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Earnings
Kia maintains double-digit margin in Q1 with record revenue
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, extended its double-digit profit margin streak to a 10th consecutive quarter, posting recor...
Apr 25, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
South Korea’s renewed stock market darlings: Weapons makers
South Korea’s defense industry is once again capturing investor attention, as exports of tanks, armored vehicles and other weapons systems soa...
Apr 24, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai to launch 42 new cars to cope with Trump tariffs, EV slowdown
Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-largest automaker, plans to unveil 42 new models, including hybrids of existing cars, next year to cope...
Apr 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung expands automotive MLCC supply to BYD, other Chinese firms
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. is supplying several million dollars' worth of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) to BYD Co. and Chinese automotive...
Apr 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
KT rolls out Thai-tailored large language model
South Korean telecom service provider KT Corp. has built a large language model (LLM) platform tailored for the Thai market in collaboration with Ja...
Apr 15, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia to build North America-targeted electric pickup model
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest carmaker, will build an electric pickup model tailored for North America to enter the world’s la...
Apr 09, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha Aerospace, General Atomics to build unmanned aerial vehicles
Hanwha Aerospace Co., a leading South Korean defense company, has joined forces with US-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) to ...
Apr 02, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Korea’s KG Mobility teams up with Chery to develop mid to large SUVs
KG Mobility Corp., a South Korean automaker specializing in sport utility vehicles, said on Wednesday it joined hands with China’s fourth-larg...
Apr 02, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Hyundai Steel picks Donaldsonville as $5.8 bn US plant site, seeks investors
South Korea’s Hyundai Steel Co. has chosen Donaldsonville, Louisiana, as the location for its $5.8 billion US steel mill, marking a major stra...
Mar 28, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix aims to lock in all 2026 HBM orders by mid-2025
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s largest supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), aims to lock in orders for its entire 2026 HBM output by the end o...
Mar 27, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Hyundai chief Chung Euisun targets software-led car dominance by 2028
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun has set an ambitious target to outpace Tesla Inc. in software-defined vehicle (SDV) technology by 2028, un...
Mar 19, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG takes on Big Tech AI in reasoning with Exaone Deep
LG AI Research, the artificial intelligence (AI) research and development unit of South Korea's LG Group, has unveiled Exaone Deep, an open-source A...
Mar 18, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
LG Group units step up joint marketing for in-vehicle electronics
Chief executives of LG Group’s key units, including LG Electronics Inc., will visit the headquarters of global carmakers for a series of close...
Mar 18, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia to release PV9 in 2029, retains CEO for 3 more years
Kia Corp. will release a new purpose-built vehicle (PBV) model every two years, with plans to launch the PV9 in 2029 and its first model, the PV5, t...
Mar 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia to ramp up Seltos output to meet high global demand
Kia Corp. will expand production of its compact sport utility vehicle, the Seltos, after selling 310,000 units of the model across the globe, making...
Mar 13, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai, Avride join hands to develop autonomous robotaxis
Hyundai Motor Co. has agreed to partner with Avride, an autonomous driving technology startup, to develop driverless robotaxis based on all-electric...
Mar 06, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor sets up AI research arm CoMo China
Hyundai Motor Co. in December established CoMo China in Shanghai to spearhead artificial intelligence research and development in its push for softw...
Feb 24, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Korea Shipbuilding premieres nuclear-powered ship design
HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE), the parent of the world’s largest shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co.,...
Feb 13, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG, SNU team up to develop AI modeling for protein structure predictions
LG AI Research Institute, the artificial intelligence think-tank of LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-biggest conglomerate, on Thursday signed a ...
Feb 06, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Electronics' new Galaxy S25 smartphone: 'Perfect AI assistant'
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Last year, Samsung Electronics Co. scored a first-mover advantage with consumers by introducing the Galaxy S24 as an AI sma...
Jan 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
China's BYD enters S.Korean EV market
China’s electric vehicle (EV) giant BYD Co. officially debuts in the South Korean passenger car market on January 16. BYD's first-selling...
Jan 13, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor, Nvidia team up for AI development for future mobility
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group said on Friday that it has teamed up with Nvidia Corp. to accelerate the development of advanc...
Jan 10, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Korean carmakers to bolster lineups with EVs, hydrogen models
Hyundai Motor Co. and other South Korean carmakers will release various types of new models ranging from hybrid sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and el...
Jan 02, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia aims to reclaim Europe with EV2, keeps K4 output unchanged in Mexico
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest carmaker, will start producing its entry-level electrified model EV2 from its plant in Slovakia next y...
Dec 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung, Hyundai Motor eye tech alliance on autonomous vehicle chips
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. will likely entrust the manufacturing of its automotive chips for self-driving vehicles to Samsu...
Dec 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Korea’s commercial vehicle sales tumble on economic slowdown
South Korea’s commercial vehicle sales are plunging on sluggish domestic demand amid a slowdown in Asia’s fourth-largest economy.Local s...
Dec 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Pilbara completes Gwangyang lithium hydroxide plant
South Korea's POSCO Pilbara Lithium Solution Co., a subsidiary of POSCO Group, said on Friday the completion of its second rock-based lithium hydrox...
Dec 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
STX to export $60 mn wheeled armored vehicles to Peru
STX Corp., a South Korean general trading company, said on Monday it signed a contract with Fábrica de Armas y Municiones del Ejé...
Dec 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
OpenAI, KDB to collaborate to enhance S.Korean AI ecosystem
The US-based OpenAI and Korea Development Bank (KDB) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to support the development of South Kor...
Nov 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Tesla asks Samsung, SK Hynix to supply HBM4 chip samples
Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. are said to each be developing a sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) chip prototype for Tesla In...
Nov 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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