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Korea’s factory output rebounds in Feb on chip recovery

South Korea’s factory activity last month bounced back in three months thanks to a strong recovery in the country’s semiconductor sector but consumption dwindled with people tightening their belts amid stubborn inflation, which could complicate the recovery of Asia&rs

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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor opens N brand tuning online shop

Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Friday that it opened an online shop for its high-performance car N brand's tuning, The N Performance Shop. The N Performance Shop offers products developed in collaboration with parts brands, verified through Hyundai Motor's participation in g

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Electronics
Samsung unveils 2024 TV lineup at Changi Airport

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday hosted an event at Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore to unveil its 2024 new TV lineup, including Neo QLED, organic light-emitting diode (OLED), and Lifestyle TV models, the company announced on Friday. Jewel Changi is a multicultural space

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HD KSOE, Infineon team up for ship electrification
Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE, Infineon team up for ship electrification

South Korea’s top shipbuilder HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) joined hands with German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG for ship electrification to accelerate the development of eco-friendly vessels amid tougher marine emissions regulations.HD KSOE and Infineon said on Friday they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to jointly develop applications for the electrification of marine engi

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  • NH Investment gets APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules
    Banking & Finance
    NH Investment gets APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules

    South Korea's NH Investment & Securities announced Friday that it obtained the global personal information protection certification APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (APEC CBPR).According to the company, the first South Korean security attained APE

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  • Taihan Cable wins $81 mn power network replacement order in US
    Energy
    Taihan Cable wins $81 mn power network replacement order in US

    South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. announced on Friday that it secured a project of 110 billion won ($81.5 million) to replace aging power networks in the US. This marks its largest US project to date.With this project, Taihan Cable &

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  • Doosan Robotics, Bodyfriend to collaborate on marketing
    Advertising & Marketing
    Doosan Robotics, Bodyfriend to collaborate on marketing

    South Korea's Bodyfriend Inc. announced on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Doosan Robotics Inc. for co-marketing the healthcare robot and collaborative robot. Under the agreement, Bodyfriend will install Doosan Roboti

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  • LG OLED TV's new theme: Empathetic, personalized AI
    Electronics
    LG OLED TV's new theme: Empathetic, personalized AI

    LG Electronics Inc., the world’s No. 1 OLED TV producer, defines artificial intelligence as empathetic intelligence for customers. On Wednesday, the South Korean electronics company unveiled its upgraded OLED TV featuring more responsive and pe

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JB investors urged to oppose Align's call for board overhaul
Corporate governance
JB investors urged to oppose Align's call for board overhaul

Global proxy advisors International Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. have expressed their opinion that there is no need for South Korea’s JB Financial Group to accept Align Partners Capital Management Inc.’s deman

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Corporate governance
NPS to vote in favor of KT&G CEO candidate Bang

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is slated to vote in favor of the KT&G Corp. board’s nomination of Bang Kyung-man as the next chief executive officer, investment banking sour

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Real estate
Samsung Fire headquarters up for sale at about $746 mn

The Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co. headquarters building in Seoul is on the market at a valuation of more than 1 trillion won ($746 million), investment banking sources said on Wednesday.The property owner Koramco REITs Management and Trust

Mar 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

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Real estate
Daishin to sell its headquarters at $493 mn to NH-Amundi

South Korea’s Daishin Securities Co. is set to sell its headquarters office to NH-Amundi Asset Management Co. for 660 billion won ($492.6 million) to spur the brokerage house’s investment banking and corporate finance businesses, sources

Mar 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

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Real estate
Real estate firms up for sale amid lasting market downturn

A growing number of private real estate firms are being put up for sale in South Korea amid a prolonged market downturn and increasing delinquencies in property development project finance. Fastfive Co., a co-working space operator, sold a 100% stak

Mar 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)

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    Euroclear to trade Korean treasuries via omnibus account

    The National Tax Service (NTS) of South Korea said on Tuesday that Euroclear Bank SA/NV and Clearstream Banking S.A., two major clearing houses for securities traded in Europe, will trade Korean treasuries for foreigners via their omnibus accounts at Korea Securities Depository (KSD) from June.NTS said on March 26 that it has approved Brussels-base

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  • Economy
    BTS, Blackpink economy: Korea’s IP rights trade at record surplus

    While the economic impact of US singer Taylor Swift is so powerful that pundits coined words like “the Taylor Swift economy,” no less strong is the economic power of South Korean pop artists such as BTS, Blackpink and Twice.According to the Bank of Korea (BOK) on Wednesday, the country’s intellectual property (IP) rights trade pos

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  • Foreign exchange
    Korean investors’ yen savings flirt with record high

    South Korean retail investors, hunting for bargains, have flocked to shovel in the Japanese currency hovering around its record low value in anticipation of an end to the Bank of Japan’s eight-year negative rate policy, but their investment return is warned to be lower than expected due to the BOJ's still-dovish stance. According to Bank of K

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Korea eyes $1.5 bn injection in KDB for chip, battery sectors
Economy
Korea eyes $1.5 bn injection in KDB for chip, battery sectors

South Korea may inject some 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) into Korea Development Bank (KDB) by the end of this month to support the state-run bank's financing plans focused on the chip and secondary battery industries, according to the government on Monday.KDB and other state-owned financial institutes such as Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) and Kor

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