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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Innotek eyes top spot in FC-BGA substrate market
South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. will boost the production of its flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) packages, or high-density package substrates,...
Jan 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung’s new 5 nm high-performance SSD faster, uses less power
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Thursday it is ready to produce in large quantities PM9C1a, its latest ...
Jan 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung, SK Hynix to benefit from Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPU
The much-awaited launch of Intel Corp.’s latest processors dubbed Sapphire Rapids is a boon for leading memory chipmakers such as Samsung Elec...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Samsung Biologics receives Terra Carta Seal
Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Wednesday it was awarded the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Ter...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
POSCO opens first overseas venture incubating office in Silicon Valley
POSCO Group said on Wednesday that it has opened the first overseas office of ChangeUp Ground in Silicon Valley in the US.ChangeUp Ground is a start...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Korean apparel retailer F&F to produce global K-pop stars
South Korean outdoor clothing retailer F&F Co. made a foray into the entertainment sector to create a synergy of K-content and fashion, competin...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion Healthcare lands biosimilar deal in Brazil for 2nd straight year
South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. on Tuesday said that for the second straight year, it landed an order for infliximab, an antibody used to tre...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK bio families to present visions to global investors at SK Bio Night
SK Inc., the investment company of SK Group, said on Tuesday that it will hold a networking event called "SK Bio Night" in the US along with its bio...
Jan 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
POSCO to enter palm oil refining market in Indonesia
POSCO International Co., a trading arm of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Co., will build a palm oil refining plant in Indonesia to foray into...
Jan 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Korea’s secondhand car market cools amid elevated interest rates
South Korea’s secondhand car market is cooling rapidly as both dealers and buyers are reeling from elevated interest rates, which also bode il...
Jan 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S-1 calls AI video solutions core of this year's AI security market
Access management of facial recognition needs the most improvement this year and artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions such as intelligent cl...
Jan 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Ford in talks with LG Energy for Turkey EV battery plant
Ford Motor Co. is in talks with LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, to build a cell factory in...
Jan 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korean activist fund KCGI buys Meritz Asset Management
A consortium led by Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI), a local activist fund, said on Jan. 9 it signed a share purchase agreement l...
Jan 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
SK Ecoplant joins with PnP to foster eco-friendly global startups
South Korea’s SK Ecoplant Co. will join with global venture capital firm Plug and Play (PnP) to discover and launch global startups in eco-fri...
Jan 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Global VCs urge S.Korea to train lawyers on int'l contracts
Brad McManus, investment director of the Silicon Valley-based venture capital (VC) fund Applied Ventures LLC, said his company will discuss investme...
Jan 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Korea's SK On scraps $3.2 bn Turkey EV battery factory plan
SK On Co., the world’s No. 5 electric vehicle battery maker, dropped a plan to build a 4 trillion won ($3.2 billion) plant in Turkey as higher...
Jan 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Innovators at CES 2023
Samsung, Harman unveil in-vehicle driver alert system
When a driver feels drowsy and his eyelids start slipping, a red light flickers on his dashboard with a warning sound.That’s the key feature o...
Jan 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung’s Q4 profit tumbles; cuts 2023 chip profit forecast by half
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, posted its worst quarterly operating profit in eight years on F...
Jan 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. kept their fifth place in sales in the US market for the second consecutive year. Despite production setbacks due to...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Privatization of Korea’s top container line HMM to gain traction
South Korea’s move to privatize container shipping line HMM Co. to recover taxpayer money is gaining traction as government officials start lo...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai's Nexo keeps 1st place in hydrogen car market beating Toyota
Hyundai Motor Co.'s hydrogen fuel cell car model Nexo far surpassed Toyota in the world's market share. According to SNE Research, a market research...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
S.Korea's automotive unit Kolon Mobility Group reborn as separate entity
South Korea's Kolon Mobility Group has been launched with Lee Kyu-ho, the great grandson of the Kolon Group founder Lee Won-man, as co-CEO. Formerly...
Jan 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
S.Korea’s IPO market sours as Kurly postpones listing
South Korea’s initial public offering market has soured as gourmet food delivery platform Kurly Inc. delayed its listing amid deteriorating in...
Jan 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Novarex, Riman sign agreement to jointly develop health-functional food
South Korea's health functional foods company Novarex and cosmetics company Riiman Korea met to promote the health-functional foods business togethe...
Jan 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Korea's coffee brand Ediya to open 1st overseas branch in Guam
Ediya Coffee, South Korea's home-grown low-priced coffee brand, will open a branch in Guam in the first half of this year to seek growth through exp...
Jan 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia aim to outpace industry growth in 2023
The Hyundai Motor Group is aiming to boost sales by 10% this year from 2022, above an estimated single-digit growth in the global automotive market....
Jan 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Sejong kicks off private 5G business for exclusive use for industrial safety
Sejong Telecom, Inc. a mid-sized facilities-based telecommunications business and ICT platform company in South Korea, will launch a private 5G bu...
Jan 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
HLB confirms ophthalmic disease treatment in phase 3 clinical trials
South Korea’s biomedicine startup HLB Therapeutics Co. said on Monday that its Neurotrophic Keratopathy (NK) treatment RGN-259 proved effectiv...
Jan 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus succeeds in linking open RAN standard equipment
LG Uplus Corp. said on Tuesday that it has succeeded in linking open distributed unit (O-DU) and open RAN (radio access network) radio unit (O-RU) b...
Jan 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
KT, E-mart warm up S.Korea's corporate bond market
South Korea's KT Corp. and E-mart Inc. are the frontrunners in the new year's corporate bond demand forecasts, attracting attention on if they can b...
Jan 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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