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Batteries
Hanwha Solutions secures 9.7% stake in US battery materials company
Hanwha Solutions Corp., a South Korean company focused on energy services, petrochemicals and real estate development, recently acquired a 9.73% sta...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Rotem's unmanned electric trains exported to Malaysia start running
South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem has started running all of the unmanned electric trains it has exported to Malaysia.The company on Thursday said 4...
Mar 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Rights offerings
Hyundai Asan to sell $30.7 million worth of shares for capital restructuring
Hyundai Asan Co. under South Korean conglomerate Hyundai Group will raise 40 billion won ($30.7 million) in its seventh share sale since it was forc...
Mar 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Eastar Jet to add 7 airplanes with aim to rake in $111.2 mn in 2023 sales
Eastar Jet Co., a South Korean low-cost airline, will expand its fleet to 10 aircraft this year to resume flight services at home and abroad about t...
Mar 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
Hyundai E&C consortium breaks ground on $7 bn S-Oil Shaheen project
A South Korean consortium led by Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. has embarked on building 9.26 trillion won ($7 billion) petrochemical fa...
Mar 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
SK Group affiliates hire more female outside directors
Major affiliates of South Korea’s SK Group are recruiting a large number of female outside directors with the arrival of the season of regular...
Mar 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea lags Taiwan in GNI per capita for first time since 2002
South Korea’s gross national income (GNI) per capita dropped 7.7% on-year last year, coming in below that of its smaller rival Taiwan for the ...
Mar 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
S.Korea-Indonesia central banks renew currency swap agreement
Central banks of South Korea and Indonesia renewed a bilateral local currency swap arrangement to keep supporting trade and financial cooperation fo...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung launches new TV ad campaign in London ahead of global release
Samsung Electronics Co. is ramping up its marketing efforts for its latest line of high-end TVs, including the 2023 Neo QLED 8K model, with a giant ...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
S.Korea ranks fifth in global auto output for third straight year
South Korea’s auto production last year ranked fifth worldwide for the third year in a row.A report on world automotive output from the Korea ...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
S.Korea's GEPS logs 10.2% return on alternative assets in 2022
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) had a 4.4% loss on investment last year, seeing its assets under management (AUM) dr...
Mar 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
DB Insurance acquires Vietnam's 10th largest insurer VNI
DB Insurance has acquired Vietnam National Aviation Insurance (VNI), Vietnam's 10th-largest property and casualty(P&C) insurance company. With a...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea sees first decline in household loans in 20 years
Household loans in South Korea last year fell from 2021 for the first time in 20 years because of high interest rates, but credit card debt hit a re...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
SK Signet lands first order in UK worth $7.7 million
South Korea's SK Signet Inc., which produces ultra-fast chargers for electric vehicles (EVs), on Monday said its European branch SK Signet Europe in...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
AMCHAM head James Kim joins Hyundai Mobis as outside director
James Kim, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea (AMCHAM), is joining South Korea’s largest auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co....
Feb 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Hyundai Green Food breaks $1.5 billion in sales for first time in 2022
Hyundai Green Food Co., an affiliate of Hyundai Department Store Group, saw its main business unit of food surpass 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) in ...
Feb 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Husteel raked in record-high operating profit in 2022
South Korea's Husteel, the steel affiliate of Shinan Group, posted incredible results last year with operating profit breaking a company record of c...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Samsung Asset Management's bond-type ETF assets exceed $7.9 billion
Investment in South Korea is pouring into bond-type exchange-traded funds (ETFs) under the anticipation that interest rate hikes end this year. Such...
Feb 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea's growing ETF market sees net assets jump $5.9 billion in Jan
The net assets and trading volume of South Korea's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) this year have seen major growth.The Korea Exchange on Monday said t...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korean won falls on firm US jobs data, new BOJ head report
The South Korean won currency skidded to a four-week low on Monday as stronger-than-expected US employment data renewed expectations that the Federa...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LG Group to invest $2.7 bn in decarbonization by 2030
South Korea's No. 4 conglomerate LG Corp. is set to accelerate its net zero by 2050 strategies.LG will invest 3.4 trillion won ($2.7 billion) by 203...
Feb 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung unveils Galaxy S23 with better camera, processor
SAN FRANCISCO – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, unveiled on Wednesday its flagship Galaxy S23 series equipped...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical to export tech to British company
South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical has licensed a new drug candidate for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) to CS Pharmaceuticals (CSP) of the U...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS underperforms global peers by returns for Q1-Q3 2022
South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, ranked 10th out of the global 42 state-owned investors by rate...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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AgTech
Rice consumption in S.Korea hits record low in 2022
Last year, per-person annual rice consumption in South Korea fell by half from 30 years ago, marking a record low.According to the results of the 20...
Jan 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Korean proptech startup Sweet Spot attracts $7.7 mn Series B funding
South Korea's retail property technology startup Sweet Spot attracted a Series B investment of 9.5 billion won ($7.7 million) from venture capital a...
Jan 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
KSOE wins orders for 7 LNG carriers in 1 week
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a mid-level shipbuilding holding affiliate of HD Hyundai Co., has landed successive orders for...
Jan 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Samsung Eng. wins ADNOC’s $80.7 mn joint project
South Korea’s Samsung Engineering Co. has won a $80.7 million joint project from Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) for multi-billion-dollar g...
Jan 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
KAI aims to become world's No. 7 aerospace company by 2050
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) seeks to become the world's No. 7 aerospace company by 2050, aiming to rival the likes of global defense giant...
Jan 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
EcoPro Group nearly doubles sales target to $7.8 billion this year
South Korea's EcoPro Group has set its sales target this year at 10 trillion won ($7.8 billion), nearly double that of last year, under a strategy t...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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