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Korean stock market
MSCI Korea Index removes four petrochem firms, seven other stocks
MSCI, a global index compiler, said on Wednesday it has removed 11 stocks, including Lotte Chemical Corp., from its Korea index without any addition...
Feb 12, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Samsung Life, Samsung Fire sell $193 mn in Samsung Electronics shares
Samsung Life Insurance Co., South Korea’s largest life insurer, and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co., the country’s No. 1 non-lif...
Feb 12, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Korean investors abandon savings, stocks for cryptocurrencies
Money is rapidly shifting to cryptocurrency markets in South Korea as lower interest rates and lackluster stock prices reduce the investment appeal ...
Feb 10, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix’s HBM exports plummet, now susceptible to seasonal demand
Exports of SK Hynix Inc.'s multi-chip packages (MCP), including high-bandwidth memory (HBM) AI chips, are rapidly dropping as the South Korean chipm...
Feb 10, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Samsung Biologics shares fly high to be Korea’s third most valuable firm
Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, has become South Korea’s third most valuable stock on the country’s...
Feb 07, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Alternative stock exchange Nextrade to launch on March 4
Nextrade, South Korea’s first alternative stock exchange, enabling trading of stocks listed on the Kospi and the Kosdaq for 12 hours a day is ...
Feb 06, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Samsung Life mulls putting Samsung Fire under its wing as subsidiary
Samsung Life Insurance Co., South Korea’s largest life insurer, is considering bringing Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co., the country&r...
Feb 04, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
OpenAI, SoftBank tap Samsung for Stargate AI initiative
Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong discussed potential collaboration on the Stargate AI initiative with OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Alt...
Feb 04, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung set to rebuild with leader Lee cleared of all charges
Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong was found not guilty of accounting fraud, stock manipulation and other criminal charges by a Seoul app...
Feb 03, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Magnachip, up for sale again, contacts Samsung, LG, LX
South Korean chipmaker Magnachip Semiconductor Corp. is on the market again four years after the US blocked a takeover by a Chinese private equity f...
Feb 02, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung to focus on HBM, other high-end chips after weak Q4 earnings
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, on Friday vowed to cut its production of legacy chips and increase sales of pre...
Jan 31, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Koramco REITS chosen preferred buyer of Crescendo Building in Seoul
Koramco REITs Management & Trust Co., a leading South Korean real estate firm, has been chosen as the preferred negotiator to buy the Crescendo ...
Jan 30, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
LG Electronics secures control of Bear Robotics
LG Electronics Inc. has secured control of Bear Robotics Inc., a service robot developer, by raising its stake to 51% from 21% as it aims to expand ...
Jan 24, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT to sell financial security unit for $59 mn for restructuring
South Korea’s KT Corp. is set to sell Initech Co., its Kosdaq-listed financial security unit, for 85 billion won ($59.1 million) as the leadin...
Jan 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
SK Hynix surpasses Samsung with record-high profit in Q4
SK Hynix Inc., the top supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips to Nvidia Corp., on Thursday reported its highest-ever quarterly profit of 8.08...
Jan 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Electronics' new Galaxy S25 smartphone: 'Perfect AI assistant'
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Last year, Samsung Electronics Co. scored a first-mover advantage with consumers by introducing the Galaxy S24 as an AI sma...
Jan 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung Biologics posts record 2024 sales, operating profit as it goes global
South Korea's Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, on Wednesday posted its largest-ever annual sales and operating p...
Jan 22, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix sharply narrows gap with Samsung’s market cap
SK Hynix Inc. has significantly raised its value by bolstering its presence in the artificial intelligence memory market, threatening Samsung Electr...
Jan 22, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Samsung, LG consider moving electronics plants to US from Mexico
South Korea’s leading electronics companies such as Samsung and LG are considering moving their plants in Mexico to the US to respond to Presi...
Jan 21, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
South Korea to tighten delisting rules to remove ailing firms
South Korea will sharply raise the threshold for listed companies to remain trading on the domestic stock market to facilitate the delisting of fina...
Jan 21, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy wins $264 mn order for LNGC
South Korea’s shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries said on Monday it won 379.6 billion won ($264 million) for one unit of liquefied natural ...
Jan 21, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Foreign investors sells $3.86 bn in S.Korean stock market
The Bank of Korea (BOK) said on Wednesday that the foreign investors' net selling in the South Korean stock market was $3.86 billion in December las...
Jan 15, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Neubility, Samsung C&T offer robot delivery service
South Korea's autonomous robot startup Neubility and Samsung C&T Corp. said on Wednesday that they began to offer door-to-door delivery in apa...
Jan 15, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Biologics signs $1.4 bn CMO deal with European pharma
South Korea's Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Tuesday it signed a $1.4 billion contract manufacturing o...
Jan 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Samsung Electro-Mechanics to produce all-solid-state batteries in 2026
LAS VEGAS – Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. will unveil a sample of an ultra-compact all-solid-state battery within the year for mass production...
Jan 10, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Biologics signs initial deal with LigaChem Bio on ADC production
Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Thursday it has signed an initial agreement with LigaChem Biosciences I...
Jan 09, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Memo from Howard Marks
Prices are not high enough? Trees don't grow to the sky
The S&P 500 index just experienced its best two-year streak since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, with the hype surrounding artificial intel...
Jan 09, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
LG Energy logs 1st quarterly loss in over 3 years, outlook remains gloomy
LG Energy Solution Ltd. reported its first quarterly loss in more than three years on Thursday, adding to concerns that the world’s third-larg...
Jan 09, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung’s Q4 profit misses expectations; Stock rises
Samsung Electronics Co. flagged weaker-than-expected earnings for the last quarter of last year due to a fall in memory chip prices and soft demand ...
Jan 08, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
K Bank drops 2025 IPO in 3rd Kospi listing cancellation
K Bank, a South Korean online lender, said on Wednesday it has again canceled its initial public offering plan amid the languid stock market an...
Jan 08, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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