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Retail
S.Korea’s Musinsa sees sales grow 54% in 2022 to $537 mn
South Korea’s online fashion platform Musinsa saw sales last year surge over 50% to break the 700 billion won ($537.7 million) mark, though op...
Apr 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea’s first-generation bio companies set up support fund for new ventures
South Korea's first-generation bio companies and Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) have created a bio investment fund to support ventures in the field ...
Apr 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Famed S.Korean pedometer app Cashwalk attracts first investment of $22 million
Nudge Healthcare, a startup that runs the South Korean health management app Cashwork, on Wednesday said it secured its first investment of 30 billi...
Apr 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korean GS, Daebo invest in domestic AI semiconductor firm
South Korea's Sapeon, artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor subsidiary of SK Telecom Co., said on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of ...
Apr 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
NPS, Korea Investment to sell off stake in Brazilian miner CBMM
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) and Korea Investment Private Equity Co. are set to sell off their stake in a Brazilian rare metal...
Apr 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai to spend $18 bn on EVs; Kia breaks ground on first PBV plant
South Korea’s largest automaker Hyundai Motor Group has unveiled its 2030 vision to become one of the world’s top three electric vehicle...
Apr 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
S.Korean corporate investment in Vietnam plunges 70% in first quarter
South Korean corporate investment in Vietnam, which has led the economic development of the Southeast Asian nation, has plunged this year due to fac...
Apr 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Rebellions CEO aims to outrival Qualcomm within a decade
Artificial intelligence is the talk of the tech world, particularly with the rise of the worldwide sensation OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the generative ...
Apr 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea to allocate 70% of annual R&D budget to eleven core tech areas
The South Korean government plans to allocate 70% of its annual R&D budget to 40 projects for research and development in eleven core industrial...
Apr 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Group plans talks with former US diplomat
Former US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun will hold talks with Chairman Choi Jeong-woo of South Korea’s POSCO Group.They will discuss...
Apr 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung prepares for DRAM upturn with bold investment even after chip output cut
Samsung Electronics Co. has joined its peers in cutting memory chip production on its chip division’s anticipated first loss in more than a de...
Apr 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hanwha inks largest supply deal for US community solar biz
South Korea’s Hanwha Solutions Corp. is set to sell 2.5 million modules to US community solar programs through the largest-ever supply deal fo...
Apr 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korea's Musinsa promotes domestic fashion brands in Tokyo
South Korea's e-commerce fashion platform Musinsa announced on Friday that it opens a K-fashion brand pop-up store in Tokyo's Harajuku until April 1...
Apr 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Paris Baguette to showcase at London Franchise Show 2023
Paris Baguette, the bakery franchise owned by South Korea's SPC Group, said on Friday that it will participate in the London International Franchise...
Apr 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Lotte Group secures $3.8 bn funding from four major Korean banks
Lotte Group announced on Friday that it has signed a financial support agreement worth 5 trillion won ($3.8 billion) with four major South Korean ba...
Apr 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Shared growth with startups essential for GS Group: Chairman Huh
GS Group, a South Korean energy-to-retail conglomerate, plans to aggressively invest in startups and venture companies with promising technology &nd...
Apr 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
SK C&C partners with Storm Ventures to discover promising B2B startups
South Korean IT services company SK C&C announced on Wednesday a partnership with American venture capital firm Storm Ventures to discover and c...
Apr 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia steps up electrification efforts with higher sales targets
Kia Corp., under South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, is gearing up to produce even more electric and other eco-friendly vehicles in the coming ...
Apr 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
S.Korea to invest $24 mn in fostering future car industry workforce
South Korea will invest 31.5 billion won ($23.96 million) this year to train over 3,700 core personnel in future car technologies, including autonom...
Apr 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Elec to invest $3.1 bn in S.Korean OLED plant
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest smartphone maker, is set to spend 4.1 trillion won ($3.1 billion) on a new organic light-emitting...
Apr 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
TIMWORK lifts trophy at March D.Camp startup pitch competition
TIMWORK Inc., a South Korean digital construction plan management software developer, won first prize at D.Camp’s March startup pitch competit...
Apr 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Time for South Korea's answer to the US battery subsidy act
The latest guidelines on US subsidies for electric vehicles under the Inflation Reduction Act come as a relief in every sense to South Korean batter...
Apr 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
S.Korea's tech special IPOs face criticism on poor earnings of ventures
Around 200 South Korean ventures have debuted on the country’s secondary Kosdaq market through the technology special listing program since 20...
Apr 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea invests $763.4 mn in strategic tech IP like aerospace, robotics
The South Korean government will inject this year budget of 1 trillion won ($763.4 million) in intellectual property (IP)-related projects.The Presi...
Apr 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
KB Financial launches $193 million fund to invest in global startups
South Korea’s second-largest financial institution KB Financial Group will launch a 250 billion won ($193 million) fund to invest in startups ...
Mar 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
S.Korea's KOTRA sends chip investment survey team to Texas
The government-run (South) Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) on Tuesday said it dispatched to Texas a survey team for semiconductor in...
Mar 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Capital raising
Hyundai Capital issues green bonds under eco-friendly biz guidelines
South Korea's Hyundai Capital on Tuesday said it issued green bonds worth 600 billion won ($462.3 million) following K-Taxonomy, a series of governm...
Mar 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung, SK Hynix asked to swallow tough pill over US CHIPS Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – South Korean chipmakers on Tuesday expressed deep concerns about the detailed guidelines of the US CHIPS and Science ...
Mar 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Korean startup investments rapidly dry up in wake of SVB debacle
The shock from the collapse of American startups’ main financing artery Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has been deeply felt in the South Korean sta...
Mar 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea's Riiid launches learning platform to prep for US SAT, ACT tests
South Korea's Riiid, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based provider of educational solutions, on Monday said it has launched R.test, an AI diagnosti...
Mar 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)