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ESG bonds
Steel giant POSCO raises $500 mn in 3-year green bonds
POSCO raised $5 million in three-year green bond sales on Jan. 16 to invest the proceeds in domestic facilities, the largest steelmaker in South Kor...
Jan 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS picks tech, electronics as its favorite local stocks in 2023
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, picked information tech, electric and electronic s...
Jan 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Semiconductors power Korea’s tech exports to 15-month high
South Korea’s tech products exports rose for a second straight month to a 15-month high in December 2023 as overseas sales of semiconductors e...
Jan 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion Holdings eyes Nasdaq IPO by early 2025: chairman
South Korean biosimilar giant Celltrion Group is planning to debut on the Nasdaq market by early 2025, founder and Chairman Seo Jung-jin said at the...
Jan 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS bets on Samsung Electro-Mechanics, sells POSCO stocks in Q4
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, saw the amount of listed local shares it owns rise...
Jan 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Elec opens its first overseas EV charger plant in Texas
South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. has opened its first overseas EV charger factory in Fort Worth, Texas. The move comes as the global home app...
Jan 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Coupang to resume Rocket Delivery for LG H&H; ends 5-year feud
Coupang Inc., South Korea’s leading online retailer, said on Friday it will resume the same or next-day delivery service, dubbed “Rocket...
Jan 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai unveils IONIQ 5 N concept NPX1 in Japan
Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Friday that it unveiled the high-performance electric vehicle (EV) IONIQ 5's N Performance Concept model NPX1 for the...
Jan 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion revises up earnings goals to overtake Amgen
Celltrion Inc., South Korea's leading biosimilar maker, on Wednesday expressed its ambition to join the global top 10 biotech and pharmaceutical com...
Jan 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean innovators at CES 2024
LG Elec to raise capex, R&D spending; eyes acquisition
LAS VEGAS -- LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, plans to spend more on capital expenditures, as well as research and deve...
Jan 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
SK Hynix raises $1.5 bn in foreign bonds amid high demand
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, has raised $1.5 billion in foreign currency bonds, with the debt offering four tim...
Jan 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE secures deal for building 15 product carriers worth $717 mn
HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, a key intermediate holding company of HD Hyundai Group, announced on Tuesday that it recently sign...
Jan 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
STX invests in stake in 1.5 mn ton lithium deposit in Peru
STX Corp., a South Korean general trading company, has secured lithium, a key material for secondary batteries, and obtained a stake in a lithium mi...
Jan 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung eyes biotech investments via Flagship Pioneering
Samsung C&T Corp., Samsung Biologics Co. and Samsung Bioepis Co. will ramp up investments in US biotechnology startups in collaboration with Fla...
Jan 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Infrastructure
IGIS taps managing director Oh Taesuk as infrastructure head
IGIS Asset Management Co., a leading real estate firm in South Korea, said last week it has tapped Oh Taesuk, a real asset expert with more than 20 ...
Jan 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE wins $230 mn order for two VLGCs
South Korea's HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) on Friday said it has secured its first order this year for two very la...
Jan 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
The North Face supplier Youngone lends $177 mn to Scott
Youngone Corp., a South Korean clothing manufacturer to global outdoor brands like The North Face and Patagonia, said on Thursday it has decided to ...
Jan 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
KEPCO sells 15% stake in KEPCO E&C for $269 million
Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), South Korea’s state-owned utility company grappling with mounting losses, has secured additional funds of ...
Jan 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy wins $1.5 bn order for FLNG
South Korea's shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries announced on Tuesday that it has secured an order for one floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) p...
Jan 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
IONIQ 5 named Car of the Year 2023 in Singapore
Hyundai Motor Co.'s electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) IONIQ 5 has been selected as the Car of the Year 2023 in Singapore by the nation’s la...
Jan 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ surpasses 5 billion views on Youtube
The music video for singer Psy's global hit "Gangnam Style" has surpassed 5 billion views on YouTube.According to YouTube on Saturday, the music vid...
Dec 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea's KDB establishes innovation fund for auto parts companies
The state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) announced on Friday that it has established the KDB-Quantum Mobility Value Chain Open Innovation Fund wor...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
NPS chief questions fairness in POSCO’s CEO selection process
POSCO Holdings Inc., the parent of South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO, has come under fire for its opaqueness in choosing a new leader a...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Exter, IONIQ 5 win India’s influential car awards
Hyundai Motor Co. has won major auto industry prizes in India that are expected to help the leading South Korean automaker expand its presence in th...
Dec 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
J&J seeks US, European approval for drug developed with Yuhan
Global healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson is seeking approval for a lung cancer drug developed with Yuhan Corp., bringing the South Korean pha...
Dec 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Campbell Lutyens taps ex-KIC PE chief as Korea head
Campbell Lutyens & Co. Ltd., a UK private equity advisory firm, has tapped sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) former PE he...
Dec 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Poultry processor Harim to buy Korean top sea carrier HMM for $5 bn
South Korea’s leading poultry processor Harim Group is set to acquire the country’s No. 1 sea flag carrier HMM Co. for about 6.4 trillio...
Dec 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor, UAE’s Mubadala to collaborate on future business projects
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and the United Arab Emirates’ sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Co. have agreed to...
Dec 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea Housing Finance Corp. opens New York office
Korea Housing Finance Corporation announced on Wednesday that it has opened a New York office to serve as a hub for its overseas fund procurement ac...
Dec 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
KKR promotes Keith Kim in Seoul office to partner
KKR & Co. Inc. has promoted Keith Kim (Kim Yang-han), managing director at the private equity giant’s Seoul office, to partner.Kim, who ma...
Dec 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)