World Climate Industry Expo
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Tighter emissions rules boost HD Hyundai Marine margin
HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co., a ship parts manufacturing and after-sales service company, has reported the highest-ever operating profit margin in...
Aug 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Display seeks to supply tandem OLED display to Bentley, Cadillac
LG Display Co., the world’s top organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel maker, is seeking to supply next-generation tandem OLED displays for...
Aug 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Companies
S.Korea's top three tire makers sell 45 mn units in H1 2024
South Korean tire manufacturers have nearly reached sales of 45 million units in the global market during the first half of this year, the Korea Tir...
Aug 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Hyundai Mipo to build Korea’s first LCO₂ carrier
HD Hyundai Mipo Co., formerly Hyundai Mipo Dockland Co., has embarked on the construction of South Korea’s first liquefied CO₂ (LCO₂) carrier,...
Aug 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Kolon to invest $94 mn in industry film JV with SK Microworks
South Korea’s major chemical materials producer Kolon Industries Inc. is set to invest 129.6 billion won ($94.2 million) to establish an indus...
Aug 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung SDS gains AI management system certification
Samsung SDS Co. announced on Thursday that it has become the first company in South Korea's IT service industry to receive the ISO/IEC 42001 certifi...
Aug 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Gas maker Air Products Korea put on sale for around $3.6 bn
US industrial gas maker Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has put its South Korean unit up for sale for an estimated 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion), in...
Aug 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
GS Caltex to capture and utilize carbon with own technology
South Korea's GS Caltex Corp. will launch a carbon capture and utilization (CCU) project in collaboration with South Jeolla Province and Yeosu City ...
Aug 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
PE firms seek to buy Korean explosives maker for $218 mn
A private equity consortium seeks to buy a 100% stake in Koryo Nobel Explosives Co., South Korea’s No. 2 industrial explosives manufacturer, f...
Aug 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK Gas delays $1 bn combined cycle power plant operation
SK Gas Ltd., South Korea’s No. 1 liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distributor, has postponed the commercial operation of its combined cycle power...
Aug 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung produces thinnest low-power DRAM for AI mobile devices
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, has begun mass production of the industry’s thinnest low-power double data ra...
Aug 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
South Korean beauty device makers bulk up through M&As
South Korean beauty device manufacturers are aggressively pursuing mergers and acquisitions both at home and abroad to expand their scale, diversify...
Aug 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung’s new chip leader calls for restoring competitiveness
It is urgent to restore Samsung Electronics Co.'s competitiveness in the semiconductor business, the chip division’s new head said in his firs...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung set to ship HBM3E chips in H2 after strong H1
Samsung Electronics Co. expects it will be ready to ship its fifth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, or HBM3E, in the second half, demon...
Jul 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Sapien Semiconductors looks to overtake Novatek in MicroLED DDI chips
South Korea’s Sapien Semiconductors Inc. is a lesser-known startup outside of the chip industry. However, it is a little giant in the fabless ...
Jul 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Kolmar Korea, Sensient Beauty to co-develop pigments
Kolmar Korea, a supplier to global cosmetics brands such as Estee Lauder, announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) wit...
Jul 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
S.Korea's refining industry sees record export of 245.3 mn barrels
South Korea's four major oil refiners—SK Energy, GS Caltex, S-Oil Corp., and HD Hyundai Oilbank—achieved a record high in petroleum pr...
Jul 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Rebound in large OLED TV demand bodes well for LG Display, Samsung
In the flat panel market, South Korea’s two display makers – LG Display Co. and Samsung Display Co. – have been bleeding for years...
Jul 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG UltraGear selected as official gaming monitor of EWC
LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday that its UltraGear gaming monitors were selected as the official monitors of the eSports World Cup (EWC), th...
Jul 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
NH Investment selected as UN GCF manager
South Korea's NH Investment & Securities announced on Thursday that it was selected as the first Asian securities firm to manage the Climate Tec...
Jul 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung’s fastest LPDDR5X validated on MediaTek’s Dimensity chipset
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday it has completed the performance verification of its latest LPDDR5X chip for use in ...
Jul 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Hyosung to sell its specialty gas unit for $943 mn to Korean PEs
South Korea’s Hyosung Group is poised to sell a 100% stake in its specialty and industrial gas unit to a consortium led by IMM Private Equity ...
Jul 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
GIC taps its real estate expert Jasmine Loo as new Korea head
Singapore’s GIC Private Ltd., the world’s sixth-largest sovereign wealth fund with around $770 billion in assets under management, has t...
Jul 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Hyundai Rotem leads manufacture of next-generation railway
CHANGWON, South Gyeongsang Province – Engineers at Hyundai Rotem Co.'s rolling stock factory in South Korea have their hands full manufacturin...
Jul 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Samsung, SK Hynix lead value increase in Korea NPS' local shares in Q2
The second-quarter rally of Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. shares drove a value increase in the domestic stock asset held by South Korea&...
Jul 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Samsung Asset's KODEX ETF surpasses $43 bn in net assets
South Korea's Samsung Asset Management announced on Monday that the net assets of its KODEX exchange-traded fund (ETF) have surpassed 60 trillion ...
Jul 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor car sales hit record in India for 1st half
Hyundai Motor Co. delivered its record-high number of cars in India during the first six months of this year but lost share in the fiercely competit...
Jul 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Time to revive innovator spirit: LG Energy Solution CEO
South Korea’s top battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd., also the world’s No. 3, must accelerate innovation and prop up fundamentals to ...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
DN Solutions to build plant, R&D center in India
DN Solutions, the world's third-largest and South Korea's top machine tool manufacturer, said on Tuesday that it will establish a new plant and rese...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
This Song Is Catchy and Going Viral. It’s Also North Korean Propaganda.
SEOUL—Jordan Daniels, a 31-year-old pianist and software engineer in California, posted a cover of a catchy new tune on TikTok. One asp...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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