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Korean food
Washington D.C. recognizes Korea as origin of kimchi
Washington D.C. has joined the three US states of California, Virginia and New York to designate Nov. 22 “Kimchi Day,” and has acknowled...
Jun 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Disney+ becomes white elephant for LG Uplus
For South Korea’s wireless carrier LG Uplus, Disney+ may have become more trouble than it is worth.The country’s video-on-demand over-th...
Jun 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Georgia state to provide $1.6 bn in incentives to Hyundai
Hyundai Motor Group is expected to receive about $1.6 billion in incentives including tax breaks from Georgia as South Korea’s top automaker i...
May 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Tous les Jours, the next K-bakery to lure US customers
Tous les Jours, South Korea’s second-largest bakery franchise, is rapidly expanding its US business by attracting customers with greater varie...
May 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hahn & Co. buys Korean food startup in bolt-on deal
Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. has acquired a South Korean meal kit provider for 75 billion won ($61 million), a deal expected to bo...
Apr 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korean activist fund KCIG to sell Hanjin KAL stake to local builder
South Korea’s activist fund Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI) has decided to sell its stake in Hanjin KAL, the holding compan...
Mar 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Samsung SDI to run all-solid-state battery pilot line
Samsung SDI Co. is poised to become one of the few electric vehicle battery manufacturers in the world to run a pilot production line of all-solid-s...
Mar 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
New York third US state to recognize kimchi's Korean origin
Korean food is all about ingredients, which alongside various fermentation techniques, have made kimchi a global side dish enjoyed not just as centr...
Feb 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
IMM to buy Samsung Life stake once owned by Jay Y. Lee's sister
IMM Private Equity is set to acquire a 1.73 percent stake in Samsung Life Insurance Co., according to investment banking sources on Jan. 27. The sta...
Jan 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Korean investors inject $1.2 bn in Australian PPP
Korean investors have injected around A$1.7 billion ($1.2 billion) with a 32-year maturity through senior loans for A$11.1 billion ($8 billion) in t...
Jan 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
POSCO plans to cancel treasury shares in its holding firm
Top management of South Korea's POSCO Co. has decided to cancel treasury shares in its to-be-launched holding company, in an effort to win sharehold...
Jan 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Hyundai Glovis opens firm in Chengdu for logistics to Europe
Hyundai Glovis Co., a logistics unit of Hyundai Motor Group, has founded an affiliate in Chengdu, the largest trade city in western China, for rai...
Dec 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
Former KIC real estate head to serve as ADQ's chief investment officer
Cha Hoon, the former head of real estate investment at Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is moving to Abu Dhabi’s state holding firm Abu Dhab...
Dec 07, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Costa Rican president: His family K-drama fans, seeks joint production
Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada has praised South Korean movies such as the Oscar-winning Parasite and drama series such as Squid Game...
Nov 25, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Dunamu evolves from outlier to qualified investor in Woori
"It caused quite a commotion in our industry." This was the common response by cryptocurrency exchange insiders to the news that Dunamu Inc., an ope...
Nov 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
S.Korea leaves Asian crisis behind with Woori privatization
Two decades after the onset of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, the state-run Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation (KDIC) is finally set to privat...
Nov 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK, Beijing Easpring Material join hands on battery materials
SK Inc., the holding and investment company of South Korea’s SK Group, and Beijing Easpring Material Technology Co., a major Chinese cathode m...
Nov 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Korea’s state electric companies to cease coal power generation by 2050
State-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) and its six subsidiaries declared an aim to cease coal power generation by 2050 in a bid to pla...
Nov 11, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Hyundai, Kia invest in US solid-state battery startup Factorial
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. invested in US solid-state battery startup Factorial Energy in a move to secure various technologies for the next-ge...
Oct 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Race heats up in solid-state battery development
Global automakers and battery producers are accelerating the development of a next-generation electric vehicle battery, called an all-solid-state ba...
Oct 28, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia take throne in Russia on decade of investment
Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s fifth-largest carmaker, topped the Russian automobile market last month for the first time since January 2017...
Sep 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy develops safer, long-lasting solid-state battery technology
South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. said on Friday the company and the University of California San Diego have jointly developed a next-gene...
Sep 24, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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EV Batteries
SK Innovation to supply batteries to Hyundai IONIQ 7
SK Innovation Co. is set to supply batteries for the IONIQ 7, Hyundai Motor Co.’s large electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) to be unveiled in...
Sep 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
KDB chairman urges FTC to approve merger of Korean Air, Asiana
A speedy approval by South Korea’s top antitrust regulator of the proposed merger of Korean Air Lines Co. (KAL) and its local rival Asiana Air...
Sep 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Woori Fin to move closer to privatization by year's end
The South Korean government will sell another big chunk of its remaining shares in Woori Financial Group by year's end to finally give up its top sh...
Sep 10, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea Post nets nearly $1 bn from KakaoBank block sale
Korea Post has netted slightly over 1 trillion won ($861 million) from the block sale of its shares in South Korea's largest internet-only lender Ka...
Sep 02, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Interpark draws cool response from Korean online giants
South Korea’s online retail platform Interpark Corp. has failed to drum up interest from the country's largest online platforms, including Nav...
Aug 31, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
POSCO partners with Australia’s Roy Hill for carbon neutrality initiatives
South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO and Australia’s major iron ore supplier Roy Hill have strengthened their existing partnership to cond...
Aug 02, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Investors revalue E-Mart after owning two-thirds of Starbucks Korea
Shares of E-Mart Inc., South Korea’s largest retailer, are rallying after the company bought an extra stake in Starbucks Korea to control two-...
Jul 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
CJ ENM to build virtual studio with Samsung’s new commercial displays
South Korean media company CJ ENM Co. is using Samsung Electronics Co.’s new commercial displays for a virtual production studio to spearhead ...
Jul 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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