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Korean chipmakers
Samsung Foundry: Driving force behind digital transformation
As the contract chip manufacturing, or foundry, business is quickly emerging as the next battlefield for the world’s major chipmakers, The Korea...
Dec 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung sets sights on GAA tech to overtake TSMC in foundry
As the contract chip manufacturing, or foundry, business is quickly emerging as the next battlefield for the world’s major chipmakers, The Korea...
Nov 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
SK Geo Centric to build Asia's biggest advanced recycling plant with British partner
South Korea's SK Geo Centric, the green chemical subsidiary of SK Innovation, will build Asia's largest advanced recycling (pyrolysis) plant in the ...
Nov 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
NCSOFT invests $15 million in blockchain company Mysten Labs
NCSOFT Corp., which announced early this year plans to install non-fungible token (NFT) technology in the global version of its online role-playing ...
Nov 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung reiterates no memory chip output cut despite weak Q3 results
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, said on Thursday it will not reduce its production despite dwin...
Oct 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
CJ ENM’s TVing looks beyond Korea with Yonder, other K-drama series
South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co.’s over-the-top streaming platform TVing is taking its original sci-fi drama series Beyond the...
Oct 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Holdings to invest extra $1.1 billion in Argentine lithium plant
POSCO Group, which owns South Korea’s largest steelmaker, plans to invest an additional $1.09 billion, or 5 trillion won, in its lithium produ...
Oct 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Mobis to spend $1.3 bn to build US EV parts, module plants
South Korea’s top auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co. will spend $1.3 billion until 2030 to build auto parts and module plants for electric veh...
Oct 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korean conglomerates increase AI R&D hubs overseas
South Korean conglomerates are increasingly looking overseas as bases of their artificial intelligence research centers to build strong networks wit...
Sep 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea to introduce advanced supercomputer by 2024
South Korea will introduce a high-performance supercomputing system by 2024, more than 24 times faster than the current model, a government-run rese...
Sep 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Hanwha Solutions seeks spinoffs of Galleria, advanced materials divisions
Hanwha Solutions Corp., the energy and petrochemical arm of the Hanwha Group, is revving up for wide-ranging corporate restructuring to strengthen i...
Sep 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Japan and South Korea leaders meet one-on-one for first time since 2019
The leaders of Japan and South Korea held their first bilateral meeting in nearly three years, another step toward recovery for frayed ties between tw...
Sep 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Biden’s move to beef up US bio industry poses threat to Korean firms
President Joe Biden’s plan to support the US biomanufacturing infrastructure aimed at containing China’s clout is posing a threat to Sou...
Sep 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG AI center joins forces with Parsons School for creative AI development
South Korea’s LG Corp. announced it signed an academic collaboration agreement with the New York City-based Parsons School of Design on Monday...
Sep 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Mobis to debut Detroit Auto Show with advanced EV technology
South Korea’s top auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co. will showcase its latest electric vehicle-related technology at this year’s North A...
Sep 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
BOK delivers fourth straight rate hike as inflation persists
South Korea’s central bank on Thursday delivered its fourth interest rate hike in a row for the first time in its history as the monetary auth...
Aug 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Daedong attracts investment from Kakao for smart mobility projects
Daedong Corp., South Korea’s leading tractor and farm machinery maker, has attracted 10 billion won ($7.6 million) from Kakao Mobility Corp. t...
Aug 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Four chip alliance: S.Korea's courage to overcome Chinaphobia
“I'm gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”Ahn Cheol-soo, a senior lawmaker of South Korea’s ruling People Power Party, c...
Aug 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
APR Corp. generates $199 mn in revenue with advanced tech, branding
APR Corp. is a South Korean startup less than a decade old, which develops and manufactures skin care products and athleisure clothing. While t...
Aug 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Korea's domestic jet fighter KF-21 completes first flight test
KF-21 Boramae, South Korea’s first advanced supersonic jet fighter, successfully completed its first flight test on Tuesday more than six year...
Jul 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO sees battery materials sales double by 2030
South Korea’s POSCO Holdings Inc. expects sales of its rechargeable battery materials to more than double to 41 trillion won ($31 billion) by ...
Jul 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Labor union
Hankook Tire sees increasing threat from combative labor union's demands
As a string of sporadic labor union strikes enters its third week, the risk of supply disruption has spread to an unlikely victim – Hankook Ti...
Jun 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Broadband applies quantum cryptography to Korea network
SK Broadband Co., a South Korean internet service provider, succeeded in using quantum cryptography for the government’s backbone communicatio...
Jun 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy, German institutes to jointly research advanced batteries
The world’s second-largest battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. has teamed up with two German research institutes to develop next-generation ...
Jun 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Baring PEA set to buy $1 bn stake in PI Advanced Materials
Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia is set to buy a majority stake in the world’s largest polyimide film manufacturer PI Advanced Mater...
Jun 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
PI Advanced, NexFlex draw bids from foreign rivals, PE firms
Two leading South Korean materials companies PI Advanced Materials Co. and NexFlex Co. have drawn final bids mainly from foreign rivals and private ...
May 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
POSCO to deploy more industrial robots at workplaces
POSCO Group, which owns South Korea’s largest steelmaker, plans to deploy more industrial robots at its factories to improve productivity and ...
May 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai likely to unveil US EV plant plans in May
Hyundai Motor Co. is preparing to announce a plan to build its first electric vehicle plant in the US, a source familiar with the matter said on Mon...
May 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Lotte Chemical, Soelect in $200 million JV for advanced batteries
South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. is advancing into the electric vehicle battery market by forming a $200 million joint venture with US batte...
Apr 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
SK Telecom steps up metaverse push with Morph Interactive purchase
SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, has made an equity investment in Morph Interactive Co., a local three-dimensional graphics c...
Apr 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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