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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...
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Electronics
LG OLED TVs' new theme: Empathetic, personalized AI
LG Electronics Inc., the world’s No. 1 OLED TV producer, defines artificial intelligence as empathy intelligence for customers. On Wednesday, t...
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Chemical Industry
Lotte Chemical applies recycled plastic to packaging
South Korea's Lotte Chemical announced on Thursday that it has applied recycled materials to all 25 kg packaging bags for polyethylene (PE) and polyp...
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Korean startups
LG Electronics spins off X-UP, 4 other in-house venture firms
LG Electronics Inc. said on Thursday it is spinning off five promising in-house venture firms as separate entities to strengthen South Korea’s ...
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Advertising & Marketing
HD Hyundai Develon wins iF Design Award
South Korea's HD Hyundai Infracore Co. announced on Thursday that its construction machinery brand Develon received the grand prize in the branding c...
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Batteries
POSCO Future M named Fortune Asia Future 30
South Korea’s POSCO Future M Co. has been named Asia Future 30 by the US economic media Fortune on Mar. 27, according to the company on Thursda...
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Automobiles
Kia, Hyundai sweep World Car Awards with EV9, IONIQ 5 N
NEW YORK – Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s No. 3 carmaker, swept trophies at the 2024 World Car Awards, a global premier standard for au...
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Economy
S.Korea, Thailand launch negotiations for EPA
South Korean and Thai governments declared the launch of negotiations for the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) on Thursday. South Korea’s M...
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG CNS, Sinar Mas to form JV in Indonesia
LG CNS Co., an information technology service company under South Korean conglomerate LG Group, announced on Thursday that it signed an investment a...
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung set to triple HBM output in 2024 to lead AI chip era
SILICON VALLEY – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, will likely triple its high bandwidth memory (HBM) chip p...
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Mergers & Acquisitions
KDB halts KDB Life sale process to take full control
The state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) has suspended the protracted sale process of KDB Life Insurance Co. to take full control of the insurer be...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
Nexen Tire partners with San Diego Padres
South Korea's Nexen Tire Corp. announced on Wednesday that it partnered with US Major League Baseball (MLB) team San Diego Padres.The Padres, founded...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Hyundai Motor aims for next takeoff with $51 billion investment
Hyundai Motor Group plans to spend 68 trillion won ($51 billion) and hire 80,000 new employees over three years as South Korea’s top automaker ...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, Henckels co-develop AI Combo detergent course
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Wednesday that it partnered with the global household and industrial goods company Henckels AG to introduce a de...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
K Enter moves step closer to Nasdaq listing in May
K Enter Holdings Inc., an umbrella entity of South Korea-based entertainment companies creating original entertainment content and managing related i...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia wins World's Greatest Auto Disruptors 2024
Kia Corp. won two categories of the Newsweek World’s Greatest Auto Disruptors Awards with the all-electric EV9 winning Research and Development...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
LG Group earmarks $74 bn for 5-year investment in Korea
LG Group, South Korea’s No. 4 conglomerate, on Wednesday announced a plan to invest 100 trillion won ($74 billion) through 2028 in its future g...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea’s Doosan Enerbility to develop aircraft engines
South Korea’s major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. plans to develop aircraft engines based on its turbine technology as its new grow...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LG Electronics named Energy Star Partner of 2024
LG Electronics Inc. has been named 2024 Energy Star Partner of the Year and Sustained Excellence by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
CJ Onstyle boosts live commerce unit
South Korea's CJ OnStyle announced on Wednesday that it broadened its mobile live commerce division by introducing programming, marketing, and new c...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hanmi Science-OCI merger may gain traction with NPS' support
The merger of South Korea’s pharmaceutical holding firm Hanmi Science Co. and chemicals giant OCI Holdings Co. is likely to gain momentum as Na...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Ferrari, SK On team up to innovate battery technology
Ferrari S.p.A. joined hands with SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery producer, to innovate cell technology as the Ita...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Universal Music acquires 10-year distribution rights to HYBE music
The world’s largest music company Universal Music Group (UMG) has struck an exclusive deal to distribute music from HYBE Co., the South Korean ...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Genesystem enters Indian tuberculosis treatment market
Genesystem, a South Korean biotech company said on Tuesday that it will export 20 on-site tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic devices and 6,000 TB test kits...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Networks prepares to put SK Rent-a-Car on market
SK Networks Co. is preparing to put SK Rent-a-Car Co. on the market in a deal worth an estimated 600 billion won ($448 million) as part of efforts to...
Mar 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
Licensed casual apparel brands' luster fades in Korea
The fad for licensed casual fashion brands appears to be cooling in South Korea, where American sports clubs, broadcasting networks and documentary c...
Mar 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Global quest to find modern elixirs enters new chapter
NEW YORK/ BOSTON – Longevity has long been the dream of humankind. China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang was obsessed with finding magic el...
Mar 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia taps ex-BMW, Mercedes-Benz designers for China, Europe
Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, has appointed former designers of German luxury carmakers BMW AG and Mercedes-Benz AG as chiefs of it...
Mar 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Asan Nanum Foundation invites innovators to startup pitch
The Asan Nanum Foundation, a nonprofit foundation set up in 2011 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hyundai founder Chung Ju-yung’s death, ...
Mar 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hidden Champions
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Point Mobile
Published: Sep 14, 2021
Last updated: May 10, 2022
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Buhmwoo Group
Published: Apr 21, 2021
Last updated: Jan 30, 2023
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Koh Young Technology Inc
Published: Sep 21, 2020
Last updated: Jan 20, 2023
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3G Technologies
Published: Sep 25, 2020
Last updated: Jul 06, 2021
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Jong Ie Nara
Published: May 26, 2021
Last updated: Apr 15, 2022
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