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Machinery
HD Hyundai Infracore secures order for 39 excavators in Turkiye
South Korea's HD Hyundai Infracore Co. announced on Thursday that it has recently secured an order for 39 large excavators under its Develon brand f...
Jun 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
S.Korea's Handsome opens global flagship store System Paris
South Korean fashion company Handsome Corp. announced on Wednesday that it will open its first global flagship store System and System Homme Paris i...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Taihan Cable wins $94 mn power grid project in US
South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. announced on Tuesday that it has consecutively won three power grid projects in the US. The total cont...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
SK Networks to split off SpeedMate, trade division
South Korea's SK Networks Co. plans to split off its auto management division SpeedMate and its trading unit.The board of directors approved the pla...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, SNU to open AI Joint Research Center
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Seoul National University (SNU) to establish an ...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
MBK drops out of Air Premia’s Asiana cargo unit takeover bid
Asian private equity firm MBK Partners has dropped out of a plan to back 300 billion won ($217.9 million) for South Korean budget airline Air Premia...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Securities sees wealth management assets surpass $43.6 bn
South Korea's KB Securities announced on Wednesday that its wealth management assets surpassed 60 trillion won ($43.6 billion) this month.This is fi...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Hana Securities services S.Korean stock investment in Hong Kong
South Korea's Hana Securities announced on Tuesday that it launched a service allowing Hong Kong investors to open its accounts through Hong Kong's ...
Jun 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Financial units to reside under one roof in Vietnam
Shinhan Financial Group Co. is upping the ante in the Vietnamese financial market to further widen the gap with rivals as the country’s leadin...
Jun 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Tata Daewoo wins order for 130 Maxen trucks in Colombia
South Korea's Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company announced on Tuesday that signed a contract to sell 130 units of its large truck Maxen to Colom...
Jun 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea’s LS Group to operate brokerage firm LS Securities
South Korean cable-to-energy giant LS Group said on Monday that it has renamed brokerage subsidiary eBest Investment & Securities to LS Securiti...
Jun 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korean biotech Bertis to join BIO 2024 for global reach
South Korean biotech Bertis Inc. will deliver presentations at the BIO International Convention, one of the world’s largest bio and healthcare...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Rebellions, SqueezeBits to co-work on AI model compression
South Korea’s fabless AI chip startup Rebellions Inc. and AI model compression startup SqueezeBits announced on Wednesday that they partnered ...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK shieldus, Yokogawa Electric Korea partner on security business
SK shieldus, the unmanned security subsidiary of SK Group, announced on Wednesday it has signed a business agreement with Yokogawa Electric Korea Co...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Samsung Securities faces trading system server errors
Samsung Securities Co., the brokerage unit of South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung Group, suffered system errors on its servers on Monday mo...
May 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Facephi to supply ID verification solutions to Samsung Securities
South Korea's Hancom Inc. announced on Monday that Facephi, a Spain-based AI biometric recognition company in which Hancom had recently acquired equ...
May 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korean brokerage firms seek to raise $1.2 bn in property funds
South Korean brokerage firms are scurrying to raise more than 1.7 trillion won ($1.24 billion) in private equity funds to bet on soured property loa...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Lunit buys breast cancer detection AI firm Volpara Health
Lunit Inc., a South Korean cancer diagnostics AI company, has completed the acquisition of Volpara Health Technologies Ltd., a New Zealand-based AI ...
May 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
KCCI to support Korean companies expanding into US
The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) partnered with the Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles (KACCLA) to address th...
May 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Korean government vows stern response to Tokyo’s pressure on Naver
The South Korean government said on Monday it will resolutely respond to any “unfair” measures by Tokyo against Naver Corp., which is re...
May 13, 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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Mergers & Acquisitions
Woori Financial acquires Korea Foss Securities to offer brokerage services
Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services group, has acquired Korea Foss Securities Co., paving the way for ...
May 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Rakuten backs S.Korea’s new mobile carrier Stage X
South Korea’s fledgling mobile carrier Stage X Co. has teamed up with relatively new Japanese mobile company Rakuten Group to crack Korea&rsqu...
May 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Navigating choppy waters: Dollar-won FX forecasting
Late last year, when the Korean won traded at 1,288 per dollar, most market analysts and economists predicted that the Korean currency would regai...
Apr 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Networks establishes AI lab in Silicon Valley
South Korea's SK Networks Co. announced on Wednesday that it opened the PhnyX Lab, an artificial intelligence (AI) technology development organizati...
Apr 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix, TSMC tie up to stay ahead of Samsung for HBM supremacy
South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. said on Friday it is partnering with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) to jointly develop next-generat...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
HD Hyundai Electric likely to join MSCI Korea: Samsung Securities
HD Hyundai Electric Co., Alteogen Inc. and Enchem Co. are expected to be invited to join Morgan Stanley Capital International’s Korea Index wh...
Apr 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
Korea’s vision AI startup Superb AI eyes IPO in H1, 2026
South Korea’s promising vision AI platform developer Superb AI Inc., which has recently added generative AI to its business portfolio, is seek...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Holdings, KNOC to jointly secure lithium in Canada
POSCO N.EX.T Hub, the venture platform of POSCO Holdings Inc., announced on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the K...
Apr 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
S.Korean gov’t selects six overseas cities for K-City Network
The South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on Wednesday that it selected six cities including Indonesia's Jakarta, Vi...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)