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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor car sales hit record in India for 1st half
Hyundai Motor Co. delivered its record-high number of cars in India during the first six months of this year but lost share in the fiercely competit...
Jul 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Affinity-backed SSG.COM offers 1st voluntary redundancies
Money-losing SSG.COM, once the most popular online shopping mall in South Korea, is asking some of its employees to volunteer to leave the company f...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fiber & Textile
SK Geo Centric produces sustainable synthetic fiber
South Korea’s SK Geo Centric Co. will collaborate with global companies in the petrochemical, textile, and apparel sectors from Japan, Finland...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
S.Korea promotes export of $3.8 bn railcars to Morocco
The South Korean government is promoting exporting Korean-style railway cars (K-rail), including high-speed trains worth $3.8 billion, to Morocco.Th...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Hanmi Semiconductor eyes $1.5 billion sales in 2026
Hanmi Semiconductor Co., South Korea’s leading chip packaging equipment manufacturer, has revised upwards its annual sales target for this yea...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Samsung SDI to ink $726 mn ESS deal with NextEra Energy
Samsung SDI Co., the world’s sixth-largest electric vehicle cell maker, is set to provide batteries for energy storage systems (ESS) to NextEr...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung launches dedicated HBM, advanced chip packaging teams
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has officially launched a team dedicated to developing advanced high-bandwidth ...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Cosmax mulls building cosmetics factory in Latin America
Cosmax Inc., South Korea's biggest cosmetics original development and design manufacturer (ODM), is considering building a new offshore plant in Lat...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
SK Square to ramp up chip investment with new CEO
South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group said on Thursday that its investment arm SK Square Co., led by new CEO Han Myung-jin, will ramp ...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Time to revive innovator spirit: LG Energy Solution CEO
South Korea’s top battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd., also the world’s No. 3, must accelerate innovation and prop up fundamentals to ...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Air Premia, Alaska Airlines sign interline agreement
South Korea's Air Premia Inc. announced on Thursday that it partnered with Alaska Airlines, the fifth-largest US carrier, through an interline agr...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
CJ CheilJedang hosts K-food competition in China
South Korea's CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Thursday that it organized the CJ Challenge Live Competition at the 2024 K-Food China Qingdao Intern...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
LG Chem launches Synovian in China
South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. announced on Wednesday that it launched its homegrown new drug for osteoarthritis Synovian (marketed in China as Hyruan O...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Korean fashion platform Ably to raise $144 mn from Alibaba, others
Ably Corp., South Korea’s top online fashion platform operator, is set to raise 200 billion won ($144 million) from foreign investors such as ...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
South Korean brokerages woo super-rich to make them even richer
South Korea’s baby boomers, the demographic cohort born between 1955 and 1963, have largely built their wealth through hard work, savings and ...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy signs multi-billion-dollar LFP battery deal with Renault
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker, has clinched a multi-billion-dollar deal to supply LFP batteries for low-en...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
SK Group, led by SK Hynix, to invest $77 billion in AI, chips
SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate after Samsung, is investing 106.4 trillion won ($77 billion) in artificial intelligence an...
Jul 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
South Korea sets sights on fostering EDA tech to win HBM chip war
In an escalating war in the semiconductor industry, insiders know there’s one technology critical for gaining chip supremacy: Electronic desig...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
S.Korea sees foreign visitors 95% of pre-pandemic
The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) announced on Friday that the number of foreign tourists visiting South Korea in May was 1.42 million, an increa...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix develops SSD for AI PCs to be mass-produced this year
South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. introduced a solid-state drive (SSD) for on-device artificial intelligence PCs for mass production this year, to e...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Shopee to ramp up Korean goods sales in Vietnam, Thailand
Shopee Pte. Ltd., an e-commerce operator, plans to quadruple sales of South Korean products in Vietnam and Thailand by 2025 aiming to expand its glo...
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Bioscience to buy German vaccine maker IDT Biologika for $244 mn
South Korea’s vaccine developer SK Bioscience Co. will acquire a controlling stake in the world’s top 10 vaccine firm IDT Biologika GmbH...
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung seeks $3.6 billion in loans from KDB for chip investment
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. seeks to borrow as much as 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion) from the state-run Korea Development Bank t...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Korea to inject $200 mn into semiconductor packaging R&D
South Korea will inject 274.4 billion won ($200 million) into a state-run R&D project for semiconductor packaging technology, a key to producing...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Amazon to back K-Beauty’s broader global reach
US e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com Inc. will offer South Korean cosmetics producers one-stop support to enable them to reach millions of customers ...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK On signs MOU to secure US-sourced lithium from ExxonMobil
SK On Co. has inked an MOU with ExxonMobil Corp. to buy lithium extracted by the US oil giant from a salt well in the US state of Arkansas. The deal...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK On to sell $360 mn in perpetual bonds amid tough EV market
SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, plans to sell 500 billion won ($359.6 million) in its first perpetual bon...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SK Innovation-backed Marine Innovation looks to enter US green market
Marine Innovation Co., a South Korean eco-friendly social venture company sponsored by the country’s top energy firm SK Innovation Co., is par...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
SK Inc. in talks to sell Pharmteco’s US CDMO plant to Novo Nordisk
SK Inc., the holding and investment company of SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, is negotiating to sell a major asset of it...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Booming AI industry boosts chip packaging equipment makers
Global chip packaging equipment manufacturers are enjoying surging demand and skyrocketing share prices thanks to the rapid growth of the artificial...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)