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Retail
BGF Retail’s CU looks beyond Kazakhstan deep into Central Asia
Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country 27 times the area of South Korea, did not have any modernized convenience stores until early this year.The count...
Aug 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Amorepacific's Hera enters Thai market
South Korea's Amorepacific Corp. announced on Thursday that its premium color cosmetics brand Hera opened its first store on August 8 at Central Chi...
Aug 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Asan Nanum Foundation revamps fund management
The Asan Nanum Foundation, a nonprofit foundation set up in 2011 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hyundai founder Chung Ju-yung’s death,...
Aug 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
CPPIB global private equity head Suyi Kim to leave
Suyi Kim, global private equity head at Canada Pension Plan Investments Board (CPPIB), is set to leave the world’s seventh-largest pension fun...
Aug 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Companies
Hyundai AutoEver wins $66 mn public safety contract in Angola
Hyundai AutoEver Corp., a software subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group, secured consecutive contracts to build public safety systems in African countr...
Aug 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Financial opens new headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City
South Korea's Shinhan Financial Group opened a new headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.Shinhan Financial held an inauguration ceremony for t...
Aug 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Coupang, CJ CheilJedang end feud and resume Rocket Delivery
Coupang Inc., South Korea’s largest e-commerce platform, on Wednesday resumed the same- or next-day delivery service dubbed Rocket Delivery fo...
Aug 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Yanolja to restructure affiliates to boost profit before Nasdaq IPO
South Korea’s top travel and accommodation booking platform operator Yanolja Co. is seeking to streamline and restructure its affiliates to bo...
Aug 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Tous les Jours to enter Singapore market
CJ Foodville, the food service subsidiary of South Korea's CJ Group and the operator of the bakery chain brand Tous les Jours, announced on Monday t...
Aug 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea opens probe into Woori's loans to ex-chair's relatives
South Korea’s financial watchdog agency said on Sunday it has found that Woori Financial Group, the country's fourth-largest financial holding...
Aug 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Gas maker Air Products Korea put on sale for around $3.6 bn
US industrial gas maker Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has put its South Korean unit up for sale for an estimated 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion), in...
Aug 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG unveils Korea’s 1st open source AI to take on Meta, Google
LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-biggest conglomerate, on Wednesday introduced the country’s first open-sourced artificial intelligence la...
Aug 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Korean e-commerce startup funding sharply drops since 2022
South Korean e-commerce companies have seen a sharp decline in series A funding over the past three years amid intensifying competition with Chinese...
Aug 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
MLOps startup Vessl AI eyes 50% sales from US in 2025
Vessl AI, a South Korea-native MLOps platform-operating startup, is envisioning a takeoff in the US next year after building a concrete client base ...
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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Banking & Finance
Activist fund KCGI to buy Hanyang Securities for $180 mn
South Korean private equity firm KCGI Co. is expected to acquire local brokerage house Hanyang Securities Co. for 244.9 billion won ($179.8 million)...
Aug 04, 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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Electronics
LG Elec opens LG Labs experience pop-up zone
LG Electronics Inc. announced on Wednesday that it will operate the "Wow Life's Good Lab" pop-up zone at Ground 220 in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, until...
Jul 31, 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 chipmakers
SK Hynix aims for graphics chip supremacy with GDDR7 in Q3
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., said on Tuesday it plans to begin volume production ...
Jul 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
SM Entertainment, S.Korean startup Jienem to build K-Pop hotel
South Korea's residence operator startup Jienem announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Kreation Music Rights (K...
Jul 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
SGC E&C secures $92 mn chemical plant project in Malaysia
South Korea's SGC eTEC E&C Co. announced on Monday that it secured an additional chemical plant construction project in Malaysia worth 127.3 bil...
Jul 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
TMON, WeMakePrice file for court receivership amid liquidity troubles
TMON Inc. and WeMakePrice Co. – the e-commerce platforms owned by Singapore-based Qoo10 Pte. – have filed for court receivership amid co...
Jul 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
F&F to expand Discovery brand across Asia
F&F Co., a South Korean clothing company, said on Monday it signed an exclusive deal with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to bring the outdoor bran...
Jul 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
Sovereign wealth fund KIC shortlists three CEO candidates
South Korean sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has shortlisted three candidates as the next chief executive officer, who will...
Jul 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
E-Mart’s No Brand success story: A Korean snack chain goes global
When South Korean convenience store operator E-Mart Inc. launched its low-budget house label No Brand in 2015, few thought it would last long.Under ...
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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Energy
Samsung C&T to participate in basic design of Romania SMR
Samsung C&T Corp., the construction and trading unit of South Korea’s Samsung Group, will participate in the basic design of the Romanian ...
Jul 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Asan Nanum Foundation opens startup merchandise pop-up
The Asan Nanum Foundation announced on Wednesday that it opened a merchandise pop-up store in South Korea's startup for Maru Collect until August 25...
Jul 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
CJ CheilJedang to open Bibigo Market in Paris
South Korea's CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Monday that it will open Bibigo Market at the Korea House operated in Paris during the Olympics to p...
Jul 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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