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Korean food
K-food, fashion, beauty to up ante on global push in 2025
South Korean food, beauty and fashion companies, which have enjoyed robust demand for their products in overseas markets this year, will grow bolder...
Dec 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
South Korea mulls visa waiver for Chinese group tourists
South Korea is considering temporary visa exemptions for Chinese group tourists to boost the domestic tourism sector, after being spooked by the bot...
Dec 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hahn & Co. buys SK Enpulse’s chip wafer polishing pad business
Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. has agreed to buy the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pads manufacturing division of SK Enpulse C...
Dec 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
Online lender K Bank eyes Feb 2025 IPO at lower valuation
K Bank, a South Korean online lender, is making a fresh attempt to list on the Korean stock market in February 2025 as bitcoin’s record-breaki...
Dec 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Fried chicken chain bhc to enter Indonesia in 2025
South Korea’s fried chicken brand bhc Group said on Tuesday it signed a master license agreement with Indonesia's Nachindo Group to enter the ...
Dec 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Leonardo's Coulter named Hanwha Aerospace’s 1st foreign global chief
Hanwha Aerospace Co., a leading South Korean defense company, said on Monday it has hired Michael Coulter, a former senior executive at US-based Ita...
Dec 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Social media
Seoul probes fake online accounts of Hyundai Motor advisor Sung Kim
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency has launched an investigation into social media accounts pretending to be Hyundai Motor Group advisor Sung Kim,...
Dec 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hyosung TNC acquires Hyosung Chemical’s specialty gas unit for $642 mn
Hyosung TNC Corp., a South Korean textile and yarn maker, said on Thursday it will acquire the specialty gas division of Hyosung Chemical Corp. for ...
Dec 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Samyang Foods releases export-only ramyun brand in Thailand
South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. said on Wednesday it launched the new export-only ramyun brand Mep in Thailand. Mep is the second brand for the...
Dec 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korean stocks diverge: Winners, losers of Yoon’s martial law debacle
South Korean stocks showed clear divergences on Wednesday amid a mixed market outlook as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law declaration, re...
Dec 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
STX to export $60 mn wheeled armored vehicles to Peru
STX Corp., a South Korean general trading company, said on Monday it signed a contract with Fábrica de Armas y Municiones del Ejé...
Dec 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
POSCO to buy Korean robotics firm stake for steel business
South Korea’s steel-to-battery materials conglomerate POSCO Group will invest in the leading domestic robotics company to boost its ailing ste...
Dec 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Controversy brews over HYBE Chair Bang’s investment deal with PEFs
Bang Si-hyuk, founder and chairman of HYBE Co., the South Korean entertainment giant behind K-pop global sensations BTS and NewJeans, is embroiled i...
Nov 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Executive reshuffles
Lotte replaces 21 CEOs, slashes executive jobs by 22% in drastic reshuffle
South Korea’s retail-to-chemical conglomerate Lotte Group on Thursday replaced 21 chief executives across its affiliates and slashed executive...
Nov 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
SM's UK K-pop group Dear Alice to debut with Gamma
South Korea's SM Entertainment Co. partnered with the US-based music label "Gamma." to globally debut its first British K-Pop boy group Dear Alice.A...
Nov 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
K-Pop group ATEEZ tops Billboard 200 for 2nd Time
K-pop group ATEEZ has claimed their second No. 1 spot on Billboard's main album chart, the Billboard 200, with their latest mini-album, Golden...
Nov 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Lotte Group denies liquidity crisis rumors to calm bond holders
Lotte Group on Thursday denied liquidity crisis rumors sparked by Lotte Chemical Corp.'s struggle to meet a bond redemption request after the South ...
Nov 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
LG Group affiliates unveil value-up plans
LG Group affiliates— LG Display Co., LG Innotek, LG Chem Ltd., and LG Energy Solution Ltd. —unveiled their ambitious growth strategies o...
Nov 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
LG Group carries out modest management reshuffle
Cho Joo-wan will continue to lead LG Electronics Inc. as chief executive after its parent LG Group on Thursday carried out modest reshuffles in its ...
Nov 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Glenwood buys three waste management firms for about $190 mn
Glenwood Private Equity on Tuesday signed an agreement to buy three waste management companies from small South Korean business group Bubang for aro...
Nov 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
LS Group’s US magnet wire unit to go public with $1.4 bn value
The US magnet wire unit of South Korea’s leading electric power, materials and energy conglomerate LS Group is seeking an initial public offer...
Nov 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
CJ CheilJedang puts bio business on market for $4 bn
CJ CheilJedang Corp., South Korea’s largest food company, is seeking to sell its bio business for about 6 trillion won ($4.3 billion) in what ...
Nov 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Naver Band surpasses 6 mn MAU in US
South Korea’s Naver Corp. said on Friday its group-based social media platform Band reached 6.04 million monthly active users (MAU) in the Uni...
Nov 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Lotte Wellfood showcases K-Food at Vietnam Foodexpo
South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. said on Thursday it participated in Vietnam Foodexpo 2024 to promote Korean food and boost its market share in the ...
Nov 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korea’s DL Group to sell hotels for $462 mn in further restructuring
DL Group, South Korea’s petrochemical-to-construction conglomerate is putting some hotels on the market to raise an estimated 650 billion won ...
Nov 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Rose’s music video ‘APT.’ surpasses 300 mn views on YouTube
The music video for “APT.”, featuring girl group Blackpink's Rose in a duet with pop star Bruno Mars, has surpassed 300 million views on...
Nov 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hanwha Ocean wins $51.2 mn deal for two LNG carriers
Hanwha Ocean Co., South Korea’s third-largest shipbuilder, secured a new contract to build two LNG carriers, making it the domestic shipyard w...
Nov 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Samyang Foods' Buldak Ramen gets K-food Safety certification
South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. said on Thursday its Buldak Ramen (hot chicken flavor ramyun) received the domestic production certification K-food ...
Nov 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
GS Group, Notion to team up on AI capabilities
South Korea's GS Group signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Notion, the US-based popular collaboration software company to enhance its ...
Nov 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
S.Korea's BBQ enters world's most populous market, India
Genesis BBQ Group, the operator of a popular South Korean fried chicken brand, is expanding its market to South Asia by entering India, the world&rs...
Nov 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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