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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korean seafood giant Sajo acquires Foodist for $181 million
Sajo Group, a South Korean seafood and fisheries conglomerate, has acquired Foodist Co., a domestic food ingredient and catering service provider, f...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE eyes $3.4 bn worth of orders from France's CMA CGM
South Korea’s largest shipbuilder, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE), is eyeing around $3.4 billion worth of orde...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus to unveil quantum proof solution Alphakey
South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. announced on Monday that it will unveil its new integrated account management solution for cloud services Alphakey at Q...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Innotek eyes $1.4 bn in automotive sensor sales by 2030
LG Innotek Co., South Korea’s leading mobile camera module maker, is upping the ante to lead the automotive sensing market with high-performan...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Lotte Home Shopping to enter health functional food market
South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Monday that it plans to establish a joint venture, The Edition Health, with H.Pio, a specialized heal...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
QCells wins 2GW solar panel deal for US community solar farms
Hanwha Q Cell Co., better known as QCells in overseas markets, has signed a solar panel supply and partnership agreement for energy storage system (...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korea FX authorities, NPS raise currency swap limit to $50 bn
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, said on Friday it has agreed with foreign exchange...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Lotte Energy Materials sets sights beyond copper foil: CEO Kim
MUNICH – Lotte Energy Materials Corp. is one of South Korea’s leading battery materials specialists.Formerly known as Iljin Materials Co...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Short selling
MSCI keeps Korea on emerging market list on short-selling ban
MSCI Inc. maintained South Korean stocks in its emerging market list as the government kept its blanket short-selling ban, denting the country&rsquo...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Korea Zinc speeds up separation from Young Poong in management feud
South Korea’s largest zinc smelter Korea Zinc Co. is accelerating its efforts to terminate its decades-long business relations with parent You...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
SK Shieldus, CP6 team up for autonomous vehicle security
SK Shieldus Co., the unmanned security subsidiary of South Korea's SK Group, announced on Friday that it has signed an agreement with CP6, a domesti...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
South Korea-Japan air travelers soar to 10 mn in first five months
The number of air passengers traveling between South Korea and Japan has surpassed 10 million in the first five months of this year, setting a new r...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Affinity to buy Korea's No. 2 car leasing firm for $591 mn
Affinity Equity Partners will buy a 100% stake in South Korea’s second-largest car leasing company SK Rent-a-Car Co. for 820 billion won ($591...
Jun 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Shein cracks Korea's ultra-low-cost online fashion market
Shein, a Chinese fast fashion online retailer, announced on Thursday its official debut in South Korea with the launch of its Korea-dedicated platfo...
Jun 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
HD Hyundai Infracore secures order for 39 excavators in Turkiye
South Korea's HD Hyundai Infracore Co. announced on Thursday that it has recently secured an order for 39 large excavators under its Develon brand f...
Jun 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Hyundai E&C to build S.Korea's first nuclear-linked hydrogen plant
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) will lead a consortium to build the nation's first hydrogen production fa...
Jun 20, 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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IPOs
Kosdaq cancels IPO approval for cloud developer InnoGrid
The Kosdaq market under the Korea Exchange said on Wednesday it has canceled its preliminary approval for InnoGrid Co.’s initial public offeri...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Executive reshuffles
Shinsegae hires Alibaba Korea head to lead online mall Gmarket
Shinsegae Group, South Korea’s retail giant, on Wednesday launched sweeping top-level management overhauls for Gmarket Inc. and SSG.COM. to ti...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Korean soju maker HiteJinro aims high with its first Vietnam plant
HANOI – Thai Binh, a port city about 120 km southeast of the Vietnamese capital, has long been associated, in people’s minds, with the i...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
S.Korea's Handsome opens global flagship store System Paris
South Korean fashion company Handsome Corp. announced on Wednesday that it will open its first global flagship store System and System Homme Paris i...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
South Korea climbs to 20th on IMD national competitiveness list
South Korea’s national competitiveness ranking climbed eight notches to its highest-ever 20th thanks to a leap in the country’s business...
Jun 18, 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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Energy
Taihan Cable wins $94 mn power grid project in US
South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. announced on Tuesday that it has consecutively won three power grid projects in the US. The total cont...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s food prices highest among OECD nations; utility bills at bottom
South Korea’s food prices were found to be the highest among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries last y...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
North Korea Sent Excrement Balloons. South Korea’s Response: Blasting BTS Hits.
SEOUL—After enduring days of balloon bombardment from the Kim Jong Un regime, South Korea countered with an airwaves assault of it...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Kolmar Korea develops AI tech for diagnosing alopecia
Kolmar Korea, a supplier to global cosmetics brands such as Estee Lauder, announced on Tuesday that it developed artificial intelligence (AI) techno...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korea issues $10.75 bn in refund guarantees to shipbuilders
South Korean banks and state-run financial institutions will issue $10.75 billion worth of refund guarantees (RGs) to domestic shipbuilders, which t...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Tcha Partners mulls largest-ever sale of Korean bus operators
Seoul-based private equity firm Tcha Partners Asset Management Co., which owns 17 domestic quasi-public bus operators via four funds that closed at ...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, SNU to open AI Joint Research Center
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Seoul National University (SNU) to establish an ...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Hyundai, Waymo forge multi-year, strategic partnership for self-driving vehicles
- 2 AI startup MarqVision raises $16.5 mn to close Series A
- 3 Taihan Cable wins $630 mn power grid project in Singapore
- 4 Korean startup scene is gloomy, say 2 out of 5 startup CEOs
- 5 MBK ups stakes for Korea Zinc to match buyback offer