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Petrochemicals
Sambark LFT rebranded as Lotte Engineering Plastics
Sambark LFT Co., a plastic materials producing unit of Lotte Chemical Corp., has changed its name to Lotte Engineering Plastics Co., the company sai...
Sep 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Broadband unveils upgraded AI-powered IPTV service
SK Broadband Co., South Korea’s No. 2 internet service provider, has upgraded the voice command function of its internet protocol television (...
Sep 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Gmarket, CJ Logistics to launch guaranteed delivery date service
Gmarket Inc., an e-commerce arm of South Korea’s Shinsegae Group, said on Monday it will roll out a service to deliver products on the custome...
Sep 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Hyundai opens climate change response edu Center in Vietnam
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Co. said on Thursday that it has established a climate change response education center in Thanh Hoa Province, Vie...
Sep 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia EVs named Wards 10 Best Engines
Hyundai Motor Group said on Tuesday that the powertrain system mounted on its dedicated electric vehicle platform, E-GMP, has been named one of the ...
Sep 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG CNS, Seoul National Univ. to establish DX talent program
South Korea's LG CNS Co. signed an agreement with Seoul National University's Department of Industrial Engineering on Tuesday to develop talent in d...
Aug 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Korea’s Tmax Group buys back software developer for $612 mn
South Korea’s Tmax Group bought back the software making unit it had sold to a local private equity firm two years ago to try to boost synergy...
Aug 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
LG to seek most of profit from new growth engines
LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, aims to generate most of its profit from future growth drivers by 2030 as the South Ko...
Aug 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Electrification, Hyundai Mobis’ growth engine for future mobility
Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s fifth-largest auto parts maker, is set to focus on electrification to enhance its competitiveness in future mob...
Aug 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
HD Hyundai secures Korea's hydrogen engine generator project
HD Hyundai Infracore Co., a construction equipment and engine manufacturer, said on Thursday it has won the government's first project to develop ge...
Aug 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion's Zymfentra joins US insurance-covered drug lists
South Korean biosimilar maker Celltrion Inc. said on Monday that its subcutaneous injection formulation for autoimmune diseases, Zymfentra (inflixim...
Aug 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hyundai Engineering gets Hillsboro solar power plant rights
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Co. announced on Thursday that it acquired a 260 MW Hillsboro Solar Power Plant project from OCI Energy. This is H...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Samsung C&T to participate in basic design of Romania SMR
Samsung C&T Corp., the construction and trading unit of South Korea’s Samsung Group, will participate in the basic design of the Romanian ...
Jul 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE partners with University of Michigan to foster US ship engineers
South Korea’s HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) has joined hands with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (UM) a...
Jul 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
MG Non-Life Insurance deal falls through with no bidders
The sale of South Korean mid-sized insurer MG Non-Life Insurance Co. has been canceled as the financially distressed insurer failed to attract any b...
Jul 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korea approves HD KSOE-STX Heavy merger with conditions
South Korea’s antitrust body has given a conditional nod to leading domestic shipyard HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co.'s (...
Jul 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Samsung SDI, Sungkyunkwan Univ. to develop battery engineer
Samsung SDI Co., the world’s sixth-largest electric vehicle cell maker, will establish a Department of Battery Engineering at Sungkyunkwan Uni...
Jul 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Kyobo Lifeplanet, FWD Hong Kong to collaborate on GenAI
South Korea's Kyobo Lifeplanet Life Insurance Co. announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understanding with Hong Kong-based insurer FWD ...
Jul 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Kyobo Life nurtures 136 startups over 7 years
South Korea's Kyobo Life Insurance Group announced on Thursday that it nurtured 136 impact businesses (Impact-Ups) in seven years to create social v...
Jul 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea’s Hanwha, Doosan to develop fighter jet engines
Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s top defense manufacturer, and Doosan Enerbility Co., a major local power plant builder, are set to develop...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Woori to buy Dajia’s insurers in Korea for up to $2.2 bn
Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services holding company, is set to acquire China’s Dajia Insurance G...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
GS Global launches BYD's T4K electric refrigerator truck
South Korea's general trading company GS Global Corp. announced on Monday that it will launch BYD Company Ltd.'s 1-ton electric truck, the T4K Refri...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
K-Sure to support Korean firms' participation in Vietnam's gas project
Korea Trade Insurance Corp. (K-Sure) announced that it will leverage medium- and long-term financial support to assist domestic companies in partici...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korea issues $10.75 bn in refund guarantees to shipbuilders
South Korean banks and state-run financial institutions will issue $10.75 billion worth of refund guarantees (RGs) to domestic shipbuilders, which t...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO seeks additional lithium deals from Argentina, Chile
POSCO Holdings Inc., the parent of South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO, aims to clinch additional deals from Argentina and Chile to secure lith...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean IT firms prefer engineers with business capabilities
More South Korean information technology companies are seeking engineers with business capabilities as artificial intelligence is expected to take o...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Telecom invests $10 mn in Perplexity
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Thursday that it invested $10 million in Perplexity, the US-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Jun 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Financial units to reside under one roof in Vietnam
Shinhan Financial Group Co. is upping the ante in the Vietnamese financial market to further widen the gap with rivals as the country’s leadin...
Jun 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Shinsegae guarantees PE firms’ SSG.COM exit amid delayed IPO
Shinsegae Inc. and its supermarket chain operator E-Mart Inc. will bring in at least one investor by the end of this year to buy shares in SSG.COM f...
Jun 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Ex-Porsche engineer Harrer to lead Hyundai’s high-performance push
Hyundai Motor Group is upping the ante to lead in the luxury and high-performance car market and speed up electrification by tapping a high-profile ...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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