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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea content platform startup to buy Getty Images unit
A South Korean content platform startup OGQ Corp. is set to take over the world’s leading stock content company Getty Images Inc.’s unit...
Sep 13, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Seoul Q2 office prices rise at fastest rate in 10 yrs
Seoul office building prices rose at their strongest rate in 10 years in the second quarter of this year, driven by domestic investors as the Seoul ...
Sep 11, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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App Developers’ Payments Dilemma: Easier With or Without Apple and Google?
SEOUL—South Korea’s app developers can soon sidestep the digital tollway mandated by Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Goog...
Sep 10, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Coupang’s business model put to test as shares fall below IPO price
Coupang Inc., widely seen as the South Korean version of global e-commerce giant Amazon.com, has closely followed the US company’s business mo...
Sep 10, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Korea postpones forex bond sale to October
South Korea’s government delayed a sale of foreign exchange stabilization fund bonds to next month, disrupting local companies’ plans to...
Sep 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Ruling party calls for BOK's active role to aid COVID victims
South Korea's ruling Democratic Party has called on the Bank of Korea (BOK) to take a more active role to aid pandemic-hit small business operators ...
Sep 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Korea silicon anode materials makers to see quantum leap in demand
The global silicon-based anode materials market is gathering momentum as demand is expected to outpace supply on increasing production of electric v...
Sep 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korea’s Simone: Rise from replica handbag maker to luxury brand
UIWANG, Gyeonggi Province – Simone Acc. Collection Ltd., a South Korean luxury handbag maker, stresses one interesting number to its clients w...
Sep 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pharamaceuticals
Korea’s Genome & Company aims US CMO market
South Korea’s microbiome medicine developer Genome & Company geared up for entering the U.S. market to boost profits and make inroads into...
Sep 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Taihan Cable lands $36 mn US infrastructure deal ahead of LA Olympics
South Korea’s oldest electric wire maker Taihan Cable & Solution Co., formerly known as Taihan Electric Wire Co. until under IMM PE’...
Sep 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
SK holds off indefinitely on petrochem unit stake sale
South Korea's SK Innovation Co. has put on hold indefinitely its plan to sell up to a 49% stake in SK Geocentric Co., formerly known as SK Global Ch...
Sep 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Activist fund urges SK Chemicals to sell part of SK Bioscience stake
A Singaporean activist fund has urged South Korea’s SK Chemicals to sell some of its shares in SK Bioscience Co., saying its corporate value h...
Sep 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Hyundai Heavy becomes third-most subscribed Korean IPO
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. became the third-most subscribed stock in South Korea after its initial public offering drew 1,130 trillion won ($968 b...
Sep 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Amazon Global Store shakes up S.Korea’s e-commerce scene
Amazon Global Store posted a stellar first-week performance in South Korea. The service, launched at the end of August on SK Telecom Co.’s onl...
Sep 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
S.Korea to allow brokerages to trade carbon credits
Financial services companies, including brokerage firms, will be able to participate in South Korea's carbon emission trading market by year's end a...
Sep 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea kicks off AI strategy talks with Naver, Kakao, Samsung, telcos
South Korean government has hosted the first top-level artificial intelligence (AI) roundtable meeting with representatives from the country’s...
Sep 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Apple Likely Has More App Store Deals to Make
As Apple Inc. works to negotiate its way out of its App Store troubles, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: the technology titan mig...
Sep 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Steel stocks rally on iron ore price falls, Q3 outlook
Shares in South Korean steelmakers rose sharply in active trade on Tuesday, on the prospect that the declining iron ore price and Chinese rivals' ou...
Sep 07, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
GIC, PEFs face further delays to Kyobo exit after ruling
Singapore’s GIC, Canada's Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan (OTPP) and private equity firms, including Affinity Equity Partners, may need to endu...
Sep 07, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Philippines LCS Group to invest more in Korea tourism
The Philippines LCS Group of Companies plans to expand investment in South Korea’s tourism as the Northeast Asian country is expected to attra...
Sep 07, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
LG Innotek, Samsung Electro-Mechanics benefit from wafer shortage
South Korea’s semiconductor substrate producers including LG Innotek and Samsung Electro-Mechanics are benefiting as a global wafer shortage...
Sep 06, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
TikTok owner ByteDance in talks to invest $43 mn in Korea’s KidariStudio
South Korea’s online content platform KidariStudio Inc. will likely attract 50 billion won ($43 million) from China’s ByteDance Ltd., th...
Sep 06, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korea's plus-size fashion mall 09Women readies for 2022 IPO
The successful initial public offering of California-based plus-size fashion company Torrid Holdings Inc. has drawn attention to 09Women Co., a Sout...
Sep 06, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Burger King's Korea, Japan operations up for sale
Affinity Equity Partners is putting Burger King's operations in South Korea and Japan up for sale, after the US hamburger franchise overtook its big...
Sep 06, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Non-ferrous metals
Korea Zinc emerges winner despite sharp decline in treatment fees
Just like many other manufacturers around the world, 2020 was a turbulent year for Korea Zinc Co., the world’s largest lead and zinc smelter.T...
Sep 05, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Korea VC firms reap big rewards for investing in early-stage startups
When KNet Investment Partners LLC, a South Korean venture capital company, invested 9.9 billion won ($8.6 million) in Krafton Inc. in 2009, the game...
Sep 05, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, LG see largest surge in TV prices in decade
Lee Ji-eun, a 30-year-old bride-to-be, was surprised at the prices of liquid-crystal display (LCD) TVs when she visited a home appliance store in ...
Sep 03, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea inflation remains at 9-year high, fanning views of more rate hikes
South Korea’s consumer inflation remained at a nine-year peak in August, adding to expectations that the central bank will raise interest rate...
Sep 02, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea Post nets nearly $1 bn from KakaoBank block sale
Korea Post has netted slightly over 1 trillion won ($861 million) from the block sale of its shares in South Korea's largest internet-only lender Ka...
Sep 02, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
LG Chem to set up next-generation bio-oil plant in Korea
South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. plans to build a next-generation bio-oil plant in the country with a local biodiesel company as the petrochemical m...
Sep 02, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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