The Year In Touring 2023
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Electronics
Samsung hits highest US smartphone market in four years
Samsung Electronics Co. has achieved its highest market share in the US smartphone market in four years, thanks to its first AI phone the Galaxy S24...
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Airlines
Jin Air to resume Incheon-Hong Kong route in July
South Korea's low-cost carrier Jin Air announced on Friday that it will resume flights on the Incheon to Hong Kong route on July 18.This marks the r...
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Retail
E-Land Retail to enter convenience store market
South Korea's E-Land Retail, the operator of Kim's Club, NC Department Store, and New Core Outlet operator, plans to enter the convenience store mar...
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Travel & Leisure
Chinese group tours to Korea poised for strong revival
Chinese group tours to South Korea are showing signs of a rebound, about 10 months since Beijing lifted its bans on Chinese group tours to Seoul las...
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Venture capital
VC firm DSC Investment forms Korea's largest secondary fund
South Korean asset manager DSC Investment has formed the country’s largest-ever fund for venture capital secondaries to explore opportunities ...
May 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Telecom eyes tangible results from AI business in 2024
South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. is set to accelerate investments in artificial intelligence to bring more tangible outcomes ...
May 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
Native Korean fast-fashion brands poised to snatch market
South Korea’s homegrown fast-fashion brands are expected to continue making big strides at home as cost-conscious consumers shifted toward mor...
May 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Shinsegae’s day of reckoning looms for online ambitions
Back in 2021, South Korea’s retail titan Shinsegae Inc. beat its archrival Lotte Shopping Co. to purchase Gmarket and Auction, the country's t...
May 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung tops global OLED market in one year
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Wednesday that it achieved the number one sales position in the global OLED monitor market one year after enter...
May 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino triples revenue
Jeju Dream Tower Casino, located on South Korea's top tourist island of Jeju and run by Lotte Tour Development Co., surpassed $6 million in cumula...
May 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
OECD sharply revises up S.Korea GDP forecast after strong Q1
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) forecasts South Korea’s economy to expand at a faster pace than it previousl...
May 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS to hike risky asset purchases under simplified allocation system
The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s state-run pension fund, is introducing a new simplified asset allocation guideline under whi...
May 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia US car sales dip in April; EVs outperform
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., under Hyundai Motor Group, suffered a drop in US car sales last month for a second month in a row, while rising sal...
May 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korean brokerages' foreign profits up on IB, bond trading
South Korean brokerage firms expanded their net profits from overseas operations last year, backed by increased gains from their investment banking ...
May 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
HD Hyundai Oilbank to supply ultra-low sulfur diesel to Guam
HD Hyundai Oilbank Co., South Korea’s refiner backed by Saudi Aramco, announced on Wednesday that it secured a contract to supply 7.2 million ...
May 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
CJ's Bibigo bolsters sports marketing with PGA tours sponsorship
Scottie Scheffler, a top-ranked American professional golfer, gave a shoutout to food served by CJ CheilJedang Corp. during The CJ Cup golf tourname...
Apr 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private debt
Korea’s Kookmin Bank raises $600 mn in global senior debts
South Korea’s largest bank Kookmin Bank said on Tuesday it has issued $600 million worth of global senior secured bonds. The debts were oversu...
Apr 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung shifts gears to focus on HBM, server memory chips
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday it will adjust its memory chip product mix to increase the output of advanced memory...
Apr 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
NGeneBio to transfer NGS tech to UAE company
South Korean medical diagnostic company NGeneBio Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a contract with the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based medica...
Apr 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s factory output backpedals, but spending recovers in March
South Korea’s factory activity weakened in March on a fall in manufacturing output, stoking concerns about Asia’s fourth-largest economy...
Apr 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign bonds
Korea desperately seeks global bond index inclusion to rescue won
South Korea is desperately working for inclusion on a global major bond index to save the ailing won, the second worst-performer among emerging Asia...
Apr 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
LG Chem to supply switchable glass films to Webasto
LG Chem Ltd. is venturing into the automotive smart glass film market as it has won an order to supply its switchable glazing films to German auto p...
Apr 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korean botox sales gain momentum in US, China
South Korea is ramping up exports of botulinum toxin to the US and China, the world’s two top consumers of the neurotoxin protein, with its pr...
Apr 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Genesis unveils GV70 facelift ahead of Korean debut in May
Hyundai Motor Co.'s premium brand Genesis on Friday unveiled the GV70 facelift as the leading South Korean automaker plans to launch the luxury mids...
Apr 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Honda, POSCO Future M to build cell materials plant in Canada
Japan’s Honda Motor Co. and South Korea’s POSCO Future M Co. agreed to build a battery materials plant in Canada where the automaker wil...
Apr 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai to produce hybrid cars at EV-only plant in US state of Georgia
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, plans to manufacture hybrid models at its electric vehicle and battery plant in the US state o...
Apr 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Machine tool maker DN Solutions kicks off IPO process
DN Solutions Co., the world’s third-largest machine tool maker, has kicked off the process of going public on the Korea Exchange, in a planned...
Apr 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung launches Galaxy C55 5G in China
Samsung Electronics Co. has launched the Galaxy C55 5G, a budget-friendly smartphone series designed specifically for the Chinese market, marking th...
Apr 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Qcells inks US solar modules, power plants deal with TGC
Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar power unit of South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group also known as Qcells in overseas market...
Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea taps ex-NASA exec John Lee as space agency R&D head
South Korea named John Lee, a former senior executive of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as the head of missions such a...
Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)