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Batteries
Doosan joins hands with China’s CNGR for battery recycling
South Korea’s plant and machinery powerhouse Doosan Group teamed up with China’s CNGR Advanced Material Co. to expand its electric vehicl...
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AgTech
Avalve to export $1.5 mn smart farm solution to Vietnam
South Korea's smart farm startup Avalve announced on Friday that it signed a total of $1.5 million in memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with Vietna...
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Securities leads M&A of Trench Group
South Korea's Shinhan Securities announced on Friday that it participated as the lead underwriter in the merger and acquisition deal of Trench Group,...
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Private equity
Hahn & Co. overhauls Namyang board, ending family control
Private equity firm Hahn & Co. on Friday won shareholder approval to replace the board of directors at Namyang Dairy Products Co. with its execut...
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Hyundai Heavy wins record $463 million warship deal from Peru’s Navy
South Korea’s top shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. said on Friday it has won a $463 million contract to build four warships for Peru...
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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-Bo...
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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 powe...
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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 Perf...
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korea’s 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 Techno...
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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, organi...
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Markets
HSBC faces criminal charges for naked shorting in Korea
South Korean prosecutors on Thursday filed criminal charges against HSBC and three of its traders, accusing them of illegal short selling worth 15.8 ...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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 ...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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, has swept the 2024 World Car Awards, a global premier standard for automotive...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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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