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Korean startups
SentBe, back from brink of collapse to play in major league
SentBe, a South Korean fintech startup operating a personal international remittance app of the same name, is readying to play in the bigger global ...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
S.Korea-Indonesia central banks renew currency swap agreement
Central banks of South Korea and Indonesia renewed a bilateral local currency swap arrangement to keep supporting trade and financial cooperation fo...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Musinsa selected as one of Asia's most innovative companies
Musinsa, a fashion e-commerce platform based in South Korea, on Friday was named one of this year's "Top-10 Most Innovative Companies in Asia-Pacifi...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK Materials makes equity investment in ION for CO2 capture partnership
SK Materials Co., an industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Inc., has made an equity investment in ION Clean Energy Inc., ...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Daewoong’s Nabota expands into Germany, Austria
South Korean drugmaker Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. said on Tuesday it had launched its botulinum toxin product Nabota in Germany and Austria through i...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Bangladesh: Hyundai’s next target for partially assembled Tucson SUV
Bangladesh has long been a tough market for South Korean automakers to break into, given the decades-old dominance of Japanese carmakers such as Toy...
Feb 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
KAI inks deal to export 18 FA-50s to Malaysia
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) has secured a deal to export eighteen FA-50 light fighter jets to Malaysia for a sum of $920 million (1.2 tril...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
S.Korean firms with focus on emerging Asia to shine
South Korean companies with a large proportion of sales to emerging Asia are expected to shine in the stock market this year as their revenue from t...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
BOK holds rates as it lowers growth, inflation forecasts
South Korea’s central bank held its policy interest rate unchanged on Thursday as it slashed forecasts for economic growth and inflation altho...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
AmCham pledges to make S.Korea Asia's top biz hub
The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in South Korea on Thursday said it seeks to make the nation Asia's top business hub on the 70th anniversar...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT’s global digital push deepens with Singtel partnership
KT Corp. has joined hands with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) to export its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, as wel...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
S.Korea's Samsung C&T wins 2023 Asia Design Prize
On Monday, Samsung C&T Corp.'s construction division announced that Dongrae Raemian iPark in Busan, South Korea, a project in which it participa...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Fried chicken chain bhc opens first US store in LA
South Korea’s No. 2 fried chicken brand bhc Group on Monday said it opened its first store in North America on Friday at the Original Farmers ...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Hanjin converts Indonesian representative office to corporation
Hanjin Transportation said Tuesday that it had converted its representative office in Jakarta, Indonesia, into a corporation last month to strengthe...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
S.Korea's Kyung Dong Navien expands its business in Central Asia
South Korea's heating systems manufacturer Kyung Dong Navien Co. held a conference for 100 local dealers in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Feb. 10.The con...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Binance acquires majority stake in S.Korea's crypto exchange Gopax
Binance, the leading cryptocurrency exchange globally, has acquired a majority stake in South Korea's Gopax by purchasing CEO Lee Joon-haeng's 41.2%...
Feb 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Lotte Chemical, RWE, Mitsubishi form alliance for clean ammonia
South Korea's Lotte Chemical Corp. has joined forces with German energy company RWE and Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation to create a global consortium...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Daewoong receives approval for its GERD drug Fexuclue in Ecuador
Daewoong Pharmaceutical said Friday that it has obtained marketing authorization from Ecuador's National Agency for Health Regulation, Control and S...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea's NIA to extend IT cooperation project with Kazakhstan
South Korea's state-run research institute National Information Society Agency (NIA) said on Friday that it had signed an agreement with Kazakhstan'...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea's fisheries ministry to transfer tech on Napoleon fish to SE Asia
South Korea's Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries will transfer technology to Indonesia on farming the tropical Napoleon fish and reduce sea pollution ...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Kakao Mobility enters Laos under biz strategy for Southeast Asia
South Korea's Kakao Mobility has entered Laos under a plan to use the country as a base for the transportation company's operations in Southeast Asi...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
BC Card signs strategic partnership deal with Mongolian Central Bank
South Korea's credit card issuer BC Card said on Monday that it has signed a strategic partnership deal with the Bank of Mongolia.With this collabor...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung seeks to sell more smartphones in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is an attractive smartphone market for both heavyweights and mass-market players given the relatively large number of young people wh...
Jan 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Doosan participates in Asia's largest electronics exhibition
South Korea's Doosan Corp. is participating in Nepcon Japan 2023 held at Tokyo Big Site, Japan, from Jan. 25 through 27 to showcase its high-end tec...
Jan 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
S.Korea's Paris Baguette opens first outlet in Malaysia
To SPC Group, which hopes to tide over difficulties in the domestic market facing sagging growth potential and troubles caused by a series of safety...
Jan 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
BC Card eyes Central Asian payment market entry this year
South Korea's financial services company BC Card said on Wednesday that it would seek to enter the Central Asian market this year on the back of its...
Jan 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Travel sales for SE Asia, Japan sell out in South Korea
South Korean travelers are loosening their purse strings on the occasion of the Lunar New Year, with overseas travel sales for one of the biggest ho...
Jan 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Air Busan launches new Busan-Clark flight
Air Busan Co. began operating its first new flight route this year between Busan and Clark, the Philippines, and started a new leap forward in earne...
Jan 06, 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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Retail
CU to make instant VAT refund for foreign customers
BGF Retail, a franchiser that operates convenience store chain CU, said on Tuesday that it would implement an instant VAT refund service for foreign...
Dec 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)