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Tech, Media & Telecom
Seoul Metro to develop communication system for foreign passengers
Foreign users of major subway stations in Seoul can communicate with Seoul Metro Corp. staff through simultaneous translation. Through artific...
Aug 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
KDB girds up for Korean Air-Asiana deal collapse with Plan B
The state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) is looking for alternative options to sell Asiana Airlines Inc. to prepare against a possible collapse of...
Aug 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korea's Lotte Department Store launches 'K-Beauty' tour service
South Korea's Lotte Department Store on Monday announced the launch of a "K-Beauty tour" service for foreign tourists.The company will first give fr...
Aug 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Santa Fe, Sorento, Torres to lead mid-sized SUV sales war in Korea
Three leading South Korean automakers – Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Corp. and KG Mobility Corp. – are upping the ante in their fight to garne...
Aug 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Woori Bank teams up with BuildBlock on US real estate services
South Korea's Woori Bank and US real estate platform operator BuildBlock have entered into a strategic memorandum of understanding to bolster overse...
Aug 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Affinity's CJ Lee to become 3rd Korean executive to leave
Affinity Equity Partners’ founding member and Managing Partner Lee Chul-joo (CJ Lee) will resign from the Asia’s leading buyout manager,...
Aug 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
Virtual human Lucy to sell Galaxy Z in live commerce
Lotte Home Shopping's virtual human Lucy expands her activities by selling The Galaxy Z Flip 5 and "Z Fold 5" on live commerce, following her attend...
Aug 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
S.Korean cosmetics overtake French as top imports in Japan
South Korean cosmetics topped the Japanese import market for the first time in 2022, surpassing French brands, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported Thursd...
Aug 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
With long-gone heyday, Capro clings to stake sale for survival
Once everyone’s darling but now an ugly duckling, Capro Co., South Korea’s sole maker of caprolactam, a nylon raw material, is despera...
Aug 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
LG Uplus to equip Toyota Highlander’s infotainment platform
South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. announced on Friday its strategy to outfit Toyota's Highlander, a seven-seater SUV, with Toyota Connect, powered by t...
Aug 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino hits record revenue in July
South Korea’s Lotte Tour Development's Jeju-based casino saw record revenue in July thanks to an increased number of foreign tourists to the c...
Aug 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korean companies rushing to launch exotic AI-based services
Lowered barriers in South Korea to the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) have fueled the growing popularity of unique AI services. The em...
Aug 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia America’s new normal: Record car sales month after month
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, has been dismissed as the weaker sibling or smaller sister firm of Hyundai Motor Co., the c...
Aug 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korea’s duty-free sales skid despite China border reopening
South Korea’s duty-free shops suffered a sharp decline in sales in June, when the number of Chinese visitors jumped more than three times that...
Aug 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Hyundai to expand LNG tanker conversion biz with orders
HD Hyundai Global Service, the ship retrofit subsidiary of the world’s second-largest shipbuilder HD Hyundai Co., is poised to bag orders to c...
Aug 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
S.Korean carmakers post brisk sales on strong exports in July
South Korea's car sector posted strong sales last month as favorable exports offset the sluggish domestic market.Industry sources on Tuesday said th...
Aug 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
42dot launches its first B2B self-driving shuttle service
42Dot, a self-driving technology affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, on Tuesday said it launched a self-driving shuttle at Samsung Mobility Museum in ...
Aug 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Bioepis seeks to buy Biogen biosimilar unit
Samsung Bioepis Co., a biopharmaceutical research and development unit under South Korea’s Samsung Group, seeks to buy a biosimilar business d...
Aug 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea exports down the most in 3 years; BOK may keep rates
South Korea’s exports declined at their steepest pace in more than three years last month, data showed on Tuesday, adding to expectations that...
Aug 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung Elec to provide HBM3, packaging service to Nvidia
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, is set to provide high-performance semiconductors and packaging service to the glob...
Aug 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Super-large screens account for one third of Samsung’s TV sales
Samsung Electronics Co. announced that one out of every three of its Neo QLED and QLED TVs sold in South Korea between January and July this year fe...
Aug 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
S.Korea sees fever for luxury goods wane in post-COVID-19 era
South Korea is seeing a gradual decline in the open run, or the practice of customers standing in line before a brand's opening at a department stor...
Aug 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung TV Plus to feature free FIFA+ channel content
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Monday that it will offer the FIFA+ channel's content for free on Samsung TV Plus, expanding the sports offeri...
Jul 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Bertis Pan-omics Analysis Solution, Systems (PASS) launched in US
Bertis, a company specializing in the development of proteomics-based precision medicine technology , announced on Monday the launch of PASS (Pan-om...
Jul 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
CJ CheilJedang divests Chinese subsidiary Jixiangju for $235 mn
South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Monday that it has completely sold its ownership stake in its Chinese food subsidiary, Jix...
Jul 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Volvo tops S.Koreans’ favorite foreign car survey list for service
Sweden's Volvo offers the best after-sales service among imported automobile dealers in South Korea, while locals drivers are disappointed by the cu...
Jul 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
S.Korean tire producers rally on strong demand, low costs
South Korean tire manufacturers enjoyed healthy earnings thanks to strong global demand for electric vehicles and new cars adding to expectations th...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
CJ Bioscience to launch microbiome analysis service in 2024
South Korea's CJ Bioscience Inc. announced on Friday that it plans to officially launch the microbe analysis platform "EzBiome Bioinformatics app" (...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hanwha Group puts savings bank on market, a clear succession path
Hanwha Group, South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate, has put its non-core financial unit Hanwha Savings Bank up for sale, in a move ...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Boryung Pharma's sales surpass $311 mn in H1 2023
South Korea’s Boryung Corp. has alleviated the fear of falling behind in its sector expressed by its third-generation chairman Jay Kim Jung-Gy...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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