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Leadership & Management
SK Square to ramp up chip investment with new CEO
South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group said on Thursday that its investment arm SK Square Co., led by new Chief Executive Han Myung-jin, ...
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Batteries
Time to revive innovator spirit: LG Energy Solution CEO
South Korea’s top battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd., also the world’s No. 3, must accelerate innovation and prop up fundamentals to ...
8 HOURS AGO
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North Korea
This Song Is Catchy and Going Viral. It’s Also North Korean Propaganda.
SEOUL—Jordan Daniels, a 31-year-old pianist and software engineer in California, posted a cover of a catchy new tune on TikTok. One asp...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Kyobo Life CEO’s ethical management earns global recognition
Kyobo Life Insurance Co.'s Chairman Shin Chang-jae is internationally recognized for setting the global standard for ethical management after two de...
Jul 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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League table
UBS tops Korea’s M&A advisor list on Asiana, Affinity deals
UBS Group AG topped the South Korean mergers and acquisitions (M&A) league table in the second quarter as the global investment bank worked on m...
Jul 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Hyundai Glovis to spend $6.5 billion, seek M&As for expansion
Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday it will spend 9 trillion won ($6.5 billion) throug...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Lotte Energy Materials sets sights beyond copper foil: CEO Kim
MUNICH – Lotte Energy Materials Corp. is one of South Korea’s leading battery materials specialists.Formerly known as Iljin Materials Co...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Line Yahoo to sever tech ties with Naver by year-end: LY CEO
TOKYO – Japan’s LY Corp., the operator of the country’s top mobile messenger app Line, plans to sever technological and system tie...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Catering firm Ourhome taps founding family’s eldest daughter as CEO
The eldest daughter of catering service provider Ourhome Ltd.’s founding family, Koo Mi-hyun, was on Tuesday appointed chief executive of the ...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Hyundai Motor eyes hydrogen value chain leadership
Hyundai Motor Group will expand its cooperation with global companies to boost its presence in the hydrogen value chain from production to distribut...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s food prices highest among OECD nations; utility bills at bottom
South Korea’s food prices were found to be the highest among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries last y...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Biopharm mulls acquiring firms, drug sales rights in US
SAN DIEGO, California -- South Korea’s SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. is considering acquiring firms in the US, or the sales rights to some of thei...
Jun 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Korean catering firm Ourhome CEO to leave amid sibling feud
South Korea’s catering service provider Ourhome Ltd. Chief Executive and Vice Chairwoman Koo Ji-eun has failed in her attempt to serve another...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
ADOR CEO behind NewJeans stays with HYBE after court win
A legal battle between South Korea’s entertainment powerhouse HYBE Co. and the chief of its sublabel ADOR will likely drag on as the internati...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
Kim Jong Un’s Balloon Barrage: Bags of Excrement Fly Into the South
SEOUL—An unusual sight drifted into South Korean skies on Wednesday: Large white balloons carrying plastic bags of North Korean trash. Some co...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
KIC eyes direct lending with high return potential: CEO
Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) seeks opportunities in direct lending for companies that are not cyclically sensitive and g...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS corp governance committee taps SNU professor as member
A corporate governance committee of South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, has named a Seoul Na...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Infrastructure
Macquarie Korea Asset Management confirms two nominees
Macquarie Group has named two executives at its Seoul-based real asset investment unit, which manages the main Kospi-listed Macquarie Korea Infrastr...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai’s JV Motional delays robotaxi commercialization, cuts jobs
Self-driving technology developer Motional decided to delay robotaxi deployments with ride-hailing companies Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. ag...
May 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
SoftBank to buy part of Naver's Line stake by July: CEO Miyakawa
TOKYO – SoftBank Corp., which runs LY Corp., the operator of the popular mobile messenger app Line in Japan, said on Thursday it is in talks w...
May 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Japan’s request for Naver to shed Line control ‘unprecedented': CEO
TOKYO – South Korea’s tech giant Naver Corp. said on Friday that Japan’s administrative guidance for Naver to sell down its contro...
May 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix’s HBM chip orders fully booked; 12-layer HBM3E in Q3: CEO
ICHEON, Gyeonggi Province – SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., said on Thursday i...
May 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
HYBE conflict vs NewJeans label set to escalate into legal battle
HYBE Co., the company behind boy band BTS, has reported Min Hee-jin, the chief of popular girl group NewJeans’ label ADOR, to police for inves...
Apr 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Bet on innovations with societal impact: Kakao Ventures CEO
In the past 10 years, Kim Ki-jun has been on the hunt for deep technology startups that will have a significant societal impact, and he will continu...
Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
HYBE to fire NewJeans agency CEO; Min refutes accusation
HYBE Co. is seeking to sack Min Hee-jin, the chief of ADOR, its label behind globally popular girl group NewJeans, as it investigates allegations th...
Apr 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Microsoft CEO to meet with Samsung, SK Hynix, LG, SK Telecom chiefs
Microsoft Corp.’s top executives will meet with leaders of South Korea’s four top technology companies next month to discuss ways to str...
Apr 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Korean catering firm Ourhome again engulfed in sibling feud
South Korea’s catering service provider Ourhome Ltd. faced another sibling dispute as its Chief Executive and Vice Chairwoman Koo Ji-eun faile...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
In Korean food prices, everything’s up: Now it’s dried seaweed's turn
First, it was groceries. Then came fried chicken and hamburgers. Now, it’s seasoned seaweed products, chocolate and ice creams.As in other cou...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
SK Innovation to adjust business portfolios for long-term growth
SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s top energy company, is slated to adjust its business portfolios for long-term growth while not planning to sl...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Burger, chicken franchises raise prices after elections
Fried chicken and hamburger franchises in South Korea have sharply bumped up their food prices following the parliamentary elections last week as th...
Apr 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)