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Mergers & Acquisitions
Edison Motors and Ssangyong Motor ink takeover deal
Ssangyong Motor Co. has finally found a new owner. South Korea’s bankruptcy court approved Ssangyong Motor Co. and electric carmaker Edison Mo...
Jan 10, 2022 (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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Mergers & Acquisitions
Namyang top shareholder barred from casting vote at general meeting
Namyang Dairy Products Co.'s top shareholder and Chairman Hong Won-sik will be barred from exercising his shareholder rights at the company's genera...
Oct 28, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Tesco ordered to return $160 mn to MBK over Homeplus deal
Tesco Plc, the UK's largest retailer, was recently ordered by an international arbitration court to return £119 million ($163 million) to MBK ...
Oct 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Korean startup closer to winning Touch ID patent dispute with Apple
South Korea's Firstface Co. has inched a step closer to winning its patent dispute against Apple Inc., after a US federal appeals court ruled in fav...
Sep 17, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
Hyundai-sponsored archers reign supreme with 9th-straight gold in Tokyo
Chung Euisun, Hyundai Motor Group Chairman and chair of the Korea Archery Association (KAA), was captured on TV July 25, watching the women’s ...
Jul 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Disney Plus' S.Korea launch delayed after Netflix's court loss
Disney Plus, a global over-the-top (OTT) streaming service provider, has pushed back its South Korean service launch by about a quarter to the end o...
Jul 20, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung courts image sensor leader Sony with new automotive products
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-largest image sensor maker, is courting industry leader Sony Corp. with its new line of automotive...
Jul 13, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Netflix loses first court case over network usage fee
Global streaming giant Netflix Inc. lost a South Korean court case on Friday, in the world's first ruling over a dispute about whether over-the-top ...
Jun 25, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Ssangyong Motor gets extended grace period before court-led revamp
Ssangyong Motor Co. has received court approval to extend the two-month suspension of its debt obligations and find a new investor for the South Kor...
Feb 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Ssangyong heads for court protection as Mahindra backs off
India’s Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. has pulled out of talks to sell Ssangyong Motor Co. to HAAH Automotive Holdings Inc., a US automobile distr...
Jan 25, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Top court rules in favor of Doosan Infracore; sale to Hyundai to proceed
The sale process for Doosan Infracore Co. is gaining traction after it won a legal dispute with financial investors over a case involving the top So...
Jan 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Ssangyong Motor gets 2-months' grace before court-led restructuring
Ssangyong Motor Co. has received court approval for a two-month suspension of its obligations to repay debt as the troubled automaker is seeking to ...
Dec 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Ssangyong Motor files for court receivership, misses loan repayment
Ssangyong Motor Co. has filed for court receivership after the South Korean unit of India’s Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. missed a 60 billion won...
Dec 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Seoul court clears way for Korean Air’s $1.6 bn Asiana deal
Korean Air Lines Co. will push ahead with its planned $1.6 billion acquisition of debt-laden Asiana Airlines Inc., the company said, after a Seoul d...
Dec 01, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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electric vehicle battery
Korean manufacturers tangled in EV battery feud; Korean court rules in favor of LG Chem
The Seoul Central District Court has upheld the validity of LG Chem Ltd.'s patent infringement case in the US against SK Innovation Co. in its fi...
Aug 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Court Dismisses Arrest Warrant for Samsung's Lee
The court has dismissed the request by the prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant to Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong. This will be a bi...
Jan 19, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)