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Food & Beverage
Drones, AI, big data power Korean fisheries’ earnings
The Jubilee, a 2,200-ton tuna fishing vessel operated by South Korea’s leading fishing company Dongwon Industries Co., has been using drones t...
Aug 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
South Korean firms bullish on hiring developers from India, SE Asia
Travel startup Storicity Inc. tried for a year to find a developer in South Korea – to no avail.But when it expanded its search abroad through...
Aug 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
K-bio firms embrace gene therapy CDMO as Samsung looks the other way
South Korea’s major biopharmaceutical companies are rapidly embracing the cell and gene therapy business under a contract drug-making mechanis...
Aug 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea inflation hits highest point since 1998 crisis, BOK to hike rates
South Korea’s inflation accelerated further last month to its highest point since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, adding to expectations t...
Aug 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korea’s top beauty chain CJ Olive Young puts IPO on hold
CJ Olive Young, South Korea’s top beauty store chain, has suspended its process to seek a stock market listing, becoming the latest major loca...
Aug 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Chem, GM in $30.6 billion EV battery materials supply deal
South Korea’s top chemicals company LG Chem Ltd. has signed a long-term battery materials supply deal with General Motors Co. to support the U...
Jul 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
KB Asset aims for first IPO of Korea's homegrown infrastructure fund
South Korea’s KB Asset Management Co. is set to list its Balhae Infrastructure Fund (Balhae) on the country’s main bourse Kospi in the s...
Jul 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
BOK delivers first-ever 50-bp hike to curb inflation
South Korea’s central bank on Wednesday took the most aggressive measure with a 50-basis-point policy interest rate hike for the first time in...
Jul 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
Adtech unicorn Moloco eyes global expansion with former Disney exec
Moloco Inc., an AI-powered advertising solutions startup, is set to accelerate its global business with a new executive hire from The Walt Disney Co...
Jul 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
KT injects $23 mn into fabless startup Rebellions
South Korean fabless startup Rebellions Inc. received a 30 billion won ($23 million) extension to its Series A funding from telecom giant KT Corp.KT...
Jul 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Infotainment, telematics define LG’s new future with $6.2 billion in orders
When LG Electronics Inc. surprised the market last year by announcing that it was exiting the mobile phone business, one of its mainstay businesses,...
Jul 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
S.Korean conglomerates look to paint future with NFTs
The non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem has penetrated into mainstream society. NFTs are digital assets that represent objects in the physical world,...
Jun 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Elec looks to pluck AI talent from Amazon, Microsoft
LG Electronics Inc.’s artificial intelligence head Lee Hyun-chul flew to Seattle this week to lure AI talent from Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.c...
Jun 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Why India’s top talent chose S.Korea for launch of edutech startup
TagHive Inc. is an education technology startup building a bridge between South Korea and India. The company’s founder and CEO Pankaj Aga...
Jun 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Renault confident of Korean sales recovery; looks to larger cars
When French carmaker Groupe Renault dropped Samsung from its South Korean unit's company name in March, it aroused worries that the firm may not be ...
Jun 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Ex-footballer’s startup QMIT raises $2.4 mn in Series A
QMIT Inc., the operator of athlete management platform plco, announced Tuesday that it raised 3 billion won ($2.4 million) in Series A round funding...
Jun 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Korea’s DL E&C suffers from Russian war, chairman-related risk
DL E&C Co., a South Korean offshore plant and construction company, is suffering from its suspended projects in Russia, one of its key overseas ...
Jun 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
Hana Financial scores big with Son Heung-min sports marketing
South Korea’s national soccer team, led by captain Son Heung-min, lost to Brazil 1-5 in a pre-World Cup friendly on Thursday, much to 65,000 K...
Jun 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Hyundai Robotics, Vodafone to provide service robots in Germany
South Korean robotics firm Hyundai Robotics Co. announced it signed a letter of intent for a business partnership with global telecommunications gia...
May 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO, GM JV inks battery materials supply deal worth $16 bn
South Korea’s POSCO Chemical Co. and General Motors Co. on Friday agreed to set up a joint venture that will supply about 20 trillion won ($16...
May 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
POSCO Group looks to treble corporate value by 2030
South Korea’s POSCO Group will invest 53 trillion won ($42 billion) by 2026 primarily in its steel, rechargeable battery materials and hydroge...
May 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
Korean real estate investors look to secure liquidity post-pandemic
South Korean real estate investors prefer liquidity and stable payback on investment, as well as investing in debts amid market uncertainty. The lim...
May 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Alternative investment market at inflection point, says Suhyup CIO
Some major institutional investors in South Korea are set to increase alternative investments this year to hedge inflation and stabilize cash flows....
May 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Kakao to merge US webtoon, web novel platforms
South Korea’s Kakao Entertainment Co. is set to merge Tapas Media Inc. and Radish Fiction Inc., its webtoon and mobile novel platforms in Nort...
May 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Lawmakers debate military exemption for pop artists like BTS
As a historic first, South Korean lawmakers are duking it out on the hotly debated topic of military exemption for global K-pop sensation BTS. ...
May 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korea’s tough IPO review drives bio startup to Nasdaq
A South Korean bio startup is aiming for a Nasdaq listing, deeming that the country’s exchange sets the bar too high for an initial public off...
Apr 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
CJ, Samsung to launch $600 million e-commerce logistics fund
CJ Logistics and an affiliate of Samsung Life Insurance have joined forces to launch a real estate investment fund worth 740 billion won ($600 milli...
Apr 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Grade-A offices in Seoul hit lowest vacancy rate in Q1 2022
Grade-A offices saw their lowest-ever quarterly vacancy rate in the first quarter of 2022 since 2010, when Canada-based real estate investment manag...
Apr 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korean PE firm in exclusive talks to buy golf grip brand SuperStroke
South Korea's Daol Private Equity, formerly known as KTB Private Equity, is in exclusive talks to buy the entirety of SuperStroke, a US golf grips m...
Apr 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
LG Household to lower reliance on Chinese market as shares slump
LG Household & Health Care Ltd. was one of the most coveted shares on the Korean bouse in the past couple of years as the company basked in the ...
Mar 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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