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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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Earnings
Hanwha Systems posts record earnings in 2024 on brisk defense sales
Hanwha Systems Co., a leading South Korean defense company, reported its best-ever earnings last year thanks to brisk sales of its defense systems i...
Feb 07, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea to launch $23 bn high tech fund, bracing for Trump 2.0
South Korea will launch a high tech fund worth more than 34 trillion won ($23 billion) to provide cheap financing, including equity investments, for...
Feb 05, 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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Earnings
Korean financial holding firms log record-high profits in 2024
South Korea’s top four financial holding firms are estimated to have posted their highest-ever profits in 2024, driven by hefty interest incom...
Feb 04, 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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Earnings
Hanwha Ocean swings to profit, seeks 6 US Navy MRO projects
Hanwha Ocean Co., a South Korean warship builder, said on Friday it swung to profit in 2024 for the first time in four years, driven by increased sa...
Jan 24, 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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Energy
Hanwha Q Cells sells two solar power plant projects in US
Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar panel manufacturing arm of South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp., said on Wednesday that it sold its two large-scale sola...
Jan 22, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Display unveils industry’s brightest OLED panel for AI TVs
LG Display Co., the world’s top organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel maker, on Thursday unveiled a fourth-generation screen optimized for...
Jan 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
South Korea’s steel imports from China at 7-year high
South Korea’s imports of steel products from China climbed to their highest level in seven years despite a decrease in its total steel imports...
Jan 13, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Hyundai starts to construct Peruvian Navy warships
South Korea's HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. officially launched the Peruvian navy's four warship project on January 10. The Peru Warship Pr...
Jan 13, 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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Economy
Foreign direct investments in Korea hit record $34.57 billion in 2024
Foreign direct investments in South Korea hit a record high in 2024, driven by Chinese and Japanese investors in the manufacturing sector, the Minis...
Jan 07, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Hanmi Semiconductor to build new TC Bonder plant in Incheon
Hanmi Semiconductor Co., South Korea’s leading chip packaging equipment manufacturer, held a ground-breaking ceremony for its seventh plant of...
Jan 07, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Korea sharply cuts 2025 growth forecast, opens door for extra budget
South Korea sharply lowered its economic growth forecast for this year amid the prolonged political turmoil following President Yoon Suk Yeol’...
Jan 02, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
S.Korea's exports of snack exceed $700 mn mark in 2024
South Korea's confectionery exports from January to November last year increased 16.5% year over year surpassing $700 million for the first time, ac...
Jan 02, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s 2024 exports hit all-time high, driven by chips, shipments to China
South Korea’s exports, the country’s main growth driver, reached an all-time high in 2024, buoyed by strong semiconductor exports and a ...
Jan 02, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean startup M&As halve in 2024 with smaller deals
Mergers and acquisitions of South Korean startups halved in value in 2024 as conglomerates and Big Tech firms such as Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp. sn...
Dec 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Hyundai Rotem delivers driverless metro cars to Taiwan
Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean rolling stock and defense equipment maker, said on Friday it held a ceremony to mark the arrival of the first ba...
Dec 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Korea Inc. to face refunding risks with record corporate bond maturities
South Korean companies are expected to face refunding risks thanks to record corporate bond maturities in the first half of 2025, as fundraising con...
Dec 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Korea’s Shinsegae chairman dines with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Chung Yong-jin, the chairman of South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae Group, held talks with US President-elect Donald Trump, becoming Korea's ...
Dec 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
LG Energy wins 7.5GWh ESS project from Excelsior Energy in US
LG Energy Solution Ltd. has landed a deal with US renewable energy infrastructure fund Excelsior Energy Capital (Excelsior) to supply a 7.5-gigawatt...
Dec 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
KEPCO expects all-time high $207 mn in 2024 overseas investment returns
Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), the state-run utility company, expects to post its highest-ever overseas business performance this year, thanks ...
Dec 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Korea bags Romanian project to refurbish nuclear reactor
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) on Thursday inked a final agreement with Romania’s Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica (SNN) to r...
Dec 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
Online lender K Bank eyes Feb 2025 IPO at lower valuation
K Bank, a South Korean online lender, is making a fresh attempt to list on the Korean stock market in February 2025 as bitcoin’s record-breaki...
Dec 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix develops high-capacity SSD for AI data center
SK Hynix Inc. unveiled on Wednesday its high-capacity solid-state drive (SSD) product PS1012 U.2, designed for AI data centers with 61 terabyte (TB)...
Dec 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Lotte to supply advanced copper foil to Doosan for Nvidia’s Blackwell
Lotte Energy Materials Corp., a leading South Korean battery materials maker, said on Tuesday it will supply advanced copper foil to Doosan Corp.'s&...
Dec 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Opposition-controlled Korean Parliament passes slashed $470 bn budget
South Korea's opposition-controlled National Assembly on Tuesday passed a government budget bill for 2025, slashed from the government's proposal am...
Dec 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Korea’s OCI, US partner CPS Energy sign 20-year energy storage deal
South Korean solar cell company OCI Holdings Co. said on Tuesday it has signed a deal with US power supplier CPS Energy to jointly build a 120-megaw...
Dec 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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