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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hanwha buys S’pore Dyna-Mac’s stake for $73.8 mn from Keppel
South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group bought a stake in Dyna-Mac Holdings Ltd., a Singaporean floating facility designe...
May 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino triples revenue
Jeju Dream Tower Casino, located on South Korea's top tourist island of Jeju and run by Lotte Tour Development Co., surpassed $6 million in cumula...
May 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Elec sees AI air conditioner sales 30% increase in Q1
LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday that the sales of air conditioner models equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) features in the Whisen l...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
S.Korean gov’t selects six overseas cities for K-City Network
The South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on Wednesday that it selected six cities including Indonesia's Jakarta, Vi...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Keppel REIT to sell Seoul-based prime office T Tower
Singapore’s Keppel REIT Management Ltd. is set to divest of its Seoul-based prime office building T Tower near Seoul Station.Real estate manag...
Apr 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Samsung C&T to build Korea’s first $103 mn hydrogen tank for power plant
Samsung C&T Corp., the construction and trading unit of South Korea’s Samsung Group, has clinched a 140 billion won ($103 million) deal to...
Apr 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LG Electronics named Energy Star Partner of 2024
LG Electronics Inc. has been named 2024 Energy Star Partner of the Year and Sustained Excellence by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Shinhan to build landmark office tower for non-banking units
Shinhan Financial Group Co., South Korea's second-largest financial group, plans to build a new high-rise office tower in Seoul’s central busi...
Mar 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Samsung C&T defeats activist funds in proxy battle
Activist funds arm in arm to demand higher dividends from Samsung C&T Corp. got defeated in a proxy fight against the de facto holding firm of S...
Mar 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG CNS to develop AI platform of S.Korean government
South Korea’s LG CNS Co., a cloud computing services arm of LG Corp., announced on Sunday that it plans to develop a government-wide hyperscal...
Mar 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Seoul landmark Donuimun D Tower put up for sale
South Korean real estate firm Mastern Investment Management is set to sell off Donuimun D Tower, a landmark office building in Seoul, for about 900 ...
Mar 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Palliser Capital backs proxy fight with Samsung C&T
Palliser Capital, a London-based hedge fund, said on Sunday it will vote in favor of other activist shareholders’ proposals for Samsung C&...
Mar 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Bioepis to supply Hadlima to US government
South Korea’s Samsung Bioepis and the US-based Organon, the local partner company of Samsung group's biopharmaceutical research and developmen...
Feb 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Perigee, Philippines gov’t to recycle small launch vehicle
South Korea's Perigee Aerospace Inc. announced on Tuesday that it has discussed collaboration with the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) for the laun...
Feb 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Activist funds to wage proxy battle with Samsung C&T
Five activist funds have joined hands to wage a proxy battle with Samsung C&T Corp., demanding additional share buybacks and dividend increases....
Feb 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
T’way, Air Premia to take off with Korean Air-Asiana merger
The proposed 1.8 trillion-won ($1.3 billion) merger between Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc. will offer a tailwind to South Korea&rsquo...
Feb 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung C&T develops new cooling system for data centers
Samsung C&T Corp. announced on Wednesday that it collaborated with the domestic cooling system tech company DataBean to develop and commercializ...
Feb 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung’s Lee cleared of charges over Samsung C&T merger
The Seoul Central District Court on Monday acquitted Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee of charges of being involved in illegal activities ...
Feb 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Samsung C&T, Hyundai E&C see higher profits in 2023 on overseas projects
Samsung C&T Corp.'s construction unit and Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. stood out with increased profits last year on overseas proj...
Feb 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte World Tower sees record-high visitors in 2023
Lotte Property & Development Co. (Lotte P&D) announced on Wednesday that the total number of visitors to Lotte World Tower and Mall last yea...
Jan 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG unveils new air conditioner with AI smart care
LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday announced that it released 2024 LG Whisen Objet Collection Tower air conditioner, which features an artificial intel...
Jan 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
China to stop broadcast of S.Korean LoL league
China will stop the official broadcast of League of Legends (LoL) Champions Korea (LCK), according to the South Korean game industry. “There w...
Jan 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai Motor to launch advanced vehicle platform R&D division
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group will launch an advanced vehicle platform (AVP) research and development division, combining it...
Jan 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
Samsung C&T-UEM completes world's 2nd-tallest skyscraper in Malaysia
South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corp. announced on Thursday that its JV with UEM Construction completed the construction of the world's second t...
Jan 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean innovators at CES 2024
Samsung, LG unveils cutting-edge TVs to firm dominance
LAS VEGAS, NV -- Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc., the world’s two largest TV makers by sales, have introduced next-generation ...
Jan 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korea's perfume duty free limit to rise by 100 ml in 2024
South Korean government will raise the duty-free limit of perfume from 60 ml to 100 ml in January 2024. The Ministry of Economy and Finance announce...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
ViGenCell, NK/T cell lymphoma treatment ‘VT-EBV-N’ designated as orphan drug in Europe
ViGenCell, a company specializing in immune cell therapy, announced on the 19th that its NK/T cell lymphoma treatment "VT-EBV-N" has been designated...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Samsung C&T to join Oman's green ammonia project
South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corp. announced on Wednesday it will participate in the Salalah H2 green ammonia project in Oman, a major init...
Dec 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea’s GC Cell targets global cell therapy CDMO business
GC Cell Corp., an affiliate of South Korea’s major pharmaceutical company GC Biopharma Corp., is targeting the cell therapy contract developme...
Dec 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Samsung launches new growth engine control tower at mobile division
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of memory chips and smartphones, has created a business control tower within its Digital eX...
Dec 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)