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Webtoons
Piccoma sees record transaction value in Japan on K-webtoons
Piccoma, a Japanese digital comics app, enjoyed its largest-ever transaction value last year in the home of manga, thanks to the growing popularity ...
Jan 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Biopharma M&As: Next big thing for South Korean manufacturers
When Orion Corp., known for its signature snack cake Choco-Pie, announced a $415 million deal to acquire biotech startup LegoChem Biosciences Inc. l...
Jan 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai unveils All-New Kona Electric N Line in Europe
Hyundai Motor Co. unveiled 2024 The all-new KONA Electric N Line in the European market including the UK on Jan. 16., according to the company.&nb...
Jan 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai N Vision 74 wins 2023 Good Design Award
Hyundai Motor Group announced on Thursday that its nine products across Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Corp., and premium brand Genesis have received top ...
Jan 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS picks tech, electronics as its favorite local stocks in 2023
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, picked information tech, electric and electronic s...
Jan 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Semiconductors power Korea’s tech exports to 15-month high
South Korea’s tech products exports rose for a second straight month to a 15-month high in December 2023 as overseas sales of semiconductors e...
Jan 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion Holdings eyes Nasdaq IPO by early 2025: chairman
South Korean biosimilar giant Celltrion Group is planning to debut on the Nasdaq market by early 2025, founder and Chairman Seo Jung-jin said at the...
Jan 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Iljin Electric secures $36 mn order for high-voltage cables in Malaysia
Iljin Electric, the integrated heavy electric device unit of South Korea's Iljin Group, announced on Tuesday that it has recently signed a contract ...
Jan 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Mojave Proving Ground: Backbone of Hyundai, Kia’s success in US
CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. – The Mojave Desert, known by locals as the "high desert," lies some 170 km northeast of Los Angeles, California. In t...
Jan 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korea’s unicorn startups fly high as IPO plans revived
South Korea’s unicorn startups, or venture firms with a corporate value of at least 1 trillion won ($760 million), are poised to return to the...
Jan 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
SK Hynix raises $1.5 bn in foreign bonds amid high demand
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, has raised $1.5 billion in foreign currency bonds, with the debt offering four tim...
Jan 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean innovators at CES 2024
Samsung dubs upcoming Galaxy S24 AI phone as on-device AI race rages on
Employees at Samsung Electronics Co.'s Mobile eXperience (MX) division recently developed a habit of referring to the upcoming Galaxy series of smar...
Jan 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean innovators at CES 2024
LG Display to premiere 480Hz gaming OLED at CES 2024
LG Display Co., the world’s leading organic light-emitting display (OLED) maker in South Korea, will showcase its premium OLED gaming panel se...
Jan 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE lowers order target by 39% in 2024
South Korea’s HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE) announced on Thursday that it has lowered its order target for this y...
Jan 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
DN Solutions seeks IPO at $3 bn enterprise value on Korea’s main bourse
DN Solutions Co., formerly Doosan Machine Tools Co., is seeking an initial public offering on South Korea’s main bourse, aiming to make a Kosp...
Jan 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
IONIQ 5 named Car of the Year 2023 in Singapore
Hyundai Motor Co.'s electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) IONIQ 5 has been selected as the Car of the Year 2023 in Singapore by the nation’s la...
Jan 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Foreign net buying of Samsung Elec at record high in 2023
Foreign investors turned net buyers of Samsung Electronics Co. in 2023, reversing their selling spree of the stock over past three years, as the sem...
Jan 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung, SK Hynix join forces with foreign rivals to win AI chip war
South Korea’s two chip giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. are expected to further deepen ties with rivals and customers from aro...
Dec 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s consumer inflation reaches 3.6% in 2023 on high utilities
South Korea’s consumer prices rose 3.6% this year, driven by the biggest jump in utility bills since 2010 and high inflation in agricultural p...
Dec 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Naver’s resale platform Kream joins Korean unicorns
Kream Corp., the resale platform of South Korean online portal giant Naver Corp., has emerged as the latest Korean unicorn with a valuation exceedin...
Dec 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Kakao Mobility's talks to acquire FreeNow in deadlock
Kakao Mobility Corp.’s ambition to go global has hit a roadbock after its parent group Kakao Corp. rejected its draft bid to buy Germany-based...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korean office, warehouse transactions plunge in Q1-Q3
The South Korean commercial real estate market saw its transaction value during the first three quarters of this year reach 10.9 trillion won ($8.4 ...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
POSCO to foster rare gas business with Zhongtai Cryogenic
POSCO Holdings Inc. will build a highly purified rare gas-producing joint venture in South Korea with Zhongtai Cryogenic Technology Corp. from China...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Taihan Cable to build ultra-high voltage power grid in Germany
South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. won a 600 billion won ($463 million) turnkey project to build a 380 kV ultra-high voltage power transm...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung to release Galaxy Book3 Go 5G laptop
Samsung Electronics Co. will release the Galaxy Book3 Go 5G laptop, which supports 5G networks on Jan. 2. Next year.The device features a 14-inch LC...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor reveals facelift of G80 sedan
Hyundai Motor Co.'s premium brand Genesis released a facelift of its signature large sedan G80 on Tuesday. This car is the revamped third-generatio...
Dec 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Ocean carrier HMM's share price gains put KDB in hot seat
On Nov. 20, HMM Co., South Korea’s No. 1 ocean carrier, issued new 200 million shares after its two largest shareholders -- Korea Development ...
Dec 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
BNP Paribas, HSBC fined $20.4 million in Korea for naked short-selling
South Korea’s financial regulator has slapped a combined 26.52 billion won ($20.4 million) in fines on BNP Paribas SA, its Korean brokerage un...
Dec 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
Peter Thiel-backed D&D Pharmatech gets preliminary nod for IPO
South Korean clinical-stage biotech D&D Pharmatech Inc. has won approval from the Korea Exchange’s preliminary review for listing on the j...
Dec 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
The Hyundai Seoul unveils Louis Vuitton store
The Hyundai Seoul, South Korea's largest department store in Yoido, on December 21 opened a Louis Vuitton women's store, marking a significant addit...
Dec 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)