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Automobiles
South Korea hosts first Universo Ferrari exhibition in Asia
For the first time in Asia, South Korea is hosting an event featuring the history of the Italian sports car brand Ferrari.Ferrari on Thursday opened...
Jun 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Lotte to open Silicon Valley corporate venture capital unit
Lotte Group, a South Korean retail-to-chemical conglomerate, is set to launch a corporate venture capital (CVC) business in Silicon Valley, the glob...
May 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sports
Hyundai renews FIFA sponsorship; Boston Dynamics, Supernal join
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., the two automaking units of Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday they have extended their FIFA partnerships through ...
May 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's Osteonic starts sports medicine exports to Japan
South Korea's surgical and medical instruments maker Osteonic Co. on Thursday announced the start of exports of its Kinex sports medicine products t...
May 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fiber & Textile
Hansae: Hidden Korean champion in global OEM apparel market
Hansae is an unfamiliar name to many South Koreans for sure.But among original equipment manufacturing (OEM) companies in the apparel industry, Hans...
May 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
KGC promotes S.Korean top red ginseng brand CheongKwanJang in China
Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC), wholly owned by South Korean tobacco giant KT&G Corp. , announced on Thursday its participation in the "2023 TFWA Wor...
May 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hankook Tire takes on market for high-end sports cars
South Korea's Hankook Tire & Technology is reinforcing its partnerships with makers of high-performance sports cars based on a systematic develo...
May 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
WeMade discusses first console game with Microsoft
South Korea's video game developer WeMade Co. on Monday said it is discussing cooperation with Microsoft in areas like WeMade's release of a console...
May 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK On to develop anode materials with Westwater Resources of US
South Korea's electric vehicle (EV) battery maker SK On and the American graphite company Westwater Resources will jointly develop anode materials f...
May 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
HYBE bets big on AI; to unveil generative AI project in May: Chairman Bang
HYBE Co. is set to wow the world again but this time with the much-hyped generative artificial intelligence technology as it plans to unveil an unpr...
Apr 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private debt
Direct lending tops private debt strategy again for Korean LPs
Direct lending, which has topped South Korean institutional investors’ private debt strategies for years, has become even more popular amid risi...
Apr 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
More Korean LPs look to buyouts, special situations for private equity
Healthcare continued to be the preferred sector for South Korean institutional investors this year as it was last year, a survey found. Meanwhile, the...
Apr 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Sports tech startups poised to launch next Korean unicorn
UK Premier League Tottenham Hotspur star forward Son Heung-min and two-way US MLB icon Shohei Ohtani, a designated pitcher and hitter for the Los An...
Apr 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's Celltrion Healthcare launches Vegzelma in US
South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. on Monday said it launched on the US market Vegzelma, a biosimilar of Bevacizumab, a medication for colorecta...
Apr 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pre-IPOs
GS Group's petrochem equipment unit eyes up to $154 mn via pre-IPO
GS Entec Corp., a South Korean equipment maker for petrochemical and power plants, is set to raise 150 billion to 200 billion won ($115 million-$154...
Apr 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Culture & Trends
Preppy style attracts Korea's Gen Z, Alpha seeking retro trends
A licensed fashion brand from the University of Cambridge has entered South Korea as more young consumers are enthusiastic about the so-called Ivy L...
Apr 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
S.Korean display companies look to expand business in India with Vedanta
South Korean display companies try to make breakthrough in new market by entering Indian market.The Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) announ...
Apr 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai launches second-generation Kona EV, 417km on a single charge
Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Thursday that it launches the second-generation Kona EV, also known as the The All-New Kona Electric.The Kona Electri...
Apr 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Korean game sector looks to cute girls to lure new users
South Korea’s game makers rushed to launch games with cute girl characters to allure fans of Japanese animation as cartoons for the subculture...
Apr 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
S.Korea's Yanolja Cloud acquires US solution company InSoft
South Korea's Yanolja Cloud announced on Thursday that it has acquired InSoft, a US hospitality solution company, to establish a base for expanding ...
Apr 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
SGI Insurance signs MOU with IADB to revitalize guarantee insurance
Seoul Guarantee Insurance Company (SGI) announced on Wednesday that it had entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Inter-American Develo...
Mar 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Kia EV9 boasts 336-mile target range in digital world premiere
Kia Corp.’s second all-electric sport utility vehicle EV9 made its global premiere virtually on Tuesday, boasting a target driving range of 54...
Mar 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion founder returns to management with M&A pledge
South Korean biosimilar giant Celltrion Group’s founder Seo Jung-jin has returned to management two years after his departure, pledging to mer...
Mar 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Samsung, SK Hynix look to China exit plans as growth stunted
Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, are in quandary over their growth strategies in China fo...
Mar 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Boryung, Axiom Space to set up JV to explore space healthcare options
South Korea's Boryung Corp., just decades ago a mom-and-pop pharmacy, will bring its healthcare expertise to space with Axiom Space Inc., a US comme...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korea’s Micro Digital to supply bioreactors to major US firm
Micro Digital Co., South Korea’s only bioreactor maker, is set to ink a supply deal with a major US biopharmaceutical producer to expand its g...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
S.Korea's brewery Seoul Jangsu forms marketing tie-up with fashion industry
With South Korea's traditional milky rice wine makgeolli seeing its second heyday centered on the 20- and 30-something crowds, marketing tie-ups tar...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
GC Biopharma wins $44 mn flu vaccine order from WHO agency
South Korea's pharmaceutical firm GC Biopharma Corp. said on Monday that it has won a $44.3 million (57.9 billion won) order for flu vaccines in a d...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Samsung raises Rainbow Robotics stake, eyes management control
Samsung Electronics Co. is looking to own a controlling stake in Rainbow Robotics Co., a South Korean collaborative robot maker, as the tech giant h...
Mar 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Korean 3D tech firm Koh Young looks to US medical robot market
Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean developer of 3D optical inspection devices used in electronics manufacturing, is slated to enter the US me...
Mar 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)