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Batteries
L&F, CNGR to collaborate to respond to US IRA
L&F Co., South Korea’s major cathode supplier announced Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Chinese precu...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai ties up with AWS, Meta, Microsoft for open map
Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-largest automaker, teamed up with Big Tech companies such as Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), Meta Platf...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
South Korea pledges $19 billion support package to revitalize chip sector
South Korea, home to the world’s two largest memory chipmakers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., has unveiled a record 26 trillion wo...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
POSCO Future M completes carbon footprint verification
POSCO Future M Co., South Korea’s anode materials producer, has completed the international standard verification for the carbon footprint of ...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Display records 1 mn cumulative shipments of QD-OLED monitors
Samsung Display Co., South Korea’s top display producer, has developed the world's first QD-OLED, a self-emissive technology where light from ...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion eyes M&A in Europe, $3.3 bn Zymfentra sales: chairman
WASHINGTON, D.C. – South Korean biosimilar giant Celltrion Inc. is accelerating its push to transform into a novel drug developer, going after...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG CNS' marketing platform MOP surpasses 800 corporate customers
South Korea’s LG CNS Co., a cloud computing services arm of LG Corp., announced on Thursday that its Marketing Optimization Platform (MOP), la...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Korean construction machine makers set sights on India, Brazil, Mexico
South Korea’s leading construction machine makers are actively advancing into emerging markets such as India, Brazil, Mexico and Saudi Arabia,...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
KIC eyes direct lending with high return potential: CEO
Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) seeks opportunities in direct lending for companies that are not cyclically sensitive and g...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Hotel Lotte resumes global push with management deals
Hotel Lotte Co., South Korea’s leading hospitality, leisure and travel retail giant, has resumed its global expansion push after its hotel and...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Hyundai Motor unveils detailed $3.4 billion GBC new headquarters plan
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group on Monday unveiled detailed plans for its 4.6 trillion won ($3.4 billion) new headquarters, or...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Young rich Koreans set sights on M&As, commercial property deals
Young rich Koreans have emerged as big players in South Korea’s asset management market, expanding into M&As and commercial real estate, a...
May 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Kookmin Bank, Cambodian Central Bank to build payment system
South Korea's KB Kookmin Bank announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the National Bank of Cambodia to establish...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Nongshim to open stores in Leclerc, Carrefour; expands plant in US
Nongshim Co., a leading South Korean instant noodle maker, said on Tuesday it is setting up stores within France’s two largest supermarket cha...
May 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung aims to overtake TSMC, Apple with 3 nm Exynos W1000 chip
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, plans to apply its latest 3-nanometer chip processing technology to the manufac...
May 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korea's Taeyoung to sell local hotel to speed up debt workout
South Korea’s Taeyoung Group, which is undergoing a debt workout of its construction unit, is considering selling a four-star hotel and releva...
May 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
E-Land Retail to enter convenience store market
South Korea's E-Land Retail, the operator of Kim's Club, NC Department Store, and New Core Outlet operator, plans to enter the convenience store mar...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
South Korea Plans $7 Billion Push to Pivot EV Battery Industry Away From China
South Korea is dedicating around $7 billion to help wean its electric-vehicle battery supply chain away from China and align more with U.S. trade gu...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai’s JV Motional delays robotaxi commercialization, cuts jobs
Self-driving technology developer Motional decided to delay robotaxi deployments with ride-hailing companies Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. ag...
May 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix looks to expand AI memory leadership with new NAND chip
South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. aims to expand its memory leadership in the artificial intelligence sphere beyond the high-performance DRAM segmen...
May 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea to launch alternative stock exchange in 2025
South Korea will launch the country’s first alternative stock exchange Nextrade Co. in the first half of next year to enable stock trading for...
May 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Perigee, SSC to cooperate on space launch vehicle
South Korea's small space launch vehicle startup Perigee Aerospace Inc. announced on Wednesday that it partnered with the Swedish Space Corporation ...
May 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Medison buys AI medical startup Sonio
South Korea’s Samsung Medison, a medical equipment subsidiary of the global memory chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co., is taking over France&rs...
May 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai to invest $923 million on self-driving JV Motional
Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-largest automaker, is set to spend nearly $1 billion on Motional, its loss-making self-driving joint ve...
May 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Waste management
SK Geo reconsiders extent of $1.3 bn plastic recycling plant project
South Korea’s SK Geo Centric Co. is reconsidering how much it will invest in a planned $1.3 billion waste plastic recycling complex project in...
May 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
JLK to supply medical AI solutions in Indonesia
South Korea’s JLK Inc., an AI-based stroke care platform maker, announced on Tuesday that it signed a business agreement with medical consulti...
Apr 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign bonds
Korea desperately seeks global bond index inclusion to rescue won
South Korea is desperately working for inclusion on a global major bond index to save the ailing won, the second worst-performer among emerging Asia...
Apr 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea’s KT to innovate media, content businesses with AI
South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp. is set to innovate its media and content businesses with artificial intelligence as it seeks new growth d...
Apr 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
LG Chem to supply switchable glass films to Webasto
LG Chem Ltd. is venturing into the automotive smart glass film market as it has won an order to supply its switchable glazing films to German auto p...
Apr 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Lotte Global Logistics, Megvii to collaborate AI logistics
South Korea's Lotte Global Logistics announced on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Megvii Technology, a Chinese arti...
Apr 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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