quarterly earnings
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Earnings
Harman’s record profits prop up Samsung's Q3 earnings
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, on Tuesday reported a triple-digit quarterly increase in third-quarter profit ...
Oct 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
LG Elec’s automotive business logs record quarterly profit
LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, said its automotive division enjoyed all-time high quarterly profit in the most recent...
Oct 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Kia’s Q3 profit soars; groupwide design centers revamped
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, said on Friday that its third-quarter net profit rose fourfold from a year earlier thanks t...
Oct 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Hyundai’s record Q3 profit beats Samsung; no EV output cut planned
Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday posted its highest-ever quarterly operating profit for the July-September period, driven by robust sales of pricey car...
Oct 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea’s Q3 GDP up 0.6% on-quarter on recovery in exports
South Korea’s economy in the third quarter grew 0.6% from the previous quarter, extending a growth streak to three consecutive quarters on a r...
Oct 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom to design LLM
SK Telecom Co. on Sunday said it will develop a large language model (LLM) specifically for the communications sector with Deutsche Telekom of Germa...
Oct 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Big 3 Korean shipmakers all likely to log quarterly profit
South Korea’s three major shipbuilders are all poised to log quarterly surpluses for the July-September period and stay in the black for years...
Oct 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Seesawing refining margins cloud Korean refiners’ earnings
The outlook on South Korean oil refiners' earnings in the fourth quarter has turned murky as oil refining margins are back on a downward trend ami...
Oct 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Samsung beats Apple, Google to earn title as world’s best employer
Samsung Electronics Co. has retained the world’s best employer title this year for the fourth consecutive year, according to US business magaz...
Oct 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
LG Elec beats earnings estimates on healthy automotive biz
LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings thanks to the strong automotive busin...
Oct 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS fills basket with China reopening, cosmetics shares; tech firms sold
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) sold electronics, information technology and content-related shares in the third quarter, and fil...
Oct 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Average fixed transaction DRAM price in Sept bottoms out at $1.30
The average fixed transaction price of DRAMs last month stayed at $1.30, maintaining its sluggishness in the $1 range for the ninth consecutive mont...
Oct 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Kakao completes first in-house data center
South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp. has completed construction of its first in-house data center that can store 120,000 computer servers, with its l...
Sep 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion signs largest-ever quarterly deal with global sales affiliate
Celltrion Inc., a South Korean biopharmaceutical giant, said Monday it will provide biosimilars worth 423.6 billion won ($323.6 million), its larges...
Sep 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hankook Tire cuts more jobs as it struggles to recover from fire
South Korea’s largest tire maker Hankook Tire & Technology Co. plans to cut more jobs through a voluntary retirement scheme as the company...
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Culture & Trends
S.Korea’s web novel sector hits $750 mn in value: Study
South Korea's rising web novel industry, which has seen popular works like "Reborn Rich" and "The Red Sleeve" made into TV series, has exceeded 1 tr...
Sep 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Snack maker Orion earns dividends from Vietnam for 1st time
South Korea’s confectionery and snack manufacturer Orion Corp. collected dividends from its Vietnamese unit for the first time as the company ...
Sep 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung narrows gap with TSMC in foundry market share
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. has narrowed its market share gap with foundry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), pos...
Sep 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s inflation rebounds in August on extreme weather
South Korea’s headline inflation re-accelerated at the fastest rate in four months above 3% in August after the extreme summer weather hiked a...
Sep 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
AI webtoon generator Realdraw earns most votes at D.Day
Realdraw, a South Korean developer of artificial intelligence image generation technology, won the country’s oldest startup pitch race D.Day l...
Sep 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea’s birth rate at record low despite rebound in marriages
South Korea’s total fertility rate hit its trough of 0.7 again in the second quarter, according to Statistics Korea on Wednesday, deepening th...
Aug 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Samsung Electro-Mechanics suffers cut in Q3 earnings estimate
South Korea's Kiwoom Securities on Tuesday said it cut its third-quarter earnings forecast for Samsung Electro-Mechanics due to continued sluggish...
Aug 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korean banks' earnings hit hard by unpaid debts, rate hikes
South Korea’s major banks expect their earnings in the second half to fall on the soaring distressed debts of households and companies due to ...
Aug 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Indonesia, Vietnam boost Korean banks’ overseas profits
South Korea’s top four banks posted sharp earnings growth in overseas operations in the first half of this year, buoyed by solid profits in In...
Aug 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Citibank Korea’s H1 net profit more than doubles on-year
Global banking giants’ South Korean units saw their first-half earnings led by non-interest income and business expenditures. Citibank Korea&r...
Aug 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
K-pop label JYP Entertainment earnings disappoint; shares down
JYP Entertainment Corp., the music label behind K-pop bands Stray Kids, Twice and NiziU, saw its stocks drop on Monday due to its disappointing quar...
Aug 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Korean game market needs new titles for breakthrough
South Korean game developers are struggling to revive gamers’ interest without releasing new blockbuster titles to fill the big shoes left by ...
Aug 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
S.Korea's Nongshim earns H1 operating profit of $89 million
South Korean food and beverage giant Nongshim Co. saw operating profit in the first half of the year more than double thanks to strong instant noodl...
Aug 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
S.Korea's Hanon Systems hits 'home run' with heat pump for EVs
Hanon Systems, a leading South Korean maker of automotive thermal management systems, posted surprising results in the second quarter in blowing awa...
Aug 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Coupang’s Q2 profit soars to a record, driven by e-commerce
Coupang Inc., South Korea’s leading delivery service provider, on Wednesday posted an all-time high quarterly profit and revenue, driven by it...
Aug 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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