California Public Employees’ Retirement System
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Airlines
Korean Air resumes regular staff recruitment for 1st time in 3 years
Korean Air Lines Co. for the first time in three years has resumed regular staff recruitment that was suspended by the COVID-19 pandemic.Airline ind...
Dec 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Kakao's AI filter reduces profanity in online news comments
South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp. has reduced swearing and negative comments about news on its online portals such as Daum and Kakao View by using...
Dec 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Korea Exchange, Uzbek Ministry of Finance sign agreement for cooperation
The Korea Exchange (KRX) has agreed to cooperate with the Ministry of Finance of Uzbekistan on the maintenance of the stock market IT system. T...
Dec 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Bionote slashs IPO price to 9,000 won, 50% lower than previous valuation
Everybody is aware that investment fever on biotech firms has already cooled due to rising interest rates and concerns over the fizzling economy, an...
Dec 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor Group sells hydrogen fuel cell systems to German firm
Hyundai Motor Group will supply a large quantity of hydrogen fuel cell systems to an eco-friendly truck manufacturer in Europe.South Korea's top c...
Dec 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Korean military aircraft maker KAI to spend $1.1 bn on R&D
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), the country’s military aircraft manufacturer, is poised to invest 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) in re...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan Enerbility gets int'l certification for offshore wind power system
South Korea's heavy industry company Doosan Enerbility Co. on Monday said it is Korea's first to receive international certification for an eight-me...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Ace View’s surround view monitoring system works at high speed
Ace View Co., a South Korean surround view monitoring system provider, has unveiled a new product that works at driving speeds of as high as 100 km ...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Sulbing opens 1st US store in California in March next year
South Korean dessert café Sulbing said on Friday that it signed a new master franchise contract to declare its entry into the US market and a...
Dec 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
LIG Nex1, KAIST, HHI sign MOU for unmanned marine system partnership
South Korea's defense contractor LIG Nex1 Co. took part in the "2022 Yi Sun-sin Defense Industry Exhibition" held at the Jinhae Naval Academy on Wed...
Dec 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Kakao unveils measures to prevent recurrence of service disruptions
South Korea’s Kakao Corp. has unveiled a series of measures to prevent a recurrence of service disruptions after the mobile platform giant cam...
Dec 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Naver affiliate Line Games seeks $756 million IPO in Korea
Line Games Corp., an affiliate of South Korea’s internet giant Naver Corp., plans to list its shares on the Korean stock market via an initial...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
SK Car Rental acquires ISO 45001 for safety, health management system
SK Car Rental said on Wednesday that it has obtained the safety and health management system (ISO45001) certification from the British Standards Ins...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Korean Air signs agreement with L3Harris for airborne control system
Korean Air Lines Co. is collaborating with L3Harris International, an American aerospace contractor, to introduce the airborne control system for th...
Dec 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Executive reshuffles
Samsung Elec names first female president under Chairman Jay Y. Lee
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, has carried out its year-end executive reshuffle, marked by its...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK Gas achieves milestone of zero accidents for 28 consecutive years
SK Gas said on Monday that its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) import terminal in Pyeongtaek had achieved a record of no accidents for 28 consecutive ...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
KT&G completes elementary school in Laos with employee donations
KT&G, South Korea's dominant tobacco company, announced on Monday that along with South Korea's non-profit organization Sharing Culture &a...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha Systems completes training center for Philippine Navy
Hanwha Systems Co. on Friday said it held a ceremony the day before to mark its completion of a combat system training center for the Philippine Nav...
Dec 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
LS Cable & System Asia expands cable production capacity in Vietnam
LS Cable & System Asia said on Thursday that it has invested 6.8 billion won in its Vietnamese subsidiary LS Cable & System Vietnam to compl...
Dec 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Shell-First: Samsung Foundry’s custom-tailored new operation strategy
As the contract chip manufacturing, or foundry, business is quickly emerging as the next battlefield for the world’s major chipmakers, The Korea...
Nov 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS posts 7% investment loss in Q1-Q3 as equities, bonds plunge
National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea said Tuesday it saw a cumulative loss of 7.1% on investment, or 68 trillion won ($51.3 billion), betwe...
Nov 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
SK Innovation to adopt internal carbon pricing system
SK Innovation Co. on Sunday announced its adoption this year of an "internal carbon pricing system" recently approved by its board of directors. Th...
Nov 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Nexon named preferred bidder for 50% of office tower from KTCU
Gaming giant Nexon Co. is set to acquire a 50% stake in the Autoway Tower, an office building in Seoul's Gangnam business district, from the Korean ...
Nov 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Samsung Heavy succeeds in autonomous navigation system demonstration
Samsung Heavy Industries Co. announced on Thursday that it successfully completed the demonstration of its autonomous navigation capabilities in the...
Nov 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
Kim Jong-un appears with daughter in public for first time
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has unveiled for the first time his second child, daughter Ju-ae, who was born in 2013.The Korean Central News Agenc...
Nov 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Waste management
BKT thrives as lone Korean wastewater treatment provider in US
South Korean water treatment provider Bukang Tech(BKT) on Wednesday said it earned a contract to build a wastewater treatment facility in the US sta...
Nov 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Taihan Cable wins $24 million deal to build power grid in California
Taihan Cable & Solution Co., a South Korean electric wire maker, said on Wednesday it has won a $24 million deal to build a power grid in the US...
Nov 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG CNS to design smart city system for Indonesia's new capital
South Korea's LG CNS will provide a smart city design for Indonesia's new capital of Nusantara. The company on Tuesday said it signed the day before...
Nov 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Delivery startup VtoV raises $7.2 million from Series A round
South Korean logistics startup VtoV, the operator of optimized delivery service To-Day, raised 9.5 billion won ($7.2 million) from a Series A round....
Nov 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Korean construction firms boost Saudi Arabia presence with megaprojects
RIYADH – South Korean firms are accelerating their efforts to win construction projects from Saudi Arabia as the Middle East’s largest e...
Nov 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)