Reshoring Support Strategy 2.0
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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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Batteries
LG Energy, GM to inject another $275 mn in Tennessee plant
South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. and General Motors Co. plan to inject an additional $275 million in a US electric vehicle battery...
Dec 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Kakao Pay seeks to acquire Loca Mobility up for sale by MBK Partners
Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment and digital wallet service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., is seeking to acquire Loca Mobility Corp...
Dec 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korean shipbuilder KSOE wins $308 million order for 2 ethane carriers
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), the holding company of the world’s top shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, said ...
Dec 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Supply chain
Korea’s industrial losses balloon to $1.2 bn as truckers continue strike
South Korea’s manufacturing sector faces ballooning losses across industries as the trucker strike entered its eighth day on Thursday, disrupt...
Dec 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Average household debt in South Korea exceeds $69,000 so far this year
The average household debt in South Korea has exceeded 90 million won ($69,284). While the figure appears to be high by Korean standards, average ho...
Dec 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hyundai Heavy Industries Group proposes blueprint for sustainable marine utilization solution at 2023 CES
Hyundai Heavy Industries Group will participate in CES 2023, the world's largest information technology trade show, to showcase its maritime strateg...
Dec 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Content platforms
KT conducts reshuffle ahead of launching South Korea's top OTT service
Korea's telecom giant KT Corp. has reshuffled its media business units ahead of the pending absorption of its over-the-top (OTT) video platform Se...
Dec 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Shell-First: Samsung Foundry’s custom-tailored new operation strategy
As the contract chip manufacturing, or foundry, business is quickly emerging as the next battlefield for the world’s major chipmakers, The Korea...
Nov 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS posts 7% investment loss in Q1-Q3 as equities, bonds plunge
National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea said Tuesday it saw a cumulative loss of 7.1% on investment, or 68 trillion won ($51.3 billion), betwe...
Nov 29, 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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Batteries
LG Chem to build $3.2 billion US cathode plant in Tennessee
LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s largest chemicals maker, said on Tuesday it is building a $3.2 billion cathode plant in Tennessee, its first facto...
Nov 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
KT unveils AI strategy, including hyperscale AI commercialization
South Korea’s second-largest wireless carrier KT Corp. unveiled a set of steps it will take to commercialize the internally developed Hypersca...
Nov 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Promising K-startups to present B2B transition strategies at Geeks Show Up
Come this Thursday, 10 select startups will duke it to prove their business-to-business (B2B) model has the best chance of success. The start...
Nov 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
LG CNS earns $2.3 billion in year's first 3 quarters
South Korea's information and communications technology (ICT) corporation LG CNS, which seeks an initial public offering (IPO), has set a company re...
Nov 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Delivery startup VtoV raises $7.2 million from Series A round
South Korean logistics startup VtoV, the operator of optimized delivery service To-Day, raised 9.5 billion won ($7.2 million) from a Series A round....
Nov 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
GS Caltex seeks balanced growth with $2 billion new olefin complex
GS Caltex Corp., South Korea’s second-largest oil refiner, said on Friday it has completed the construction of a 2.7 trillion won ($2 billion)...
Nov 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT to invest $2 million in US voice biomarker developer
KT Corp., a South Korean telecommunications giant, plans to invest $2 million in Sonde Health Inc., a US voice biomarker developer, to enhance the c...
Nov 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Doosan Enerbility signs $1.2 billion deal to build nuclear plant in Egypt
South Korea's major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. said on Thursday it has clinched a 1.6 trillion won ($1.2 billion) deal to become a co...
Nov 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Lawmakers’ move to amend law could rattle Samsung governance
South Korean lawmakers are moving to revise an insurance industry law that would force Samsung Group-affiliated insurers to sell their shares in Sam...
Nov 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korea won hits 2-month high on US election, China hopes
The South Korean won on Wednesday hit a two-month high on expectations that a victory by the Republicans in the US midterm elections may slow the Fe...
Nov 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Falling Korea current account surplus heightens economic woes
South Korea’s current account surplus has shrunk on falling exports, adding to concerns over a slowdown in Asia’s fourth-largest economy...
Nov 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Electronics to support partners’ efforts to strengthen cybersecurity
LG Electronics Inc., one of South Korea’s leading home appliance makers, said on Monday it will help its business partners strengthen their cy...
Nov 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK Nexilis bolsters ties with Polish, Korean cities for sustainable growth
South Korean copper foil producer SK Nexilis Co. on Nov. 7 signed an MOU with the authorities of two cities — Jeongeup, Korea, and Stalowa Wol...
Nov 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK On to buy battery material lithium hydroxide from Chile's SQM
SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric battery maker, said on Sunday it signed a deal on Nov. 4 to purchase lithium hydroxide, a key ba...
Nov 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
POSCO International to invest $2.6 billion in energy operations
Korea's POSCO International, the trading arm of POSCO Group, on Friday formally merged with POSCO Energy, which handles liquefied natural gas (LNG) ...
Nov 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK On may secure money for capex from parent company
SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric battery maker, may receive money for capacity expansion from its parent company SK Innovation Co...
Nov 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Market Kurly drops Market from platform name to expand business scope
South Korea’s Kurly Inc. has changed the name of its grocery delivery service platform Market Kurly to Kurly as part of its corporate strategy...
Nov 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
EQT Partners to invest $1.4 bn in Korea's No. 2 physical security firm
Sweden’s EQT Partners AB is set to acquire a 36.87% stake in South Korean security services provider SK Shieldus Co. from a consortium led by ...
Nov 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
S.Korea prepares to launch $7.6 bn stock market stabilization fund
South Korea last week completed the process needed to launch a stock market stabilization fund of 10.76 trillion won ($7.6 billion). The timing for ...
Nov 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Hyundai, Kia’s H1 vehicle sales in Singapore double, aided by HMGICS
- 2 Korea’s reshoring companies pale amid lack of support, incentives, tax breaks
- 3 Hyundai, Waymo forge multi-year, strategic partnership for self-driving vehicles
- 4 AI startup MarqVision raises $16.5 mn to close Series A
- 5 Taihan Cable wins $630 mn power grid project in Singapore