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  • Korean stock market
    LG Chem stock plunges -6.73%, worst dip since March

    LG Chem Ltd. suffered a broad sell-off on May 26, with more than 4 trillion won ($3.6 billion) of its market cap vanishing in a ...

    May 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • SK Innovation in CO2 capture, storage technology project

    SK Innovation Co. signed an agreement on May 26 to participate in South Korea's first government-led project to develop carbon c...

    May 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Hydrogen economy
    Hyundai Motor’s new XCIENT truck raises hydrogen game in Europe

    South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has unveiled an upgraded version of its fuel cell truck XCIENT, turning up t...

    May 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Korean startups
    Money flowing into fast-growing sneaker resale market

    South Korea-based online fashion platform Musinsa has spun off its sneaker resale platform SoldOut to create a subsidiary named ...

    May 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Entertainment
    HYBE’s $400 mn rights offering for Ithaca merger to open June 1-2

    HYBE Co., the music and entertainment agency behind BTS, on Jun 1-2 will open the subscription for its rights issue shares worth...

    May 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Pre-IPOs
    Masayoshi Son-led SoftBank to invest $2 bn in Yanolja

    Vision Fund, led by billionaire SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, has decided to invest around $2 billion in South Korea's largest...

    May 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Metaverse
    Metaverse makes digital nomads the new norm

    It’s been about four months since Lee Seul, a manager at real estate app Zigbang, worked from the company office in Gangna...

    May 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Steel
    China’s heavy imports of copper, steel scrap hurt Korean SMEs

    South Korea’s massive exports of scrap steel and scrap copper to China are hurting its domestic companies that are struggl...

    May 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Pension funds
    NPS to take longer-term approach to asset allocation

    The National Pension Service is planning to build an investment portfolio with a longer-term perspective for a period of at leas...

    May 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)

  • Carbon neutrality
    In the crosswinds of coal’s clean transition

    The recent announcement by President Moon Jae-in that South Korea will stop funding coal-powered plants overseas and expand its de...

    May 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)