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Companies
Hanwha Techwin changes name to Hanwha Vision
South Korea’s Hanwha Techwin on Wednesday changed its name to Hanwha Vision and unveiled its new corporate image. On the reason for the n...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
S.Korea's GEPS logs 10.2% return on alternative assets in 2022
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) had a 4.4% loss on investment last year, seeing its assets under management (AUM) dr...
Mar 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Inflation casts shadow over S.Korea NPS' hedging strategies
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), with 920.4 trillion won ($694.6 billion) in assets as of November 2022, faces growing concerns o...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK IE Technology mulls adding LiBS factory in US, says SKIET president
SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), a global top lithium-ion battery separator (LiBS) player under South Korea’s energy and battery maker SK Innovat...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
dConstruct Robotics becomes 2nd foreign startup to win at D.Day
South Korea’s decade-old startup pitch competition D.Day has picked Singapore-based mobile robotics application developer dConstruct Robotics ...
Feb 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Novel medicines poised to be Korea’s next mainstay export
South Korea, a major global generic and biosimilar medicine producer with leading names such as Samsung Biologics Co. and Celltrion Inc., has rapidl...
Feb 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai, Kia to join global small EV war with new models
Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s top automaker, will aim at the world’s affordable small electric vehicle segments with new models as ...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Yanolja becomes Korea's first company to join UAE's Global Unicorn Center
South Korea's Yanolja Co. a leisure booking platform company, announced on Thursday that it has become the first Korean company to join the Global U...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung maintains No.1 position in global TV market
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. maintained its No. 1 position in the global TV market in 2022, accounting for nearly 30% of TV sales, ac...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT’s global digital push deepens with Singtel partnership
KT Corp. has joined hands with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) to export its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, as wel...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
SK Chemicals joins global initiative to cut carbon emissions
South Korea's SK Chemicals said on Monday that it has joined a global initiative that aims to set science-based targets for reducing greenhouse gas ...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Culture & Trends
Korea's Musicow to lead fractional IP ownership globally
Musicow Inc., South Korea’s first music copyright trading platform, is set to gain momentum as fractional ownership in copyright claims has be...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Electronics unveils new OLED TV at Frieze LA
LG Electronics Inc. said on Sunday that it would launch its 2023 model LG OLED Evo TV globally next month, after showcasing it at Frieze LA, one of ...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Electronics expedites global B2B push with signage displays
LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s electronics giant, is betting big on digital signage displays as part of its global B2B push to offset weak...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung leader eyes memory chip packaging investment
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, may accelerate investment in leading-edge technologies including chip packaging...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
DeepBrain AI joins CB Insights' Global 250 Generative AI Startups list
DeepBrain AI, a South Korean AI startup, said on Friday it made the list of "Global 250 Generative AI Startups" by CB Insights, a New York-based mar...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
AI medical software company Lunit to open subsidiary in Europe
South Korea's Lunit, an artificial intelligence (AI) medical software company, on Friday said its board meeting held on the previous day decided to ...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea to lure global talent with high pay for space agency
South Korea is set to attract global talent with high salaries for a planned government space agency as the country aims to boost long-term growth i...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LG Energy Solution joins global climate disclosure initiative
South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. said on Wednesday that it has become the first domestic battery maker to endorse the Task Force o...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea's extended reality sector forms industry convergence alliance
The Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a convergence alliance of the domestic exte...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
AMCHAM head James Kim joins Hyundai Mobis as outside director
James Kim, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea (AMCHAM), is joining South Korea’s largest auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co....
Feb 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
S.Korean shipbuilders rule world’s eco-friendly vessel market
South Korea’s shipbuilders have won more than half of the orders to build eco-friendly vessels so this year based on advanced technology to do...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
Bespin Global, STEG partner to develop cloud management platform
South Korea's two IT firms, Bespin Global and STEG, have teamed up to jointly develop a cloud operation management platform. Bespin Global said on T...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy Solution tops global EV battery market excluding China
South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. for the second straight year was No. 1 on the global market for electric vehicle (EV) batteries excluding Chin...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung, SK Hynix: key beneficiaries of ChatGPT fever
Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, stand to benefit from the global popularity of ChatGPT. ...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
S.Korean LPG importers' profits surge on replacement demand
South Korea’s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) importers such as E1 Corp. and SK Gas Ltd. saw their operating profit skyrocket in 2022, as a surg...
Feb 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
Hancom goes global with SDK, SaaS products
South Korea’s homegrown office suite developer Hancom Inc. will seek to boost its brand awareness in the global B2B software market with softw...
Feb 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung to supply advanced 5G network equipment to KDDI
South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has been chosen as the supplier of advanced fifth-generation network equipment to Japan&rsquo...
Feb 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT DS secures global standard certification for Smart-X
KT DS, an IT service arm of South Korea's KT Group, said on Thursday that its Internet-of-Things (IoT) solution Smart-X has passed the oneM2M certif...
Feb 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Binance acquires majority stake in S.Korea's crypto exchange Gopax
Binance, the leading cryptocurrency exchange globally, has acquired a majority stake in South Korea's Gopax by purchasing CEO Lee Joon-haeng's 41.2%...
Feb 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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