Korea exchange-traded funds
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Banking & Finance
Hanwha Life to buy stake in Indonesia's Lippo-owned bank
South Korea’s second-largest insurer Hanwha Life Insurance Co., with 109 trillion won ($79.4 billion) in total assets as of end-September 2023...
Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea taps ex-NASA exec John Lee as space agency R&D head
South Korea named John Lee, a former senior executive of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as the head of missions such a...
Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
N.Korean hackers attack South’s arms makers for tech data
North Korean hackers allegedly attacked South Korean arms manufacturers and stole technical data from them over more than a year Seoul’s polic...
Apr 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Korea's Lotte Insurance put on market for around $1.5 bn
Lotte Group’s non-life insurance affiliate Lotte Insurance Co., has been put up for sale at around 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion), according to...
Apr 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Samsung Asset eyes expansion into US ETF market
NEW YORK – South Korea’s largest asset manager Samsung Asset Management Co. is leveraging its strategic partnership with a US investment...
Apr 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
S.Korea’s IBK, Japan’s Mizuho Bank agree on $218-million committed line
South Korea’s state-run Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) has agreed on a 300 billion won ($218 million) committed credit line with Japanese lead...
Apr 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Krafton shares sink as SK Square taps 2.2% block trade
Shares of Krafton Inc., South Korea’s gaming behemoth, lost about 8% on Tuesday on news that SK Square Co., an investment arm of the country&r...
Apr 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Alibaba eyes 1st investment in Korean e-commerce platform
China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is likely to make its first investment in a South Korean online shopping platform as it aims to gain a competitiv...
Apr 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Blackstone signs over $1 bn deal with MBK for 1st exit in Korea
Private equity giant Blackstone Inc. is set to mark its first exit from South Korea by selling a 71.25% stake in the holding firm of Geo-Young Corp....
Apr 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Korea’s Smilegate unveils new RPG Chaos Zero Nightmare
Smilegate, the South Korean developer of the world’s top first-person shooter game Crossfire, on Monday unveiled a teaser for an upcoming role...
Apr 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Korea's LX opens Hungary terminal for Europe EV, battery logistics
LX Pantos, one of the top logistics firms in South Korea, has launched a railway terminal in Hungary for the electric vehicle and battery logistics ...
Apr 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS loses $1.2 bn in local stocks in Q1 on weak battery shares
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, lost 1.66 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in domestic stock ...
Apr 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Dior post weak profits in Korea post-pandemic
Global luxury brands Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Dior saw worsening profitability of their South Korean operations last year after a few years of dece...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO-Pilbara JV delivers 1st order of lithium hydroxide
South Korea’s top steel group POSCO has shipped lithium hydroxide, a rechargeable battery’s key raw material produced jointly with Austr...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Polestar 4 electric SUV coupe to hit South Korean roads in June
The Polestar 4 electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) coupe is set to make its debut in South Korea in June and targets deliveries from October, Swedi...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Taeyoung E&C lets chairmen go as part of restructuring
Belt-tightening Taeyoung Engineering & Construction Co. (Taeyoung E&C), the 16th-largest construction company in South Korea and undergoing ...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Pepero enters Thailand’s King Power Duty Free
South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Friday that its thin chocolate-coated cookie sticks Pepero and no-sugar ice cream Zero entered King Po...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
HD Hyundai Electric likely to join MSCI Korea: Samsung Securities
HD Hyundai Electric Co., Alteogen Inc. and Enchem Co. are expected to be invited to join Morgan Stanley Capital International’s Korea Index wh...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai, Toray to team up to develop mobility materials
Hyundai Motor Group said on Thursday it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Japan's Toray Industries Inc. to jointly develop carbon fi...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
Korea’s vision AI startup Superb AI eyes IPO in H1, 2026
South Korea’s promising vision AI platform developer Superb AI Inc., which has recently added generative AI to its business portfolio, is seek...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Toss Bank exceeds 10 mn customers
South Korea’s fintech platform Toss Bank saw that its subscribers surpassed 10 million. According to the company, it's been two years and...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Older Voters Are Taking Over in the World’s Wealthy Democracies
SEOUL—On the surface, South Korea’s legislative election this week looks much like past votes. Candidates are holding rallies and partie...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
[Test] Older Voters Are Taking Over in the World’s Wealthy Democracies
SEOUL—On the surface, South Korea’s legislative election this week looks much like past votes. Candidates are holding rallies and partie...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Chem, Korea Zinc JV to mass-produce EV battery materials
A joint venture between LG Chem Ltd. and Korea Zinc Inc. is slated to start the mass production of precursor, a key electric vehicle battery materia...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
McDonald’s Korea sees record sales in 2023
Fast food giant McDonald’s Corp. achieved record revenue of 1.29 trillion won ($815.9 million) last year in Korea, according to its regulatory...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Korea to offer $5 bn insurance for defense exports
South Korea will provide more than 7 trillion won ($5 billion) in insurance this year for domestic defense companies' exports as the country aims to...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
S.Korean gov’t selects six overseas cities for K-City Network
The South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on Wednesday that it selected six cities including Indonesia's Jakarta, Vi...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Daesung PE tops Korean venture funds by return in 2018-2023
Daesung Private Equity Inc. in South Korea has become the top local venture capital manager in terms of realized capital gain between 2018 and 2023,...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Hyundai Glovis to supply $29 mn logistics automation systems
South Korea's Hyundai Glovis Co. announced on Wednesday that it signed a contract with Korea Superfreeze Inc. and EcoPro CnG to supply logistics aut...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korea’s Catchtable eyes offshore table reservation markets
Wad Corp., the developer and operator of South Korea’s most popular restaurant reservation app Catchtable, is considering offering Catchtable ...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)