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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy in $3.1 bn methanol-powered ship deal with Evergreen
Samsung Heavy Industries Co., a leading South Korean shipbuilder, has won a 3.96 trillion won ($3.13 billion) deal to build 16 methanol-powered cont...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Korea Zinc likely to supply copper foil to LG Energy for EV batteries
Korea Zinc Co., the world’s largest zinc and lead smelter, will likely start supplying copper foil, a key battery component, to LG Energy Solu...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
KKR Co-CEO Joe Bae meets NPS, KIC execs in S.Korea
KKR Co. Co-Chief Executive Joseph Bae made a visit to South Korea last week to meet with senior managers of the country’s top limited partners...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Electro-Mechanics starts mass-producing power inductors
South Korea's Samsung Electro-Mechanics has started mass-producing power inductors, an essential component of electric (EV) and self-driving vehicle...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT to cooperate with Mongolian gov't on DX techs
South Korea's telecom service provider KT Corp. disclosed on Monday its plans to collaborate with the Mongolian government to usher in a digital tra...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Doosan Enerbility, Johnson Matthey to develop ammonia cracking tech
South Korea’s power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. announced on Monday that it signed an R&D agreement with the UK-based chemical com...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
Tottenham forward Son’s new role: Samsung Galaxy brand ambassador
Tottenham Hotspur forward Son Heung-min has a new job in his home country, South Korea: brand ambassador for Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy smartp...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
BOK chief says aging without assets key challenge to S.Koreans
JEJU -- South Korea’s central bank chief on Friday warned of the growing risk of aging without assets in Asia’s fourth-largest economy a...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Nexon’s Dave the Diver rises to global top game in 2 weeks after launch
Nexon Co. is poised to change the South Korean game scene with its new adventure PC role-playing game that has grabbed gamers around the world immed...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
Korea Investment 1st Korean broker to sell samurai bonds
Korea Investment & Securities Co. on Friday became the first South Korean brokerage company to sell samurai bonds, raising 20 billion yen ($145 ...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG AI Research launches patent screening AI
South Korea's think tank LG AI Research has teamed up with the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) to develop the world's first patent screen...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia vows to take 10% of Indian market after 1 million car output
In celebration of producing 1 million cars from its Indian plant, Kia Corp. has vowed to command 10% of the Indian car market with more diverse mode...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor premieres first high-performance EV IONIQ 5 N
The IONIQ 5 N – Hyundai Motor Co.'s first all-electric high-performance car under its N brand – made its world premiere on Thursday, wit...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Tinder owner Match Group taps Sam Ahn as Asia's chief innovation officer
Match Group Inc., operating online dating and chat platforms like Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid in some 40 languages, has appointed its subsidiary Hyper...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung takes on Micron with new flash auto memory UFS 3.1
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has begun mass production of its latest flash memory chip, which the company sa...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte Duty Free opens store at Australia's Melbourne Airport
South Korea's Lotte Duty Free announced on Thursday that it is opening a new store at Melbourne Airport in Australia and entering full-scale opera...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea's IPO market heats up with higher price cap for new stocks
South Korea’s initial public offering market is heating up with some 30 firms set for new share subscriptions in July and August, more than su...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Everon attracts $39 mn thanks to hot VC demand for EV charging
Everon, one of South Korea’s top three electric vehicle charging infrastructure and management service providers, raised 50 billion won ($39 m...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
American patent trolls target S.Korean companies
Over 80% of American companies that sued South Korean companies for patent infringement last year were non-practicing entities (NPE), or “pate...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon starts fortunetelling, personality test services
South Korea's Naver Webtoon has launched a service combining its content with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a US test of personality type,...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
LG Electronics aims to transform into platform-based tech firm by 2030
When LG Electronics Inc. made a surprise move to ungracefully exit the mobile phone business, one of its mainstay businesses, two years ago, investo...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hanwha Ocean succeeds in localizing key submarine acoustic equipment
South Korea's Hanwha Ocean Co. has successfully achieved the localization of key acoustic equipment for submarines. The company has replaced equipme...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Biopharmaceuticals gets OK to sell epilepsy drug in Canada
South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals has received approval in Canada to sell its new epilepsy drug Cenobamate under the product name Xcopri. Having e...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SK Telecom, Hana Financial Group jointly nurture AI startups
SK Telecom Co. and Hana Financial Group are strengthening their collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). They are jointly fosteri...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
HD Hyundai Infracore uses AR to service Develon construction equipment
South Korea's construction equipment and engine maker HD Hyundai Infracore Co. on Wednesday said its new augmented reality (AR) guidance app easily ...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
NPS commits $163 mn to Macquarie's sixth Korean buyout fund
Macquarie Asset Management is aiming to close its sixth buyout fund in South Korea at a maximum of 1 trillion won ($775.6 million) by the first ha...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Shrinking youth jobs cast shadow over S.Korea’s labor market
Employment in South Korea extended its growth streak in June but its gains slowed for the third straight month, with youth jobs declining for eight ...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Hanwha Solutions, SK D&D team up for hydrogen fuel cell, solar power
South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp. and SK D&D have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly pursue hydrogen fuel cell...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea to launch K-Ricebelt project in Africa
South Korea has launched an official development assistance (ODA) project for a "K-Ricebelt" to produce rice for 30 million people every year in Afr...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia scouts ex-Stellantis executive Pierre-Martin Bos as PBV director
Kia Corp. has brought a former Stellantis N.V.’s commercial vehicle specialist on board for its purpose-built vehicle (PBV) business in Europe...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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