Jun. 18 Shopping Festival
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ESG
Lotte Shopping to raise $785 mn from Korean banks for ESG push
Lotte Shopping Co., the retail arm of South Korea's fifth-largest conglomerate Lotte Group, will tap 1 trillion won ($784.4 million) from two of the...
Jun 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Kooksoondang to export limited edition makgeolli to Japan in four years
Kooksoondang Co., a South Korean brewery that produces traditional rice-based wines, announced on Friday that it will export 100,000 bottles of the ...
Jun 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Seoul celebrates 10th anniversary of BTS debut in festive mood
Seoul is sprucing itself up to host a two-week celebration of the 10th anniversary of the global sensation BTS.The Seoul Metropolitan Government and...
Jun 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Biologics, Pfizer sign $411.3 mn agreement for long-term CDMO
Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s No. 1 contract drugmaker, announced a groundbreaking strategic partnership with Pfizer on Thursday, marking...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Culture & Trends
12-color ‘Lakeside Recital’ held by 12 poets in Como, Italy
COMO, ITALY -- Como, a lakeside city with a glacial lake at the foot of the Alps in northern Italy. The 13th European International Poetry Festival &l...
May 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Bioscience’s COVID-19 vaccine gets approval in UK
SK Bioscience Co., the drug-making unit of South Korea’s SK Group, said on Monday that its domestic COVID-19 vaccine, SKYCovione, has rec...
May 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Festival celebrating BTS’ 10th anniversary to be held in Seoul in June
BTS Festa 2023, a festival celebrating the 10th anniversary of BTS' debut, will take place June 12-25 across Seoul, their agency Big Hit Music annou...
May 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
KAI secures deal to export 18 FA-50 light fighters to Malaysia
South Korea’s sole military aircraft manufacturer Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd., (KAI) has finalized a contract to supply Malaysia with eigh...
May 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
LG Electronics enters antibacterial glass powder sector
LG Electronics Inc. on Wednesday said it will promote as one of its new growth engines antibacterial glass powder, or fine particles made with cru...
May 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Culture & Trends
Three S.Korean poets invited to European Int'l Poetry Festival
The European International Poetry Festival "Europa in versi" will be held in Como, a lake city near Milan, Italy, from May 19 to 21.Thirteen poets f...
May 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Virtual human YT debuts as SSG.COM’s shopping host
SSG.COM, the e-commerce brand of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Inc., announced on Tuesday that virtual human YT has been named the official sh...
May 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Korea’s Hanatour sees 1st profit in over 3 yrs on high-end service
Hanatour Service Inc., South Korea’s top travel agency, enjoyed its first quarterly profit in more than three years as it focused on high-end ...
May 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Daewoong Pharma to build third botulinum toxin plant for $746 mn
South Korea’s Daewoong Pharmaceutical next year will open a third plant to greatly expand annual output of its botulinum toxin Nabota at a cos...
May 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Hotel Shilla to challenge Lotte’s duty-free shop dominance in Korea
South Korean leading luxury hotel and retail operator Hotel Shilla is challenging its crosstown rival Lotte, the dominant player in the country&rsqu...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korean dept stores to lure foreigners with K-pop, festival
South Korean department stores are set to launch various programs such as a festival and sales of K-pop star merchandise to attract foreign tourists...
Apr 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Korea Tourism Organization to host K-Tourist Festival in Japan
The Korea Tourism Organization announced on Thursday that it will hold a "K-Tourism Festival" on Apr. 21-22 in Hiroshima and Fukuoka, the key market...
Apr 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Hanjin to open pop-up store for S.Korean fashion brand in LA
South Korea's Hanjin Transportation, a logistics unit of Hanjin Group, announced on Wednesday that it will hold a pop-up event to promote domestic e...
Apr 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai to spend $18 bn on EVs; Kia breaks ground on first PBV plant
South Korea’s largest automaker Hyundai Motor Group has unveiled its 2030 vision to become one of the world’s top three electric vehicle...
Apr 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte Shopping: Resurrected in Indonesia after death in China
JAKARTA – On a hot spring day in March, Lotte Mart’s Gandaria City Mall hypermarket was as bustling with shopping Indonesians as usual.I...
Mar 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Hyundai Dept. Store Duty Free to launch metaverse duty-free shop
South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Duty Free announced on Thursday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with OlimPlanet for ...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
S.Korea to host Asia's largest advertising festival for 1st time since 2007
Seoul in October will host Asia's largest advertising festival AdAsia. The organizers of this year's event aim to host more than just a conference a...
Mar 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
Korea's Innocean wins eight awards at Spikes Asia advertising festival
South Korea-based global marketing communications company Innocean said on Thursday that it received eight awards at the 2023 Spikes Asia, a prestig...
Mar 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Shilla Duty Free Shop selected as excellent partner by Changi Airport
The Shilla Duty Free Shop announced on Monday that it had received the Gold Award at the 2022 OneChangi App Awards held by Singapore's Changi Airpor...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
KAI inks deal to export 18 FA-50s to Malaysia
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) has secured a deal to export eighteen FA-50 light fighter jets to Malaysia for a sum of $920 million (1.2 tril...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Hyundai Dept. Store introduces AI chatbot service Jellppo
Hyundai Department Store Co. said on Sunday that it would introduce the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot "Jellppo." Jellppo is an AI-based one-o...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte Duty Free wins bid to operate Melborune Airport duty-free shop
Lotte Duty Free, an affiliate of the Lotte Group, won a bid for an Australian airport duty-free shop business, accelerating its move to bolster over...
Jan 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Aespa's first VR concert unveiles at the US music festival
AmazeVR, a virtual reality (VR) concert production and distribution platform company, said on Friday that "Aespa VR Concert at Kwangya" was official...
Jan 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
Lotte showcases metaverse shopping pavilion at CES 2023
Sitting on a chair, people with head-mounted displays enter a virtual world where they can choose their preferred avatars.Through these avatars, the...
Jan 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Samsung to unveil C-Lab startups, projects at CES 2023
Samsung Electronics Co. will showcase four projects and eight startups developed through its venture program C-Lab at CES 2023, the world's largest ...
Dec 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hyundai Home Shopping to divest rental unit for $107 mn
Hyundai Home Shopping Network Corp., a TV shopping channel operator owned by South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Group, said on Dec. 26 it will s...
Dec 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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