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Batteries
S.Korea's SK C&C enters battery sector with DNA Motors
South Korea's SK C&C will make batteries for electric motorcycles as the first domestic system integration company to enter the battery field.SK...
Aug 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
SK Square to buy back $152 mn of its stocks by March 2024
South Korean investment firm SK Square Co. will buy back 200 billion won ($151.9 million) worth of corporate shares by March of next year as an effo...
Aug 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Kakao Healthcare signs agreement with Novo Nordisk for digital service
Kakao Healthcare Corp., a digital healthcare platform unit of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced that it has signed on Tuesday a business agreemen...
Aug 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Orion teams up with Dutch Mill to tap Vietnamese dairy market
South Korea's Orion Corp. announced on Tuesday its strategic collaboration with Thailand's dairy behemoth, Dutch Mill Co., marking its ambitious ent...
Aug 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Affinity's CJ Lee to become 3rd Korean executive to leave
Affinity Equity Partners’ founding member and Managing Partner Lee Chul-joo (CJ Lee) will resign from the Asia’s leading buyout manager,...
Aug 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
CJ Logistics teams up with world’s No. 7 shipping company ONE
South Korea's largest parcel delivery service CJ Logistics on Thursday said it signed a strategic partnership deal with Japan’s Ocean Network ...
Aug 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Advanced memory is strategic asset for Korea’s chip supremacy: Hwang
South Korea, home to the world’s two largest memory chipmakers – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. – has been the dominant...
Aug 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Morgan Stanley subsidiary takes 5% stake in JYP Entertainment stock
A Morgan Stanley-affiliated asset manager has bought more JYP Entertainment shares, raising its stake to more than 5 percent.Asset management firm M...
Aug 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LG Energy Solution converts 56% of electricity into renewable energy
South Korea’s lithium-ion battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. on Monday released a report containing the company’s environmental, soci...
Aug 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Hyundai, Kia deploy CO2 emission monitor system for cooperative firms
South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. revealed on Friday their AI-integrated, blockchain-enabled Supplier CO2 Emission Monitoring System (SC...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai partners with 5 universities for carbon neutrality center
In a bid to accelerate the development of carbon-neutral technologies, Hyundai Motor Group has joined forces with prominent domestic universities.Th...
Jul 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Kolon Pharma, Dongbang Medical to export medical threads to Brazil
Kolon Pharma, the pharmaceutical affiliate of South Korea's Kolon Group, announced on Thursday that it has signed a business agreement with Dongbang...
Jul 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Emart partners with KOTRA to help S.Korean SMEs export
South Korea’s largest hypermarket chain Emart Inc. is partnering with Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) to expand its overseas f...
Jul 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Macquarie seeks to sell off Korea’s tank terminal operator
Macquarie Korea Asset Management seeks to sell off a Korea tank terminal operator six years after the acquisition, at around 400 billion won ($314.8...
Jul 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Telecom enters cloud managed service provider market
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. will aggressively enter the cloud market by providing differentiated services based on its nationwide communication net...
Jul 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
MyRealTrip launches restaurant reservation service in Japan
South Korea's travel app MyRealTrip announced that it partnered with the Japanese accommodation and restaurant reservation platform Ikyu, becoming t...
Jul 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK E&S opens representative office in Vietnam
South Korea's renewable energy company SK E&S is speeding up the expansion of its global eco-friendly power generation business by opening a rep...
Jul 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Networks to acquire data management company en-core
SK Networks Co., a South Korean trading company, will acquire en-core, a data solutions and consulting firm. The strategy is aimed at strengthening ...
Jul 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Mirae Asset’s global ETFs exceed $100 bn in net asset value
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., South Korea’s leading asset manager, said on Tuesday its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) worldwide have surpa...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
BOK chief says aging without assets key challenge to S.Koreans
JEJU -- South Korea’s central bank chief on Friday warned of the growing risk of aging without assets in Asia’s fourth-largest economy a...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
KIC up 8.3% in net value of stocks, debts in H1 2023
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) saw the net value of its traditional assets rise 8.25% in the first half of this year, backed by the strong perfo...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Electronics launches sleep management solution brid.zzz
LG Electronics Inc. on Friday launched a sleep management solution called "brid.zzz" aimed at individuals grappling with stress and insomnia. The na...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Bioepis enters US market for biosimilars of Humira
South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Samsung Bioepis, which was expected to struggle on the US market for biosimilars of Humira, the world's top-...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Everon attracts $39 mn thanks to hot VC demand for EV charging
Everon, one of South Korea’s top three electric vehicle charging infrastructure and management service providers, raised 50 billion won ($39 m...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Samsung Electro-Mechanics joins global supply chain consortium RBA
Samsung Electro-Mechanics, South Korean electronic components maker, has joined the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and Drive+, two global conso...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
HD Hyundai Infracore to develop hydrogen gas turbine engine
HD Hyundai Infracore Co., a construction equipment unit of South Korea’s HD Hyundai Group, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with...
Jul 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Hyundai Glovis to support removal of marine debris
South Korea's leading logistics company Hyundai Glovis Co. announced on Thursday that it has joined forces with The Ocean Cleanup, a global environm...
Jul 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
LCC Air Premia to be jointly managed by two PE firms
Air Premia Inc., a South Korean low-cost carrier, will be jointly managed by two Seoul-based private equity firms – JC Partners and AP Holding...
Jul 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korean ETFs’ net asset value doubles in 3.5 years
South Korea’s exchange-traded funds (ETFs) surpassed 100 trillion won ($75.7 billion) in net asset value for the first time on Thursday, 21 ye...
Jun 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS taps Macquarie, IMM, Hahn & Co. as private equity managers
The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, said on Friday it has hired Macquarie Asset Managem...
Jun 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)