MSPO International Defence Industry Exhibition
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea to spur defense sector tech with $1.5 bn R&D investment
South Korea plans to accelerate growth in the defense industry, a future growth engine of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, by investing more tha...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan Enerbility promotes technology at world's largest energy exhibition
Major South Korean power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. announced on Wednesday that it has started promoting its nuclear power and gas turbine ...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
S.Korea's Hanwha Asset Management staff protest personnel reshuffle
Internal conflict is growing at South Korea's Hanwha Asset Management over the company's de facto restructuring of its fund management in the wake o...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Kia participates in IDEX 2023, largest defense exhibition in MENA
On Monday, Kia Corp. announced its participation in IDEX 2023, a defense industry trade show being held at the National Exhibition Center in Abu Dha...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
POSCO ICT to be rebranded as POSCO DX for digital transformation
POSCO ICT Co., the IT services subsidiary of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc., announced on Sunday that it will rebrand itself as POSCO D...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Avikus unveils self-sailing leisure vessel tech NeuBoat at US ship event
Avikus, an autonomous ship navigation affiliate of South Korea's shipbuilding, heavy equipment, machine and petroleum giant HD Hyundai Co., on Sunda...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Chip designers in high demand despite industry slowdown
The semiconductor industry is reeling from a chip supply glut amid a broader global economic slowdown. However, as the saying goes, every cloud has ...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
S.Korea's battery industry looks for staff fluent in European languages
South Korea's battery companies are seeking human resources fluent in the languages and familiar with the cultures of countries where plants are loc...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
KTO steps up Korean tourism promotion in Saudi Arabia
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, along with the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), are accelerating their efforts to promote Korean touri...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Vietnam’s rise: An ominous sign for Korean chipmakers
Just a few years back, it was Taiwan that was on everyone’s lips in the semiconductor industry.The small East Asian island country, home to th...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea's extended reality sector forms industry convergence alliance
The Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a convergence alliance of the domestic exte...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
S.Korea's Kyung Dong Navien expands its business in Central Asia
South Korea's heating systems manufacturer Kyung Dong Navien Co. held a conference for 100 local dealers in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Feb. 10.The con...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
GC Biopharma's Ochang facility gets WHO PQ certification
GC Biopharma Co.'s production facility in Ochang (North Chungcheong Province) secured a pre-qualification (PQ) certification from the World Health O...
Feb 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Financial returns to top in Korea with record NP in 2022
Shinhan Financial Group Co. reported a record-high net profit of 4.6 trillion won ($3.6 billion) last year, snatching back the crown of South Korea&...
Feb 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
FKI to be more open, future-minded and international as part of reform
South Korea’s major business lobby group the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) will become a more open and future-oriented business group ...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
Kumho Petrochem's rubber products win eco-friendly certification
Kumho Petrochemical Co. said on Tuesday that its four synthetic rubber products including SSBR, HBR, LBR, and NdBR have earned International Sustain...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Hyundai Rotem releases data on eco-friendly railway businesses
Hyundai Rotem, the railway system subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Monday it has published information about its sales and research a...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
South Korean companies rattled by activist shareholders
South Korea’s major companies are under attack by activist shareholders, who are exerting ever-increasing clout over critical corporate decisi...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Aekyung commences mass production of eco-friendly plasticizers
Aekyung Chemical, an affiliate of South Korea's Aekyung Group, has begun mass-producing eco-friendly plasticizers derived from recycled waste plasti...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Dongwon Industries in talks to buy McDonald’s Korea as exclusive suitor
Dongwon Industries Co. will discuss a deal with McDonald’s Corp. to buy the latter’s Korean operations in hopes of riding on the renewed...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Electronics exhibits Art Lab in New York
LG Electronics Inc. recently introduced "LG Art Lab," a non-fungible token art trading platform mounted on LG TVs, through a large display board in ...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Industrial Bank of Korea goes all in with Eastern Europe push
Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) will open an office in Poland in the first half of this year, with analysts saying the bank's president Kim Seong-tae...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering ends fears over stock overhang
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a subholding company for shipbuilding, oil refining and machinery conglomerate HD Hyundai Co. ...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Meritz Securities poised to become Korea’s No. 1 for first time
Meritz Securities Co., once a mid-tier securities firm in South Korea, is expected to command the local market as No. 1 after earning more than 1 tr...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
SK Ecoplant passes industry-first carbon reduction target verification
South Korea's construction and engineering company SK Ecoplant Co. said on Thursday that it has passed the greenhouse gas reduction target verificat...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
S.Korea's online K Bank withdraws plan for Kospi listing
South Korea's K Bank has withdrawn its highly anticipated plan to hold an IPO this year in the judgement of a lower corporate value due to the slugg...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy Industries adopts integrated monitoring system
In a first for shipbuilding, South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has developed a system to confirm all data generated in the process of shipbuild...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung vows no chip output cut, eyes second-half demand recovery
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday it has no plans to cut semiconductor production even if it incurs temporary losses as the world’s larg...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
T'way Air completes IOSA recertification process
South Korea's low-cost carrier T'way Air Co. said on Monday that it has completed the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) recertification from the ...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Companies prioritize sense of responsibility over skills when hiring staff: study
Two-thirds of South Korea's top 100 companies are looking for talented employees with a spirit of challenge and sense of responsibility, mainly beca...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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