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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT, Nokia to collaborate on global 6G research
South Korea's KT Corp. announced on Wednesday that it signed a business agreement with global mobile communications equipment manufacturer Nokia Cor...
May 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino triples revenue
Jeju Dream Tower Casino, located on South Korea's top tourist island of Jeju and run by Lotte Tour Development Co., surpassed $6 million in cumula...
May 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
LS Electric wins $23 mn order for Thai railway signal system
South Korea's LS Electric Co. won a contract from the State Railway of Thailand to construct a railway signaling system for a 177 km section between...
May 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea’s KT to innovate media, content businesses with AI
South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp. is set to innovate its media and content businesses with artificial intelligence as it seeks new growth d...
Apr 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
KT&G faces $2 bn damages suit over heated tobacco invention
KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, is facing a $2 billion damages suit from a former employee who claimed the South Kore...
Apr 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
NPS sells shares in KT, making Hyundai the top shareholder
Hyundai Motor Group has become the top shareholder of South Korea’s leading mobile carrier KT Corp., after the country’s National Pensio...
Apr 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
NPS to vote in favor of KT&G CEO candidate Bang
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is slated to vote in favor of the KT&G Corp. b...
Mar 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus Sporki to be featured in Toyota's car Infotainment
South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. announced on Friday that its sports community platform Sporki will be featured in Toyota Connect, the U+Drive-based inf...
Mar 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
ISS urges KT&G shareholders to vote against CEO candidate Bang
Global leading proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) has recommended that stakeholders of South Korean tobacco maker KT&G ...
Mar 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
KT, Novatek to collaborate on logistics robot platform
South Korea's KT Corp. announced on Wednesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the domestic company Novatek which specializes...
Mar 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
KT&G’s No. 1 shareholder IBK vetoes naming Bang as CEO
South Korea’s KT&G Corp., the world’s leading tobacco maker, is facing challenges in its chief executive appointment as the firm&rsq...
Mar 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
LS Eco Energy to supply UHV cables to Singapore's EMA
South Korea's LS Eco Energy Ltd. announced on Tuesday that its Vietnamese production subsidiary, LS-VINA, will supply 12 billion won ($8.99 million)...
Mar 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
KT teams up with Amazon to bolster B2B generative AI
BARCELONA -- KT Corp., South Korea’s leading telecom services provider, said on Thursday it has signed a strategic partnership with Amazon Web...
Feb 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Tobacco maker KT&G names its COO as final CEO candidate
South Korea’s KT&G Corp., the world’s leading tobacco maker, appointed its Chief Operating Officer Bang Kyung-man as the final candi...
Feb 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
KT to participate in MWC 2024 with five Korean startup partners
South Korea’s KT Corp. announced on Tuesday that it will participate in the world's largest mobile exhibition MWC 2024 to be held in Barcelona...
Feb 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
KT’s 2023 sales rise to all-time yearly high on wireless, internet business
South Korea’s leading telecommunications company KT Corp. on Thursday posted record annual sales revenue for 2023, buoyed by steady growth in ...
Feb 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT to build submarine cable in Asia
South Korea’s KT Corp. announced on Thursday that it plans to build a new submarine cable to cater to the burgeoning demand for cloud services...
Jan 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Flashlight Capital urges KT&G to sue its directors for negligence
Singapore-based investment management firm Flashlight Capital Partners Pte. (FCP) has urged South Korean tobacco maker KT&G Corp. to sue its inc...
Jan 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
S.Korea’s LS Group wins regulatory nod for securities biz
South Korea’s electrics components-to-energy conglomerate LS Group is set to start the securities business as it secured regulatory approval t...
Jan 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Korea’s besieged mobile carriers grapple with OTT players’ rate hikes
South Korea’s telecommunications companies, besieged by the onslaught of foreign over-the-top (OTT) players such as Netflix and YouTube, are g...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT opens Foreigner Center for non-English speakers
South Korea’s KT Corp. announced on Tuesday that it opened the KT Foreigner Center for non-English speakers in Won-gok-dong, Ansan, Gyeonggi...
Dec 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
LS Materials’ share price quadruples on Kosdaq debut
The share price of LS Materials Co., a South Korean energy storage device maker, quadrupled on its Kosdaq market debut Wednesday given its rosy earn...
Dec 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Saudi Arabia partners with Korea's LS to spur non-petrochem sectors
South Korean conglomerate LS Group and the government of Saudi Arabia will jointly seek business opportunities in a number of non-petrochemical sect...
Dec 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
EcoPro Materials, Doosan Robotics heat up Korean IPO market
South Korea’s initial public offering market is recovering as EcoPro Materials Co., Doosan Robotics Inc. and other newly listed jackpot shares...
Dec 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha Systems to launch small SAR satellite by year-end
South Korea's Hanwha Systems Co. announced on Wednesday that it plans to launch its own small synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite by the end of...
Nov 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT says farewell to telegraph after a century of service
KT Corp., a leading South Korean telecom company, will end its telegraph service, once the fastest means of long-distance communication, after the c...
Nov 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai Motor's K-UAM One Team collaborates with Incheon
The "K-UAM One Team," an urban air mobility (UAM) consortium consisting of five companies, including Hyundai Motor, has announced that it signed a m...
Nov 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
LS Mtron partners with global agricultural giant CNHi
LS Mtron, the heavy machinery and advanced parts-making unit of South Korea's LS Group said on Tuesday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)...
Nov 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT to develop smart city in Indonesia's new capital
South Korea's KT Corp. plans to apply smart city technologies such as quantum communication and cybersecurity to Nusantra, the new administrative ca...
Nov 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
KT unveils B2B generative AI service Mi:dm
South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. on Tuesday unveiled Mi:dm, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service for corporate clients, at its Seoul...
Oct 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)