aerospace and defense industry
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Beauty & Cosmetics
L'Oréal to nurture K-Beauty startups
L'Oréal, the world's largest cosmetics group, announced on Wednesday that it is recruiting digital and innovative technology companies to p...
Jun 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Korea’s KT, Microsoft form strategic alliance on AI, cloud sectors
South Korea’s leading telecommunications service provider KT Corp. has formed a strategic alliance with US tech giant Microsoft Corp. to colla...
Jun 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hanwha Ocean, Canadian firms to collaborate on submarine projects
South Korea's Hanwha Ocean Co. announced on Friday that it partnered with three Canadian companies at Canada’s largest defense exhibition, CAN...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
Hanwha Aerospace, Hanwha Ocean to develop hydrogen fuel cells
South Korea's Hanwha Aerospace Co. announced on Friday that it will join Hanwha Ocean Co. in a joint R&D initiative to target the eco-friendly...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Risk management is more important than ever, GPs say
Risk management and investment firms' operational capabilities have become more important than ever amid economic uncertainties, said speakers at th...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Broadband's Filmotalk surpasses 6.6 mn cumulative views
South Korea’s internet service provider SK Broadband Co. announced on Wednesday that the cumulative viewership of its offline film talk concer...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Coupang, HUFS to partner for industry-academic cooperation
Coupang Inc., South Korea’s No. 1 e-commerce platform, announced on Monday that it signed an industry-academia cooperation agreement (MOU) las...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fiber & Textile
Taekwang Industrial begins modacrylic wig yarn exports
South Korea's Taekwang Industrial Co. announced on Monday that it started to export its modacrylic, a high-quality wig material yarn.Modacrylic is a...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG ends XR partnership with Meta; Amazon emerges as new partner
South Korean tech giant LG Electronics Inc. has ended its extended reality (XR) partnership with Meta Platforms Inc. three months after they agreed ...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hanwha buys S’pore Dyna-Mac’s stake for $73.8 mn from Keppel
South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group bought a stake in Dyna-Mac Holdings Ltd., a Singaporean floating facility designe...
May 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
South Korea Plans $7 Billion Push to Pivot EV Battery Industry Away From China
South Korea is dedicating around $7 billion to help wean its electric-vehicle battery supply chain away from China and align more with U.S. trade gu...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
LIG Nex1 participates in Malaysia's DSA 2024
South Korea's major defense system developer LIG Nex1 Co. announced on Tuesday that it's participating in the Defence Services Asia (DSA) 2024 exhib...
May 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HMM gets Platinum ESG rating from EcoVadis
HMM Co., South Korea’s flagship sea carrier, announced on Tuesday that it achieved the Platinum rating from EcoVadis, a global environmental, ...
May 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s factory output backpedals, but spending recovers in March
South Korea’s factory activity weakened in March on a fall in manufacturing output, stoking concerns about Asia’s fourth-largest economy...
Apr 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha Aerospace, Poland sign $1.6 billion Chunmoo rocket launcher deal
Hanwha Aerospace Co., a leading South Korean defense company, on Thursday signed a $1.64 billion deal to supply 72 units of Chunmoo multiple launch ...
Apr 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fiber & Textile
Toray Advanced Materials obtains AS9120 certification
Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. announced Wednesday that it attained the AS9120 certification for aerospace industry quality management systems ...
Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Hanwha Life to buy stake in Indonesia's Lippo-owned bank
South Korea’s second-largest insurer Hanwha Life Insurance Co., with 109 trillion won ($79.4 billion) in total assets as of end-September 2023...
Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Hyundai, Philly Shipyard cooperate to enter US
South Korea’s HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. announced on Wednesday that it has recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for desig...
Apr 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
N.Korean hackers attack South’s arms makers for tech data
North Korean hackers allegedly attacked South Korean arms manufacturers and stole technical data from them over more than a year Seoul’s polic...
Apr 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Innospace, LIG Nex1 to co-work for space, defense business
South Korea's space launch startup Innospace announced on Wednesday that it signed a business agreement with LIG Nex1 Co. for cooperation and commer...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Korea to offer $5 bn insurance for defense exports
South Korea will provide more than 7 trillion won ($5 billion) in insurance this year for domestic defense companies' exports as the country aims to...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to mass-produce industry’s fastest LPDDR5X DRAM in H2
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Wednesday it has developed an LPDDR5X DRAM chip that supports the industry’s fastest d...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Daesung PE tops Korean venture funds by return in 2018-2023
Daesung Private Equity Inc. in South Korea has become the top local venture capital manager in terms of realized capital gain between 2018 and 2023,...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Lotte Innovate, Kolon Benit to cooperate on AI Solutions
South Korea’s Lotte Innovate (formerly, Lotte Data Communication Co. ) announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Kolon...
Apr 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean startup CEOs away from home lead global expedition
South Korea’s promising startup founders, who normally double as chief executive officers for their companies, are leaving their home turf to ...
Apr 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hyundai Wia targets Chile's advanced arms market
Hyundai Wia Corp., an auto parts and defense unit of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Thursday that it unveiled advanced weapons systems at the 202...
Apr 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Korea’s HD Hyundai ties up with GE, L3Harris for warship exports
South Korea’s top shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. is joining hands with major US defense technology firms to expand its presence i...
Apr 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix to build advanced packaging plant in Indiana for $3.9 bn
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s leading high bandwidth memory (HBM) chip producer, will plow in $3.87 billion to build advanced packaging and resea...
Apr 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Blight of failing e-commerce startups in South Korea
Linkshops, once touted as a future unicorn candidate in South Korea, declared bankruptcy last month even after garnering 15.4 billion won ($11.4 mil...
Apr 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Hanwha Aerospace to spin off non-core units to focus on defense business
Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s answer to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is spinning off its non-core units to focus on defense and aerospace b...
Apr 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)