European mid-market investment
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Retail
GS25 to challenge Daiso in low-cost cosmetics market
South Korean convenience store chain GS25 said on Sunday it would expand the lineup of affordable and small-pack basic cosmetic products, targeting ...
Aug 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Slowing economy creates opportunity for S. Korean used car sellers
South Korea’s used car sellers hope to take advantage of the slowing economic growth at home and abroad to expand their market shares.Lotte Re...
Aug 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Jeju Air seeks M&A, igniting race for top place in Korea's LCC market
Jeju Air Co., a leading South Korean low-cost carrier (LCC), will likely seek the acquisition and merger of a rival small airline operator amid inte...
Aug 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
Samsung invests in US AI security startup Protect AI
Samsung Venture Investment Corp., Samsung Electronics Co.'s venture capital firm, has invested in Protect AI Inc., a US startup offering a security ...
Aug 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
SK On logs record quarterly loss on sluggish EV market
SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest battery maker, on Thursday reported a record quarterly loss on the prolonged weakness in the electric veh...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea Investment manages Vista Land $50 mn global bond issuance
Korea Investment & Securities Co. announced on Thursday that its Hong Kong subsidiary KIS Asia managed the issuance of $50 million in global bon...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
LG CNS gears up for 2025 IPO with $5.1 billion in enterprise value
LG CNS Co., the information technology service unit of South Korea’s LG Group, is gearing up for an initial public offering early next year, o...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hyundai Engineering gets Hillsboro solar power plant rights
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Co. announced on Thursday that it acquired a 260 MW Hillsboro Solar Power Plant project from OCI Energy. This is H...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Lotte Rental establishes UAE subsidiary
South Korea's Lotte Rental Co. said on Thursday that it established an overseas subsidiary in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to boost the expo...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Woori Financial Group relaunches brokerage arm
Woori Financial Group has returned to South Korea’s brokerage service market after a decade with the launch on Thursday of Woori Investment &a...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
MezzoMedia acquires digital ad agency DBASE&
MezzoMedia, a digital marketing solutions company under South Korea's entertainment company CJ ENM Co., announced on Thursday that it acquired the d...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Central Asia emerging as South Korea’s new used car export market
South Korea’s export volume of secondhand vehicles to Central Asia is increasing for an unexpected reason: Russia.According to the Korea Inter...
Jul 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korean commercial real estate market to show slow recovery in H2
South Korea’s commercial real estate market will post a slow recovery in the second half of this year due to rate cut delays and no big correc...
Jul 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
EcoPro BM may cut battery materials capacity on EV slowdown
South Korea’s leading battery materials maker EcoPro BM Co. is considering reducing cathode output capacity despite continuous investments in ...
Jul 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Shinsegae Factory Store to enter Laos in 2025
South Korea's Shinsegae Department Store announced on Wednesday that its off-price retail chain, Shinsegae Factory Store, will expand its global foo...
Jul 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Toss Securities to establish New York subsidiary
South Korea's Toss Securities will establish a subsidiary in New York, the US to to expand its overseas business. The company announced on Tues...
Jul 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Samsung SDI’s Q2 profit drops on sluggish European EV sales
Samsung SDI Co., the world’s sixth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, saw its second-quarter operating profit plunge from the year-earlie...
Jul 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
NCSOFT invests in Swedish game startup Moon Rover Games
NCSOFT Corp., a South Korean game developer, said on Tuesday it has made an early stage investment of $3.5 million in Swedish game startup Moon Rove...
Jul 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Kyochon Chicken opens first store in Vancouver
South Korea's fried chicken chain Kyochon F&B announced on Tuesday that it opened its first store in Vancouver, Canada.Kyochon F&B opened Ky...
Jul 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean SMEs
KOSME, CJ Olive Young support K-beauty SMEs to enter US
Korea SMEs and Startups Agency (KOSME) announced on Tuesday that it held online and offline marketing and buyer meetings in partnership with CJ Oliv...
Jul 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Telecom's X Caliber to enter SE Asian pet market
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a contract to supply X Caliber, an AI-based pet diagnosis assistance solution, to t...
Jul 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, LG bet big on gaming monitors on esports boom
South Korea’s electronics giants Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are gearing up for a fierce battle in the gaming monitor mark...
Jul 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai gives advanced air mobility demo in Indonesia
Hyundai Motor Group on Monday unveiled its advanced air mobility (AAM) technology and demonstrated an AAM prototype aircraft, or a flying car, in In...
Jul 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
S.Korea relinquishes control to China in smaller OLED market
LG Display Co. and Samsung Display Co. lost ground to their Chinese rivals in the global small and mid-sized organic light-emitting diode (OLED) pan...
Jul 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kumho Tire holds Latin American dealer convention
South Korea's Kumho Tire Co. announced on Friday that it held the Kumho Dealer Convention event from July 20 to 22 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, inviting ab...
Jul 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Kolmar Korea, Sensient Beauty to co-develop pigments
Kolmar Korea, a supplier to global cosmetics brands such as Estee Lauder, announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) wit...
Jul 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
China is LG H&H’s headache amid global K-beauty boom
South Korean cosmetics giant LG H&H Co. has yet to benefit from the global K-beauty boom due to its heavy dependence on China, the world’s...
Jul 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Lotte Wellfood expands dairy exports to Vietnam
South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Thursday that it will increase dairy exports to the Vietnamese market.The products newly exported to V...
Jul 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung tipped to supply HBM3 to Nvidia for Chinese market
Samsung Electronics Co. has passed Nvidia Corp.’s qualification tests for its fourth-generation high-bandwidth memory, or HBM3 chips, for use ...
Jul 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai eyes Japan’s commercial EV market in e-bus deal with Iwasaki
South Korean top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Tuesday it is supplying its all-electric Elec City Town buses to Iwasaki Group, effectively ent...
Jul 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)