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Retail
NewJeans selected as models for Hyundai Dept. Store Duty Free
South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Duty Free announced on Monday that it has newly appointed the five-member K-pop girl group NewJeans as models...
Aug 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Cosmax opens Asia's largest cosmetics plant in China
Cosmax Inc., South Korea's biggest cosmetics maker using original design manufacturing (ODM), has opened Asia's largest cosmetics plant in China. ...
Aug 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korea's Lotte Department Store launches 'K-Beauty' tour service
South Korea's Lotte Department Store on Monday announced the launch of a "K-Beauty tour" service for foreign tourists.The company will first give fr...
Aug 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korea’s duty-free sales skid despite China border reopening
South Korea’s duty-free shops suffered a sharp decline in sales in June, when the number of Chinese visitors jumped more than three times that...
Aug 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung TV Plus to feature free FIFA+ channel content
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Monday that it will offer the FIFA+ channel's content for free on Samsung TV Plus, expanding the sports offeri...
Jul 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte Duty Free opens store at Australia's Melbourne Airport
South Korea's Lotte Duty Free announced on Thursday that it is opening a new store at Melbourne Airport in Australia and entering full-scale opera...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG releases world's first connection cable-free OLED TV
LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday announced its release of the world's first wireless OLED TV, LG Signature OLED M.As the world's first OLED TV to hav...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion Healthcare launches Humira biosimilar Yuflyma in US
South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Healthcare on Monday said it launched the day before on the US market Yuflyma, a biosimilar of the ...
Jul 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's ToolGen develops gene-edited cow for artificial blood
South Korean genome editing developer ToolGen Inc. has teamed up with Lartbio Technology, a Seoul-based transgenic animal development company, to de...
Jun 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Shopping without passport at S.Korea’s Lotte Duty Free
With a smartphone, you can now shop at duty-free shops in Seoul without a passport.Lotte Duty Free announced on Tuesday that it has introduced the i...
Jun 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
India rises as LG's cash cow under revised S.Korean tax laws
South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. has received nearly 600 billion won ($470 million) in dividends from its overseas operations in the first qu...
Jun 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Kooksoondang to export limited edition makgeolli to Japan in four years
Kooksoondang Co., a South Korean brewery that produces traditional rice-based wines, announced on Friday that it will export 100,000 bottles of the ...
Jun 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Amorepacific runs events to mark BTS 10th anniversary
South Korean beauty and cosmetics giant Amorepacific Corp. has temporarily opened a staff-only space to BTS fans. The company’s Seoul h...
Jun 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hanwha Ocean's hiring shows shipbuilding's competition for talent
South Korea's Hanwha Ocean Co., formerly Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), is showing the intense hiring battle in shipbuildi...
Jun 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
S.Korea to ease regulations for foreign investor in domestic market
South Korea is set to raise the annual cap for individuals' overseas fund transfers without prior notice from $50,000 to $100,000, thereby easing th...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Breitling launches 2nd Korea limited edition watch in 2023
Breitling, a luxury Swiss watchmaker, has launched a limited edition of one of its flagship models, the Chronomat B01 24, in South Korea, marking th...
Jun 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Seoul, Washington seek to release $7 bn Iranian funds frozen in S.Korea
South Korea and the US are discussing ways to release $7 billion worth of Iranian funds held in the Asian country as Seoul and Washington seek to im...
May 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea’s heated debate on domestic helpers from Southeast Asia
South Korea is embroiled in a heated debate on a program to recruit domestic helpers from Southeast Asia at lower rates than those paid to their Kor...
May 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Does Google Bard in Korean pose any risk to Naver, Kakao?
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California – Global tech giant Google on Wednesday unveiled an upgraded version of Bard, its generative artificial intelligence...
May 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
S.Korea's brokerages lower stock target prices for Shinsegae Int'l
South Korea's securities companies on Thursday lowered their target stock prices for retailer Shinsegae International given its sluggish first-quart...
May 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Poshmark powers Naver earnings; HyperCLOVA X the next booster
South Korea’s online giant Naver Corp. reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings thanks to strong sales of Poshmark Inc. in the US. It ...
May 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Wrtn to offer free access GPT-4 conversation services
South Korean generative AI startup Wrtn Technologies announced on Thursday that it will offer unlimited free access to its conversation feature...
May 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea to grant visa-free entry to transit passengers from abroad
Transit passengers from select countries from Sunday can enter South Korea without a visa, and this waiver from May 15 will apply to a wider range o...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Hotel Shilla to challenge Lotte’s duty-free shop dominance in Korea
South Korean leading luxury hotel and retail operator Hotel Shilla is challenging its crosstown rival Lotte, the dominant player in the country&rsqu...
Apr 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Lotte’s soju team applauded as MZers bedazzled by sugar-free Saero
Young consumers, dubbed millennials and Gen Zers, are by nature conscious of fleeting fads.These days, one of the hottest trends in South Korea is h...
Apr 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to transfer proprietary technologies to SMEs for free
Samsung Electronics Co. has partnered with South Korean government to transfer patented technologies free of charge in an effort to support the grow...
Apr 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
HLB Cell develops organoid biomaterial based on human normal cells
HLB Cell, a subsidiary of HLB Life Science Co., which specializes in the development of cell therapy products, announced on April 4 that it succeede...
Apr 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Domestic duty-free sales surpass 1 trillion won in February
Domestic duty-free sales in South Korea increased by 36.7% in February compared to the previous month, due to the resumption of short-term visas for...
Mar 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hyundai Motor, Lotte chairs rank as S.Korea’s highest-paid heads
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun was ranked as South Korea’s highest-paid business owner in 2022 thanks to the group's record-high pr...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
Korea to ease foreign ownership limit rules; MSCI upgrade eyed
South Korea plans to ease regulations that limit foreign ownership of big companies deemed crucial to its economy as the government aims to align it...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)