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Mergers & Acquisitions
MBK not to sell Korea Zinc to China after tender offer
MBK Partners Ltd. does not plan to sell Korea Zinc Inc., the world’s largest zinc and lead smelter, to China if MBK's takeover bid of up to 2 ...
Sep 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
India offers Korean firms detailed guidance for forays into India
India’s finance ministry, central bank and stock market operator outlined the country’s regulatory and investment environment for South ...
Sep 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
MBK, Young Poong seek $1.5 bn hostile bid for Korea Zinc
MBK Partners Ltd., the North Asia-focused private equity firm, is set to take over Korea Zinc Inc. through an up to 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) ho...
Sep 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hanwha to take full control of S’pore Dyna-Mac with tender offer
South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group plans to acquire all shares it does not own in Dyna-Mac Holdings Ltd., a Singapor...
Sep 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Healthcare
Hyundai Department to triple healthcare sales by 2030 with Nestle
Hyundai Department Store Group, a South Korean conglomerate controlling retail, fashion, healthcare and lifestyle businesses, aims to triple its hea...
Sep 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
One Store vows to crack Apple, Google-led app market with localization
One Store Co., South Korea’s homegrown app marketplace, will take on Apple Inc. and Google LLC in the global app market by offering tailored s...
Aug 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
IMM consortium picked as preferred bidder for Ecorbit
A consortium of IMM Private Equity and IMM Investment has moved a step closer to owning South Korea’s No. 1 landfill company Ecorbit Co. after...
Aug 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Telecom provides SaaS-based passkey solution for biz
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. said on Monday it offers a passkey system, enabling password-free login and user authentication, via a software-as-a-se...
Aug 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Kioxia’s TSE IPO: Boon for SK Hynix, bane for Samsung Electronics?
TOKYO – The planned initial public offering (IPO) of Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings Corp. is expected to affect its bigger South Ko...
Aug 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung to offer 7 years of free Tizen OS upgrade for AI TVs
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smart TV maker, plans to offer seven years of a free upgrade to its open-source smart TV operating sy...
Aug 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hansae Yes24 moves closer to acquiring GM supplier Erae AMS
Hansae Yes24 Holdings Co., the holding company of South Korea’s leading apparel original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Hansae Co., has moved a ...
Aug 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
S.Korea to launch sustainable biojet fuel initiative
South Korea will require airlines to replace a portion of their jet fuel with environmentally friendly alternatives such as cooking oil, palm oil an...
Aug 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus offers Korean Air gift cards to 5G subscribers
South Korea’s LG Uplus Corp. is expanding benefits for subscribers of its online-exclusive prepaid plan Nugget, including offering Korean Air ...
Aug 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Mobis’ sustainability pledge for a better tomorrow
Hyundai Mobis Co.'s efforts to build a better tomorrow don't stop at developing future mobility technologies like autonomous driving, connectivity a...
Aug 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Mercedes, BMW, Audi, VW offer deep discounts amid EV phobia in Korea
Imported vehicle dealers in South Korea are offering deep price cuts amid the growing electric vehicle phobia following a Mercedes-Benz EV blaze tha...
Aug 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SkyLake offers to fully take over BusinessOn; stock rallies
Seoul-based private equity firm SkyLake Equity Partners has offered to buy the remaining shares of BusinessOn Communication Co., South Korea’s...
Aug 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Woojin selected as preferred bidder for Inglewood light rail project
Woojin Industrial Systems Co., a South Korean railway vehicle manufacturer, said on Friday that it has been selected as the preferred bidder for the...
Aug 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Hana Card, Toss Bank jointly launch PLCC card
South Korea's Hana Card announced on Friday that it partnered with Toss Bank to launch its first private label credit card (PLCC), the Toss Bank Cre...
Aug 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
LG CNS gears up for 2025 IPO with $5.1 billion in enterprise value
LG CNS Co., the information technology service unit of South Korea’s LG Group, is gearing up for an initial public offering early next year, o...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Chevrolet All New Colorado's initial volume sold out in S.Korea
GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of US auto giant General Motors Co., announced on Friday that its pickup truck Chevrolet All New Colorado, with ...
Jul 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Samsung Asset publishes brokerage ISA guidebook
South Korea's Samsung Asset Management announced on Thursday that it newly published the KODEX Brokerage ISA Investment Guidebook for individual inv...
Jul 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Hana Bank, SK Telecom to support AI startups
South Korea's Hana Bank and SK Telecom Co. held the final selection and inauguration ceremony for the second AI Startup Accelerator BootCamp at Spar...
Jul 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung OS Tizen embedded in Loewe TV Stellar to rival Google, Apple
Samsung Electronics Co.'s open-source smart TV operating system Tizen will be embedded in German premium TV brand Loewe’s latest model St...
Jul 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Financial builds disaster response system
South Korea's Shinhan Financial Group announced on Sunday that it established a disaster response system to provide swift and substantial assistance...
Jul 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
S.Korea's RaonSecure establishes metaverse subsidiary
South Korean cybersecurity firm RaonSecure Co. announced Wednesday it established RaonMeta, a generative AI-based metaverse platform subsidiary. Rao...
Jul 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Lunit eyes developing markets with AI cancer diagnostics
Lunit Inc., a South Korean cancer diagnostics AI company, will accelerate its inroads into developing markets grappling with inadequate cancer diagn...
Jul 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
GC Biopharma exports Alyglo to US
South Korea’s major pharmaceutical company GC Biopharma Corp. announced on Monday that it shipped the initial volume of Alygro, its immunoglob...
Jul 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Affinity-backed SSG.COM offers 1st voluntary redundancies
Money-losing SSG.COM, once the most popular online shopping mall in South Korea, is asking some of its employees to volunteer to leave the company f...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Kakao supports startups with cloud services
Kakao Enterprise, an AI-based cloud solutions service subsidiary of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced on Thursday that it started the Rocket La...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Kyobo Life, Japan’s SBI to team up on security token, digital finance
South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Group and Japan’s SBI Group have entered into a strategic business partnership agreement to expand th...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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