Chemical and Advanced Materials Industry Governors
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Mobis to spend $1.3 bn to build US EV parts, module plants
South Korea’s top auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co. will spend $1.3 billion until 2030 to build auto parts and module plants for electric veh...
Oct 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Korea’s Aju to spin off key building material business
South Korea’s Aju Group is set to split its parent company into a construction material firm and an investment corporation to enhance its prof...
Sep 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korean conglomerates increase AI R&D hubs overseas
South Korean conglomerates are increasingly looking overseas as bases of their artificial intelligence research centers to build strong networks wit...
Sep 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Korea ramen packet maker inks $1 bn battery material deal
A South Korean instant noodle packet maker has secured a $1 billion deal to supply battery materials to a joint venture between General Motors Co. a...
Sep 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea to introduce advanced supercomputer by 2024
South Korea will introduce a high-performance supercomputing system by 2024, more than 24 times faster than the current model, a government-run rese...
Sep 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Lotte Chem to buy Iljin at $1.9 bn for battery material biz
South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. is set to acquire major domestic battery material maker Iljin Materials Co. at some 2.7 trillion won ($1.9 ...
Sep 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
Korea's DL Chem shrugs off slow petrochemical market in Q3
DL Chemical Co., the petrochemical arm of South Korean conglomerate DL Group, is forecast to post robust third-quarter results despite sluggish sa...
Sep 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Hanwha Solutions seeks spinoffs of Galleria, advanced materials divisions
Hanwha Solutions Corp., the energy and petrochemical arm of the Hanwha Group, is revving up for wide-ranging corporate restructuring to strengthen i...
Sep 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK's Chey, Zambian president discuss EV battery material deal
South Korea’s SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has met with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema to discuss potential mineral deals in core mate...
Sep 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Japan and South Korea leaders meet one-on-one for first time since 2019
The leaders of Japan and South Korea held their first bilateral meeting in nearly three years, another step toward recovery for frayed ties between tw...
Sep 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG fridges, TVs to leverage embedded AI to distinguish human voices
LG Electronics Inc., an industry frontrunner in applying artificial intelligence to home appliances, has unveiled a new speaker identification techn...
Sep 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Telecom expands business portfolio with quantum tech
South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. is expanding its business portfolio with quantum technology, even into industries that are unr...
Sep 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Korean fintech sector struggles amid liquidity drought
A three-year-old South Korean fintech company is having trouble raising money through a Series B funding round as investor sentiment on the sector h...
Sep 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea's SG Private Equity to buy local industrial gas supplier
South Korea’s SG Private Equity is set to acquire local industrial gas supplier Hankook Special Gases Co. for a deal in the early 100 billion ...
Sep 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Seoul pushes for battery recycling to bypass US bill
South Korea will step up policy efforts to promote battery recycling, which might help the country get around the new US bill aimed at keeping elect...
Sep 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Iljin Materials unveils elecfoil with ultra-high tensile strength
Iljin Materials Co., a South Korean battery materials maker, has unveiled an ultra-high tensile elecfoil, which can significantly improve the mileag...
Sep 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Korea lags peer nations in robot industry
South Korea’s competitiveness in the robot industry is among the world’s lowest even though the country is one of the largest buyers of ...
Sep 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Samsung goes green as it eyes clean tech supremacy across supply chain
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest smartphone and memory chipmaker, said on Thursday it is aiming to power its entire operations wit...
Sep 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
South Korea bans L&F from building a battery material plant in US
The South Korean government has banned L&F Co., a battery materials maker, from building a new plant in the US amid a controversy over the Infla...
Sep 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO may need months to normalize typhoon-hit steel mill
POSCO, the world’s sixth-largest steelmaker, is expected to need months to resume full operations of its typhoon-hit plant, which makes up a q...
Sep 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
EV materials maker EcoPro tops the buy list of Korean stocks
Shares in EcoPro BM Co., a cathode material maker used in electric vehicle batteries, topped the list of South Korean stocks, for which an increased...
Sep 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Sanofi, Korean biotech Lemonex ink material transfer agreement
South Korean biotech Lemonex Inc. has signed a material transfer agreement (MTA) with global pharmaceutical giant Sanofi S.A. to use the Korean bi...
Sep 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Biden’s move to beef up US bio industry poses threat to Korean firms
President Joe Biden’s plan to support the US biomanufacturing infrastructure aimed at containing China’s clout is posing a threat to Sou...
Sep 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG AI center joins forces with Parsons School for creative AI development
South Korea’s LG Corp. announced it signed an academic collaboration agreement with the New York City-based Parsons School of Design on Monday...
Sep 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
DB HiTek develops automotive power semiconductor tech
DB HiTek Co., South Korea’s major foundry chipmaker, developed the automotive power semiconductor process technology to meet the increasing de...
Sep 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Samsung C&T ties up with Korean firms for hydrogen biz
Samsung C&T Corp., the construction and trading arm of Samsung Group, has joined forces for the clean hydrogen businesses with South Korean comp...
Sep 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Mobis to debut Detroit Auto Show with advanced EV technology
South Korea’s top auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co. will showcase its latest electric vehicle-related technology at this year’s North A...
Sep 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Precision Biosensor enters Italy with chemical test kits
South Korea’s diagnostic devices supplier Precision Biosensor Inc. has signed an export contract with Italian medical device company Borden Ch...
Sep 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
South Korean government slashes fund of funds budget by 40% on-year
The South Korean government is facing a backlash from the startup and venture capital sectors after slashing next year’s fund of funds budget....
Aug 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
Korea's Hyundai E&C to build smart green city in Vietnam
Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. is poised to become the first South Korean company to join Vietnam’s green smart city development p...
Aug 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)