Chemical and Advanced Materials Industry Governors
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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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Batteries
Korea EV cell materials firms race for silicon anode market
South Korea’s secondary battery ingredient makers are rushing to develop silicon anode materials, next-generation core substances that signifi...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
SKC eyes M&As in semiconductor, rechargeable battery materials
SKC Inc., a South Korean chemical materials company under SK Group, is seeking to buy semiconductor and rechargeable battery materials companies in ...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
SK Innovation steps up carbon offset, green investments
SK Innovation Co., the refinery and chemicals unit of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK, is poised to strengthen its eco-friendly b...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
South Korean companies rattled by activist shareholders
South Korea’s major companies are under attack by activist shareholders, who are exerting ever-increasing clout over critical corporate decisi...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Aekyung commences mass production of eco-friendly plasticizers
Aekyung Chemical, an affiliate of South Korea's Aekyung Group, has begun mass-producing eco-friendly plasticizers derived from recycled waste plasti...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Lotte Ineos Chemical to expand vinyl acetate monomer plant
Lotte Ineos Chemical, South Korea's lone maker of acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomer (VAM), on Monday said it will expand its VAM output capacity...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Toray Korea to boost PPS resin production with expansion plan
Toray Advanced Materials Korea (TAK) has announced plans to increase its annual production capacity of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin by 5,000 to...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Dongwon Industries in talks to buy McDonald’s Korea as exclusive suitor
Dongwon Industries Co. will discuss a deal with McDonald’s Corp. to buy the latter’s Korean operations in hopes of riding on the renewed...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Industrial Bank of Korea goes all in with Eastern Europe push
Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) will open an office in Poland in the first half of this year, with analysts saying the bank's president Kim Seong-tae...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
NHN Dooray, HandySoft join forces to develop advanced collaboration tools
NHN Dooray, a provider of online collaboration tools, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with HandySoft, Inc., South Korea's leading gro...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering ends fears over stock overhang
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a subholding company for shipbuilding, oil refining and machinery conglomerate HD Hyundai Co. ...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Meritz Securities poised to become Korea’s No. 1 for first time
Meritz Securities Co., once a mid-tier securities firm in South Korea, is expected to command the local market as No. 1 after earning more than 1 tr...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
SK Ecoplant passes industry-first carbon reduction target verification
South Korea's construction and engineering company SK Ecoplant Co. said on Thursday that it has passed the greenhouse gas reduction target verificat...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
S.Korea's online K Bank withdraws plan for Kospi listing
South Korea's K Bank has withdrawn its highly anticipated plan to hold an IPO this year in the judgement of a lower corporate value due to the slugg...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy Industries adopts integrated monitoring system
In a first for shipbuilding, South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has developed a system to confirm all data generated in the process of shipbuild...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
UK's Croda to buy Korean bio materials maker for $286 mn
Croda International Plc., a British specialty chemicals company, is set to acquire South Korean bio materials producer Solus Biotech Co. for some 35...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Korea Customs Service to advance Tanzania's e-customs clearance system
The Korea Customs Service said on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Tanzania Revenue Authority for cooperati...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Chemical breaks ground on second anode material plant
POSCO Chemical Co., a battery material unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., on Jan. 31 broke ground on its second plant to p...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung to advance solid-state battery output after record sales
South Korea’s Samsung SDI Co. reported its largest-ever profit and revenue last year, which will drive its efforts to produce solid-state batt...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung vows no chip output cut, eyes second-half demand recovery
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday it has no plans to cut semiconductor production even if it incurs temporary losses as the world’s larg...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Companies prioritize sense of responsibility over skills when hiring staff: study
Two-thirds of South Korea's top 100 companies are looking for talented employees with a spirit of challenge and sense of responsibility, mainly beca...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Chem, Samsung SDI ink $33 bn EV battery material deal
POSCO Chemical Co., a battery material unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., and Samsung SDI Co., the world’s No. 6 ele...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Doosan advances domestic development of green hydrogen turbine
South Korea's Doosan Enerbility Co. on Sunday said it signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday with 10 domestic companies and universities at ...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Four out of ten exporters expect raw material prices to rise again this year
A survey revealed that a large number of South Korea's major exporters expect troubles ahead for this year due to rising raw material prices and sup...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung considers chip output cut as first-quarter loss looms large
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is considering slashing its semiconductor production as the company is heading ...
Jan 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Aekyung Chemical develops first fertilizer coating resin with vegetable oil
Aekyung Chemical on Friday said it has developed South Korea's first eco-friendly fertilizer coating resin using vegetable oil.Aekyung Chemical, a s...
Jan 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
DongKoo Bio signs MOU to move into SE Asian healthcare market
DongKoo Bio & Pharma Co. has built a bridgehead for expansion toward the world, including Southeast Asia by joining hands with LVMC Holdings, th...
Jan 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Take QR code instead of long password when connecting to Wi-Fi
LG Uplus Corp. introduced a functionality that allows access to Wi-Fi through an Internet TV screen. This is intended to make it possible to connect...
Jan 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix unveils industry’s fastest mobile DRAM chip LPDDR5T
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it has developed the world’s fastest mobile DRAM chip and ...
Jan 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)