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Korean games
Nexon releases Dungeon & Fighter Mobile in China
South Korea’s online game developer Nexon Korea Corp. on Tuesday officially launched the action role-playing game (RPG) Dungeon & Fighter ...
May 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
HL Holdings wins exclusive AS parts deal from Stellantis
HL Holdings Corp., the holding company of South Korea’s construction-to-auto parts conglomerate HL Group, will be the exclusive supplier of af...
May 22, 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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Energy
Doosan Enerbility wins deal for fuel conversion project in Chile
South Korea's major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. announced on Tuesday that it has won a contract for a fuel conversion project at a t...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea Inc. nearly triples dividend payments in decade
Cash dividend payments by companies listed on the Korea Exchange, the country's main bourse, have nearly tripled in a decade. They have returned a l...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS to spur buyout, VC in US tech sector: chairman
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, will speed up its private equity (PE) investments ...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Doosan Robotics opens Europe office in Germany
South Korea's Doosan Robotics Inc. announced on Monday that it opened the Doosan Robotics Europe office in Düsseldorf, Germany.The Doosan Robot...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Short selling
Korea may partially lift short-selling ban from June: regulator
NEW YORK -- South Korea may partially lift a ban on short selling in the domestic stock market from as early as June, before removing the blanket ba...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
S.Korea's monthly ramen export surpasses $100 mn
The monthly export value of South Korea's ramen exceeded $100 million for the first time. According to the Korea Customs Service's trade statistics...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fiber & Textile
Taekwang Industrial begins modacrylic wig yarn exports
South Korea's Taekwang Industrial Co. announced on Monday that it started to export its modacrylic, a high-quality wig material yarn.Modacrylic is a...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
SK seeks to sell 13.3% stake in Chinese food firm Joyvio
SK Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s second-largest business group SK, is in talks with Joyvio Group to sell its entire 13.3% stake i...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Korea scraps ban on online purchase of 80 items from abroad
South Korea has scrapped a plan to ban direct purchases of some 80 items from overseas e-commerce platforms, a government office said on Sunday, aft...
May 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Investors dump Korean biotech HLB stocks on FDA rejection
HLB Co. and its affiliate stocks tumbled on Friday on news that the South Korean biotech group’s highly anticipated new cancer treatment Rivoc...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korean landfill companies put on market after Affirma deal
South Korea’s landfill companies are increasingly being put up for sale, drawing interest from private equity firms and environmental companie...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
South Korean startups' Tokyo fever sizzles
Despite the recent Line-Yahoo cacophony, South Korean entrepreneurs are continuing their advance into Japan to find the next big market.On Thursday,...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
EuBiologics gets WHO certification for cholera vaccine facility
South Korea's EuBiologics Co. announced on Friday that the vaccine bulk production facility at its Chuncheon Plant No. 2 for the oral cholera vacc...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Korean beauty brands show signs of turnaround in China
South Korean cosmetics brands are showing signs of a turnaround in China, with their sales in the neighboring country recovering from the slump over...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Tata, Korea's Woori to expand car financing services in Asia
Woori Financial Group Inc., the fourth-largest financial holding group in South Korea, and India’s top commercial vehicle maker Tata Motors Lt...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Strong exports power S.Korea’s manufacturing job growth
South Korea’s job increases rebounded in April with growth in the manufacturing sector at a 17-month high on strong exports amid the semicondu...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea Eximbank provides $120 mn credit to Cambodia
The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) said on Friday that it signed an agreement with the Ministry of Finance of Cambodia to provide a foreign ...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
South Korea to ban Chinese online products without KC certification
South Korea will ban products purchased online through overseas shopping platforms but without the KC certification amid growing concerns about prod...
May 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
SeAH to invest $155.3 mn to build special alloy plant in US
SeAH Group, South Korea’s major steel group said to be a steel supplier to SpaceX, is set to foray deeper into the US, the world’s bigge...
May 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
KCCI to support Korean companies expanding into US
The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) partnered with the Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles (KACCLA) to address th...
May 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Korea’s LX Pantos, China’s Sinotrans agree to launch logistics JV
LX Pantos Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s LX Group, said on Thursday it will launch a multimodal transport joint venture with Sinotra...
May 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Korea’s Eduwill suffers credit-rating cuts, capital erosion
Eduwill Corp., South Korea’s leading provider of online and offline test prep courses for adults, has taken a hit from a series of credit-rati...
May 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
SK Signet to supply EV chargers to Gilbarco
SK Signet Inc., South Korea's electric vehicle (EV) charger manufacturer, announced on Thursday that it partnered with Gilbarco Veeder-Root, the wor...
May 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
HL Mando, Kakao Mobility to develop autonomous parking robots
HL Mando Corp., an electric vehicle and self-driving system developing unit of South Korea's HL Group, announced on Thursday that it signed a busine...
May 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private debt
M&A rebound will drive private credit volume increase: Golub Capital
As the Federal Reserve signaled delays in rate cuts after meeting earlier this month, more investors have adopted for a wait-and-see attitude. Those...
May 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Record $259 bn yet to find investment targets in South Korea
South Koreans parked a record 350 trillion won ($259 billion) in cash-equivalents such as money market funds (MMFs) as they failed to find investmen...
May 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung Galaxy 5G phone tops ACSI in US
Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy smartphone caught Apple in the cell phone manufacturer lead, taking the top spot among 5G phones, according to The ...
May 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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