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Leadership & Management
MBK, Young Poong seek $1.5 bn hostile bid for Korea Zinc
MBK Partners Ltd., the North Asia-focused private equity firm, is set to take over Korea Zinc Inc. through an up to 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) ho...
4 HOURS AGO
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Retail
E-Mart, CJ CheilJedang to beef up strategic partnership
CJ CheilJedang Corp., South Korea’s largest food company, said on Wednesday it will increase the number of food products exclusively launched ...
Sep 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
MBK Partners’ sale of Homeplus Express hits snag over valuation gap
MBK Partners’ planned sale of Homeplus Express, the supermarket chain of South Korean hypermarket operator Homeplus, has hit a snag as potenti...
Aug 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
NCSOFT to seek recovery momentum with open-world game
South Korea’s gaming giant NCSOFT Corp. is set to develop an open-world massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) while launchin...
Aug 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Yanolja's Nasdaq IPO plan hit by Qoo10's liquidity turmoil
Yanolja Co., South Korea’s leading travel and accommodation booking platform operator, may delay its Nasdaq initial public offering plan due t...
Aug 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Hanwha’s Kim Dong-seon to raise his stake in Galleria to 19.86%
Kim Dong-seon, vice president of South Korea’s Hanwha Galleria Corp. and the third son of Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-yeon, plans to buy a...
Aug 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s household debt hits record high on mortage loans
South Korea’s household debt hit a record high in the second quarter as the domestic housing market started to recover and more consumers rush...
Aug 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung's AI home appliances hit 1.5 mn units sold
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Thursday that its cumulative sales of AI-integrated home appliances have surpassed 1.5 million units as of July this...
Aug 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Tucson HEV posts record US sales as hybrids catch on
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. saw sales of the hybrid version of its flagship Tucson SUV hit an all-time monthly high in July in the US, the...
Aug 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
S-Oil halts fire-hit paraxylene plant, faces revenue loss
ULSAN, South Korea -- It looks inevitable that S-Oil Corp., the South Korean unit of Saudi Arabian Oil Co., will take a substantial revenue hit from...
Jul 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Seoul prime office deals at 10-year low on rate uncertainty
Prime office transactions in Seoul hit a 10-year low in the second quarter due to delayed fundraising amid uncertainties of the central bank’s...
Jul 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Financial's quarterly profit hits record on interest margin growth
South Korea’s largest financial holding group KB Financial Group Inc. has logged its record quarterly profit in the April-June period, thanks ...
Jul 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Genesis GV80 global sales hit record high in Jan-June 2024
The sport utility vehicle GV80 under Hyundai Motor Co.'s premium Genesis brand recorded its highest half-year sales in the first half of this year, ...
Jul 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Foreign net buying of S.Korean stocks hits all-time high
Offshore investors net purchased nearly 23 trillion won ($16.7 billion) worth of South Korea-listed stocks in the first half of this year. The buyin...
Jul 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korean won hits 15-year low in Q2 amid FX, economic uncertainty
The South Korean currency fell to its lowest level against the US dollar in 15 years in the second quarter amid growing uncertainties surrounding gl...
Jul 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor car sales hit record in India for 1st half
Hyundai Motor Co. delivered its record-high number of cars in India during the first six months of this year but lost share in the fiercely competit...
Jul 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Samsung SDI to ink $726 mn ESS deal with NextEra Energy
Samsung SDI Co., the world’s sixth-largest electric vehicle cell maker, is set to provide batteries for energy storage systems (ESS) to NextEr...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea’s consumer goods exports to top $100 bn in 2024: KOTRA
South Korea is projected to reap more than $100 billion from selling the country’s consumer goods overseas this year. Exports of such products...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Korea's bet on US assets up on bull stocks, EV incentives
South Korea’s financial assets in the US hit a record high last year due to the US stock market rally and Korean companies’ capital inje...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Netmarble's new RPG 'Solo Leveling' logs $70 mn sales in 1st month
South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp. is enjoying growing sales of its new action role-playing game (RPG) “Solo Leveling: Arise,” ...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
North Korea Sent Excrement Balloons. South Korea’s Response: Blasting BTS Hits.
SEOUL—After enduring days of balloon bombardment from the Kim Jong Un regime, South Korea countered with an airwaves assault of it...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Kia EV9 poised to hit 50,000 unit mark in a year on strong exports
Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, is poised to sell 50,000 units of its flagship all-electric sport utility vehicle EV9 within one yea...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Tencent-backed Shift Up seeks June IPO at $2.6 bn value
South Korean gaming firm Shift Up Corp. is eyeing an initial public offering on the main Kospi in June, with an enterprise value of 3.48 trillion wo...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korea’s Shinsegae building unit to raise $478 mn to cut debts
South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group’s building unit, suffering amid difficulties in the local real estate project financing sector, is s...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hanwha Q Cells eyes solar power business diversification
Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar power unit of South Korean chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group, is striving for revenue stream diversificatio...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Netmarble leverages existing IPs, M&As to keep growth
Expectations are growing high that Netmarble Corp., South Korea’s second-largest game developer and publisher, will extend its growth streak t...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Kia premieres EV3 to boost global electrification push
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, on Thursday premiered the EV3, its low-cost electric sport utility vehicle (SUV), to reboot...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Korea’s Mobase to build US plant as it wins $733 mn Hyundai deal
SUWON, Gyeonggi Province -- Mobase Electronics Co., a South Korean automotive electronics parts maker, is planning to establish a plant in the US as...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung’s new AI PC to hit global market in mid-June
Samsung Electronics Co. will start offering the Galaxy Book4 Edge, a new addition to its latest flagship Galaxy Book4 laptop series and powered by b...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
NewJeans' Ditto hits 600 mn streams on Spotify
Ditto by K-pop girl group NewJeans has surpassed 600 million streams on Spotify.Spotify, the world's largest music streaming platform, announced on ...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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