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Batteries
SK On aims to dominate global battery market by 2030
SK On Co. is on track to become the world’s No. 1 battery maker by 2030, the company said on Sunday. During an interview with the in-ho...
Feb 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, LG dominate global TV market with premium models
South Korea’s two home appliances giants – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. – dominated the global TV markets last ...
Feb 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pharmaceuticals
Samsung Bioepis posts $1.26 billion in global biosimilar sales
Samsung Bioepis Co., a biopharmaceutical unit of Samsung Group, said on Friday that sales of its five biosimilar products in global markets, excludi...
Feb 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung SDS joins hands with Amazon for global cloud business
Samsung SDS Co., South Korea’s information technology service company, is set to expand its global cloud service business in cooperation with ...
Feb 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea’s record liquidity growth raises inflation, asset prices
South Korea’s money supply increased at the fastest pace in history last year, exceeding liquidity growth in the eurozone, which accelerated i...
Feb 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
LG Energy acquires ESS company in US from Japan's NEC
LG Energy Solution Ltd. has acquired US-based NEC Energy Solutions to expand its capabilities into the energy storage system (ESS) integration mar...
Feb 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
NCSoft's 2021 profit halves on labor, marketing costs
South Korea's NCSoft Corp., the publisher of the popular mobile game Lineage series, on Tuesday reported a worse-than-expected operating profit in 2...
Feb 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
HMM returns to annual profit in a decade as stake sale looms
HMM Co., South Korea’s largest container line, returned to an annual profit for the first time in a decade, boosted by higher freight rates an...
Feb 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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China stocks
Korean money flows to China exceed investment in North America
South Korean money inflows to Chinese stocks exceeded investment in North America as sluggish US shares spurred investors to bet on a recovery in th...
Feb 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung regains top spot in SE Asia smartphone market
Samsung Electronics Co. outpaced Chinese rival Oppo last year to regain the top spot in the smartphone market in four major Southeast Asian countrie...
Feb 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Steel supplies high-strength steel for Genesis G80 EV, G90
Hyundai Steel Co. is supplying its newly developed ultra-high-strength steel sheets for car bodies to Hyundai Motor Co. for its electric vehicles an...
Feb 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Korean VCs bet big on pet care startups
Startups in the pet industry are gaining traction on the back of a rising number of pet owners in South Korea. Industry insiders say several pe...
Feb 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Nuvilab uses the latest tech to tackle age-old issue of food waste
South Korea’s food data analysis firm Nuvilab, Inc. is not a household name – at least yet. The startup is rather familiar to investors...
Feb 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
CJ ENM shelves content split-off plan; shares rise
South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co. has put its plan to split off its content business on the shelf in the face of growing opposition f...
Feb 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
TIGER KEDI30 sells out initial net assets on first trading day
Korean individual investors injected 9.5 billion won ($7.9 million) in TIGER KEDI Innovator ESG30 ETF on Feb 8, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) trac...
Feb 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai to take fresh crack at Japan market with online EV sales
TOKYO – Hyundai Motor Co. is reentering the Japanese car market after a 12-year hiatus with its latest electric vehicles, as the growing deman...
Feb 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea’s reopening stocks shine despite surging Omicron cases
South Korea’s reopening stocks rallied even as the local COVID-19 cases hit record-highs with the spread of the Omicron variant. Investors rai...
Feb 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Industrial devices
Korea’s Point Mobile expands supply deal with Amazon to offline units
Point Mobile Co., South Korea’s top enterprise handheld devices maker, expanded a supply deal with Amazon.com Inc. to offline units of the wor...
Feb 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy to spend $1.7 bn to hike Michigan battery capacity fivefold
The world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. is spending $1.7 billion to expand its battery production ca...
Feb 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Money flows rush to safer assets in Korea
South Koreans are continuing their rush to safer assets with the balance of bank deposits, money market funds (MMFs) and cash management accounts (C...
Feb 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Kakao to launch webtoon service Piccoma in France
Kakao Corp. announced Sunday that it plans to launch the European version of its webtoon subscription service in either April or May of this year....
Feb 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea’s 2022 inflation may shoot to 11-year peak
South Korea’s inflation this year is expected to accelerate to an 11-year high, adding to expectations of further interest rate hikes later th...
Feb 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ETFs
The Korea Economic Daily's index set for ETF market debut
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been solidifying their position in the investment market of Korea for the past years. Individual investors in Sout...
Feb 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Digital assets
Game developers rush to launch their own digital coins
South Korea’s game developers are in a tight race to create their own digital tokens and to build viable ecosystems that utilize these cryptoc...
Feb 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Krafton invests $5.4 mn in India’s sports game studio
Krafton Inc. said it invested $5.4 million in India’s mobile game development studio Nautilus Mobile as the South Korean producer of PlayerUnk...
Feb 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia post record US car sales as Japanese firms struggle
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., the two automaking units of Hyundai Motor Group, saw their combined auto sales in the US rise to their highest leve...
Feb 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy: Will joining indices rescue stock from its plunge?
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s No. 2 battery maker, will gain quick entry to two MSCI indices in mid-February as well as join Ko...
Jan 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
POSCO wins shareholder support to launch holding firm
South Korea's POSCO Co. will transform into a holding company structure on Mar. 2, after its plan to split itself into a holding firm and a steelmak...
Jan 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Hyundai Engineering drops IPO plan on stock market weakness
Hyundai Engineering Co., the plant engineering and construction unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, dropped a listing plan to raise up ...
Jan 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Kospi melts as Fed, LG Energy spur foreign selling
South Korean stocks lost ground with the main index entering a bear market on Thursday as foreign investors intensified their selling after the US F...
Jan 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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