bidder to buy Solus Biotech
Belgian chemicals maker Solvay S.A. has been selected as the preferred bidder to acquire South Korean biomaterials maker Solus Biotech, according to...
Dec 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Korea auto output to increase slightly in 2023: research
Domestic automobile output next year is forecast to increase 1.4% over this year to 3.7 million units.The Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association...
Dec 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Medipost's Cartistem shows effects on patellar cartilage defect patients
Medipost's knee osteoarthritis treatment Cartistem has been mentioned in a renowned international journal, showing that it is effective even in pati...
Dec 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
CU to make instant VAT refund for foreign customers
BGF Retail, a franchiser that operates convenience store chain CU, said on Tuesday that it would implement an instant VAT refund service for foreign...
Dec 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S. Korea foresees recession in falling freight prices, wages
Global ocean freight prices are falling amid a darkening outlook for South Korea, as Asia’s fourth-largest economy heavily depends on overseas...
Dec 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
85% of S.Korea's Gen MZ have contactless savings accounts
A study finds 90% of South Korea's Generation MZ, a demographic comprising millennials and Generation Z members born between 1981 and 2010, use cont...
Dec 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
US non-agency mortgage-backed securities to shine in 2023: TCW
Amid the tightening of the Federal Reserve, among the most impacted asset classes were agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), issued by US governm...
Dec 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
More S.Koreans buy, sell homes online without realtors
South Korea’s top online flea market Danggeun Market and other platforms are growing more popular for property deals as home sellers look for ...
Dec 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)