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Business & Politics
Hanwha hires former Biden confidant as US government affairs chief
WASHINGTON D.C. – South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group has hired Danny O’Brien, a top aide to US President...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hanwha Q Cells jumps into distributed energy biz with forecast service
Hanwha Q Cells, the Q Cells division of Hanwha Solutions Corp., said on Wednesday that it had started a renewable energy generation forecast service...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
Korea’s sole foreign clinic operator CHA Healthcare to go public in 2025
CHA Healthcare Co. operating nearly 90 hospitals and infertility treatment centers across the world, is set to pave the way for South Koreans' inves...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korea's AI startup Quantit attracts $23 mn Series A investment
South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) company Vaiv Company Inc. announced on Tuesday that Quantit, its fintech subsidiary, has received a 30 bi...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Kakao Brain launches web service to turn imagination into images
Kakao Brain, a South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) company owned by Kakao Corp., launched an open beta version of "B^ EDIT," a web service tha...
Mar 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Line Games launches global service for Uncharted Waters Origin
Line Games Corporation, an affiliate of South Korea’s internet giant Naver Corp., announced on Tuesday the launch of Uncharted Waters Origin, ...
Mar 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
CJ Logistics launches integrated delivery brand O-NE
CJ Logistics, a South Korean logistics company, unveiled on Monday a new delivery brand called "O-NE" that aims to connect online sellers and buyers...
Mar 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Elec-SM Ent JV to unveil beta home fitness app in March
Fitness Candy, a joint creation by LG Electronics Inc. and SM Entertainment Co. to rival Apple Fitness Plus, is expected to unveil its beta service ...
Mar 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
HYBE barely ups SM stake in tender offer amid tensions with Kakao
HYBE Co. has raised its stake in the K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co. by merely 0.98% in a tender offer, after just one institution and minority i...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
S.Korea's Fly Gangwon kicks off international air cargo service
Fly Gangwon, a South Korean low-cost carrier, announced on Monday the launch of its international air cargo transportation service on the Taipei rou...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Mirae Asset, music profit-sharing startup take on security token offerings
South Korea's Fingo Company, which runs the music revenue sharing platform Fingo, on Friday said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
KT&G’s hidden saviors in activist fight: In-house funds
KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, will likely get support from in-house shareholders in a battle against activist funds...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai's Namyang R&D Center acquires safety management certification
Hyundai Motor Group announced on Friday that the polymer materials analysis lab and the metal component analysis lab in the Basic Materials Research...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha Systems begins developing active protection system for combat vehicles
South Korea's defense and IT service company Hanwha Systems Co. will develop core technology for an active protection system (APS), or state-of-the-...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Healthcare
Kakao Healthcare to launch diabetes monitoring app
South Korea’s dominant mobile platform Kakao Corp. will kick off its healthcare services this year with the launch of a diabetes monitoring ap...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
S.Korea's GEPS logs 10.2% return on alternative assets in 2022
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) had a 4.4% loss on investment last year, seeing its assets under management (AUM) dr...
Mar 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
S.Korea’s hy buys Mesh for Vroong delivery service
South Korea’s hy, formerly Korea Yakult, has acquired Mesh Korea, the operator of the delivery service Vroong that uses two-wheeled vehicles. ...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Yanolja becomes Korea's first company to join UAE's Global Unicorn Center
South Korea's Yanolja Co. a leisure booking platform company, announced on Thursday that it has become the first Korean company to join the Global U...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea to spur defense sector tech with $1.5 bn R&D investment
South Korea plans to accelerate growth in the defense industry, a future growth engine of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, by investing more tha...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea's ETRI creates software for faster 5G using small cells
The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), a non-profit government-funded research institute in South Korea, said on Tuesday ...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
HD Hyundai expands online communication channels
HD Hyundai Co., formerly known as Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, has announced its intention to enhance its online communication channels to better...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
LG Uplus to provide infotainment service for Toyota's RAV4 PHEV
South Korean mobile telecom carrier LG Uplus Corp. has announced on Tuesday its plans to install its integrated infotainment (IVI) platform, the Upl...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT succeeds in developing core equipment for 5G-specialized networks
KT Corp., a South Korean telecom service operator, has successfully developed equipment that embodies the core technology of 5G-specialized networks...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Samsung Electronics, Naver partner to create simple payment service
Samsung Electronics Co. and South Korea's Naver Financial have formed a simple payment service alliance in which users of Samsung Pay can make simpl...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Blind revamps job matching service to rival LinkedIn
Teamblind Inc., the developer of South Korea’s homegrown anonymous professional community app Blind, will reach out to a broader job-seeking p...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Lexus, Volvo: Koreans' top picks among foreign brands in after-sales service
Lexus, the premium brand of Japanese carmaker Toyota Corp., offers the best after-sales service among imported cars in South Korea, followed by Swed...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Three provincial airports in S.Korea offer direct flights to Mongolia
South Korea is expanding its number of flight connections with Mongolia.The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Sunday said it agreed ...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea confirms economic slowdown, recession concerns loom
The South Korean finance ministry on Friday confirmed that the country’s economy has slowed, mired in stubbornly high inflation and sluggish e...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea's KT CS reports record sales in 2022
On Friday, KT Corp.'s customer service unit, KT CS, announced that its sales revenue for the previous year reached a record high of 591.6 billion wo...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Shieldus introduces EDR-specialized control, analysis services
South Korea's IT security service firm SK Shieldus made an announcement on Thursday that they will be providing control and operation, investigation...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)