Paris Fashion Week
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Retail
Chanel’s first VIP boutique to open in Asia – will it be in Seoul?
A couple of months ago, media outlets reported Chanel plans to open stores solely for VIP shopping in Asia.The French label is widely expected to op...
Jul 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fiber & Textile
The North Face supplier Youngone to bet on global outdoor startups
South Korea’s Youngone Holdings Co. is set to accelerate its new business by establishing a corporate venture capital (CVC) firm in Singapor...
Jul 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea inflation at 24-year high, adds to big step views
South Korea’s inflation accelerated to a 24-year high last month, reinforcing expectations that the central bank may raise interest rates by 5...
Jul 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Korean Aerospace Ind.'s shares soar on Poland export hopes
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), South Korea’s military aircraft manufacturer, is emerging a winner in South Korea’s sagging stock...
Jul 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Danble taps into overlooked market of men's fashion for older millennials
Danble, operated by Tailor Town, is an online fashion platform serving the often-overlooked market of men’s fashion for those in their 30s and...
Jul 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Korean Air gears up to normalize international flights
Korean Air Lines Co., the country’s top carrier, is set to take measures to normalize international flights as nations worldwide are opening u...
Jun 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung nears 3-nano chip mass production ahead of TSMC
Samsung Electronics Co. is close to mass producing 3-nanometer chips based on a next-generation ultramicro fabrication process as a global first and...
Jun 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG takes Paris Baguette into the future with transparent OLED screens
PANGYO, Gyeonggi Province – In Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi film Minority Report, Tom Cruise gets all the information he needs through...
Jun 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Paris Baguette enters Malaysia, eyes $2 trillion halal market
SPC Group’s bakery franchise Paris Baguette has chosen Malaysia as its eighth overseas market. The decision aligns with the food and beverage ...
Jun 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Iljin Materials aims to complete stake sale in August
Iljin Materials Co., a South Korean electric vehicle battery materials maker, accelerated the process of the sale of a majority stake in a deal esti...
May 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Musinsa drops plan to buy Japan-focused rival fashion platform
South Korea’s top online fashion platform Musinsa withdrew a plan to acquire a local rival that focuses on Japanese shoppers.The move indicate...
May 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SwatchOn connects fabric wholesalers to overseas fashion designers
“We had the overseas market in mind from the get-go,” global fabric sale platform SwatchOn’s CEO Lee Woo-seok told The Korea Econo...
May 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Behind the Scenes
South Koreans turned off by luxury fashion houses’ price hikes
A Cartier boutique inside a department store in Seoul’s posh Gangnam District was unusually slow on Tuesday. The quiet ambience was in sh...
May 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Hyundai Heavy likely to be added to MSCI Korea index
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world's largest shipbuilder, is the strongest candidate to be included in the MSCI Korea Index next week as part o...
May 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea April inflation hits 13-1/2-year peak; bond yields up
South Korea’s consumer prices in April rose at the fastest pace since the 2008-09 global financial crisis, reinforcing expectations of further...
May 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Musinsa seeks to buy Japan-focused rival fashion platform
South Korea's top online fashion platform Musinsa is in the last stages of talks to acquire a domestic rival that caters primarily to Japanese shopp...
Apr 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte to end dawn delivery service where Coupang, Kurly lead
South Korea’s retail giant Lotte Group will cease dawn delivery services for fresh food from this weekend, two years after it jumped into the ...
Apr 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Fila Korea: Hidden beneficiary of China’s guochao fashion trend
The burgeoning Chinese fashion fad, known as guochao, has pushed out or significantly reduced the popularity and influence of Western and other well...
Apr 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
How Glenwood made twofold return from HanGlas without dividends
Seoul based-Glenwood Private Equity, founded in 2014, has been quietly building its presence in the South Korean M&A market, chasing assets deem...
Apr 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Content platforms
Korea's major fashion firms rush to embrace content marketing
Major South Korean fashion companies are speeding up their investment in content startups. F&F Holdings, the distributor of the US outdoor brand...
Mar 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korea rises as test bed for global luxury brands
South Korea is becoming a test bed for global high-end brands such as Balenciaga, Valentino, IWC and Breitling. The world's top luxury brands, pre...
Mar 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Biotech startup Voronoi withdraws IPO plans
South Korea’s biotechnology startup Voronoi Inc. scrapped its plan to go public this month. The new drug developer announced Wednesday it...
Mar 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Data centers in European core cities are promising, Principal head says
Critical data center hubs have emerged in European major cities with dramatic growth in data consumption, and the facilities are rising as promising...
Mar 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korea’s fashion OEM firms eye record sales
South Korea’s clothing original equipment manufacturers (OEM) are set to see a supercycle or a sustained period of expansion driven by robust ...
Mar 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia heavily exposed to Ukraine crisis; shares at 52-week lows
Shares of Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. on Monday fell to their lowest levels in more than 52 weeks as investors engaged in panic selling on conce...
Feb 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
K-beauty vegan rebel Dear Dahlia in Paris' Galeries Lafayette
South Korean cosmetics brand Dear Dahlia successfully opened a boutique in Europe’s largest department store in 2019 – just two years ...
Feb 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG's AI designer debuts at New York Fashion Week
South Korean fashion label Greedilous showcased its 2022 Fall-Winter collection on the main stage of the New York Fashion Week on Monday local time....
Feb 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Stocks
Ukraine woes, global tightening knock down Asian stocks
Asian stock markets lost ground on Monday with South Korea’s main shares down to their lowest level in more than two weeks as rising tensions ...
Feb 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Seoul court upholds Affinity's Kyobo Life valuation
A South Korean court on Thursday ruled in favor of Affinity Equity-led financial investors (FIs) in Kyobo Life Insurance Co., rejecting Kyobo's clai...
Feb 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea’s reopening stocks shine despite surging Omicron cases
South Korea’s reopening stocks rallied even as the local COVID-19 cases hit record-highs with the spread of the Omicron variant. Investors rai...
Feb 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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