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Earnings
Samsung’s Q2 profit soars on AI chips; second-half outlook rosy
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday flagged a more than 15-fold increase in its second-quarter operating profit as the artific...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fiber & Textile
SK Geo Centric produces sustainable synthetic fiber
South Korea’s SK Geo Centric Co. will collaborate with global companies in the petrochemical, textile, and apparel sectors from Japan, Finland...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Hanmi Semiconductor eyes $1.5 billion sales in 2026
Hanmi Semiconductor Co., South Korea’s leading chip packaging equipment manufacturer, has revised upwards its annual sales target for this yea...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung launches dedicated HBM, advanced chip packaging teams
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has officially launched a team dedicated to developing advanced high-bandwidth ...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
SK Square to ramp up chip investment with new CEO
South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group said on Thursday that its investment arm SK Square Co., led by new CEO Han Myung-jin, will ramp ...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Liner launches beta service for Academic Mode AI Search
South Korea's generative AI startup Liner announced on Thursday that it launched a beta service of Academic Mode AI Search, which provides answers b...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Doosan Tesna to invest $160 mn in chip testing plant in Korea
South Korea’s Doosan Tesna Inc. will build a semiconductor testing factory in the country with an investment of 220.6 billion won ($159.7 mill...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Display gets Pantone Validated
Samsung Display announced on Thursday that its monitors and laptop panels received Pantone Validated and SkinTone Validated. The company said i...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
AI to drive Mirae Asset's next-phase growth: chairman
Mirae Asset Group is a pioneer in South Korea’s mutual fund industry. It launched the country’s first equity mutual fund in the wake of ...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
LG Electronics acquires Athom to facilitate AI smart home push
South Korea’s home appliance giant LG Electronics Inc. said on Wednesday it has acquired Athom B.V., a Netherlands-based home automation compa...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Kwangdong Pharma acquires stake in Precision Bio
South Korea's Kwangdong Pharmaceutical announced on Tuesday that it signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire Precision Biosensor Inc., a company...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
LG Chem launches Synovian in China
South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. announced on Wednesday that it launched its homegrown new drug for osteoarthritis Synovian (marketed in China as Hyruan O...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
AI plagiarism detection startup Muhayu eyes IPO in 2026
South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startup Muhayu hired Mirae Asset Securities as the lead manager for its initial public offering (IPO) targ...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Korea’s top resort operator Sono buys T'way stake for $76 mn
South Korea’s top resort operator Sono International Co. has bought a stake in T'way Air Co., a local low-cost carrier (LCC), for 105.6 billio...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
DN Solutions to build plant, R&D center in India
DN Solutions, the world's third-largest and South Korea's top machine tool manufacturer, said on Tuesday that it will establish a new plant and rese...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Korea's LG Uplus aims for $1.4 bn in B2B AI sales by 2028
South Korea’s leading mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp., which is set to unveil its first artificial intelligence chip by the end of this year, ai...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Korea Eximbank to provide $150 mn PF to Australia
The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) announced on Tuesday that it will provide $150 million in project financing (PF) for developing a rare ea...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Electronics tops in S.Korea's after-sales service
Samsung Electronics Service, a service subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., announced on Tuesday that it topped all categories - home applia...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Solus to supply copper foil for AI accelerators to Nvidia
Solus Advanced Materials, a South Korean copper foil supplier, will provide copper foil for AI accelerators to Nvidia, a leading company in artifici...
Jul 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
SK Group, led by SK Hynix, to invest $77 billion in AI, chips
SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate after Samsung, is investing 106.4 trillion won ($77 billion) in artificial intelligence an...
Jul 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Hyundai Glovis to spend $6.5 billion, seek M&As for expansion
Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday it will spend 9 trillion won ($6.5 billion) throug...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
South Korea sets sights on fostering EDA tech to win HBM chip war
In an escalating war in the semiconductor industry, insiders know there’s one technology critical for gaining chip supremacy: Electronic desig...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
KT, EV Parking Services to cooperate on electric bus charging
South Korea's KT Corp., South Korea’s largest telecom service provider, announced on Friday that it partnered with EV Parking Services (EVPS) ...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix develops SSD for AI PCs to be mass-produced this year
South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. introduced a solid-state drive (SSD) for on-device artificial intelligence PCs for mass production this year, to e...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Samsung to send chips into space via Nuri rocket
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Friday that it signed an agreement with the domestic micro-satellite startup Nara Space Technology Inc. to develop i...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Upstage, Amazon to cooperate on AI solutions
Upstage, South Korea’s artificial intelligence startup, announced on Thursday that it signed a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (S...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG unveils Google’s generative AI-powered robot CLOi
LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday unveiled its service robot CLOi GuideBot powered by Google’s multimodal AI model Gemini to foray into the gene...
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Lotte Chilsung to reduce plastic usage by 20% by 2030
South Korea’s Lotte Chilsung Beverage announced on Thursday that it plans to reduce plastic usage by 20% by 2030 by decreasing the weight of p...
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung seeks $3.6 billion in loans from KDB for chip investment
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. seeks to borrow as much as 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion) from the state-run Korea Development Bank t...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan Enerbility, Meralco to collaborate on energy projects
South Korea's Doosan Enerbility Co. announced on Wednesday that executives from Manila Electric Company (Meralco), the largest power company in the ...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)