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LG Energy vows to get tough on battery patent infringement cases
Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carcinogens found in kids' goods sold on Chinese apps; Temu under probe
South Korea is looking into Chinese online shopping platforms as some products, including some for children, were found to contain cancer-causing sub...
Apr 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung faces dubious suit every 5 days from US patent trolls
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is battling an increasing number of patent infringement litigation cases from US patent trolls, the m...
Mar 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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South Korea gets tough with Chinese platforms AliExpress, Temu, Shein
South Korea plans to introduce a get-tough e-commerce policy on Chinese platforms such as AliExpress, Temu and Shein amid increasing complaints about...
Mar 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Seoul Semiconductor sues Amazon Europe for LED patent infringement
South Korea’s Seoul Semiconductor Co. said on Tuesday it had filed a complaint against multinational commerce giant Amazon with the European Un...
Mar 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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State intervention in HSCEI-tied ELS sale debacle could backfire: scholars
South Korea’s economics scholars oppose government-led countermeasures, including compensation packages, to handle mounting retail investor los...
Feb 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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S.Korea to build new English disclosure system
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) announced on Feb. 18 that it will broaden the scope of its English electronic disclosure serv...
Feb 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Delays in court rulings raise business risks for South Korean companies
Less than five years ago, Invossa, a cell and gene therapy for osteoarthritis, was expected to hit the global market with great fanfare.Developed by ...
Feb 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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S.Korea should cut inheritance, gift taxes to OECD levels: SME lobby chief
South Korea, which imposes some of the highest inheritance and gift taxes on businesspeople among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Devel...
Jan 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech spies face tougher Korean penalties; 18 years in jail for overseas leaks
South Korea plans to dole out harsher punishments for industrial espionage, with a proposal to triple the penalty for an overseas leak of national te...
Jan 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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S.Korea to scrap capital gains taxes on financial products
South Korea will scrap a plan to impose taxes on capital gains from financial products for all shareholders and further lower securities transaction ...
Jan 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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South Korea Ban Takes Dog Meat Off the Menu
SEOUL—Dog meat will no longer be allowed in South Korea, capping a decadeslong campaign against a controversial practice that many locals have ...
Jan 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
South Korea set to abolish financial investment gains tax: Yoon
South Korea plans to abolish capital gains taxes on financial investments to revitalize the lackluster domestic financial market and help individual ...
Jan 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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BNP Paribas, HSBC fined $20.4 million in Korea for naked short-selling
South Korea’s financial regulator has slapped a combined 26.52 billion won ($20.4 million) in fines on BNP Paribas SA, its Korean brokerage uni...
Dec 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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South Korea vulnerable to tech spies undeterred by soft penalties
When a former Samsung Electronics Co. executive was arrested on industrial espionage charges by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NI...
Nov 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea plans wider crackdown on foreigners’ short-selling
South Korea’s financial regulator plans wider investigations into illegal short-selling trades by major foreign investment banks to ease concer...
Oct 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea’s antitrust body grants conditional OK to Broadcom-VMware deal
South Korea’s antitrust regulator on Monday granted conditional approval for US smartphone components maker Broadcom Inc.’s proposed purc...
Oct 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Koreans work longer hours than OECD average? Not in some sectors
South Korea has had notoriously long working hours for decades.Long hours – alongside high levels of education and an increase of women in the ...
Oct 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea's GS Caltex faces FTC probe into intra-group trading
The Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has begun an investigation process for alleged intra-group transactions between GS Caltex Corp., the country&rs...
Oct 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Apple, Google may face $50.4 mn fine over in-app billing in Korea
Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google may be fined up to 68 billion won ($50.4 million) in South Korea for breaking the country’s in-app ...
Oct 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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S.Korea to extend forex trading hours from Oct. 4 to lure foreign dealers
South Korea will extend the operating hours of the domestic foreign exchange market from next month, allowing foreign currency dealers to directly pa...
Sep 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Broadcom fined $14.3 mn in Korea over Samsung contract
Broadcom Inc. a US smartphone components maker, was slapped with a fine of 19.1 billion won ($14.3 million) in South Korea on Thursday for allegedly ...
Sep 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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More Korean FSS retirees find jobs in legal, financial biz
More retirees of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) are snagging new jobs at private companies such as the banks they regulated during their ter...
Aug 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Big Bang deregulation poised to bolster S.Korean ST market
South Korea’s fractional investment market is gearing up for a grand opening after the government earlier this year unveiled security token off...
Aug 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fractional investing to gain traction in Korea with green light from FSC
Come September, South Korean investors will be able to freely and safely buy and sell fractions of artwork and even live cows just as they do with tr...
Jul 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
EcoPro, Hanwha Ocean, JYP among top MSCI inclusion candidates
EcoPro Co., Hanwha Ocean Co., JYP Entertainment Corp. and Kumyang Co. are the top candidates for inclusion in the MSCI Korea Index when the global st...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Go bolder with regulatory reform to foster unicorns in Korea: KERI
Regulatory reform is still slow in South Korea, obstructing innovation in technologies and industries, and the government must take bolder action to ...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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SGC Group slapped with over $7.7 mn fine for unfair internal trade
The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has imposed a fine of more than 10 billion won ($7.7 million) on SGC Group companies for unfair internal transactions...
Jul 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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3rd-gen. corporate succession in S.Korea slashes stake from 100% to 16%
South Korea's business sector is urging reform of the domestic inheritance tax system to alleviate problems in corporate succession, citing difficult...
Jun 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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EU’s new battery act comes with caveats; headache for Samsung, Apple
The European Union’s decision to go greener with batteries that cut carbon emissions and promote recycling comes with a few caveats, posing a h...
Jun 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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