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Food & Beverage
HiteJinro to strengthen soju marketing in UK
South Korea’s leading soju maker HiteJinro Co. announced on Tuesday that its soju sales in the UK are showing consistent growth year by year. ...
Aug 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
SK Group to pursue employee-led ‘deep change’
SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, has been dedicated to its “Deep Change” initiative since Group Chairman Chey ...
Aug 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Gencurix supplies companion diagnostic kits to cancer center in India
South Korean biotech company Gencurix Inc. on Friday said it started supplying its companion diagnostic test Droplex to a national cancer center in ...
Aug 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
LG bets big on promising technologies for future growth
LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate, is accelerating its investment in promising tech companies across the world despite the l...
Aug 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's Qurient, US National Cancer Institute to develop anti-cancer drug
South Korea's Qurient Co. announced on Monday that it signed a research and development agreement with the US government agency National Cancer Inst...
Aug 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korean think-tank lifts inflation forecast on oil prices
A South Korean government think-tank has raised its inflation prediction for this year due to the recent rise in oil prices and expectations that As...
Aug 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Carmakers in race for low-cost EVs amid tepid sales growth
Global carmakers such as Volkswagen, Hyundai Motor Group and Stellantis N.V. are in a race to release cheaper electric vehicles with the entry price...
Aug 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
SK Telecom’s transition into AI company gains traction
SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading telecom firm, reported solid earnings across the board in the second quarter, especially with steady gro...
Aug 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
KT earnings beat estimates in Q2; shares hit 6-month high
KT Corp., South Korea’s leading telecommunications carrier, reported better-than-expected earnings in the second quarter on strong results for...
Aug 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia America’s new normal: Record car sales month after month
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, has been dismissed as the weaker sibling or smaller sister firm of Hyundai Motor Co., the c...
Aug 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korea’s duty-free sales skid despite China border reopening
South Korea’s duty-free shops suffered a sharp decline in sales in June, when the number of Chinese visitors jumped more than three times that...
Aug 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Gencurix joins US gov't Cancer Moonshot project
South Korean cancer molecular diagnostics company Gencurix Inc. announced on Monday that it joins US President Joe Biden's cancer-conquering project...
Jul 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
N.Korea's GNI lower than S.Korea's minimum monthly wage in 2022
It is estimated that North Korea's economic growth rate recorded -0.2% last year. This marks the third consecutive year of negative growth since the...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Boryung Pharma's sales surpass $311 mn in H1 2023
South Korea’s Boryung Corp. has alleviated the fear of falling behind in its sector expressed by its third-generation chairman Jay Kim Jung-Gy...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
LG Energy lifts sales guidance; Samsung SDI sees firm growth
South Korean electric vehicle battery maker are offered upbeat market outlooks, gaining structural growth momentum through strong competitiveness wi...
Jul 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Lunit to supply AI diagnosis solution to Saudi's medical institution
South Korea's medical AI company Lunit announced on Wednesday that it has signed a contract to supply its artificial intelligence (AI) solution for ...
Jul 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
KEPCO strives to drive out birds meant to bring good luck
Magpies, which East Asians believe bring good luck and fortune, are posing a headache for Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), by gnawing at power ...
Jul 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's NGeneBio establishes US corporation NGeneBioAI
South Korean medical diagnostic company NGeneBio Co. announced on Monday that it has established an artificial intelligence (AI) precision diagnosti...
Jul 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Clinomics releases equipment that quickly finds lung cancer mutations
Clinomics, a South Korean biotech company specializing in liquid biopsies, on Thursday said it developed equipment that can detect four types of l...
Jul 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Novomics expands presence in Chinese cancer market
South Korean molecular diagnostics company Novomics Co. announced on Wednesday that it has signed a collaboration agreement with Chinese molecular d...
Jul 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Prestige Biopharma participates in US gov’t Cancer Moonshot
Prestige Biopharma, a Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company with operations in South Korea and the US, announced on Tuesday that it will partici...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
BOK warns of household lending risk on growth, inequality
South Korea’s central bank warned that household lending in the country has leaped to the world’s third highest and could hurt long-term...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
Tepid luxury sales widen gap between favorite and less-favored brands
The economic slowdown may have diminished South Koreans’ appetite for foreign designer goods, but that doesn't mean they've closed their walle...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Tinder owner Match Group taps Sam Ahn as Asia's chief innovation officer
Match Group Inc., operating online dating and chat platforms like Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid in some 40 languages, has appointed its subsidiary Hyper...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S&P expects BOK to cut rate by 100 bps in 2024 for growth
South Korea’s central bank is expected to cut its policy interest rate by one percentage point next year with inflationary pressure easing fur...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
LG Electronics aims to transform into platform-based tech firm by 2030
When LG Electronics Inc. made a surprise move to ungracefully exit the mobile phone business, one of its mainstay businesses, two years ago, investo...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
S.Korea’s imports of LFP cathode reverses to growth after 8 years
South Korea's imports of cathode materials used to make lithium ferrophosphate (LFP) batteries in the first five months of this year rose for the fi...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor breaks out of 3-year slump in China
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. has broken out of its slump in China, with its Chinese joint venture posting its first sales growth in four ye...
Jul 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
LG Elec Q2 profit misses forecast on costs; stocks tumble
LG Electronics Inc., the world’s leading home appliance maker, missed quarterly profit projections due to one-time costs related to job cuts, ...
Jul 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
POSCO Int'l to build 1.26 mn tons of green hydrogen infrastructure by 2035
South Korea's largest trading company POSCO International revealed on Friday its strategy to establish a green hydrogen supply infrastructure with...
Jul 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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