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Electronics
LG Electronics’ projectors sweep world’s No. 3 golf market
Screen golf centers have become another gold mine for LG Electronics Inc. thanks to Koreans’ unwavering golf enthusiasm, which has made the wo...
Aug 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Samsung materials suppliers Soulbrain, DNF to merge in $87 mn deal
Soulbrain Holdings Co., a South Korean high-tech materials supplier to Samsung Electronics Co., is in final talks to buy a controlling stake in anot...
Aug 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Toss’ TADA sale back to square one; its mobility push faces setback
Viva Republica Inc., South Korea’s fintech unicorn operating mobile financial platform Toss, is at a crossroads as its second attempt to sell ...
Aug 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
SK Square to buy back $152 mn of its stocks by March 2024
South Korean investment firm SK Square Co. will buy back 200 billion won ($151.9 million) worth of corporate shares by March of next year as an effo...
Aug 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
LG Uplus to grow EV charging JV to be among Korea’s top 3
LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, aims to develop its electric vehicle charging joint venture with Kakao Mobility Co...
Aug 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK Nexilis to sell copper foil to German battery maker Varta
South Korea’s SK Nexilis Co. is set to supply copper foil, core materials for electric vehicle cells, to German battery maker Varta AG, expand...
Aug 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fiber & Textile
The North Face supplier Youngone hints at succession plan
Youngone Corp., a South Korean outdoor clothing maker to global brands like The North Face and Patagonia, has given a clearer signal that Chairman...
Aug 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Heads of S.Korea's chicken chains promoting expansion abroad
The CEOs of South Korea's top three fried chicken franchises are promoting their brands overseas based on the judgement that growth will stagnate if...
Aug 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mobile networks
Kakao to release super-large AI model, superapp
Kakao Corp. on Thursday announced that it will transform South Korea’s dominant mobile messaging app KakaoTalk into an AI-powered platform com...
Aug 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
S.Korea’s mobile app spending hits record high in H1 2023
South Korean consumers' spending on mobile apps recorded the highest-ever in the first half of this year.Mobile data and analytics platform data.ai ...
Aug 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
K-pop girl group NewJeans tops US Billboard 200
South Korean K-pop girl group NewJeans topped the US Billboard 200 chart with their second mini-album "Get Up," since its debut a year ago. Acc...
Aug 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s inflation eases to 25-mo low, but poised to rebound in H2
South Korea’s headline inflation rose at the slowest pace in 25 months in July on still-low international oil prices but is projected to reacc...
Aug 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea exports down the most in 3 years; BOK may keep rates
South Korea’s exports declined at their steepest pace in more than three years last month, data showed on Tuesday, adding to expectations that...
Aug 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korean LLM by Upstage beats global benchmark ChatGPT
The latest artificial intelligence model of South Korean AI startup Upstage scored higher than ChatGPT by global AI giant OpenAI in a world-recogniz...
Aug 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
S.Korea’s overseas online shopping surpasses $1.3 bn in Q2 2023
South Korea's overseas online shopping through Chinese malls in the second quarter of this year has more than doubled compared to a year ago. Accor...
Aug 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Hanmi Pharm to develop obesity drug customized for S.Korean
South Korea's Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. plans to develop the GLP-1 class "Epeglenatide," which it received as a technology return from Sanofi S.A., i...
Jul 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Doosan to enter EV sector with battery recycling business
South Korea’s major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. plans to set up a battery recycling subsidiary, targeting the sector expecting r...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Samyang’s Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen sales exceed 5 bn
South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. announced on Friday that the cumulative sales of ramen with its Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen, or Buldak-bokkeum-myeon br...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Kia revises up 2023 OP target after record Q2 earnings, to expedite EV push
Kia Corp. has revised upwards its operating profit target for this year to up to 12 trillion won ($9.4 billion) after reporting its best-ever quarte...
Jul 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Kolon Pharma, Dongbang Medical to export medical threads to Brazil
Kolon Pharma, the pharmaceutical affiliate of South Korea's Kolon Group, announced on Thursday that it has signed a business agreement with Dongbang...
Jul 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Telecom enters cloud managed service provider market
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. will aggressively enter the cloud market by providing differentiated services based on its nationwide communication net...
Jul 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
EV6, GV60 outperform global peers in Auto Bild’s EV tests
Hyundai Motor Group’s electrification push under the direction of its Chairman Chung Euisun is more than paying off, with a slew of worldwide ...
Jul 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
KT invests over $11 mn in AI software company Moreh
South Korea's KT Corp. will invest 15 billion won ($11.6 million) in Moreh, a Seoul-based artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure software compa...
Jul 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Korea's IMM to invest $23 mn in battery parts supplier Choil Aluminum
South Korean private credit firm IMM Credit & Solutions Inc. will invest 30 billion won ($23.4 million) in Choil Aluminum Co., an EV battery com...
Jul 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SM Group to buy HMM but not for over $3.5 bn: SM Chair Woo
SM Group has enough financial ammunition to buy the country’s No. 1 container shipping line HMM Co. but would not join the bid for the latter&...
Jul 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
KHNP develops world's first accident monitoring system for nuclear reactors
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced on Wednesday that it has successfully developed the Technical Specification Operator Support System...
Jul 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
Koreans maintain designer love with used items, 'quiet luxury'
South Koreans are maintaining their love for premium fashion items with purchases of used luxury items and "quiet luxury" goods amid a slowdown in A...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy in $3.1 bn methanol-powered ship deal with Evergreen
Samsung Heavy Industries Co., a leading South Korean shipbuilder, has won a 3.96 trillion won ($3.13 billion) deal to build 16 methanol-powered cont...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Electro-Mechanics starts mass-producing power inductors
South Korea's Samsung Electro-Mechanics has started mass-producing power inductors, an essential component of electric (EV) and self-driving vehicle...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
KIC up 8.3% in net value of stocks, debts in H1 2023
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) saw the net value of its traditional assets rise 8.25% in the first half of this year, backed by the strong perfo...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)