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Economy
Seoul ranks 7th in city competitiveness assessed by Japanese Institute
Seoul's urban competitiveness rebounded after five years, ranking seventh in the world. It was due to the fact that the ranking of the economy categ...
Jan 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Korean government to finance $625 million for K-content in 2023
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol emphasized on Thursday the importance of K-content, saying content will become the most important industry to s...
Jan 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KEXIM bank issues $3.5 billion in foreign currency bonds
The Export-Import Bank of Korea on Thursday said it issued a record-high $3.5 billion in global bonds to investors worldwide.The government-run bank...
Jan 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Kolon signs MOU with Hanyang Univ. to develop gene therapy treatments
Kolon Industries Inc.'s Future Technology Institute said on Thursday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hanyang University In...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Medicox, Oramed sign MOU to enlist more institutional investors
South Korea's biomedicine firm Medicox Co. said on Monday that it had signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Oramed Pharmaceutica...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS will intensify shareholder engagement, new CIO says
Seo Won-joo, the new chief investment officer of the National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, said on Dec. 27 that the pension fund will stren...
Dec 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
KOICA donates Celltrion's Herzuma to Ukraine
Celltrion Healthcare Co. said on Monday that Herzuma (ingredient name: Trastuzumab) was dispatched to patients in Ukraine by the Korea International...
Dec 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha takes over satellite technology from gov't institute
The state-run Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) said on Monday it had transferred to Hanwha Systems Co. the technology for satellit...
Dec 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
85% of S.Korea's Gen MZ have contactless savings accounts
A study finds 90% of South Korea's Generation MZ, a demographic comprising millennials and Generation Z members born between 1981 and 2010, use cont...
Dec 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
South Korea doubles gov't fintech innovation fund to $781 million
The South Korean government will double the value of its Fintech Innovation Fund, a source of financial support for the financial technology or fint...
Dec 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
LegoChem Bio, Amgen sign ADC platform deal for up to $1.2 bn
South Korean pharmaceutical firm LegoChem Biosciences Inc. said on Dec. 23 it has transferred the antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) technology platform...
Dec 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Culture & Trends
Korean think tank urges focus on 'yold' demographic in clothing market
South Korea's Samsung Fashion Institute on Thursday announced "Dive In" as the keyword for next year's trends in the fashion industry, meaning that ...
Dec 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Lunit to export breast cancer detecting solutions to Hong Kong, Mongolia
South Korea's AI-based medical imaging equipment firm Lunit will export AI breast cancer diagnosis solutions to large hospitals in Hong Kong and Mon...
Dec 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Mirae Asset introduces AI investment info service
Mirae Asset Securities Co. said on Tuesday it had introduced two domestic stock artificial intelligence (AI) reporting services through its mobile t...
Dec 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
S.Korea must use Indonesia, Thailand as EV output-export bases: report
The Korea Automotive Technology Institute says the domestic auto industry should more proactively use Asean-region members like Indonesia and Thaila...
Dec 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Korean Air newly incorporated into 2022 DJSI Korea
Korean Air Lines Co. announced on Wednesday that it has been newly included in the 2022 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI) Korea announced ...
Dec 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S. Korea's GI Cell, Japanese partner to study cell therapy for blood cancer
South Korea's GI Cell, the cell therapy affiliate of GI Innovation, on Tuesday said it signed an agreement with Optieum Biotechnologies of Japan on ...
Dec 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S. Korea's SillaJen launches clinical trials in US for new anti-cancer drug
South Korean biotech company Sillajen Inc. has started recruiting patients for Phase 1 clinical trials in the US for an anti-cancer drug from a Swis...
Dec 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan Enerbility gets int'l certification for offshore wind power system
South Korea's heavy industry company Doosan Enerbility Co. on Monday said it is Korea's first to receive international certification for an eight-me...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SK Energy buys stake in subscription car wash service
South Korea is seeing growth in the variety of services for the rising number of eco-friendly electric vehicles (EVs) on the nation's roads.Industry...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korean Proteina gets offers from global pharmaceutical companies
Global pharmaceutical companies are expressing keen interest in the South Korean diagnostics company Proteina. Unlike companies that search for sp...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG Group think tank unveils breakthrough AI tech Exaone
LG AI Research, the artificial intelligence (AI) think tank of South Korea's LG Group, on Thursday unveiled Exaone, a gigantic AI technology that ra...
Dec 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea Shinhan Financial taps banking unit head as group CEO
Shinhan Financial Group appointed the head of its flagship banking unit as the group’s next chief executive officer as the major South Korean ...
Dec 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
MDimune signs research agreement with Australian National University
MDimune, a South Korean biotech company, said on Wednesday that it had signed an agreement with the Clear Vision Research (CVR) Lab, a research grou...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korea's foreign exchange reserves last month see first rise in 4 months
Korea last month saw its first rise in foreign exchange reserves in four months amid monetary authorities selling the greenback to avert a sharp dep...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korean President Yoon to lead national space policy
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is set to lead the National Space Council, the country’s top control tower for space development, in a bi...
Nov 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Spectrum to push back launch date of Hanmi-developed drug Poziotinib
Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. announced Friday that California-based Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc. received a Complete Response Letter (CRL) from the US ...
Nov 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean universities lag international peers in nurturing entrepreneurs
The prestigious Seoul National University was the only university in South Korea to rank among the top 100 universities in terms of producing futu...
Nov 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
South Korea's total fertility rate falls under 0.8 in 3rd quarter
South Korea's birth rate in the third quarter this year set another all-time low of under 0.8, and the national population consequently declined f...
Nov 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
OECD cuts Korea's economic growth forecast for next year to 1.8%
The Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD) has cut its forecast for South Korea's economic growth next year to 1.8%, down fro...
Nov 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)