Korea Display Industry Association
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Carbon neutrality
HD KSOE declares carbon neutrality in first for S.Korea's shipbuilders
South Korea's HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE), the shipbuilding holding company of HD Hyundai Co., is the first in domest...
May 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Vietnamese tourists top in card spending in Korea in 2022
Vietnamese tourists splurged the most among foreign visitors to South Korea last year, filling the void left by Chinese travelers shunning Korea sin...
May 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Merck to build biopharma raw material plant in Korea
Global pharmaceutical company Merck is considering a plan to establish a biopharmaceutical raw material production facility in Daejeon.South Korean ...
May 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia’s brisk April sales bode well for stellar Q2
The second-quarter earnings outlook for South Korea’s biggest automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and its sister company Kia Corp. looks rosy as eased...
May 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
SK Geo Centric, Loop to set up plastic recycling plant in Korea
SK Geo Centric Co., a petrochemical unit within South Korean conglomerate SK Group, said on Wednesday it will set up a joint venture with a Nasdaq-l...
May 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Meritz emerges fast to take on South Korea’s big financial companies
Back in the early 2000s, Meritz was an obscure, lesser-known insurance-related company in South Korea’s financial arena.Part of Hanjin Group, ...
May 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy Industries develops next-generation FLNG
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has developed a new model for its floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) production facility, aimed...
May 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO to spend $900 mn to expand lithium, cathode output in Korea
South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Group is expected to spend 1.2 trillion won ($900 million) in total to add cathode manufacturing and lithium r...
May 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Renault Korea Motors shuts down Busan plant for 10 days
Renault Korea this month will stop operating its Busan plant for about 10 days in a desperate bid to reduce inventory, which has soared due to plumm...
May 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Asleep forms partnership with National Sleep Foundation of US
South Korea's sleep technology startup Asleep, which was part of an economic delegation accompanying President Yoon Suk Yeol's recent state visit to...
May 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
NuScale in talks to build SMR plant in S.Korea: NuScale CEO
NuScale Power Corp., the world’s leading small modular reactor (SMR) developer, may land in South Korea sooner than its rivals with its unriva...
May 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
S.Korea’s Doosan to supply robots to Rockwell Automation
South Korea’s plant and machinery powerhouse Doosan Group has joined hands with North America’s top industrial automation solution provi...
Apr 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Mobis to lead mobility platform innovation: CEO Cho
Hyundai Mobis Co. will take another leap forward to become a mobility platform provider for future mobility technologies and bolster its new growth ...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
S.Korea, US agree on simplified EV charger export procedure
South Korean companies looking to export electric vehicle chargers to the United States can now receive local certification more conveniently within...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
S.Korea’s four firms to develop domestic tech for carbon capture
South Korea's shipbuilding and shipping companies, including HMM Co., Samsung Heavy Industries, marine equipment manufacturer Panasia and the ship i...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
S.Korea’s car exports hit record high of $15.4 bn in Q1
South Korea's car exports achieved their highest-ever record in the first quarter 2023, increasing by over 40% from a year ago, according to data fr...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea’s AI platform Wrtn to enter Japanese market
South Korean generative AI startup Wrtn Technologies unveiled Wrtn Japan, its Japanese version generative AI platform, during the "Generative AI Asi...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
S.Korea's IBS develops floatable photocatalytic platform
The Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea has developed a new floatable photocatalytic platform that can produce green hydrog...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea to grant visa-free entry to transit passengers from abroad
Transit passengers from select countries from Sunday can enter South Korea without a visa, and this waiver from May 15 will apply to a wider range o...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Hotel Shilla to challenge Lotte’s duty-free shop dominance in Korea
South Korean leading luxury hotel and retail operator Hotel Shilla is challenging its crosstown rival Lotte, the dominant player in the country&rsqu...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan Enerbility secures place on US market for SMR
South Korea's heavy industry company Doosan Enerbility Co. on Thursday said it discussed on Tuesday cooperation in areas like hydrogen production us...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea’s GEPS to begin investing in global buyout, growth funds
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) is set to inject 100 billion won ($74.7 million) to make its first investments in gl...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
S.Korea’s HD KSOE, Samsung Heavy post surplus amid order rally
South Korea’s HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) posted good performance in the firs...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea's Kakao Pay to buy 51% of US financial firm Siebert
Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment and digital wallet service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., announced on Thursday it has signed an a...
Apr 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Korea’s SK Gas to invest $1.5 bn toward carbon neutrality by 2026
ULSAN – SK Gas Ltd. South Korea’s leading liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) supplier, is set to spend $1.5 billion on liquefied natural gas ...
Apr 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
S.Korea to support exports of 100 SMEs in metaverse, XR industry
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT announced on Thursday that it will support the export of 100 small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in...
Apr 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea, US to jointly invest $60 mn for student exchange programs
South Korea and the United States have agreed to jointly invest $60 million in the exchange of young professionals in the field of science and techn...
Apr 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea to abolish customs declaration forms from May
Starting from May 1, South Korea's travelers who have no items to declare to customs upon entry will not have to fill out a customs declaration form...
Apr 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Elon Musk reaffirms Korea among top candidates for Asia Gigafactory
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday that South Korea is still among its top candidates to build another ...
Apr 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung unveils 89-inch Micro LED display in China
Samsung Electronics Co. will launch its 89-inch Micro LED display in China for the first time at the "Appliance & Electronics World Expo 2023" (...
Apr 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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