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Korean stock market
S.Korean firms with focus on emerging Asia to shine
South Korean companies with a large proportion of sales to emerging Asia are expected to shine in the stock market this year as their revenue from t...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
AmCham pledges to make S.Korea Asia's top biz hub
The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in South Korea on Thursday said it seeks to make the nation Asia's top business hub on the 70th anniversar...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Hyundai Heavy to develop core technology for seawater electrolysis system
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. signed a business agreement for jointly developing seawater electrolysis system core technology at the Korea Institute ...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
LG Elec gets vehicle cyber security certification from German agency
LG Electronics Inc., a leading South Korean home appliance maker, said on Monday that it has obtained ISO/SAE 21434 certification for its vehicle co...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea to lure global talent with high pay for space agency
South Korea is set to attract global talent with high salaries for a planned government space agency as the country aims to boost long-term growth i...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Hyundai Elevator's open API sees rapid expansion of participants
Hyundai Elevator Group announced on Tuesday that its open API (application programming interface), which was launched in March last year, has seen r...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
KB Securities launches AI-based RoboNews on US stocks
South Korea's KB Securities announced the launch of KB RoboNews on Monday, a cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) service that provides insight...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Zigbang signs agreement with Saudi's National Housing Company
On Monday, South Korean proptech company Zigbang announced a partnership with Saudi Arabia's National Housing Company with the goal of digitalizing ...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG provides electronics service training to Cambodian youths
LG Electronics Inc. said on Sunday that it is offering technology training to help talented Cambodian youths become more self-reliant.For four days ...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
SK Hynix set for largest-ever corporate bond issue at bargain prices
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is gearing up for its largest-ever corporate bond issue in South Korea at lower-th...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
LG Electronics honored for resolving consumer complaints
LG Electronics Inc. on Monday said it was named an "excellent business for independently resolving consumer complaints" by the Korea Consumer Agency...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's Boryung receives EU GMP certification
South Korean pharmaceutical company Boryung announced that its production facility for anti-cancer injections in Yesan, South Chungcheong Province, ...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Online portal Naver to release AI-powered search chatbot in H1
South Korean online portal giant Naver Corp. is set to launch a beta version of Search GPT, an artificial intelligence-powered search service, in th...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
KAL introduces self-service bag drop for domestic flights
South Korea's flagship carrier Korean Air Lines Co. is the first airline in the country to adopt self-service bag drop on domestic flights.The compa...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
S.Korea's Woowa Brothers launches professional service robot affiliate
Woowa Brothers, the parent company of South Korea's food delivery app Baedal Minjok, on Wednesday spun off its professional service robot unit into ...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea's fisheries ministry to transfer tech on Napoleon fish to SE Asia
South Korea's Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries will transfer technology to Indonesia on farming the tropical Napoleon fish and reduce sea pollution ...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Tmap, Shinsegae I&C sign agreement for EV charging collaboration
Tmap Mobility said on Monday that it has signed an agreement for the electric vehicle charging business with Shinsegae I&C, an IT service affili...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KISA launches ASEAN Cyber Shield project for strengthening cyber security
The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) on Monday has announced the launch of the "ASEAN Cyber Shield" project, a major international cooper...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Hyundai Dept. Store introduces AI chatbot service Jellppo
Hyundai Department Store Co. said on Sunday that it would introduce the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot "Jellppo." Jellppo is an AI-based one-o...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
LS Electric builds rail signal system in Taiwan for $39.8 million
South Korea's LS Electric Co. on Friday said the Railway Bureau of the Taiwanese Ministry of Transportation and Communications named the company the...
Jan 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
FSS to inquire actual use of funds raised by issuing ESG bonds
From now on, companies in South Korea that have raised funds by issuing ESG (environmental, social, and governance) bonds will have to answer questi...
Jan 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Korean government to finance $625 million for K-content in 2023
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol emphasized on Thursday the importance of K-content, saying content will become the most important industry to s...
Jan 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
S.Korea fines Tesla $2.2 mn for alleged false advertising
South Korea’s antitrust body has decided to impose a fine of 2.9 billion won ($2.2 million) on Tesla Inc., the world’s top electric vehi...
Jan 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Nursing caregiver matching startup Bosalpim succeeds in pre-series A funding
South Korea's senior citizen care service startup Bosalpim said on Wednesday that it has raised an undisclosed amount of pre-series A funding from K...
Dec 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Samyang develops polycarbonates made of 90% recycled plastic
Samyang Corp., a food and chemical affiliate of Samyang Group, on Wednesday said it had developed South Korea's first eco-friendly polycarbonates co...
Dec 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Doosan Enerbility to introduce ammonia co-fired power plant in Vietnam
Doosan Enerbility Co. plans to introduce an ammonia co-fired power plant in Vietnam jointly with South Korean and Vietnamese research institutes.Sou...
Dec 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
US non-agency mortgage-backed securities to shine in 2023: TCW
Amid the tightening of the Federal Reserve, among the most impacted asset classes were agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), issued by US governm...
Dec 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Samsung Heavy receives approval from US on gas recovery system
Samsung Heavy Industries, a major shipbuilder in South Korea, said on Tuesday that its boil-off gas recovery system (BReS) for LNG-powered vessels h...
Dec 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Korean Air newly incorporated into 2022 DJSI Korea
Korean Air Lines Co. announced on Wednesday that it has been newly included in the 2022 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI) Korea announced ...
Dec 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan Enerbility gets int'l certification for offshore wind power system
South Korea's heavy industry company Doosan Enerbility Co. on Monday said it is Korea's first to receive international certification for an eight-me...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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