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Mergers & Acquisitions
Carlyle, Keppel, IMM stay in final race for Ecorbit
Carlyle Group, a union of Hong Kong-based Keppel Corp. and Gaw Capital Partners and a consortium of IMM Investment and IMM Private Equity are the th...
Aug 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
Korean firms rush to sell bonds with yields at over 2-yr low
South Korea’s corporate bond markets are having an unusually busy summer as companies are rushing to sell debts to lock in lower interest cost...
Aug 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Display to sell its last LCD plant to CSOT for $1.5 bn
South Korea’s LG Display Co. plans to sell its liquid crystal display (LCD) panel plant in Guangzhou, China, to TCL China Star Optoelectronics...
Aug 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
IONIQ 5 N selected as official car of Fuji Speedway Circuit
Hyundai Motor Co. announced that its high-performance electric vehicle (EV) the IONIQ 5 N was selected as the official car of Japan's Fuji Speedwa...
Aug 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
BalanceHero sees record high H1 sales in India
BalanceHero, a South Korean fintech startup that entered the Indian market, announced on Friday that its sales and loan execution amounts for the fi...
Aug 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
LG CNS gears up for 2025 IPO with $5.1 billion in enterprise value
LG CNS Co., the information technology service unit of South Korea’s LG Group, is gearing up for an initial public offering early next year, o...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
LG Chem emerges as global No. 4 chemicals maker: C&EN
South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. has emerged as the world’s fourth chemicals producer, the second Asian company to be among the five largest a...
Jul 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Toss Securities to establish New York subsidiary
South Korea's Toss Securities will establish a subsidiary in New York, the US to to expand its overseas business. The company announced on Tues...
Jul 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Korean treasury yields fall to lowest level in over 2 years
South Korea’s treasury bond yields fell to their lowest points in more than two years, slipping below the 3% level for the first time since Ap...
Jul 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Kia posts highest-ever profit margin, double Tesla's
Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 carmaker, on Friday posted its highest-ever operating profit margin of 13.2% in the second quarter, more than d...
Jul 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hanwha Solutions to raise $1.5 bn amid mounting losses
Hanwha Solutions Corp., the flagship unit of South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group, is poised to raise as much as $1.5 ...
Jul 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Seoul prime office deals at 10-year low on rate uncertainty
Prime office transactions in Seoul hit a 10-year low in the second quarter due to delayed fundraising amid uncertainties of the central bank’s...
Jul 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai eyes Japan’s commercial EV market in e-bus deal with Iwasaki
South Korean top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Tuesday it is supplying its all-electric Elec City Town buses to Iwasaki Group, effectively ent...
Jul 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korea's foreign currency savings snap 5-mth losing streak
Foreign currency deposits in South Korea increased in June, snapping their losing streak over the past five months, with the yen-denominated savings...
Jul 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to mass-produce HBM4 on 4 nm foundry process
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, plans to use its cutting-edge 4-nanometer (nm) foundry process for the mass product...
Jul 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
POSCO seeks restructuring for $1.9 bn injection in battery materials
POSCO Holdings Inc. aims to raise its corporate value through an ambitious scheme that entails securing 2.6 trillion won ($1.9 billion) through rest...
Jul 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hanwha Q Cells gets solar power plant order in Colorado
Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar panel manufacturing arm of South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp., said on Thursday that it has secured a large-scale sola...
Jul 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, SK, LG vie for glass substrate market in AI era
South Korea’s household names Samsung, SK and LG have entered a new race to win the glass substrate market set to surge in the artificial inte...
Jul 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Hanmi Semiconductor eyes $1.5 billion sales in 2026
Hanmi Semiconductor Co., South Korea’s leading chip packaging equipment manufacturer, has revised upwards its annual sales target for this yea...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Hyundai Glovis to spend $6.5 billion, seek M&As for expansion
Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday it will spend 9 trillion won ($6.5 billion) throug...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea’s military fund taps ex-president of Woori Financial as CIO
South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), which managed 10.4 trillion won ($7.5 billion) in assets as of the end of 2023, has tapp...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Duty-free stores: Golden goose gone for Korean retailers
South Korea welcomed a record-high number of post-pandemic foreign tourist arrivals for a single quarter in the first three months of this year, but...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Tencent-backed Shift Up to raise up to $313 mn in IPO
Shift Up Corp., the South Korean game developer behind the global hit game “Goddess of Victory: Nikke,” could raise up to 435 billion wo...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
KAI inks $1.4 bn supersonic fighter jet mass production deal
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), the country’s sole military aircraft manufacturer, said on Tuesday it signed a 2 trillion won ($1.4 bil...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LIG Nex1 earns top Morgan Stanley ESG rating of AA for 2nd consecutive year
LIG Nex1 Co., a leading defense system developer in South Korea, announced on Thursday that it has received an AA rating in the 2024 environmental, ...
Jun 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Netmarble's new RPG 'Solo Leveling' logs $70 mn sales in 1st month
South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp. is enjoying growing sales of its new action role-playing game (RPG) “Solo Leveling: Arise,” ...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
Korea likely to lift short-selling ban in April after leveling playing field
South Korea’s financial regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC), said on Thursday it will extend its blanket stock short-selling ba...
Jun 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
RideFlux wins temporary Level 4 self-driving permit
RideFlux Inc., a South Korean autonomous driving technology startup, has received a temporary permit to operate a driverless car at normal speed for...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Rebellions-Sapeon Korea merger to challenge Nvidia’s AI chip dominance
Rebellions Inc., a South Korean artificial intelligence chip design startup, is merging with its crosstown rival Sapeon Korea Inc., an AI chip firm ...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Mobis unveils M.VICS 5.0
Hyundai Mobis, the world’s sixth-largest auto parts maker, unveiled the latest version of its next-generation integrated cockpit system M.VICS...
Jun 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 NPS to ramp up shareholder engagement with overseas companies
- 2 Europe looms large as K-beauty brands look to blue ocean; cosmetics stocks rise
- 3 NPS gobbles up Korea’s top 4 financial holding stocks
- 4 US considers withdrawing thousands of troops from South Korea
- 5 KKR sells 9.5% stake in HD Hyundai Marine, recoups $450 million