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Batteries
Samsung SDI mulls EV battery JV in US; partnership with global automaker
Samsung SDI Co., one of South Korea’s top three electric vehicle battery makers, is considering launching a battery production joint venture i...
Jun 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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COVID-19 vaccines
Samsung Bio plans to manufacture mRNA drug substance from 2022
Samsung Biologics will be entering the drug substance segment of the COVID-19 vaccine contract manufacturing business. According to industry sources...
May 31, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Korea’s OCI to return to highest profit in decade on rising polysilicon prices
OCI Co., a South Korean chemical and green energy company, has been in the red for years, weighed by weak prices of its mainstay product polysilicon...
May 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Samsung, Bayer join $90 mn investment in AI healthcare app Ada Health
Samsung Electronics Co. and Germany’s pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG have made a joint investment in the Berlin-based artificial intelligence (...
May 28, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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COVID-19
Samsung Biologics to make Moderna’s mRNA vaccine from Q3
Samsung Biologics Co. will be manufacturing the US company Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273) from the second half of this year in Korea. ...
May 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha, KAIST to co-launch space research center
Hanwha Group will launch space technology research and commercial projects together with South Korea’s top science and engineering university,...
May 17, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO agrees on joint graphene cluster development
The steelmaker POSCO will lead in the creation of a graphene industry cluster in the city of Pohang, about 300km southeast of Seoul, where the compa...
Mar 31, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio business
Lotte advances into bio business, to acquire stake in Enzychem
South Korea’s Lotte Group is entering the bio business for the first time in its history by acquiring a significant stake in Enzychem Lifescie...
Mar 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Korean PE firm to reap hefty returns from US bio investment
Medivate Partners, South Korea’s life science-focused private equity firm, is set to secure more than 2.5 times its investment of around 60 bi...
Feb 18, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture Capital
KB Investment, RM Global to form $100 mn bio VC fund
KB Investment Co. will join forces with US-based RM Global Partners to launch a $100 million life science fund to invest in early stage startups in ...
Dec 09, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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In vitro diagnostics
Samsung hands over diagnostics business to local bio firm
Samsung Electronics Co. has agreed to hand over the business rights for its in vitro diagnostics (IVD) unit to a South Korean bio company as part ...
Dec 07, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG launches AI research think tank for digital transformation
LG Electronics Inc. has launched LG AI Research, an artificial intelligence think tank dedicated to securing AI technology, to further aid the gro...
Dec 07, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Biomaterials
LG Chem, Neste join forces to make bio-based synthetic resins
LG Chem Ltd. plans to produce synthetic resins such as polyolefin, polycarbonate and polyvinyl chloride, using biomaterials from Finland's diesel prod...
Nov 05, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio
Samsung aims to be No. 1 bio contract development, research firm
Samsung Biologics Co. has become the world’s No. 1 contract manufacturing organization (CMO) this year and aims to also lead both the contract d...
Oct 30, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Biotech stocks
Once high-flying bio stock hit by financial scandal
Helixmith Co., once No.2 stock on the junior Kosdaq market, has lost 40% in the past week following its disclosure of $233 million investment in high-...
Oct 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio
Celltrion group tipped to exceed 1 trillion won in profit; first among bio firms
South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. and its affiliates are expected to post robust operating profits this year on the back of strong sales of Remsima a...
Sep 15, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor, LG to unveil jointly developed future car interior concept next month
Hyundai Motor Co. and LG Electronics Inc. have jointly developed the interior concept of a future car, further consolidating their cooperation in self...
Aug 03, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Korean investors jointly set up a $770 million SPC to invest in KKR funds
Local institutional investors have injected $500 million (600 billion won) into a special purpose company to invest in diverse funds managed by privat...
Jul 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
KIC forms $400 mn joint venture with NongHyup for private equity co-investment
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has announced a $400 million joint venture with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to...
Jul 13, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth fund
KIC to form alternatives joint fund with Korea’s NongHyup
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is preparing to launch a joint fund with NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, to invest i...
Jul 02, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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M&A
NH Investment, Nuveen jointly buy Amazon warehouse in Japan
NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. has taken a 50.1% stake in an Amazon distribution center in Japan for around 150 billion won ($130 million) in...
Jan 10, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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POBA to form $750 mn joint property fund with Danish pension fund
The Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) will launch a joint fund worth about 900 billion won ($753 million) with a Danish pension fund to inve...
Sep 19, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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KKR to buy stake in Shinhan Fin; to raise joint funds of up to $4.4 bn
KKR & Co., a private equity giant, has reached a preliminary agreement to buy a minority stake in South Korea’s No.2 banking group Shinhan Financi...
Oct 15, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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Radio wave research head picked as Korea Post’s savings unit CIO
A career bureaucrat and former administrator of South Korea’s National Radio Research Agency was appointed as chief investment officer of Korea Post’s...
Jul 20, 2018 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea Post buys $600 mn US building jointly with California pension fund
Korea Post has signed a 680 billion won ($602 million) agreement to buy a Silicon Valley office campus used by a leading cybersecurity company in join...
Sep 25, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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CCIM to Hold International Conference Jointly with KED Real Estate Research Institutes
The Certified Commercial Investment Member, an American association of international real estate investment analysts, will jointly host the Asia Real ...
Jul 18, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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HI Investment sets up leasing firm to buy Boeing aircraft jointly for $209 mn
HI Investment & Securities Co. Ltd., an affiliate of South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., has established an offshore aircr...
Mar 24, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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KTB Asset jointly acquires $68.5 mn debt of NY building from Blackstone
South Korea’s KTB Asset Management Co. Ltd. and two other domestic institutions have invested about $68.5 million in mezzanine debt secured by a Manha...
Feb 05, 2017 (Gmt+09:00)
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KIC, Teachers’ Pension to invest in US warehouse fund, first since joint work agreement
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) and the Teachers’ Pension will invest in a U.S. warehouse portfolio fund for an undisclosed sum, in their first joi...
Nov 09, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)
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NPS confirmed to join €3.2 bn joint lawsuit against Volkswagen
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension scheme, has joined the California pension fund CalPERS and other insti...
Sep 30, 2016 (Gmt+09:00)