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Shareholder activism
Korea's underwear giant BYC asked to open accounting books
Insider trading without due process.This is what South Korea's Truston Asset Management, the No. 2 stakeholder of underwear giant BYC with 8.13%, ha...
Nov 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Korea’s KHNP inks nuclear power plant deal with Poland
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) signed an initial agreement for a nuclear power plant in Poland, paving the way to win an expected $30 bill...
Oct 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
EcoPro BM to build battery materials plant in Canada
EcoPro BM Co., South Korea’s leading battery material producer, is set to build a plant in Canada with a $704 million investment in a partners...
Oct 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Domino’s Korea to use third party delivery agents, the franchise's first case
It took a whole year for Domino’s Korea to convince the Michigan-based delivery pizza behemoth for an exemption to its corporate guidance of u...
Oct 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea's stock deposits dip to lowest point since July 2020
Monthly average deposits for stock investment in South Korea are poised to drop below 50 trillion won ($35.1 billion) for the first time since July ...
Oct 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Germany’s MBraun, Korean university to co-work on solar cells: CEO
MBraun, an affiliate of Germany’s Indus Holdings AG, plans to invest 1 billion won ($702,000) in a South Korean university as part of a deal t...
Oct 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korea’s Peak Bio makes Nasdaq debut via SPAC deal with Ignyte
Peak Bio Co., a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, is debuting on the Nasdaq through a merger with US blank cheque company Ignyte Acquisition C...
Oct 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung smartphone shipments down 7.4% in Q3; outlook dim
Samsung Electronics Co. suffered a drop in smartphone shipments during the third quarter on weak demand, adding to concerns over the sector’s ...
Oct 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
BOK to ease Legoland developer default-led credit crunch
South Korea’s central bank joined rescue moves to improve liquidity in the local bond market and alleviate the fallout from a debt default by ...
Oct 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
Vietnamese MZers ensnared by K-beauty, K-fashion, K-everything
HANOI – Vietnam’s young people are avid fans of Korean culture, collectively known as Hallyu. Trang, a 21-year-old college student, is o...
Oct 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea to face more headwinds after Q3 growth hits 1-yr low
The South Korean economy grew at its slowest pace of the year in the third quarter on weak net exports, adding to concerns over a further slowdown i...
Oct 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
Korea Post's insurance arm uses buyout, senior debt as core strategies
Korea Post’s insurance bureau will maintain its core-satellite strategy in private equity and debt investments for both stable revenue streams...
Oct 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Coupang launches ultra-fast Rocket Delivery service in Taiwan
Coupang Inc., South Korea’s answer to global e-commerce giant Amazon.com, said on Wednesday it has launched its ultra-fast delivery service in...
Oct 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix eyes DDR5 dominance with industry’s fastest chip modules
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is aiming to secure market dominance for a next-generation DRAM chip called DDR5 b...
Oct 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Korea's $35 bn plan yet to ease Legoland default woes
South Korea’s $35 billion rescue plan provided a temporary painkiller to the domestic bond markets rattled by Legoland Korea developer’s...
Oct 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Culture & Trends
Korea must embrace diversity to sustain K-culture: Sam Richards
When Penn State University sociology professor Sam Richards introduced Korean pop culture into his lectures three years ago, he compared its power t...
Oct 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea's Mirae Asset to invest $200 mn in Musk’s Twitter deal
Mirae Asset Financial Group is set to chip in some $200 million toward Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. in acquisiti...
Oct 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Robust consumer spending in South Korea despite economic downturn
A buyer who works for the men's fashion division of a South Korean department store had trouble sleeping ahead of the fall sale that ran from Sept. ...
Oct 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
South Korea on course for seventh month of trade deficit
South Korea is poised to post a trade deficit for the seventh straight month in October, which would mark the longest period of shortfalls in 25 yea...
Oct 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Korea’s FTC to toughen reviews on platform sector M&As
South Korea’s antitrust body is set to strengthen reviews on acquisitions for different businesses in the platform industry to resolve the pro...
Oct 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment banking
Goldman taps TPG Korea's Lee as Seoul office PE head
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is set to hire Lee Seung-june, managing director at US investment firm TPG's Seoul office, as Goldman Sachs' private equity...
Oct 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
CJ ENM’s TVing looks beyond Korea with Yonder, other K-drama series
South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co.’s over-the-top streaming platform TVing is taking its original sci-fi drama series Beyond the...
Oct 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korea's Samsung Biologics signs $296 mn CMO deal with GSK
South Korea’s Samsung Biologics Co. has signed a $296.1 million deal to supply biopharmaceutical products to UK-based multinational pharma gia...
Oct 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Korea’s KHNP likely to sign nuclear power plant deal with Poland
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) is expected to sign an initial agreement to build a nuclear power plant in Poland, separate from a three-wa...
Oct 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Korea eyes $20 bn in weapons exports as Hanwha inks $6 bn Polish deal
South Korea has moved a step closer to achieving a record 28 trillion won ($20 billion) in weapons exports this year, with Hanwha Defense Co. clinch...
Oct 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
NPS emerges as savior of Korea’s ailing won currency
The South Korean state-run National Pension Service (NPS) has been spotted selling dollars for won, supporting the ailing local unit, as the world&r...
Oct 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
S.Korea to widen tech gap with global shipbuilding rivals
South Korea, the world’s largest shipbuilding country, will expand its production of high-value-added specialized vessels, such as liquefied h...
Oct 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
POSCO Holdings' Q3 profit tumbles on steel mill shutdown
POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of the world’s sixth-largest steel maker, missed market estimates for its quarterly profit as last mo...
Oct 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
GM may consider producing EVs in South Korea
CHANGWON, South Gyeongsang Province -- General Motors Co. may consider making electric vehicles in South Korea, the country manager said on Wednesda...
Oct 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea's NPS seeks new CIO as Ahn ends term Oct. 18
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is looking for a new chief investment officer (CIO) as former CIO Ahn Hyo-joon’s term ended...
Oct 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Acquisition loan rates dip to pre-pandemic levels in Korea
- 2 Alipay’s rise puts Korea on alert to private data breaches
- 3 GS E&C plans to sell entire stake in GS Elevator to Chinese firm
- 4 Hanwha Aerospace to spin off non-core units for defense sector
- 5 SK Telecom releases Liberation Day remastering video