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Mergers & Acquisitions
Musinsa drops plan to buy Japan-focused rival fashion platform
South Korea’s top online fashion platform Musinsa withdrew a plan to acquire a local rival that focuses on Japanese shoppers.The move indicate...
May 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
Bio, mobility to top Lotte's $30 bn spending list by 2026
South Korea’s Lotte Group will spend a total of 37 trillion won ($29 billion) on its businesses over the next five years, a chunk of which wil...
May 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Hanmi Semiconductor among top 10 chip machine makers: TechInsights
Hanmi Semiconductor Co., a South Korean chip equipment manufacturer, has been chosen as one of the world’s top 10 chip fabrication machine mak...
May 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Humbling experience leads to VC success – LG Tech Ventures CEO
Kim Dong-su, CEO of Silicon Valley-based LG Technology Ventures said that the failures he experienced while working at a boutique investment firm ha...
May 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Tous les Jours, the next K-bakery to lure US customers
Tous les Jours, South Korea’s second-largest bakery franchise, is rapidly expanding its US business by attracting customers with greater varie...
May 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
POSCO to deploy more industrial robots at workplaces
POSCO Group, which owns South Korea’s largest steelmaker, plans to deploy more industrial robots at its factories to improve productivity and ...
May 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SwatchOn connects fabric wholesalers to overseas fashion designers
“We had the overseas market in mind from the get-go,” global fabric sale platform SwatchOn’s CEO Lee Woo-seok told The Korea Econo...
May 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Korea's key movie firm to push content production M&As
In recent years, the content creation industry in South Korea has been a key investment sector for local investment banks. Some major content produc...
May 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Behind the Scenes
South Koreans turned off by luxury fashion houses’ price hikes
A Cartier boutique inside a department store in Seoul’s posh Gangnam District was unusually slow on Tuesday. The quiet ambience was in sh...
May 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
S.Korean CEOs chase M&A targets in same industry
Some 72% of South Korea's chief executives surveyed by consulting firm EY intend to carry out M&As within the next 12 months to increase their m...
May 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Korea’s new govt. aims to export 10 nuclear power plants
South Korea’s incoming administration seeks to export 10 nuclear power plants by 2030 as President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol pledged to rescind the ...
May 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Can Samsung Electronics ever catch up to foundry leader TSMC?
For years, Samsung Electronics Co. has been touted as the backbone of the South Korean economy, Asia’s fourth-largest, under the government&rs...
May 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor, battery firms strive to limit China lockdown disruptions
The growing fears of a Beijing lockdown are prompting South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and battery makers, already suffering from...
May 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy to spend more on battery capacity expansion
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, plans to spend more on global capacity expansion than init...
Apr 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
SK Hynix posts record Q1 sales buoyed by Solidigm, may build another fab
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it is considering building another chip fabrication line after p...
Apr 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean SMEs
S.Korean boiler manufacturers turn to overseas markets
Kyungdong Navien Co. revealed on Sunday that overseas sales account for more than 60% of its total sales on the back of strong exports to the United...
Apr 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
SK’s gas unit to sell production facility for $809 mn
South Korean conglomerate SK Group’s industrial gas-making unit is set to sell a local production facility for about 1 trillion won ($809 mill...
Apr 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Korean refiners: Lubricating the future of electric vehicles
With the rise of electric vehicles globally, South Korea’s major oil refiners are jockeying to become leading suppliers of lubricants and cool...
Apr 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
IONIQ 5 emerges as EV game changer with industry accolades
NEW YORK – Hyundai Motor Co.'s all-electric IONIQ 5 crossover has been named the World Car of the Year following a series of recent indus...
Apr 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Musinsa seeks to buy Japan-focused rival fashion platform
South Korea's top online fashion platform Musinsa is in the last stages of talks to acquire a domestic rival that caters primarily to Japanese shopp...
Apr 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai’s Chung named auto industry Visionary of the Year
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun was named the automobile industry's Visionary of the Year by Newsweek, which credited him for driving tran...
Apr 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte to end dawn delivery service where Coupang, Kurly lead
South Korea’s retail giant Lotte Group will cease dawn delivery services for fresh food from this weekend, two years after it jumped into the ...
Apr 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Hanwha Solutions CEO meets with US blockchain VCs
President and co-CEO of Hanwha Solutions Corp. Kim Dong-kwan met with heads of major blockchain venture capital firms while visiting the United Stat...
Apr 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Fila Korea: Hidden beneficiary of China’s guochao fashion trend
The burgeoning Chinese fashion fad, known as guochao, has pushed out or significantly reduced the popularity and influence of Western and other well...
Apr 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Dongwon Industries becomes new holding firm of seafood conglomerate
Dongwon Group, South Korea’s leading seafood and logistics conglomerate, will undergo corporate restructuring with Dongwon Industries Co. emer...
Apr 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Startups need to embrace ESG, industry insiders say
Environmental initiatives such as RE100 and high Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards are not just for conglomerates anymore, accor...
Apr 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Content platforms
Korea's major fashion firms rush to embrace content marketing
Major South Korean fashion companies are speeding up their investment in content startups. F&F Holdings, the distributor of the US outdoor brand...
Mar 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
HMM shares weighed by overhang concerns despite soaring profit
South Korea’s largest container line HMM Co. has seen its shares trapped in a boxed range over the past few months despite its spectacular ear...
Mar 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korea rises as test bed for global luxury brands
South Korea is becoming a test bed for global high-end brands such as Balenciaga, Valentino, IWC and Breitling. The world's top luxury brands, pre...
Mar 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Service robot maker Bear Robotics raises $81 mn in Series B
South Korea’s robotics startup Bear Robotics Inc. announced Wednesday it raised $81 million in Series B funding from venture capital heavywe...
Mar 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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