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Steel
POSCO partially restarts Pohang furnaces flooded by typhoon
POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s largest steelmaker, has partially restarted its blast furnaces at its main plant in ...
Sep 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Typhoon Hinnamnor shuts all POSCO furnaces for 1st time in 49 years
POHANG, North Gyeongsang Province – POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s steel giant, said on Wednesday it has shut...
Sep 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, LG present home appliances future at IFA 2022
BERLIN -- South Korea’s leading home appliances makers Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are showcasing the future of consumer t...
Sep 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Tikehau Capital Korea wins GP license to boost Asian operations
Tikehau Capital, a Paris-headquartered global alternative asset management group, is working hard to expand growth and its operating capacity in Asi...
Sep 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Crypto exchange Binance to work with Busan on blockchain
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, announced on Friday it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) ...
Aug 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO builds EV battery recycling plant in Poland
South Korea’s POSCO Holdings has built a rechargeable battery recycling plant in Poland, in line with Europe’s tougher regulations on ba...
Aug 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
Samsung SDS to collaborate with NIST in post-quantum cryptography
Samsung SDS Co. announced on Thursday it will participate in the Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) project hosted by the National Cyberse...
Aug 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korean bio firms look to pills, patches for people who fear needles
Getting shots of a drug or vaccine over a long period is not easy for many people.That's probably why global biopharmaceutical companies and biotech...
Aug 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Tesla sweeps local EV subsidies as Korean firms at disadvantage in US
Tesla Inc. and other US electric vehicle makers are enjoying strong sales in South Korea thanks to government subsidies while the revised US EV tax ...
Aug 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Lotte Chem swings to red in Q2, hard hit by Malaysian unit's loss
South Korea’s major petrochemical producer Lotte Chemical Corp. faced an earnings shock in the second quarter of 2022, hard hit by the perform...
Aug 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO gains huge dividend from Roy Hill mine in H1
When South Korea’s leading steelmaker POSCO Group acquired a 12.5% stake in Australia’s Roy Hill mine for 1.52 trillion won ($1.2 billio...
Aug 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Remote work, small offices revive S.Korea's printer market
South Korea’s printer market has been recovering from a long slump as the rise of remote work and small or home offices has revived demand for...
Aug 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
KIC appoints Lee Hoon as CIO and Jung Ho-seok as CRO
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) said on Wednesday it has promoted Lee Hoon, its former head of investment strategy and innovation division, to th...
Aug 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
POSCO Int'l to absorb energy unit to move up E&P value chain
POSCO International Corp., the trading unit of Korean steel giant POSCO, will merge with its unlisted affiliate POSCO Energy Co. to reinforce its en...
Aug 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Arts
Exhibition: Samsung heir’s donation of Lee Jung-seob works
The late Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-hee was an avid arts collector.Though the business magnate did not mention names, it was easy to guess who h...
Aug 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
South Korea’s top general trading giants embrace rising raw materials costs
Back in the 1970s and 80s, general trading companies were the vanguards of South Korea’s exports. Daewoo International Corp., LG Internat...
Aug 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Chemical wins $10.6 billion cathode order from General Motors
POSCO Chemical Co. announced Thursday that it won 13.8 trillion won ($10.6 billion) worth of cathode orders from General Motors. The company, w...
Jul 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO, Krakatau to expand Indonesia steel mill for $3.5 bn
South Korea’s POSCO Group and Indonesia’s state-run Krakatau Steel plan to jointly invest $3.5 billion in building a blast furnace and a...
Jul 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
South Korea arms exports triple; rises to 8th-largest exporter
South Korea has become the world’s eighth-largest arms exporter, with its exports rising threefold – the fastest pace among the wo...
Jul 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Five startups join the ranks of unicorns in the first half of this year
Five South Korean startups joined the ranks of unicorns in the first half of 2022, the largest such figure for six months. With that, the total...
Jul 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
POSCO Holdings Q2 profit down on higher raw material costs
POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s steel giant, reported a lower profit in the second quarter on rising raw material pr...
Jul 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
POSCO Int'l tipped to merge with affiliated LNG terminal firm
POSCO International Co., a South Korean trading company, has embarked on a merger with its affiliate POSCO Energy Co. as their parent group is seeki...
Jul 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
DigitalBridge names Korean Tae Ahn as Asia capital formation head
DigitalBridge Group Inc., a US digital infrastructure investment firm, announced on July 19 it has appointed South Korean Tae E. Ahn as managing d...
Jul 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
LS Group to bolster batteries, EVs and chipmaking, chairman says
South Korean conglomerate LS Group is seeking business opportunities in the materials and parts sectors led by the fast-growing battery, electric ve...
Jul 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SKC breaks ground on Europe’s largest copper foil plant in Poland
SKC Ltd., the chemical materials unit of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, said on Friday it has begun construction of a 900 billion ...
Jul 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
POSCO, LS Electric to build EV parts plants in Mexico
South Korea's POSCO International Co. broke ground on an electric vehicle parts plant in northern Mexico on July 6, while LS Electric Co. signed a t...
Jul 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO sees battery materials sales double by 2030
South Korea’s POSCO Holdings Inc. expects sales of its rechargeable battery materials to more than double to 41 trillion won ($31 billion) by ...
Jul 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Chemical, Britishvolt sign initial deal for battery materials
POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korea’s top steel maker, and UK electric vehicle startup Britishvolt Ltd. have signed an initial agreement...
Jun 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
POSCO, Hancock to expand partnership beyond iron ore
South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Group plans to expand its partnership with Australian mining group Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd. into other typ...
Jun 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
POSCO to treble natural gas production in Australia by 2025
South Korea’s POSCO International Co. plans to more than treble the natural gas production from the two gas fields of its newly-acquired Austr...
Jun 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)