World Environment Day
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Electronics
LG Display develops industry's most flexible display
LG Display Co., South Korea’s leading display maker under LG Electronics Inc., has developed the industry’s first display that can be st...
Nov 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
S.Korea's BBQ enters world's most populous market, India
Genesis BBQ Group, the operator of a popular South Korean fried chicken brand, is expanding its market to South Asia by entering India, the world&rs...
Nov 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS commits $436 mn to Koramco, Hana Alternative for real estate lending
The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s largest institutional investor, has selected Koramco Asset Management Co. and Hana Alternati...
Nov 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
MBK Partners named as Time World's Best Companies
South Korea's private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd. said on Friday it was selected in the "2024 World’s Best Companies" list by international ...
Oct 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea’s exports fall 2.9% in first 20 days of October; chip sales strong
South Korea’s exports, the country’s main growth driver, fell 2.9% in the first 20 days of October amid falling demand for vehicles and ...
Oct 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Kakao Mobility, Samsung C&T to co-work on robot, parking solutions
Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app operator, announced on Friday that it signed a business agreement with Samsung C&...
Oct 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Electronics releases World Food Day campaign
LG Electronics Inc. said on Tuesday that it will display World Food Day on outdoor billboards in Times Square, New York, and Piccadilly Circus, Lond...
Oct 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea tops 5G mobile gaming environment in E.Asia
South Korea led the game score in East Asia with 90.06 out of 100 during the first half of this year, followed by China with 85.64 and Japan with a ...
Oct 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Korea’s Dongkuk develops world’s 1st biodegradable film for steel plates
Dongkuk Coated Metal Co. (Dongkuk CM), the cold-rolled steel unit of South Korean steel conglomerate Dongkuk Holdings Co., on Friday unveiled the wo...
Oct 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Hyundai unveils world’s 1st high-pressure ammonia dual-fuel engine
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. said on Thursday it has developed the world's first ammonia dual-fuel engine with a high-pressure direct injection s...
Oct 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Hyundai Motor Group, D.Camp to host startup demo day
Hyundai Motor Group's open innovation platform ZER01NE said on Tuesday it partnered with startup accelerator D.Camp in collaboration with 19 finan...
Oct 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
S.Korea’s NPS investment arm suffers from chronic understaffing
South Korea’s largest institutional investor, the National Pension Service (NPS), managing 1,150 trillion won ($870.6 billion) in assets, stru...
Oct 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy to become 1st paperless drawing shipyard
Samsung Heavy Industries Co. said on Monday it will adopt three-dimensional (3D) digital drawings for its entire ship design and construction proces...
Sep 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Netmarble acquires ISO 45001 certification
Netmarble Corp. announced on Friday that it has become the first company in the Korean game industry to obtain the ISO 45001 certification for its s...
Sep 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
Korea Investment Corp. appoints Park Il Young as its new CEO
South Korean sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) announced on Thursday that it has appointed former World Bank Group executive ...
Sep 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Gmarket, CJ Logistics to launch guaranteed delivery date service
Gmarket Inc., an e-commerce arm of South Korea’s Shinsegae Group, said on Monday it will roll out a service to deliver products on the custome...
Sep 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hanwha, LG to support Korea Zinc in battle against MBK
South Korea’s Hanwha Group and LG Group are likely to help Korea Zinc Inc. fight against a takeover by MBK Partners Ltd. as the private equity...
Sep 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Aespa to release its new album ‘Whiplash’ in October
K-pop girl group aespa is aiming to follow up its hit song “Supernova” with a string of hits with its new album “Whiplash."Managem...
Sep 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor, Kia win 12 awards at IDEA Design Awards
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. announced on Friday that they won a total of 12 awards, including three Gold Awards, at the 2024 International Desig...
Sep 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Lotte Wellfood, Topper Guild to co-work for Pepero Day promotion
South Korea’s Lotte Wellfood Co. said on Wednesday it partnered with the US YouTuber Topper Guild to promote Pepero Day.Pepero Day, cele...
Sep 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Hudson AI dreams of a world without language barriers
South Korean startup Hudson AI is striving to break language barriers with its artificial intelligence-powered voice dubbing technology, enabling gl...
Sep 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
HD Hyundai Electric to build 3rd circuit breaker factory
HD Hyundai Electric Co., a South Korean electric power distribution equipment manufacturer, will spend 120 billion won ($89 million) to build its th...
Sep 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
LS Electric falls sharply on first day of inclusion in MSCI Korea index
LS Electric Co. plunged more than 9% on Monday, the first day of its inclusion in the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Korea Index.On the...
Sep 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
NewJeans surpasses 5 billion cumulative Spotify streams
K-pop girl group NewJeans has surpassed five billion combined streams on Spotify, the world's largest music platform, its agency, Adore, announced o...
Sep 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Korea’s airlines to use SAF starting from Japan routes
South Korea’s airlines are set to use fuel mixed with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for international routes, starting from services to Japa...
Aug 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS logs 9.71% return in H1 led by US tech stocks
National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, posted a 9.71% investment return for the first half of ...
Aug 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix unveils industry’s 1st 10-nanometer DDR5, aims for top spot
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., has emerged as the dominant player in the sought-aft...
Aug 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
NCSOFT to seek recovery momentum with open-world game
South Korea’s gaming giant NCSOFT Corp. is set to develop an open-world massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) while launchin...
Aug 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
HD KSOE buys Finnish fuel cell maker Convion for $81 mn
HD Hydrogen, a unit of HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE), has acquired Convion Ltd, a Finnish hydrogen fuel cell maker,...
Aug 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Liner ranks 9th in generative AI services selected by a16z
South Korea's generative AI startup Liner said on Friday that its search service ranked 9th in the web services category of the Top-100 Gen AI Consu...
Aug 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)