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Foreign exchange
Korea’s mounting trade deficit knocks won to 13-year low
South Korea’s won has hit the weakest level since the 2008-09 global financial crisis on a mounting trade deficit while growing concerns over ...
Aug 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
DSME delays $1.7 bn interest payment to Export-Import Bank
Major South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) is facing harsh criticism that it has benefited from delaying...
Aug 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Lotte Chem swings to red in Q2, hard hit by Malaysian unit's loss
South Korea’s major petrochemical producer Lotte Chemical Corp. faced an earnings shock in the second quarter of 2022, hard hit by the perform...
Aug 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
Korea Inc. cuts factory runs, capex on record inventory
Samsung Electronics Co. and other major South Korean companies have reduced their plant operations and capital expenditures as weakening demand amid...
Aug 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Nongshim posts first operating loss from Korean sales in 24 years
South Korea’s top noodle maker Nongshim Co. has posted a quarterly operating loss from its domestic business – its first loss in 24 year...
Aug 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Taekwang’s first loss in a decade dampens outlook
Taekwang Industrial Co., a South Korean petrochemical and textile company, reported its first quarterly loss in 10 years amid weakness in its key bu...
Aug 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Naver says no growth sacrifice to cut costs with record sales
Naver Corp., South Korea’s largest online portal, on Friday reported its largest-ever quarterly revenue, led by webtoon and fintech services, ...
Aug 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
China's lockdown slams Korean beauty giants' Q2 earnings
South Korea’s two major cosmetics firms, Amorepacific Corp. and LG H&H Co., posted their second-quarter earnings heavily impacted by Chi...
Jul 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Vale, two Korean firms to sell JV to ArcelorMittal at a loss
Brazilian mining giant Vale SA and two South Korean steelmakers are selling their joint venture in Brazil at less than half their investment in six ...
Jul 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Korea’s Cosmax to shut Ohio plant to cut losses; shares up
Cosmax Inc., a major South Korean original design manufacturer (ODM) for L'Oréal and other global cosmetics giants, plans to shut its loss-ma...
Jul 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Netmarble to officially launch Seven Knights Revolution on July 28
Netmarble Corp. is poised to officially launch its latest game Seven Knights Revolution on July 28 in South Korea. The South Korean mobile game...
Jun 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Supply chain
Industrial losses balloon as Korean trucker strike enters 7th day
South Korea’s manufacturing sector faces ballooning losses across industries as the trucker strike entered its seventh day on Monday, disrupti...
Jun 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
S&P lowers KEPCO’s stand-alone credit rating to non-investment grade
Standard & Poor's (S&P), an international credit rating agency, has lowered Korea Electric Power Corp.'s stand-alone credit profile to non-i...
May 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Coupang poised to turn to black after smallest loss in Q1
South Korea’s e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. reported the smallest quarterly loss on strong product commerce business, raising hopes for a turn...
May 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
GS Retail shares tumble as new services widen losses
Shares in South Korea's GS Retail Co. suffered their worst percentage fall in nearly five years on May 6, after the convenience store operator's fir...
May 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy set for 2023 turnaround after eight years of losses
Samsung Heavy Industries Co., one of South Korea's Big Three shipbuilders, was once on the list of assets its parent Samsung Group wanted to sell to...
Apr 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Kurly’s mounting losses spark controversy over planned IPO
South Korea’s Kurly Inc. nearly doubled its on-year losses on higher costs last year -- raising market controversy over its listing -- as the ...
Apr 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Companies
Bulk of Korean firms to face losses if oil price soars to $150
Seven out of 10 South Korean companies predict they will swing to operating losses if global oil prices soar to $150 a barrel, a survey showed on Su...
Mar 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korean won extends losses as oil hits 14-year high
South Korea’s won currency skidded to a fresh low in nearly two years as oil prices spiked to a 14-year peak with fears of a prolonged war bet...
Mar 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
KEPCO at record loss on fuel costs; wider losses seen in 2022
South Korean power utility KEPCO Co. reported its largest-ever operating loss of nearly 6 trillion won ($5 billion) in 2021, after it froze the elec...
Feb 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Hyundai Heavy's KSOE posts $1.1 bn loss in 2021
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE), under Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, on Monday reported a bigger-than-expected operating ...
Feb 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
LG Display turns to black in 2021 after three years
South Korea's LG Display Co. swung to an operating profit in 2021 after two consecutive years of shortfalls, led by a sharp rebound in LCD panel pri...
Jan 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Aju sells San Jose-based hotel at $63 mn after five years
Aju Hotels & Resorts Co., a hospitality firm under Korean conglomerate Aju Group, has sold its San Jose-based hotel to an affiliate of US hosp...
Jan 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fraud scandals
Investors prepare loss claim for Osstem's fraud case
Minority investors are preparing to file a class-action lawsuit against Osstem Implant Co., which on Monday revealed itself the victim of the larges...
Jan 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Coupang’s share price rebounds as market digests lockup release
Shares of Coupang Inc., widely seen as the South Korean version of global e-commerce giant Amazon.com, are staging a rebound as the market is grad...
Dec 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung’s new auto chip mounted in Volkswagen’s infotainment system
Samsung Electronics Co. is supplying one of its latest advanced chips to Volkswagen AG for the German carmaker’s in-vehicle infotainment syste...
Nov 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Electronics names strategy chief as new CEO
South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday appointed its strategy chief Cho Joo-wan as the company's new chief executive officer, in a major resh...
Nov 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Koreans log $5.7 bn loss in Q3 from overseas stock investments
South Korean investors suffered a $5.7 billion loss in the third quarter from overseas stock investments on weak foreign shares. Individual investor...
Nov 18, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Group's No. 2 exec Kwon to head EV battery unit
Kwon Young-soo, the No. 2 leader of South Korea's LG Group, will be appointed as the chief executive officer of LG Energy Solution Ltd. next month, ...
Oct 25, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Kumho Asiana assures 30-year profits to Gate Gourmet in catering deal
Kumho Asiana Group’s management assured net profits for 30 years to Gate Gourmet when the South Korean conglomerate signed a deal for Asiana A...
Oct 12, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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