Japan Mobility Show 2023
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Retail
Lotte Home Shopping to unveil Bellygom game
South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Monday that it will release a mobile game called Bellygom Match Land, leveraging the intellectual pro...
Jun 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Southeast Asia, Korea Inc’s new IT outsourcing powerhouse
PHNOM PENH – South Korean technology companies grappling with prolonged software developer shortages are actively broadening their search for ...
Jun 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea beats Japan in GNI per capita for 1st time in 2023
South Korea outstripped Japan in terms of per capita gross national income (GNI) for the first time in 2023, central bank data showed, with the Japa...
Jun 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Korea’s non-financial firms rush to issue perpetual bonds
Perpetual bond offerings by non-financial firms in South Korea are poised to hit new records this year as many companies have flocked to the hybrid ...
Jun 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Korea’s Kakao Mobility unveils global ride-hailing app to court Uber
Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s top ride-hailing service provider, on Tuesday introduced the release of its global app, taking on global g...
Jun 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Samsung launches CSR mobile magazine
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it launched the Samsung CSR Mobile Magazine, an online webzine dedicated to highlighting the compan...
Jun 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Lotte Chilsung Krush beer enters Mongolian market
South Korea's Lotte Chilsung Beverage announced on Friday that its beer brand Krush entered the Mongolian market. The company sponsored Davaida...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Kakao Mobility, Archer to collaborate for K-UAM commercialization
South Korea's Kakao Mobility Corp. announced on Friday that it signed an agreement with Archer Aviation, the US-based urban air mobility (UAM) aircr...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s April factory output rebounds amid weak consumption
South Korea’s factory production rebounded in April on healthy manufacturing while domestic consumption and capital expenditures dipped, indic...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Ferrari unveils 12Cilindri in S.Korea, 1st time in Asia
INCHEON -- Italian sports car maker Ferrari S.p.A. on Thursday unveiled the 12Cilindri with a V12 petrol engine in South Korea for the first time in...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Tencent-backed Shift Up seeks June IPO at $2.6 bn value
South Korean gaming firm Shift Up Corp. is eyeing an initial public offering on the main Kospi in June, with an enterprise value of 3.48 trillion wo...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Everybot buys AI mobility company hycore
South Korea's service robot company Everybot Inc. acquired AI robot mobility specialist hyCore to expand into the personal mobility sector. Everybo...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
HYBE offers to sell $62 mn SM Entertainment shares
HYBE Co., the company behind global sensations BTS and NewJeans, has offered to sell some of its shares in K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co. in a b...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Samsung Securities faces trading system server errors
Samsung Securities Co., the brokerage unit of South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung Group, suffered system errors on its servers on Monday mo...
May 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Rights offerings
Kolon to invest additional $9 million in ride-hailing Papa Mobility
South Korea’s Kolon Group plans to invest an additional 12.4 billion won ($9.1 million) in Papa Mobility Co., bringing its total investment in...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Samil PwC expands global foothold with Carlyle's Japan KFC deal
Global accounting industry leader PricewaterhouseCoopers’ South Korean member firm is expanding its foothold with global mergers and acquisiti...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix mulls HBM production in Japan, US
SK Hynix Inc. is investigating the possibility of building a plant for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), vital for generative artificial intelligence, in...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG CNS' marketing platform MOP surpasses 800 corporate customers
South Korea’s LG CNS Co., a cloud computing services arm of LG Corp., announced on Thursday that its Marketing Optimization Platform (MOP), la...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Broadband's Filmotalk surpasses 6.6 mn cumulative views
South Korea’s internet service provider SK Broadband Co. announced on Wednesday that the cumulative viewership of its offline film talk concer...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Japan’s Toray to spend $366 mn on Korean capacity expansion
Japan’s Toray Industries Inc., the leading global carbon textile manufacturer, plans to spend 500 billion won ($366.3 million) to expand eco-f...
May 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Nexon releases Dungeon & Fighter Mobile in China
South Korea’s online game developer Nexon Korea Corp. on Tuesday officially launched the action role-playing game (RPG) Dungeon & Fighter ...
May 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Indonesia discuss hydrogen, EV cooperation
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun has discussed cooperation on hydrogen-fueled cars and electric vehicles (EVs) with the Indonesian economy ...
May 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea Inc. nearly triples dividend payments in decade
Cash dividend payments by companies listed on the Korea Exchange, the country's main bourse, have nearly tripled in a decade. They have returned a l...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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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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Beauty & Cosmetics
Korean beauty brands show signs of turnaround in China
South Korean cosmetics brands are showing signs of a turnaround in China, with their sales in the neighboring country recovering from the slump over...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Kookmin Bank, Cambodian Central Bank to build payment system
South Korea's KB Kookmin Bank announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the National Bank of Cambodia to establish...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
HL Mando, Kakao Mobility to develop autonomous parking robots
HL Mando Corp., an electric vehicle and self-driving system developing unit of South Korea's HL Group, announced on Thursday that it signed a busine...
May 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private debt
M&A rebound will drive private credit volume increase: Golub Capital
As the Federal Reserve signaled delays in rate cuts after meeting earlier this month, more investors have adopted for a wait-and-see attitude. Those...
May 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Naver to submit remedies to Japan without A Holdings stake sale
LY Corp., the operator of Japan’s popular messenger app Line, is expected not to propose Naver Corp.’s stake sale in its largest stakeho...
May 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Beauty store chain CJ Olive Young to launch Japan unit
CJ Olive Young Corp., South Korea’s largest beauty store chain, will set up a subsidiary in Japan in the first half of this year to mark its f...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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