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Pension funds
NPS loses $1.2 bn in local stocks in Q1 on weak battery shares
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, lost 1.66 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in domestic stock ...
Apr 21, 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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Food & Beverage
Pepero enters Thailand’s King Power Duty Free
South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Friday that its thin chocolate-coated cookie sticks Pepero and no-sugar ice cream Zero entered King Po...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Older Voters Are Taking Over in the World’s Wealthy Democracies
SEOUL—On the surface, South Korea’s legislative election this week looks much like past votes. Candidates are holding rallies and partie...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
[Test] Older Voters Are Taking Over in the World’s Wealthy Democracies
SEOUL—On the surface, South Korea’s legislative election this week looks much like past votes. Candidates are holding rallies and partie...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to mass-produce industry’s fastest LPDDR5X DRAM in H2
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Wednesday it has developed an LPDDR5X DRAM chip that supports the industry’s fastest d...
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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Travel & Leisure
Lotte Home Shopping expands Japan tour packages
South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping said on Tuesday that it will expand its range of travel packages to Japan, including trips to Kyushu and Okinawa, ...
Apr 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Older Voters Are Taking Over in the World’s Wealthy Democracies
SEOUL—On the surface, South Korea’s legislative election this week looks much like past votes. Candidates are holding rallies and partie...
Apr 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Lotte Rental launches driver-inclusive rental service in Vietnam
Lotte Rental Co., South Korea's largest car rental firm, announced on Monday that it has launched a "Vietnam Driver-inclusive Rental Car."The servic...
Apr 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Lotte Innovate, Kolon Benit to cooperate on AI Solutions
South Korea’s Lotte Innovate (formerly, Lotte Data Communication Co. ) announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Kolon...
Apr 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Power transformer sales explode on AI boom: HD Hyundai Electric CEO
Cho Seok, chief executive of HD Hyundai Electric Co., is an outsider at Korea Inc.When he was named CEO of the power equipment maker in December 201...
Apr 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Mobis to unveil crab-walking car in S.Korea
South Korea’s Hyundai Mobis, the world’s sixth-largest auto parts supplier, announced on Thursday that it will participate in the 37th I...
Apr 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
As many as one in 10 residents in South Korea likely to be foreign by 2042
The number of foreign residents in South Korea is expected to rise steadily in the coming years to account for up to 10.1% of the country’s to...
Apr 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to produce 290-layer V9 NAND to win chip stacking war
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is set to begin mass production of 290-layer ninth-generation vertical (V9) NAN...
Apr 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte Home Shopping opens Bellygom pop-up in Myeongdong
South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Monday that it will open a Bellygom pop-up store at Lotte Duty Free's showroom Now in Myeongdong unti...
Apr 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG’s $5.5 billion LFP, ESS battery plants in Arizona to kick off in 2026
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker, said on Thursday its 7.2 trillion won ($5.5 billion) battery complex in Ari...
Apr 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korea reclaims crown from China as world’s top shipbuilder
South Korea reclaimed the crown from the Chinese as the world’s largest shipbuilder after three years last quarter, sweeping global orders for...
Apr 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte Duty Free rebrands LDF House to Now in Myeong-dong
South Korea’s Lotte Duty Free announced on Tuesday that it changed its duty-free showroom LDF House, which was opened last October in Myeong...
Apr 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Lotte Chemical applies recycled plastic to packaging
South Korea's Lotte Chemical announced on Thursday that it has applied recycled materials to all 25 kg packaging bags for polyethylene (PE) and poly...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia, Hyundai sweep World Car Awards with EV9, IONIQ 5 N
NEW YORK – Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s No. 3 carmaker, has swept the 2024 World Car Awards, a global premier standard for automotiv...
Mar 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia wins World's Greatest Auto Disruptors 2024
Kia Corp. won two categories of the Newsweek World’s Greatest Auto Disruptors Awards with the all-electric EV9 winning Research and Developmen...
Mar 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Hanwha Ocean develops VR-based special vehicle simulator
South Korea's Hanwha Ocean Co., the world's third-largest shipbuilder, announced on Tuesday that it has developed the world's first virtual realit...
Mar 26, 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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Food & Beverage
Nongshim to build instant noodle plant in Korea for exports
Nongshim Co., South Korea’s top instant noodle maker, is set to build a new factory in the country for exports of ramen, or ramyun, for the fi...
Mar 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix earmarks $91 bn to construct world's largest chip fab
SK Hynix Inc., the global No. 2 memory chipmaker, is slated to invest more than 120 trillion won ($90.7 billion) by 2046 to build the world’s ...
Mar 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Lotte Group to give more authority to outside directors
Food-to-retail conglomerate Lotte will expand the authority of outside directors by separating the roles of chief executives and board chairs at its...
Mar 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung rallies on expectations of Nvidia’s HBM order
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Samsung Electronics Co.'s stock zoomed on Wednesday after the world’s most famous AI chip provider Nvidia Corp. hinte...
Mar 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea’s Liner, the world’s No. 4 generative AI web product
South Korea’s home-grown artificial intelligence service Liner was ranked the world’s fourth-most popular generative AI web product as t...
Mar 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Sephora to exit S.Korean market in May
Sephora, the world's leading multi-brand beauty retailer and an affiliate of French luxury conglomerate LVMH, announced on Tuesday that it will exit...
Mar 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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