Global Sae-A Group
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Pension funds
Korea's NPS maintains good grade despite heavy losses: finance ministry
National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund with 939 trillion won ($713 billion) in assets as of end...
May 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
S.Korea's UAM group to develop tourism transportation on southern coast
Urban air transportation (UAM) in South Korea will open a tourism road on the country's southern coast, which is dubbed "the nation's Mediterranean ...
May 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Kolon Industries to develop biodegradable plastics
Kolon Industries Inc., a South Korean chemical and textile manufacturer, is embarking on the development of biodegradable plastics using food wast...
May 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung retains No.1 position in global TV market
Samsung Electronics Co. has held on to its position as the world's top TV manufacturer in the first quarter of 2023, securing a 32.1% share of the m...
May 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Fifty Fifty sets new record for K-pop girl group with Spotify listeners
K-pop rookie Fifty Fifty has surpassed 34.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify, the world's largest music streaming site, its agency Attrakt said ...
May 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
UAE state funds gear up for $30 bn S.Korean investment
Senior officials of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and other major sovereign funds of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) met with executives ...
May 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
LG leader Koo seeks new growth drivers at group strategy meetings
Koo Kwang-mo, chairman of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG, is seeking new growth drivers by hosting strategy meetings groupwide.L...
May 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Capital raising
LS Group's US affiliate SPSX to raise $150 mn in pre-IPO
LS Group’s US cable affiliate Superior Essex (SPSX) plans to raise $150 million (200 billion won) via a South Korean private equity fund (PEF)...
May 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Kakao migrates global webtoon service environment to Google Cloud
South Korea's Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. is joining forces with Google Cloud to glob...
May 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2023
Multifamily, digital infrastructure have upside potential: ASK 2023
Investors will spur capital injection in global residential real estate and emerging infrastructure segments such as data centers and energy transit...
May 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea business lobby group regrets past political role
The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) on Thursday said it deeply regretted the political role it took in the previous governments and vowed to b...
May 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Samsung SDS bolsters Cello Square with tech upgrades, global push
Samsung SDS Co., the information technology service unit under Samsung Group, has upgraded its digital forwarding freight service platform to bring ...
May 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Display buys US OLED microdisplay maker for $218 mn
South Korea's Samsung Display has bought American OLED microdisplay maker eMagin for $218 million (290 billion won).eMagin on Wednesday said Samsung...
May 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
S.Korean AI chip developer DeepX ready to take on Nvidia: CEO
Demand for artificial intelligence microprocessors is set to grow astronomically as electronics and cars are becoming smarter, said DeepX chief, add...
May 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korea's E-Mart shares tumble despite push for profitability
South Korea’s largest hypermarket chain E-Mart Inc., a unit of a local retail giant Shinsegae Group, suffered a drop in its share prices to a ...
May 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Korean institutions eye investment in OpenAI at $40 bn valuation
OpenAI, the world’s most well-known artificial intelligence lab, is tapping South Korean institutional investors for investment at an estimate...
May 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Amkor to top semiconductor packaging sector with better tech
Amkor Technology Inc., the world’s No. 2 semiconductor packaging company, aims to take the sector throne by improving technology competitivene...
May 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
SK, Hana Financial groups to jointly develop credit rating model
South Korea’s SK Group and Hana Financial Group are jointly developing a next-generation credit rating model for the financially disadvantaged...
May 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung’s Galaxy Book3 controls more than half of Korea’s laptop market
When Samsung Electronics Co. reported the worst quarterly loss for its semiconductor business last month, it found hope and relief in its mobile bus...
May 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Samsung Engineering, OMV sign agreement for modular project
South Korea's Samsung Engineering has partnered with global integrated energy company OMV for project collaboration. Samsung Engineering announced T...
May 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fiber & Textile
Hansae: Hidden Korean champion in global OEM apparel market
Hansae is an unfamiliar name to many South Koreans for sure.But among original equipment manufacturing (OEM) companies in the apparel industry, Hans...
May 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Yanolja acquires Israeli tourism tech company Go Global Travel
South Korea's tourism platform unicorn Yanolja has acquired Go Global Travel (GGT), an Israel-based company for global business-to-business (B2B) tr...
May 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
CJ CheilJedang plans to globalize Korean street food
South Korea's food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. is set to launch a range of Korean street food as new products, aiming for global expansion. The compa...
May 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
YG’s new girl group lifts stock price to decade high
YG Entertainment Inc., the K-pop label behind global sensation Blackpink, saw its stock hitting the highest point in more than 10 years as a new gro...
May 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor posts largest share of global hydrogen car market in Q1
Hyundai Motor Co. in the first quarter controlled over half of the global market for fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) powered by hydrogen thanks t...
May 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
LG Electronics' German affiliate gets partner for vehicle front development
ZKW Group of Germany, an automotive lighting and headlight affiliate of LG Electronics Inc., on Thursday said it signed a memorandum of understandin...
May 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai to invest $2.45 bn in India, eyes spot in global EV top 3
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. will invest 200 billion rupees ($2.45 billion) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu over the next d...
May 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Supply chain
Samsung SDS, Emro, US-based o9 Solutions to collaborate on SaaS
South Korea's Samsung SDS Co. announced on Thursday that it has entered into strategic partnerships with o9 Solutions, a leading supply chain platfo...
May 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
CJ Logistics to establish global distribution center in Saudi Arabia
South Korea's CJ Logistics unveiled plans on Thursday to construct a Global Distribution Center (GDC) in Saudi Arabia, a burgeoning logistics hub in...
May 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
K-beef targets global halal market through exports to Malaysia
Korean beef is making its entry into the global halal food market, starting with Malaysia. South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affa...
May 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)