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Fashion
S.Korea’s Brand X establishes Taiwanese corporation
South Korea's media and e-commerce company Brand X Co. announced on Friday that it has established a Taiwanese corporation. The move seeks to amplif...
Jul 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
Musinsa opens showroom in Tokyo for S.Korean designers’ brands
South Korea's online fashion platform Musinsa opened a showroom in Tokyo on Thursday targeting fashion buyers, as it aims to introduce domestic desi...
Jul 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Energy acquires logistics platform Goodsflow
South Korea's SK Energy will buy all shares of Goodsflow, a Seoul-based provider of logistics platform services, to enter the urban logistics center...
Jul 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Avikus to unveil self-sailing marine taxi in Busan
Avikus, an autonomous ship navigation affiliate of South Korea's HD Hyundai Co., will apply its self-developed autonomous navigation solution to mar...
Jul 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
LG Uplus to open metaverse for Yonsei Univ. in September
South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. on Wednesday announced the opening in September of Virtual Campus, a metaverse for Yonsei University, one of the nation...
Jul 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Road near SK On’s US plant in Georgia named SK Blvd
South Korean battery maker SK On announced on Thursday that a road near its US corporation, SK Battery America's (SKBA) site, has been renamed "SK...
Jul 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
KKR leads $190 mn Series C funding of fashion platform Musinsa
South Korea’s leading fashion platform Musinsa said on Wednesday it has attracted 240 billion won ($189.7 million) in its Series C funding rou...
Jul 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
KHNP develops world's first accident monitoring system for nuclear reactors
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced on Wednesday that it has successfully developed the Technical Specification Operator Support System...
Jul 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO Holdings posts operating profit of $790 million in Q1
South Korea's POSCO Holdings Inc. has returned to the level of 1 trillion won ($790.5 million) in quarterly operating profit after a year and sales ...
Jul 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
The Swing buys van-hailing service Tada for $19 mn
South Korea's personal mobility platform company The Swing Co. has acquired the management rights of the van-hailing service Tada.Negotiations betwe...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Naver Webtoon becomes No.1 webtoon platform in France
South Korea's Naver Webtoon has made a name for itself as the top webtoon platform in France. Naver Webtoon announced on Monday that it participated...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
SK’s Tmap enhances ESG efforts by navigating lowest-carbon routes
South Korea’s leading mobility platform Tmap Mobility Co. has stepped up its environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts via its naviga...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KakaoPay launches discount promotion in Japan
South Korea’s Kakao Pay Corp. announced on Friday that it has prepared a large-scale discount promotion in collaboration with PayPay, the top ...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Catchtable raises $24 mn in Series D funding
South Korean startup WAD, the operator of a restaurant reservation service platform, has recently raised 30 billion won($24 million) in a Series D f...
Jul 14, 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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Healthcare
KT expands healthcare business in Vietnam
South Korea’s telecom service provider KT Corp. has recently organized a collaborative seminar on digital health alongside Hanoi Medical Unive...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
NHN Commerce acquires Italian luxury brands retailer Ikonic
NHN Commerce, South Korea's major online company NHN Corp.'s shopping platform, announced on Tuesday its acquisition of a 77.8% stake in Ikonic Srl,...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
CJ Logistics revamps itself into tech-based company
South Korea’s CJ Logistics on Monday said it has revamped its internal organization that it had maintained since its foundation in 1930. ...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Electronics opens gaming-focused shopping platform
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it has opened the Samsung Gaming Portal on its domestic website Samsung.com to streng...
Jul 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
NHN Cloud to boost mobile games operations in Japan
South Korea's NHN Cloud on Friday said that at this year's Game Tools & Middleware Forum (GTMF) in Japan, it gave a presentation on security bre...
Jul 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Financial pursues glocalization in Southeast Asia
KB Financial Group Chairman and Chief Executive Yoon Jong-kyoo brought up “glocalization” as a key strategy for its global expansion at ...
Jul 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
LG Uplus, Kakao Mobility to form EV charging JV
South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. and transportation company Kakao Mobility announced on Monday their strategic allian...
Jul 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
S.Korea's beauty platform Hwahae opens flagship store on TikTok
South Korea's mobile beauty platform Hwahae has opened a flagship store on TikTok (Chinese name Douyin). Hwahae's operator Birdview announced t...
Jun 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
Hanwha TotalEnergies completes building POE pilot plant
Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical Co., a South Korean joint venture between Hanwha Group and TotalEnergies, announced on Thursday that it has compl...
Jun 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
Kakao Healthcare to build metaverse healthcare platform
Kakao Healthcare, a digital healthcare platform unit of South Korea's Kakao, announced on Wednesday that it has been selected as the final operato...
Jun 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
7-Eleven’s operator Korea Seven hit by rating cut
The credit rating of Korea Seven Co., which runs the South Korean operations of the convenience store chain 7-Eleven, was downgraded to its lowest l...
Jun 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Kakao Mobility to develop mobility platform with Vietnam’s Phenikaa
South Korea's Kakao Mobility and Vietnam's Phenikaa Group have entered into a business agreement to foster technology collaboration within the mobil...
Jun 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
S.Korea's Naver Webtoon to expand IP-based operations
South Korea's Naver Webtoon is selling its online intellectual property (IP)-based webtoon products on the offline market to expand its webtoon IP o...
Jun 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE breaks ground on marine engine plant in Saudi Arabia
HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) said on Sunday its joint venture Makeen has broken ground on a marine engine plant in Saudi ...
Jun 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Pharmteco opens 2nd biomanufacturing plant in France
SK Pharmteco Co., South Korean conglomerate SK Group’s contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has secured a second plant ...
Jun 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)