Companies
Korean chipmakers
Samsung, SK Hynix join forces with foreign rivals to win AI chip war
Dec 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
S.Korean refiners’ race for EV lubricants heats up
South Korean major refiners are upping the ante to win the market for electric vehicle lubricants and liquid coolants for heat management amid the r...
Dec 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
42dot to lead Hyundai Group's in-vehicle software R&D
Hyundai Motor Group’s self-driving technology arm 42dot Inc. will absorb the electronics, infotainment and autonomous driving technology divis...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
CJ CheilJedang opens online B2B section
South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. introduced a business-to-business (B2B) section CJ The Market for Biz on its e-commerce website CJ The ...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea to allow hiring of foreign workers in hotels, resorts
The South Korean government said on Friday that it would grant the hiring of foreign workers in hotels and resorts from next year.The hotel and reso...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Kakao Mobility posts sevenfold rise in overseas ride-hailing services
Kakao Mobility Corp., which runs South Korea’s most popular ride-hailing app, saw its services in overseas markets grow sevenfold in the first...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Korea to domestically develop air-to-air missiles for KF-21
South Korea plans to develop short-range, air-to-air missiles to be mounted on the Korean fighter KF-21 with homegrown technology by 2035 in a 591.9...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Naver Whalebook supply volume triples in 2023
South Korea's Naver Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Naver Corp., announced on Friday that the distribution volume of Whalebook has tripled compa...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea's KDB establishes innovation fund for auto parts companies
The state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) announced on Friday that it has established the KDB-Quantum Mobility Value Chain Open Innovation Fund wor...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Ilhwa to export McCOL to South Africa
South Korea’s Ilhwa Co. on Friday that its flagship barley carbonated beverage McCOL will be exported to the Republic of South Africa. Th...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
Daewoo E&C opens theme park Ice Jungle in Phu Quoc
South Korea's Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. (Daewoo E&C) opened the digital theme park Ice Jungle in its ongoing luxury residential ...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
LG gets UL certification for EV charger
LG Electronics Inc. said on Friday that its electric vehicle (EV) charger has received certification from Underwriters Laboratories (UL), the US-b...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
NPS chief questions fairness in POSCO’s CEO selection process
POSCO Holdings Inc., the parent of South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO, has come under fire for its opaqueness in choosing a new leader a...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Shinsegae to close whisky business to focus on profits
Shinsegae Inc., South Korea’s largest department store and supermarket company, will pull out of the whisky market, bucking the trend of the r...
Dec 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Electronics unveils 2024 QNED TV
LG Electronics Inc. announced on Thursday that it will unveil the 2024 QNED TV (Quantum nano-emitting diode) equipped with the artificial intelligen...
Dec 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia to revamp R&D organization
Hyundai Motor Co. ’s and Kia Corp. are undergoing a comprehensive restructuring of their research and development (R&D) organizations. Thi...
Dec 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Mobis' auto parts sweep safety, technology awards
South Korean auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co. said Thursday that 10 of its new technologies received or or are finalists for awards from external ...
Dec 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
South Korea eyes new Arab boom via free trade deal with GCC nations
South Korea has struck a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a group of six Arab nations, paving the way for Seoul to stre...
Dec 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Taeyoung files for debt workout; offers to sell stake in KKR JV
South Korea’s Taeyoung Group, saddled with 5.6 trillion won ($4.4 billion) in debt and loans it has guaranteed, filed for a debt workout progr...
Dec 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean innovators at CES 2024
Samsung to unveil AI-feature vacuum cleaner at CES
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will unveil a new vacuum cleaner, the Bespoke Jet Bot Combo, at the upcoming CES 2024. This ...
Dec 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Naver’s resale platform Kream joins Korean unicorns
Kream Corp., the resale platform of South Korean online portal giant Naver Corp., has emerged as the latest Korean unicorn with a valuation exceedin...
Dec 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Card Kazakhstan arm attracts $24 mn investment
Shinhan Finance, a subsidiary of South Korea's Shinhan Card in Kazakhstan, has attracted a 31 billion won ($24 million) investment from local car de...
Dec 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
HD Hyundai Oilbank launches dedicated EV lubricant
South Korea’s HD Hyundai Oilbank said on Thursday that it launched a new dedicated electric vehicle (EV) lubricant brand the Hyundai XTeer EVF...
Dec 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia’s tech sets them apart with record hybrid vehicle sales
Like their global peers, Hyundai Motor Co. and affiliate Kia Corp. recently turned their sights back to hybrid vehicles as electric vehicle uptakes ...
Dec 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean innovators at CES 2024
Food tech market emerges as IT firms' new battleground
The food technology market is set to become the new battleground for tech giants and startups as they race to develop the world's most customized an...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung Elec moves a step closer to CXL commercialization
Samsung Electronics Co. seeking to lead the next-generation memory market has moved a step closer to commercializing computer express link (CXL)-bas...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Kakao Mobility's talks to acquire FreeNow in deadlock
Kakao Mobility Corp.’s ambition to go global has hit a roadbock after its parent group Kakao Corp. rejected its draft bid to buy Germany-based...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korea's perfume duty free limit to rise by 100 ml in 2024
South Korean government will raise the duty-free limit of perfume from 60 ml to 100 ml in January 2024. The Ministry of Economy and Finance announce...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
KAI secures $1.1 bn deal to mass-produce light-armed helicopters
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), the sole military aircraft manufacturer in the country, announced on Wednesday that it has signed a contract ...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
ViGenCell, NK/T cell lymphoma treatment ‘VT-EBV-N’ designated as orphan drug in Europe
ViGenCell, a company specializing in immune cell therapy, announced on the 19th that its NK/T cell lymphoma treatment "VT-EBV-N" has been designated...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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