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Corporate bonds
KT, E-mart warm up S.Korea's corporate bond market
South Korea's KT Corp. and E-mart Inc. are the frontrunners in the new year's corporate bond demand forecasts, attracting attention on if they can b...
Jan 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
S.Korea's gaming industry reaches $15.7 billion in scale
South Korea's game industry in 2021 saw sales of over 20 billion won ($15.7 billion), ranking the country fourth on the global market. The Kore...
Jan 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
S.Korean cloud startups get funding despite recession fears
The contraction of South Korea's investment market has not stopped startups specializing in software as a service (SaaS) to attract funds given that...
Jan 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Namyang sees big increase in overseas sales of Chupa Chups drink
Namyang Dairy Products is strengthening its presence in the overseas business-to-business (B2B) market through carbonated beverages. The famous loll...
Jan 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea ranks as 6th most powerful country, beating Japan
TOKYO - South Korea ranked the world’s sixth most powerful country, beating Japan, while the peninsular nation was far behind its neighbor in ...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Silvia Health attracts investment through pre-Series A funding
Silvia Health Inc., an age-tech startup based in Seoul, South Korea said on Monday that it has completed a pre-Series A investment with the particip...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
GS Retail to introduce forex kiosks in convenience stores
South Korea's convenience store franchiser GS Retail said on Monday that it would introduce foreign currency exchange kiosks at its convenience st...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
S.Korea's top 2 LPG importers E1 and SK Gas cut supply price
South Korea's two major importers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), E1 Corp. and SK Gas Corp., have both cut their supply price of LPG in the first ...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Document tool company Business Canvas secures Series A2 round
Business Canvas, a South Korean SaaS (software as a service) startup that services the global document tool "Typed," announced on Tuesday that it ha...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Qatar, UAE spend most on Korean games, pushing back China, US
Middle Eastern countries have emerged as a blue ocean for the South Korean game industry, ranking first in both per-capita usage amount and playtime...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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COVID-19
S.Korea begins PCR testing of all passengers coming from China
South Korea on Monday implemented tougher quarantine measures on arrivals from China like a PCR test for COVID-19.Thus quarantine authorities requir...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea’s NPS to be in red in 2022 with 5.3% loss in Jan-Oct
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest such fund, is poised to report an annual loss in 2022 for the fi...
Jan 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea logs record trade deficit in 2022; outlook dim
South Korea suffered a record trade deficit last year as the ongoing war in Ukraine ramped up energy import bills, while the outlook remained dark w...
Jan 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Motor to boost EV leasing in US for tax credits from 2023
South Korean electric vehicles for lease are forecast to receive US tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as new guidelines of the law...
Dec 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
LG Uplus to develop metaverse service for children with Witch Company
South Korea's third-largest mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. said on Friday that it will develop a web3 service for children to provide an immersive ex...
Dec 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Korea plans to raise tax breaks for chipmakers, key industries
The South Korean government plans to revise a recently passed bill aimed at supporting the country’s semiconductor sector and other key indust...
Dec 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
CJ Logistics aims to achieve carbon neutrality goal by 2050
South Korea's parcel delivery company CJ Logistics said on Friday that it will achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 for a more sustainable future in lo...
Dec 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's Alteogen signs $145 million tech export deal with Swiss company
South Korea's bio company Alteogen Inc. on Friday said it signed its fourth technology export contract since its 2018 development of the human recom...
Dec 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Telecom applies mobile edge computing tech in US
SK Telecom Co. said on Thursday it had transmitted terrestrial broadcasting in the US capital of Washington D.C. using mobile edge computing (MEC) a...
Dec 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Waste management
SuperBin completes plastic recycling factory in Seoul suburb
SuperBin, a South Korean startup reshaping the waste recycling ecosystem using Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, on Thursday said it had co...
Dec 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
LS Cable abandons round wire to focus on higher-value EV wire
LS Cable & System Ltd. has decided to give up the round wire business to concentrate on higher-value-added products used in electric vehicles (E...
Dec 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
MBK signs $2 bn deal to acquire 3D dental scanner firm Medit
Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners is acquiring Medit Corp., the world’s third-largest 3D dental scanner maker, for 2.45 trillion w...
Dec 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
KAI, KARI collaborate in developing Korean UAM
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) has signed an agreement with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to help KARI perform a dry run test...
Dec 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Hyundai Wia gets silver medal from EcoVadis
Hyundai Wia Corp. has been awarded a silver medal from EcoVadis in recognition of its continuing effort toward its sustainability credentials,...
Dec 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
KFTC acts on Amazon's large share of S.Korea's cloud market
Amazon controls around 70% of South Korea's cloud market, followed by Microsoft in second and Google and Naver Corp. fighting for third place.The Ko...
Dec 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's Medicox boosts unit for oral insulin, medical cannabis
South Korea's Medicox Co. on Wednesday said it will raise 40 billion won ($32 million) to boost its unit for oral insulin and cannabidiol (CBD).The ...
Dec 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Naver D2SF makes follow-up investment in fashion startup Onthelook
Naver D2SF, Naver Corp.'s startup investment arm, made a follow-up investment in fashion content startup Onthelook.The company said on Wednesday tha...
Dec 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
LG Group's received orders for auto parts close to $393 billion
South Korea’s electronics-to-battery conglomerate LG Group expects its received orders for auto components to reach over 500 trillion won ($...
Dec 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Korea’s 1st moon probe Danuri enters lunar orbit; world’s 7th mission
South Korea on Wednesday became the world’s seventh country to send a lunar orbiter to the moon, joining other advanced countries in a heated ...
Dec 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Daewoong Pharma, Neurolive to jointly develop new antidepressant drug
South Korea's drug company Daewoong Pharmaceutical said on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with biopharmaceutical venture Neurorive to joi...
Dec 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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