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Korean startups
South Korean startups' Tokyo fever sizzles
Despite the recent Line-Yahoo cacophony, South Korean entrepreneurs are continuing their advance into Japan to find the next big market.On Thursday,...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Shinsegae’s day of reckoning looms for online ambitions
Back in 2021, South Korea’s retail titan Shinsegae Inc. beat its archrival Lotte Shopping Co. to purchase Gmarket and Auction, the country's t...
May 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
HYBE conflict vs NewJeans label set to escalate into legal battle
HYBE Co., the company behind boy band BTS, has reported Min Hee-jin, the chief of popular girl group NewJeans’ label ADOR, to police for inves...
Apr 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Starfield launches 4th annual balloon festival with iconic character displays
Starfield, a chain of large shopping malls owned by Shinsegae, a South Korean retail company, announced on Friday that its 4th annual balloon festiv...
Apr 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix to invest $14.6 bn to build HBM plant in S.Korea
SK Hynix Inc. will spend 20 trillion won ($14.6 billion) to build a new memory chip manufacturing plant on a site originally designated to build a N...
Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Microsoft CEO to meet with Samsung, SK Hynix, LG, SK Telecom chiefs
Microsoft Corp.’s top executives will meet with leaders of South Korea’s four top technology companies next month to discuss ways to str...
Apr 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Samsung shifts to emergency mode with 6-day work week for executives
Executives at all Samsung Group units will work six days a week from as early as this week in a shift to emergency mode. The move comes as the won's...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
S.Korea asks savings banks to raise capital to avoid crisis
South Korea’s top financial regulator advised about 10 local savings banks in trouble to increase their capital by the end of this month to pr...
Apr 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Paradigm Shift attracts $290k seed bridge investment
Paradigm Shift, the operator of the exercise diary app for middle-aged women Heroines, announced on Monday that it attracted a seed bridge investm...
Apr 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG CNS hosts Startup Day in Silicon Valley
LG CNS Co., an information technology service company under South Korean conglomerate LG Group, announced on Thursday that it held the Startup Day i...
Apr 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Kakao Entertainment seeks restructuring, closer ties with Piccoma
South Korea's Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of mobile platform giant Kakao Corp., is seeking renewed growth through corporate restructuring and ...
Apr 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Hanwha Aerospace to spin off non-core units to focus on defense business
Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s answer to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is spinning off its non-core units to focus on defense and aerospace b...
Apr 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Tata Daewoo to build plant for producing trucks in Saudi Arabia
South Korea's Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company announced on Monday that it will build a production plant in Saudi Arabia.Tata Daewoo signed a ...
Apr 01, 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 N...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
CJ Logistics introduces LoIS Parcel system
South Korea's CJ Logistics announced on Tuesday that it completed the nationwide implementation of its next-generation parcel system LoIS Parcel.T...
Mar 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
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 ...
Mar 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
ISS urges KT&G shareholders to vote against CEO candidate Bang
Global leading proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) has recommended that stakeholders of South Korean tobacco maker KT&G ...
Mar 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte brings Louis Vuitton diamond collection to S.Korea
South Korea's Lotte Department Store announced that it launched Louis Vuitton's LV Diamond Collection on Mar. 14 at Lotte World Tower Avenuel Jamsil...
Mar 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Samsung Electro-Mechanics to supply hybrid camera lenses to Hyundai
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, plans to begin supplying hybrid lenses for automotive camera modules ...
Mar 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
SK Signet to supply EV fast chargers in Ohio
SK Signet Inc., South Korea's electric vehicle (EV) charger manufacturer, announced on Thursday that it will supply fast chargers to the site of the...
Mar 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment banking
Korea's NH Investment shortlists 3 CEO candidates
South Korean brokerage house NH Investment & Securities Co. has shortlisted three candidates for its next chief executive as the current CEO Jeo...
Mar 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Bespoke AI Combo sells 1,000 units in three days
Samsung Electronics Co. 's the Bespoke AI Washer & Dryer Combo surpassed 1,000 units sold in three days, Feb. 24 to 26. The Bespoke AI C...
Feb 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Zuckerberg to meet LG CEO for XR headset development
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of US tech giant Meta Platforms Inc., will meet LG Electronics Inc. CEO Cho Joo-wan in Seoul around Feb. 28 to disc...
Feb 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Meta’s Zuckerberg to visit Korea on possible AI partnership
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of US tech giant Meta Platforms Inc. plans to visit South Korea later this month and meet key figures including Pre...
Feb 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
GM chair to visit Korea, meet LG Energy, Samsung SDI CEOs
General Motors Chair and Chief Executive Mary Barra will visit South Korea on Wednesday to meet leaders of LG Energy Solution Ltd. and Samsung SDI C...
Feb 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung’s Lee to spur M&As, new growth with ‘lost decade’ behind him
Cleared of wrongdoing charges that shackled his leadership for years, Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee now will actively seek mergers and acquisition...
Feb 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korea’s next tech wave in music to mushroom culture
Investors on the hunt for the next big thing in South Korea explored the country’s next wave of technology at this year’s first demo day...
Jan 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Samsung flexes AI chip muscles ahead of Altman visit
Samsung Electronics Co. will go all out to win the AI chip race with its most advanced AI memory chip products, its semiconductor business head said...
Jan 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
SK Group reintroduces Saturday CEO meeting after 20 years
South Korea’s energy-to-telecom conglomerate SK Group has decided to reintroduce Saturday gatherings of its subsidiaries' chief executives aft...
Jan 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Galaxy S24 sees record Indian pre-orders in three days
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s No. 2 smartphone maker, said its latest flagship smartphone Galaxy S24 series enjoyed record pre-orders i...
Jan 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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- 3 NPS yet to schedule external manager selection; PE firms’ fundraising woes deepen
- 4 Woori Financial wins approval for Tongyang, ABL Life acquisition
- 5 BMW surpasses Mercedes in Korean sales amid imported vehicle market shake-up