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Economy
S.Korean inflation rises at slowest rate in 10 months in February
South Korea’s headline inflation gain eased in February, rising at the slowest pace in 10 months on a drop in oil product prices but utility p...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
JB Financial refuses activist fund's request to increase dividends
South Korea’s JB Financial Group Co. has refused a local activist fund’s request to raise dividend payouts, stressing such a measure wil...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung’s DRAM market share rises amid industrywide revenue drop
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, saw its DRAM market share rise in the fourth quarter of last year despite a sig...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai autoworker: Dream job for many South Koreans
In South Korea, blue-collar work has for decades been shunned by job seekers because of the hard manual labor as well as the widely held perception ...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Novel medicines poised to be Korea’s next mainstay export
South Korea, a major global generic and biosimilar medicine producer with leading names such as Samsung Biologics Co. and Celltrion Inc., has rapidl...
Feb 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
Affinity refinances $130 mn debt as Burger King sale delayed
Affinity Equity Partners has refinanced 170 billion won ($130 million) in debt borrowed to acquire Burger King’s operations in South Korea and...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung ‘demanding customer’ for ASML as orders rise
VELDHOVEN, Netherlands – South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. is a “demanding customer” for the Netherlands-based ASML Hold...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
S.Korean won near 2-month low as US data fans Fed hike views
The South Korean won skidded to a near two-month low on Friday as hotter-than-forecast US inflation data added to expectations that the Federal Rese...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea's Engel coefficient rises sharply amid COVID-19 pandemic
South Korea’s low-income households are feeling the pinch of rising food prices amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by a local t...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
S.Korea's battery industry looks for staff fluent in European languages
South Korea's battery companies are seeking human resources fluent in the languages and familiar with the cultures of countries where plants are loc...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Samsung’s TV business launches customer marketing team
South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is putting into action an age-old mantra that reflects the importance of customers in its bus...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Vietnam’s rise: An ominous sign for Korean chipmakers
Just a few years back, it was Taiwan that was on everyone’s lips in the semiconductor industry.The small East Asian island country, home to th...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Korea’s Hyundai Dept. Store drops holding company plan
South Korea’s major retailer Hyundai Department Store Group Co. gave up a plan to split off its core high-end shopping mall affiliate and conv...
Feb 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Electric vehicles in S.Korea beat diesel cars in sales
Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in South Korea last year including hybrids surpassed those of diesel cars for the first time due to the price of di...
Feb 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Red ginseng prevents flu, pneumonia: research
Studies have shown that South Korea's hongsam (red ginseng) is effective in preventing respiratory diseases such as the flu and pneumonia.The Korean...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Companies
China's alleged Korean trademark piracy surges during COVID-19
South Korean companies have witnessed a sharp increase in alleged trademark piracy in China over the past few years, as COVID-19 curbed their overse...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hyundai Doosan Infracore bags $256 mn Turkey defense deal
Hyundai Doosan Infracore Co., a South Korean construction equipment maker, won a 313.1 billion won ($255.5 million) defense deal from Turkey, sugges...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
S.Korea's MGRV attracts $10mn Series B bridge investment
MGRV Community & Space, a South Korean startup that operates co-living facilities under the brand "Mangrove," announced on Wednesday it has attr...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Gmarket reports rise of niche travelers in this year's first half
The full-scale resumption of overseas travel by people in South Korea has fueled the trend of "niche travelers" who travel abroad whenever they have...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Four out of ten exporters expect raw material prices to rise again this year
A survey revealed that a large number of South Korea's major exporters expect troubles ahead for this year due to rising raw material prices and sup...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG UltraGear selected as official monitor for League of Legends
LG Electronics Inc. said on Tuesday that its UltraGear gaming monitor, with enhanced gamer-specific features, has been selected as the official moni...
Jan 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
South Korea Revives Nuclear Debate as Tensions With the North Rise
SEOUL—Rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and Pyongyang’s spree of weapons tests are fueling a debate in South Korea over the deploy...
Jan 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Korean cosmetics shares rise as China reopens borders
Shares in South Korean cosmetics brands are gaining momentum after brokerage houses lifted their target prices on expectations that China’s bo...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung’s 3 nm chip production yield rises sharply
Samsung Electronics Co. has sharply increased its production yield of the industry’s most advanced 3-nanometer chips for fabless clients, acco...
Jan 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
WeMade signs partnership with Chinese digital asset exchange
WeMade said on Wednesday that it would sign a non-fungible token (NFT) partnership with Zhongchuanyuezhong Cultural Development Co. which operates a...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
K-defense sector to reach annual export of $16 bn for two consecutive years
The South Korean defense market is forecast to sign export contracts worth more than 20 trillion won (15.7 billion) combined this year on the back o...
Jan 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Korean banks must increase total shareholder returns: Align Partners
South Korean private equity firm Align Partners Capital Management Inc. is set to lead shareholder activism against the country’s top financia...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ECM/DCM
Net assets of S.Korea's ETF rise to $63.1 billion despite stock woes
Despite South Korea's weak stock market this year, the exchange-traded fund (ETF) sector, which marked its 20th anniversary, maintained a clear grow...
Dec 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Korea-China air flights set to rise with Beijing’s eased zero-COVID policy
Air flights between South Korea and China are set to rise significantly next year with the Chinese government issuing new guidelines easing its stri...
Dec 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korean stocks with healthy earnings to shine in H2 2023
South Korea’s Mirae Asset Securities Co. expected local shares with strong earnings including growth stocks to rally in the second half of nex...
Dec 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)