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Korean chipmakers
Time to buy Korean chipmakers; Samsung among 2022 top picks
The year of the tiger will see decent stock price gains in leading chipmakers such as Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. on expected hypersca...
Jan 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
LG Energy to heat up Korea’s record IPO market in 2022
South Korea’s initial public offering market is expected to set a record in 2022, heating up from the start of the year as LG Energy Solution ...
Dec 31, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Foreigners’ Korean stockholdings soar 180-fold in 30 years
Foreign investors ramped up their holdings of South Korean stocks 180 times in 30 years, increasing influence in the local financial markets and dom...
Dec 31, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment Insights
Howard Marks says should stay in the market now
NEW YORK -- US stock markets remain high but their prices seem reasonable at the current level of interest rates near historic lows, said Oaktree Ca...
Dec 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Netmarble joins P2E market with ITAM takeover
Netmarble Corp. is in discussion with blockchain gaming and NFT platform ITAM Games for a merger and acquisition deal. The move signals Korea's larg...
Dec 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
FTC announces conditions for Korean Air, Asiana merger
South Korea’s antitrust regulator the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has decided on conditional approval for Korean Air Lines Co.‘s 1.8 tri...
Dec 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung cuts NAND output in Xian on COVID-19 lockdown
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest NAND flash memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it is adjusting operations at its manufacturing fa...
Dec 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Year-end review
Kosdaq: Perennial bush league as blue chips favor Kospi
South Korea’s tech-heavy Kosdaq market has been underperforming the main Kospi market for a couple of decades, raising concerns that the junio...
Dec 28, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korea’s IPO market renews record highs
South Korea’s initial public offering market continues to rewrite history this year. More than 20 million people have participated in the...
Dec 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Coupang’s share price rebounds as market digests lockup release
Shares of Coupang Inc., widely seen as the South Korean version of global e-commerce giant Amazon.com, are staging a rebound as the market is grad...
Dec 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Diageo sells whisky business to Bayside-led consortium for $194 mn
Diageo Korea Co., London-headquartered multinational beverage alcohol company Diageo plc’s Korean affiliate and the biggest whisky importer in...
Dec 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai revs up shares in Korean EV parts makers
South Korea's electric vehicle components market is heating up as top automaker Hyundai Motor Group accelerates its transformation into an EV manu...
Dec 24, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Hynix wins China’s approval for $9 billion Intel NAND acquisition
SK Hynix Inc. has received approval from China’s antitrust regulator for its $9 billion deal to acquire Intel Corp.’s NAND memory chip b...
Dec 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Indian startups: Korean VCs' new target after China
South Korean venture capital firms and online giants are flocking to startups in India, a country with the world's second-largest population and low...
Dec 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Coupang embraces affordable fashion industry
Korea’s e-commerce giant Coupang is looking to tap into the country’s mid-range fashion market. The company is now reversing the ...
Dec 21, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
WeMade buys $100 mn stake in social casino game developer
WeMade Co., a pioneer in South Korea's play-to-earn (P2E) game industry, has agreed to buy a controlling stake in smaller rival SundayToz Corp., bet...
Dec 21, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Unicorns like Socar and Kurly to dominate Q2 IPOs
Korea’s first mobility unicorn Socar and an online grocery delivery service operator Kurly Inc. are scheduled to begin the process of an IPO e...
Dec 20, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Korea's gaming industry turns to blockchain, unwavered by Seoul’s policy
Come next year, Korea’s online game developers are poised to release a number of games on blockchain platforms.The companies have lined up the...
Dec 20, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Money moves back to safe assets in Korea amid rising interest rates
With stock and cryptocurrency fevers subsiding amid a monetary tightening bias, South Koreans are moving their money back to safe assets, as banks s...
Dec 20, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Elec launches dedicated team for China
Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s top tech giant, has established a dedicated team for the Chinese market, where its smartphone and home ...
Dec 19, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Hyundai Motor reshuffles overseas units to deal with changing markets
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, has reorganized its overseas units, reducing the number of business sectors to five from nine,...
Dec 19, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Korean core companies’ stocks underperform global peers
The world sought new opportunities in 2021, recovering from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. Global major companies have been in cutthroat compet...
Dec 17, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK to co-invest $50 mn in US-based Fulcrum BioEnergy
South Korea's SK Inc. on Thursday said it would co-invest $50 million in the US-based Fulcrum BioEnergy with a domestic private equity fund, in a bi...
Dec 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korea’s No. 2 art auction house to go public in Jan
K Auction, South Korea’s No. 2 art auction house, is set to go public in January 2022 as it aims to court the domestic leader Seoul Auction Co...
Dec 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Starbucks Korea secures No.1 spot in crowded market
Starbucks Korea's sales are on course to exceed 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion) this year, the largest-ever annual revenue for a coffee franchise oper...
Dec 15, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
LG Elec expands global auto electronics market share
South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. is raising its market share in the global automotive electronics industry with the company’s audio, vi...
Dec 13, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
Cybersecurity stocks market darlings on rise of metaverse
Just a couple of years ago, the prevalent market view on the cybersecurity industry was that it would go downhill rather than prosper as public orga...
Dec 10, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Foreigners buy Kospi futures to raise bullish bets on Korea stocks
Foreigners bought Kospi 200 futures contracts on “quadruple witching day," the quarterly simultaneous expiration of South Korean options and f...
Dec 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
China’s CSI, KRX to launch co-developed stock indices
China Securities Index Co. (CSI) and the Korea Exchange (KRX) are set to unveil three stock indices jointly developed for the first time on Dec. 20,...
Dec 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
Simulation training developer Naviworks eyes 2022 IPO
Naviworks Co., a South Korean developer of virtual reality-based military training software, looks set to join a growing pool of metaverse-themed st...
Dec 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)