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Advanced materials
SK’s holding firm completes merger with materials arm
SK Inc., the investment and holding company of South Korea’s conglomerate SK Group, completed the merger with SK Materials Co. with aim to exp...
Nov 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung’s new auto chip mounted in Volkswagen’s infotainment system
Samsung Electronics Co. is supplying one of its latest advanced chips to Volkswagen AG for the German carmaker’s in-vehicle infotainment syste...
Nov 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung to adopt flatter hierarchy to lure young talent
Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday announced a set of drastic steps to reduce bureaucracy and hierarchical management at the world's top memory chip ...
Nov 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
IONIQ 7 to beome home on wheels with LG appliances
Hyundai Motor Co.’s IONIQ 7, its new all-electric sport utility vehicle to be launched in 2024, will be equipped with the home appliances of L...
Nov 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Electronics names strategy chief as new CEO
South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday appointed its strategy chief Cho Joo-wan as the company's new chief executive officer, in a major resh...
Nov 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung orders US chips, with a side of geopolitics
Every country wants a cutting-edge semiconductor plant. Samsung Electronics’ plan to build one in the U.S. is taking advantage of th...
Nov 24, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung’s $17 billion new chip plant in Taylor aims to rein in TSMC
Samsung Electronics Co. has officially announced its plan to build a $17 billion chipmaking plant in Taylor, Texas, as the tech giant aims to overta...
Nov 24, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
US sees security risks from SK Hynix capex plan in China
The United States expected SK Hynix Inc.’s capital expenditures plan in China to pose a threat to national security, Washington’s top tr...
Nov 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung, Hynix notch best day this year; metaverse to drive chip demand
Shares of South Korea’s two largest chipmakers, Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., have staged a strong rebound on an industry prospec...
Nov 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung, Korea Post create $336 mn overseas alternative investment fund
South Korea's largest insurance company Samsung Life Insurance Co. and state-run postal savings and insurance agency Korea Post’s insurance ...
Nov 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Samsung likely to announce US foundry investment plan this week
Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to announce an investment plan for its second US-based semiconductor foundry plant this week. As the South Kor...
Nov 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea stocks see $2 bn inflow, stoking hopes for a foreigner comeback
Foreign investors have absorbed $2 billion in South Korean stock markets so far in November, spurring hopes of a foreign comeback, although doubts r...
Nov 19, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pharmaceuticals
Samsung Biologics wins another Eli Lilly COVID treatment order
Samsung Biologics Co., a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has stepped up its partnerships with global big pharmas ...
Nov 19, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Legendary chip architect Jim Keller may team up with Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday hosted its third annual foundry forum, a gathering of its partners around the world, where legendary chip archit...
Nov 18, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Amazon poised for Fire tablet launch in Korea next year
Amazon, the world’s largest online shopping mall, is set to release its own Fire tablets in South Korea from as early as next year, penetratin...
Nov 15, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Samsung heir Lee on US trip for foundry investment, COVID vaccines
Jay Y. Lee, vice chairman and de facto leader of South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung, has embarked on a business trip to North America to f...
Nov 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung unveils 2.5D chip packaging tech for high-end products
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. has unveiled a new chip packaging technology, called H-Cube, which stacks high-performance chips in mu...
Nov 12, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG to expand medical equipment business with pain-relieving device
LG Electronics Inc. is expanding its business scope to the medical equipment sector with a plan to unveil a pain-relieving device in an effort to ga...
Nov 10, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Daewoo Shipbuilding, Samsung Heavy win LNG carriers order from Qatar
South Korea’s major shipbuilders Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. and Samsung Heavy Industries Co. won orders for six liquefie...
Nov 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Interviews
Wooyoungmi emerges as 'new luxury' menswear brand
When South Korean menswear brand Wooyoungmi had the highest sales in the men’s fashion hall of Paris-based luxury department store Le Bon Marc...
Nov 02, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai's Genesis beats Lexus' selling price in US
The rising demand for high-end vehicles, despite dwindling production caused by semiconductor shortages, are driving new vehicle prices to record hi...
Nov 02, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy raises $1.1 bn in rights issue as planned
South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. last week raised 1.3 trillion won ($1.1 billion) in a rights issue to existing shareholders as planned, a...
Nov 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix in $492 million Key Foundry deal, doubles foundry capacity
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Friday it is acquiring a 100% stake in South Korea-based Key Foundry for 5...
Oct 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Uncertainty clouds Samsung as paradigm shifts toward profitability
Samsung Electronics Co.’s third-quarter earnings report on Thursday was almost perfect but for one thing. The world’s top memory maker s...
Oct 28, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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COVID-19
Samsung Biologics-made Moderna vaccine available to Koreans this week
Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine first produced by Samsung Biologics Co. under a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) service will be avai...
Oct 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Kospi to resume rally to fresh high in H1 2022
South Korean stocks are likely to resume rallies in the first half of 2022 with the main Kospi to hit a fresh record high although the local markets...
Oct 24, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Samsung SDI, Stellantis to build billion-dollar battery JV in US
Samsung SDI Co. has partnered with Dutch-domiciled multinational automaker Stellantis N.V. to build a multi-billion-dollar battery facility in the U...
Oct 19, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung aims to unveil autonomous ships in 2022
Samsung Heavy Industries Co. last month successfully completed a sea trial of its self-operating vessel technology, which enables two autonomous shi...
Oct 17, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Battery materials
Enchem: A Samsung hive-off that turns into an electrolyte giant
When Cheil Industries, a former chemical unit of South Korea’s largest conglomerate Samsung Group, decided to hive off a business unit that ma...
Oct 15, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Electronics brings gardening indoors with plant cultivator Tiiun
LG Electronics Inc. is bringing gardening indoors by unveiling a plant growing appliance, which allows consumers to grow flowers, vegetables and her...
Oct 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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