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Food & Beverage
CJ CheilJedang opens Bibigo store on Amazon Germany
South Korea's CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Tuesday that it launched the Korean food (K-food) brand Bibigo's store on Amazon Germany, the larges...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK On to sell $360 mn in perpetual bonds amid tough EV market
SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, plans to sell 500 billion won ($359.6 million) in its first perpetual bon...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Hyundai Steel builds global sales network of low-carbon steel
South Korea’s Hyundai Steel Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with European customers to sell low-ca...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
EV battery maker LG Energy eyes $2 bn global bond sale
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s third-largest electric vehicle battery maker, is poised to raise $2 billion in global bonds by the end of...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Doosan emerges as darling in Korea’s BBB bond market
Doosan Co. is poised to raise up to 80 billion won ($58 million) in bond sales this week following its credit rating upgrade as the holding company ...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korean seafood giant Sajo acquires Foodist for $181 million
Sajo Group, a South Korean seafood and fisheries conglomerate, has acquired Foodist Co., a domestic food ingredient and catering service provider, f...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE eyes $3.4 bn worth of orders from France's CMA CGM
South Korea’s largest shipbuilder, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE), is eyeing around $3.4 billion worth of orde...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Innotek eyes $1.4 bn in automotive sensor sales by 2030
LG Innotek Co., South Korea’s leading mobile camera module maker, is upping the ante to lead the automotive sensing market with high-performan...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Lotte Home Shopping to enter health functional food market
South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Monday that it plans to establish a joint venture, The Edition Health, with H.Pio, a specialized heal...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Lotte Energy Materials sets sights beyond copper foil: CEO Kim
MUNICH – Lotte Energy Materials Corp. is one of South Korea’s leading battery materials specialists.Formerly known as Iljin Materials Co...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Korean soju maker HiteJinro aims high with its first Vietnam plant
HANOI – Thai Binh, a port city about 120 km southeast of the Vietnamese capital, has long been associated, in people’s minds, with the i...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
S.Korea's Handsome opens global flagship store System Paris
South Korean fashion company Handsome Corp. announced on Wednesday that it will open its first global flagship store System and System Homme Paris i...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Hyosung Chemical receives negative credit rating outlook
South Korean credit rating agency NICE Investors Service Co. (NICE) downgraded Hyosung Chemical's credit rating outlook from stable to negative on W...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Netmarble's new RPG 'Solo Leveling' logs $70 mn sales in 1st month
South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp. is enjoying growing sales of its new action role-playing game (RPG) “Solo Leveling: Arise,” ...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Tcha Partners mulls largest-ever sale of Korean bus operators
Seoul-based private equity firm Tcha Partners Asset Management Co., which owns 17 domestic quasi-public bus operators via four funds that closed at ...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
S.Korean companies open K-food section at Amazon
South Korean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will showcase Korean food (K-food) on Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce platform, the Mi...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
South Korean webtoon makers in quandary after pandemic
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic a few years back, social distancing was the rule of life. People stayed at home, with many of them killing ti...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Asiana's cargo unit to be sold for $362 mn to Air Incheon
South Korean flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co. has tapped Air Incheon, a local airline dedicated to cargo business, as the preferred bidder to acqui...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung unveils new foundry tech; AI chip sales to rise ninefold
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, on Wednesday unveiled a new contract chipmaking techno...
Jun 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Securities sees wealth management assets surpass $43.6 bn
South Korea's KB Securities announced on Wednesday that its wealth management assets surpassed 60 trillion won ($43.6 billion) this month.This is fi...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Innotek begins supplying AI chip substrates to Big Tech
LG Innotek Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, is for the first time supplying high-performance chip substrates for AI devices to g...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Hyundai, Kia to require stricter ESG compliance from subcontractors
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group plans to require stricter environmental, social and governance compliance from its partners st...
Jun 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Foreign VIP customers boost Korean department stores' sales
Wei Liu, a 41-year-old Taiwanese businessman, snapped up 300 million won ($220,000) worth of luxury brand products at Hyundai Department Store&rsquo...
Jun 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Biopharm mulls acquiring firms, drug sales rights in US
SAN DIEGO, California -- South Korea’s SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. is considering acquiring firms in the US, or the sales rights to some of thei...
Jun 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Hanmi Semiconductor wins $110 mn HBM equipment order from SK Hynix
South Korean chip equipment company Hanmi Semiconductor Co. announced on Friday that it has received an order from SK Hynix Inc. for its dual TC bon...
Jun 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai to launch EV model of Staria minivan in 2026
South Korea’s top automaker, Hyundai Motor Co., is slated to launch an electric vehicle model of its Staria van in 2026 to respond to the inte...
Jun 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Eco-friendly cars reboot Hyundai, Kia’s US sales in May
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., car manufacturers of the global No. 3 automaker Hyundai Motor Group, reported a rebound last month on sales in the ...
Jun 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung becomes No.1 smartphone brand in 38 countries in Q1
Samsung Electronics Co. has become No. 1 smartphone brand in 38 countries in the first quarter of this year.According to Counterpoint Research's Sma...
Jun 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
MBK puts Homeplus’ supermarket chain unit up for sale
MBK Partners, the North Asia-focused private equity firm, has put the supermarket chain unit of South Korea’s hypermarket operator Homeplus up...
Jun 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai to raise Tucson Hybrid output in Korea for exports
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, plans to ramp up Korean production of the hybrid version of its Tucson sport utility vehicle f...
Jun 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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