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Banking & Finance
Tata, Korea's Woori to expand car financing services in Asia
Woori Financial Group Inc., the fourth-largest financial holding group in South Korea, and India’s top commercial vehicle maker Tata Motors Lt...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Korea’s LX Pantos, China’s Sinotrans agree to launch logistics JV
LX Pantos Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s LX Group, said on Thursday it will launch a multimodal transport joint venture with Sinotra...
May 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE picks Philippines as offshore wind power base camp
HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE), the parent of the world’s No. 1 shipbuilder, is accelerating its offshore wind po...
May 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Japan’s heavy hand with Naver: Uneasy sign for market economy
Recent actions by the Japanese government and chief executives of LY Corp. and SoftBank Corp. are raising eyebrows, leading many to question whether...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
South Korea Plans $7 Billion Push to Pivot EV Battery Industry Away From China
South Korea is dedicating around $7 billion to help wean its electric-vehicle battery supply chain away from China and align more with U.S. trade gu...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Shilla Duty Free to co-work with China's largest lifestyle info platforms
South Korea's Shilla Duty Free Shop announced on Thursday that it partnered with Meituan and Dazhong Dianping, China's largest travel and lifestyle ...
May 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix to sell 50% stake in Wuxi foundry unit to Chinese firm
SK Hynix Inc. will sell nearly a half stake in its foundry unit in China to a Chinese state-run enterprise for $349.3 million in a bid to expand its...
May 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
NHN Cloud sets sights on GPU cloud service with Nvidia’s H100
NHN Cloud Corp., a cloud computing unit of South Korea’s internet company NHN Corp., is setting its sights on a graphics processing unit (GPU)...
May 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Woori Financial acquires Korea Foss Securities to offer brokerage services
Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services group, has acquired Korea Foss Securities Co., paving the way for ...
May 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Osstem to buy Brazil’s No. 3 dental implant maker Implacil
South Korea’s Osstem Implant Co., the world’s fourth-largest dental implant maker, is slated to acquire Brazilian peer Implacil De Borto...
May 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Rakuten backs S.Korea’s new mobile carrier Stage X
South Korea’s fledgling mobile carrier Stage X Co. has teamed up with relatively new Japanese mobile company Rakuten Group to crack Korea&rsqu...
May 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Ediya Coffee introduces Taiwan Pay
South Korea's homegrown coffee chain Ediya Coffee announced on Tuesday that it introduced Taiwan's popular mobile payment platform Taiwan Pay (TWQR)...
Apr 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Healthcare
Korea’s booming medical tourism: Skin care, plastic surgery in demand
The number of foreign patients visiting South Korea for medical tourism hit a record high last year, driven by those who traveled to Korea for skin ...
Apr 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung holds Odyssey event with T1 in Chengdu
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it held an Odyssey gaming monitor experience event with the T1, the top-tier League of Legends team...
Apr 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Kakao joins hands with LG Uplus to enter EV charger market
Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing platform, is set to make inroads into the electric vehicle charging market by setting...
Apr 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korean botox sales gain momentum in US, China
South Korea is ramping up exports of botulinum toxin to the US and China, the world’s two top consumers of the neurotoxin protein, with its pr...
Apr 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korea’s Lotte sells Lotte Glory Properties Shenyang amid US-China dispute
South Korea’s retail giant Lotte Group has signed a deal to sell a theme park project in Shenyang, China – its latest move to pull out o...
Apr 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Korean Air to launch Incheon-Macau route in July
Korean Air Lines Co., the leading full-service airline in South Korea, announced on Friday that it will launch flights on the Incheon-Macau route st...
Apr 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Motor ties up with CATL to reinvigorate China market with EVs
BEIJING -- Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top carmaker, has joined hands with Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL), the leading global...
Apr 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung launches Galaxy C55 5G in China
Samsung Electronics Co. has launched the Galaxy C55 5G, a budget-friendly smartphone series designed specifically for the Chinese market, marking th...
Apr 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Kakao Mobility to offer robot delivery service with LG
Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s most popular ride-hailing app operator, will offer indoor robot delivery service with self-driving robots ...
Apr 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Korea’s Smilegate unveils new RPG Chaos Zero Nightmare
Smilegate, the South Korean developer of the world’s top first-person shooter game Crossfire, on Monday unveiled a teaser for an upcoming role...
Apr 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte Dept. Store introduces AI translation service
South Korea's Lotte Department Store announced on Monday that it introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) interpretation service for foreign touri...
Apr 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia to bring 1st hybrid variant of subcompact SUV Sonet to Japan, China
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, plans to aggressively expand its hybrid vehicle lineup to subcompact SUVs amid slower-than-...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
CJ Logistics, Ninja Van to co-work for cross-border e-commerce
South Korea's CJ Logistics announced on Thursday that it signed a customs clearance and delivery service contract with Singapore-based Ninja Van t...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Foreign banks expand Korean operations amid China’s slowdown
Major foreign banks have actively increased staff at their operations in South Korea to offset growing uncertainty in their business in China, grapp...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Toss Bank exceeds 10 mn customers
South Korea’s fintech platform Toss Bank saw that its subscribers surpassed 10 million. According to the company, it's been two years and...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Chem, Korea Zinc JV to mass-produce EV battery materials
A joint venture between LG Chem Ltd. and Korea Zinc Inc. is slated to start the mass production of precursor, a key electric vehicle battery materia...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korea’s Catchtable eyes offshore table reservation markets
Wad Corp., the developer and operator of South Korea’s most popular restaurant reservation app Catchtable, is considering offering Catchtable ...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Lotte Home Shopping expands Japan tour packages
South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping said on Tuesday that it will expand its range of travel packages to Japan, including trips to Kyushu and Okinawa, ...
Apr 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)