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Hyundai Rotem unveils 4th-gen unmanned military vehicle, HR-Sherpa
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Line Yahoo to sever tech ties with Naver by year-end: LY CEO
TOKYO – Japan’s LY Corp., the operator of the country’s top mobile messenger app Line, plans to sever technological and system ties...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Catering firm Ourhome taps founding family’s eldest daughter as CEO
The eldest daughter of catering service provider Ourhome Ltd.’s founding family, Koo Mi-hyun, was on Tuesday appointed chief executive of the S...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Hyundai Motor eyes hydrogen value chain leadership
Hyundai Motor Group will expand its cooperation with global companies to boost its presence in the hydrogen value chain from production to distributi...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Netmarble's new RPG 'Solo Leveling' logs $70 mn sales in 1st month
South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp. is enjoying growing sales of its new action role-playing game (RPG) “Solo Leveling: Arise,” r...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Taihan Cable wins $94 mn power grid project in US
South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. announced on Tuesday that it has consecutively won three power grid projects in the US. The total contr...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Kyobo Life gets Moody's A1 credit rating for 10 consecutive years
South Korea's Kyobo Life Insurance Co. announced on Tuesday that it has received an A1 (stable) insurance financial strength rating from Moody's Rati...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Kolmar Korea develops AI tech for diagnosing alopecia
Kolmar Korea, a supplier to global cosmetics brands such as Estee Lauder, announced on Tuesday that it developed artificial intelligence (AI) technol...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Spaceflight venture Innospace eyes July Kosdaq IPO
South Korean spaceflight startup Innospace, which fired the country’s first private launch vehicle last year, aims to list on the Kosdaq in Jul...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Noul, CDC to start Malaria diagnosis project in Kenya
South Korea's Noul Co., an in-vitro diagnostics maker and artificial intelligence (AI)-based blood and cancer diagnostic platforms company, said on ...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Uniqconn raises $7 mn in Series A round
South Korea's system semiconductor startup Uniqconn announced on Tuesday that it attracted 10 billion won ($7.24 million) in Series A roundThe fundi...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
SK Networks to split off SpeedMate, trade division
South Korea's SK Networks Co. plans to split off its auto management division SpeedMate and its trading unit.The board of directors approved the plan...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor to produce Genesis cars in Kazakhstan
Hyundai Motor Group will produce Genesis models from its knock-down (KD) plant in Kazakhstan to bolster the South Korean auto giant’s luxury ma...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korea issues $10.75 bn in refund guarantees to shipbuilders
South Korean banks and state-run financial institutions will issue $10.75 billion worth of refund guarantees (RGs) to domestic shipbuilders, which th...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
SK's Chey rebuts court's SK unit value estimate for divorce
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won on Monday said the Seoul High Court has innacurately inflated his contribution to the growth of SK C&C, a business...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO seeks additional lithium deals from Argentina, Chile
POSCO Holdings Inc., the parent of South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO, aims to clinch additional deals from Argentina and Chile to secure lithi...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, SNU to open AI Joint Research Center
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Seoul National University (SNU) to establish an A...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Hanjin expands European logistics bases
South Korea's Hanjin Transportation, a logistics unit of Hanjin Group, announced on Monday that it will expand its European bases, including establis...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Korea’s SK Telecom, Moloco join hands for AI ad platform
SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, has teamed up with Moloco Inc., a Silicon Valley-based ad-tech solution startup, for the glob...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Display introduces proprietary GenAI in office
LG Display Co., the world’s leading manufacturer of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels, announced on Monday that it developed and intro...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
S.Korean companies open K-food section at Amazon
South Korean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will showcase Korean food (K-food) on Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce platform, the Min...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
PwC's Korean member taps new chiefs, creates finance unit
Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a South Korean member firm of PwC International Ltd., has appointed new chiefs of its key units and created a fin...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
S.Korea’s Woori to team up with US Nuveen to enhance IB part
Woori Bank and Woori Asset Management, subsidiaries of South Korea's Woori Financial Group, announced on Sunday that they signed a memorandum of und...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean IT firms prefer engineers with business capabilities
More South Korean information technology companies are seeking engineers with business capabilities as artificial intelligence is expected to take ov...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix patents-owned Mimir IP files complaint against Micron
Mimir IP, a South Korea-based patent management company, has filed a complaint against Micron Technology Inc., claiming that the US chipmaker infring...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
HD Hyundai Oilbank to export SAF to Japan
HD Hyundai Oilbank Co., South Korea’s refiner backed by Saudi Aramco, said on Sunday that it will export sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Jap...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai files for 1st overseas unit IPO in India: reports
Hyundai Motor Co.'s Indian unit filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Board of India on Saturday to raise up to $3 bi...
Jun 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to launch 3D HBM chip packaging service in 2024
SAN JOSE -- Samsung Electronics Co. will launch three-dimensional (3D) packaging services for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) within the year, a technolo...
Jun 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Doosan Bobcat to produce construction loaders in Mexico from 2026
Doosan Bobcat Inc., a construction machinery and equipment maker under South Korean conglomerate Doosan Group, aims to boost its sales in North Ameri...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Hyundai Rotem wins express train supply deal from Uzbekistan
Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean rolling stock and defense equipment maker, has secured a 270 billion won ($196 million) order from Uzbekistan to su...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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