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Bio & Pharma
Korea’s top probiotic drink maker hy to expand global biz
South Korea’s leading probiotic drink maker hy Co. is seeking to expand its health functional food business into the global market as demand f...
Jan 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Hanwha, LG Energy team up for US battery production
South Korea’s Hanwha Group will invest in LG Energy Solution Ltd.'s battery production lines for energy storage systems (ESS) in the US, some ...
Jan 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
SK Energy teams up with state-run power supplier for EV charging station
SK Energy, a major South Korean oil refiner, teamed up with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) to install electric vehicle (EV) and hydrogen...
Jan 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Nexon teams up with 'Parasite' film production company Barunson E&A
Nexon, one of South Korea's top three game giants, on Tuesday said it signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with Barunson Entertainment &am...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
SK Earthon teams up with British company Azuli in CO2 capture
SK Earthon has joined hands with Azuli, a British company that specializes in carbon capture and storage (CCS), to search for business opportunities...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Research & Development
LG Group seeks future growth engines with new R&D units
LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate, set up new research and development units at key affiliates to seek future growth engines...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus holds in-house hackathon to secure platform technology
LG Uplus Corps. said on Sunday that it held a hackathon called "Hackstival" to compete for development skills of in-house software developers.The co...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
S.Korean battery sector scrambles for talented manpower
South Korea’s battery industry has suffered from a talent shortage, especially in the research and development, design as well as process sect...
Dec 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
South Korea needs to attract more foreign professionals: FKI
In order to address the chronic shortage of industrial engineering manpower, a research report proposed that South Korea put more effort into attracti...
Dec 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mobile networks
SK Telecom to team up with Singapore's Singtel for metaverse venture
SK Telecom Co. on Tuesday said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Singapore's top telecom provider Singtel Group on joint business o...
Nov 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
South Korea's DL E&C wins 1st petrochemical plant order in US
South Korean construction company DL E&C has landed its first contract to build a petrochemical plant in the US.The company on Thursday said it ...
Nov 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Yanolja to expand overseas business with global partner
South Korea's tourism platform Yanolja is expanding its overseas air and travel operations.Yanolja Cloud, an artificial intelligence-based software ...
Nov 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Danggeun Market launches professional advertising solution
South Korean startup Danggeun Market, the operator of the country’s largest neighborhood marketplace app Karrot, is ramping up efforts to incr...
Nov 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Coupang launches Rocket Fashion Growth division to beef up fashion retail
Coupang, Inc. recently established the Rocket Growth Fashion division, according to industry insiders on Monday. As the name suggests, the team...
Nov 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
KIC sees secondary and deep value investments as attractive
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is eyeing secondary and deep value strategies, the sovereign wealth fund’s Senior Director of Private Equit...
Oct 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Lab-grown fish, smart pillow: LG’s choices for future
Startups making lab-cultured seafood, smart pillows and others showcased their innovative products at an exhibition hosted by LG Group, South Korea&...
Oct 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Japan, Spain firms join forces with Woojin for Korean bullet train bid
A Japanese company and a Spanish firm have joined hands with a South Korean company for a local bullet train supply deal as the country is expected ...
Oct 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Self-driving startup 42dot unveils driverless shuttle
South Korea's autonomous transportation startup 42dot, owned by Hyundai Motor Group, on Monday unveiled a driverless electric shuttle installed with...
Sep 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
LG Elec., Uplus team up to expand service robot business
South Korea’s home appliance giant LG Electronics Inc. and mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. will join forces to expand their service robot busine...
Sep 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Korea lags peer nations in robot industry
South Korea’s competitiveness in the robot industry is among the world’s lowest even though the country is one of the largest buyers of ...
Sep 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
SK Telecom-led consortium to commercialize air taxis on Jeju Island
Come 2025, visitors to South Korea’s resort island of Jeju will be able to hail air taxis while there – thanks to special air routes ded...
Sep 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Carlyle, GS team up to buy Korean dental scanner maker
The Carlyle Group, a US private equity giant, has joined hands with South Korean energy-to-retail conglomerate GS Group to buy Medit Corp., the worl...
Aug 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
South Korean startups team up with convenience stores for drone delivery
South Korean convenient stores are ramping up competition in the business of drone delivery. The initial target regions include the Seoul subur...
Jul 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT, Swift Navigation team up for ultra-precision location service
KT Corp., a major South Korean telecommunications company, has partnered with Swift Navigation Co., a San Francisco-based technology firm, to commer...
Jun 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
More LPs tap ex-Samsung Life professionals as CIOs
A number of financial experts who built their careers at Samsung Life Insurance Co. are in the spotlight as more South Korean pension funds and mutu...
Jun 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
LianBio teams with Korean MediRama to ease US biotechs' foray into Asia
LianBio, a Nasdaq-listed biotechnology company, has joined hands with MediRama Co., a South Korean clinical development firm, to help promis...
Jun 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
GEPS taps Samsung Life's alternative investment head as CIO
Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) of South Korea has named Baek Joo-hyun, former alternative investment head at Samsung Life Insurance Co....
May 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Korean companies rapidly embrace ESG in management standards
South Korea’s big companies are rapidly embracing environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards by launching a dedicated ESG team to me...
May 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK On bolsters M&A team with new executive hires
SK On Co., an electric vehicle battery maker of SK Innovation Co., is bolstering its M&A team by hiring M&A experts from a leading law firm ...
May 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
LG’s telecommunication unit joins UAM race in Korea
LG Group’s telecommunication unit joined the race for South Korea’s urban air mobility (UAM) to secure a future growth engine in coopera...
May 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)