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Asset management
Young rich Koreans set sights on M&A, commercial property deals
Young rich Koreans have emerged as big players in South Korea’s asset management market, expanding into M&A and commercial real estate sec...
23 HOURS AGO
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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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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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Automobiles
Hyundai Mobis tests Level 4 self-driving
Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s sixth-largest auto component maker, will start test driving a Level 4 autonomous driving vehicle in Incheon's S...
Apr 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
Korean lidar venture SOSLab eyes Kosdaq debut in May
South Korean light detection and ranging (lidar) startup SOSLab aims to debut on the junior bourse Kosdaq in May, according to banking sources on Su...
Apr 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
POSCO DX to develop self-driving unmanned facilities
POSCO DX Co., the IT services subsidiary of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc., announced on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of unde...
Apr 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Korea’s bond sales up in February; corporate bonds remain buoyant
Bond sales in South Korea amounted to 71.8 trillion won ($54.4 billion) in February, 12.4% up from a month prior, according to a report from the Kor...
Mar 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Mobis applies 1,200 future mobility patents in 2023
Hyundai Mobis has strengthened its competitiveness in future mobility by filing numerous patents in the electric and autonomous driving fields.The c...
Mar 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai, Kia team up with KAIST on self-driving car sensor
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s two largest automakers, have joined hands with the nation's top national research university to...
Feb 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea's job growth at 10-month high despite weak youth employment
South Korea’s job increases rose for a second straight month to a 10-month high in January thanks to higher employment of the older, although ...
Feb 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Aptiv to cut stake in Motional, self-driving JV with Hyundai
Aptiv PLC, a US autonomous driving technology company, has decided to reduce a significant portion of its stake in Motional, a self-driving tec...
Feb 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Korea unveils next-gen howitzer plans for defense exports
South Korea introduced plans for the development of next-generation self-propelled howitzers to its existing customers as the country aims to foster...
Jan 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea’s ELS market to stagnate after HSCEI debacle: KOFIA chairman
The Korea Financial Investment Association (KOFIA) will go all out to minimize any adverse effects on the South Korean financial market from an anti...
Jan 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean innovators at CES 2024
LG to unveil integrated self-driving, infotainment platform
LG Electronics Inc. and Magna International Inc. have jointly developed an automotive electronics platform that integrates LG’s infotainment t...
Jan 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea’s labor gains slow in November with fewer jobs for young people
South Korea’s nonfarm payroll growth slowed in November after the country with the world’s lowest fertility rate marked its 13th straigh...
Dec 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Naver, PIF-backed JV join hands for Saudi Arabia’s smart cities
South Korean online portal giant Naver Corp. is planning to accelerate Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation in partnership with a tech firm b...
Dec 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Naver invests in AI operations automation startup
Naver D2 Startup Factory (D2SF), a tech startup investment and support project, announced Thursday that it invested in a startup with AI operations ...
Nov 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Ex-Kumho Petrochemical chair returns as Kumho Mitsui co-CEO
Park Chan-koo, former chairman of South Korea’s Kumho Petrochemical Group, has returned to the top position of Kumho Mitsui Chemicals Inc. as ...
Nov 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea to put self-developed lander on moon by 2032
South Korea plans to put its first lunar lander on the moon by 2032. In a meeting of the National R&D Project Evaluation Advisory Commit...
Oct 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Hyundai unveils world’s first commercial LTE train signaling system
Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean manufacturer of rolling stock, defense products and plant equipment, in a world first has commercialized a train s...
Oct 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea’s Teachers’ Pension names SK Securities VP as CIO
South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension has named Jeon Bum-sik, a vice president at SK Securities Co. with three decades of investment experienc...
Oct 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
KG Mobility to develop Level 3 autonomous driving system
South Korea's KG Mobility Corp. announced on Tuesday it partnered with domestic autonomous self-driving software firm Autonomous a2z. The two c...
Oct 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
SK Telecom, Mars Auto to advance self-driving large trucks
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Monday with the autonomous driving startup Mars Auto for cooperation in t...
Oct 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Daedong unveils self-running combine harvester
South Korea's leading agricultural machinery maker Daedong Corp. has released the nation’s first combine harvester, a machine that cuts and th...
Oct 20, 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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Chemical Industry
LG Display, LG Chem develop homegrown OLED material
South Korea’s LG Display Co. and LG Chem Ltd. have domestically produced a core material for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) that they pre...
Oct 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Hyundai Glovis pledges carbon neutrality by 2045
South Korean shipping and logistics company Hyundai Glovis Co. on Thursday pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. Despite producing a h...
Oct 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung, Japan's KDDI co-work for 5G network slicing tech
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Wednesday that it has signed a business agreement with Japanese mobile communications company KDDI to jointly d...
Sep 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Mobis develops one-touch automatic parking tech
South Korea's leading automotive parts maker Hyundai Mobis on Tuesday announced its Mobis Parking System (MPS) 1.0P (Premium), a performance-improve...
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hyundai E&C, Poland bolster partnerships in nuclear power
Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., a major affiliate of South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co., is boosting its networks in the nuclear p...
Sep 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)