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Travel & Leisure
Korean hotels bask in rising foreign visitors; travel agencies in trouble
Hotels in South Korea are booming thanks to a surge in foreign visitors on a weaker won currency, while domestic travel agencies are suffering from ...
Apr 22, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Orion behind original Choco Pie to invest $580 million in new plants
Orion Corp., a South Korean confectionery and snack manufacturer, will inject 830 billion won ($580 million) over three years to expand snack manufa...
Apr 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korea's No. 1 fitness app Planfit eyes bigger market beyond home in 2025
A new year has arrived, and with it come the New Year’s resolutions. However, if you are one of those who feel you've already failed to keep y...
Jan 09, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
K-food, fashion, beauty to up ante on global push in 2025
South Korean food, beauty and fashion companies, which have enjoyed robust demand for their products in overseas markets this year, will grow bolder...
Dec 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korean gov't to lift two-bottle limit on duty-free alcohol
South Korean government will lift the number restriction of duty-free alcohol bottles for inbound travelers and halve the patent fees to boost the d...
Dec 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
South Korea to ease foreign exchange regulations, expand FX swap line
South Korea’s foreign authorities said on Friday they will ease foreign exchange regulations to allow more dollars into the domestic financial...
Dec 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korean stocks diverge: Winners, losers of Yoon’s martial law debacle
South Korean stocks showed clear divergences on Wednesday amid a mixed market outlook as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law declaration, re...
Dec 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion to break ground on CDMO plant in 2025: Chairman Seo
South Korea’s leading biosimilar developer Celltrion Inc. will break ground on its first contract development and manufacturing organization (...
Nov 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
S.Korean overseas card spending posts record $5.71 bn in Q3
With the increase in international travel during the summer, overseas card spending by South Korean residents reached a record high in the third qua...
Nov 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korean duty-free shops post Q3 losses; no signs of recovery
The four major duty-free shop operators in South Korea on Thursday posted operating losses in the third quarter, marking the first quarter in almo...
Nov 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
South Korean VCs in search of better returns abroad
South Korean venture capitalists’ appetite for foreign entrepreneurs shows no sign of waning as they continue to look for better returns overs...
Oct 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
CJ Logistics, KT&G introduce hydrogen cargo trucks
South Korea's CJ Logistics said on Thursday that it deployed two 11-ton hydrogen-powered cargo trucks in the logistics division of KT&G Corp.The...
Oct 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Hyundai Motor sells over 1,000 Elec City FCEV
Hyundai Motor Co. said on Sunday it has sold more than 1,000 units of its hydrogen fuel cell bus Elec City Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) with cu...
Oct 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Rising overseas trips to raise Korea’s travel account deficit
Demand for overseas travel among South Koreans during the upcoming holiday grew, while the number of inbound tourists from China is expected to shri...
Sep 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan SOL Travel Cards' cumulative issuance reaches 1.2 mn
South Korea's Shinhan Card said on Wednesday that the cumulative issuance of its travel-specialized card, the Shinhan SOL Travel Card (available in ...
Sep 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korean travel retailers face downturn without Chinese big spenders
Before COVID-19 swept the world, South Korea’s top two travel retailers Lotte Duty Free and Shilla Duty Free Shop ascended to the world’...
Sep 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Naver Map sees 30% increase in foreign user base
The foreign users of Naver Map, the map service of South Korea's online platform giant Naver Corp., have a 30% increase from last year. Naver...
Sep 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea’s retail investors buy stocks on dips in turmoil
South Korea’s individual investors took the recent turmoil in stock markets as an opportunity to buy shares at home and abroad on dips, bettin...
Aug 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
S.Korea's early stage VC funding down amid dearth of targets
Early stage startup funding has plummeted in South Korea as venture capitalists shifted to late-stage venture firms with stable business models amid...
Jul 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
S.Korean travelers splurge in Japan on softer yen
South Korean travelers spent a total of 431.4 billion won ($312 million) through debit and credit cards in Japan in the first half of this year, twi...
Jul 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
S.Korea’s travel payment card market competition heats up
Competition in the South Korean travel payment card market intensified as increasing overseas trips and cross-border shopping prompted credit card i...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
South Korea-Japan air travelers soar to 10 mn in first five months
The number of air passengers traveling between South Korea and Japan has surpassed 10 million in the first five months of this year, setting a new r...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Jeju casinos, hotels bask in return of Chinese tourists; luxury shops fall
Following the pandemic, hotels and casinos are enjoying a renewed tourist boom with Chinese tourists returning to South Korea, particularly its top ...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Korean food firms chase sizzling K-food demand with expansion
South Korean food companies are scrambling to ramp up factory output at home and abroad to meet the insatiable appetite for Korean flavors and aroma...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Card, Canada's Alberta to co-work for tourism
South Korea's Shinhan Card Co. announced on Wednesday that it signed a strategic business agreement with the provincial government of Alberta, C...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Lotte Tour launches premium travel brand High&
Lotte Tour Development Co. announced on Tuesday that it launched the brand High& for high-quality premium package travel products.High& is a...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Yanolja gains momentum with cloud, overseas trip businesses
SoftBank-backed Yanolja Co. cheered stellar earnings in the first quarter after its new businesses – cloud and outbound trip services – ...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Korea scraps ban on online purchase of 80 items from abroad
South Korea has scrapped a plan to ban direct purchases of some 80 items from overseas e-commerce platforms, a government office said on Sunday, aft...
May 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Korean Air to launch Incheon-Macau route in July
Korean Air Lines Co., the leading full-service airline in South Korea, announced on Friday that it will launch flights on the Incheon-Macau route st...
Apr 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
South Korea’s chip design firms go abroad to tap $426 billion market
South Korea’s chip design companies are turning their sights overseas to tap into the 593 trillion won ($426 billion) system semiconductor mar...
Apr 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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