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Economy
Korea Inc. revises business plans as rising oil prices hit economy
South Korean companies are revising their business plans for this year as soaring oil prices slam Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Inflation is ...
Feb 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
South Korea's working young teeter on brink of debt disaster
As the liquidity party is coming to an end, rising interest rates and falling asset values are highlighting concerns about household debt taken on b...
Feb 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
Korea petchem shares shine on China hopes, valuations
South Korean petrochemical companies’ stocks rose as investors bought them at a bargain on expectations for Chinese demand recovery despite ri...
Feb 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
LG recruits former WH deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin for govt relations
LG Corp. announced on Sunday that the group has recruited former White House deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin for its Washington D.C. office. Ha...
Feb 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, LG dominate global TV market with premium models
South Korea’s two home appliances giants – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. – dominated the global TV markets last ...
Feb 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pharmaceuticals
Samsung Bioepis posts $1.26 billion in global biosimilar sales
Samsung Bioepis Co., a biopharmaceutical unit of Samsung Group, said on Friday that sales of its five biosimilar products in global markets, excludi...
Feb 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung SDS joins hands with Amazon for global cloud business
Samsung SDS Co., South Korea’s information technology service company, is set to expand its global cloud service business in cooperation with ...
Feb 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
With Samsung’s new Bespoke lineup, it’s home made perfect
Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled a new lineup of its flagship Bespoke home appliances, including a newly introduced premium line of Besp...
Feb 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea’s record liquidity growth raises inflation, asset prices
South Korea’s money supply increased at the fastest pace in history last year, exceeding liquidity growth in the eurozone, which accelerated i...
Feb 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
APG urges Samsung, other Korean carbon emitters to take action
Europe’s largest pension fund manager APG has urged Samsung Electronics Co. and nine other major South Korean companies to drastically cut the...
Feb 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Game stocks plunge in S. Korea, US
Game shares in South Korea and the United States have plunged, hit by worse-than-expected earnings. Online game developers in Korea have also b...
Feb 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Battery materials
Korea’s Solus supplies battery copper foil to Tesla
South Korea’s Solus Advanced Materials started supplying battery copper foil to Tesla Inc. in January, becoming the country’s first batt...
Feb 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S. Korea to track engineers' travel to control tech leaks
South Korea will create a roster of engineers in its core business sectors to monitor their travel in and out of the country. The decision aims to...
Feb 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Korea battery makers at risk from reliance on China materials
South Korea’s secondary battery makers face a risk from heavy reliance on Chinese raw materials, while the industry has sought measures to ens...
Feb 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Online platforms emerge as new battlefield for auto sales in Korea
Visiting a car dealer’s stylish showroom to touch, feel and sometimes test drive a car before purchase has for decades been a rite of passage ...
Feb 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
KT to join MBK, IMM in Megazone Cloud's $400 mn funding
KT Corp., South Korea's No. 2 telecom operator, has decided to invest 130 billion won ($110 million) in Megazone Cloud Corp., the country's largest ...
Feb 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung countersues ex-patent chief over IP disputes
Samsung Electronics Co. filed a lawsuit against its former patent chief on Sunday, in response to the ex-vice president's claim that the tech giant ...
Feb 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
Korea’s YNCC shuts petrochem plant after explosion kills four
YEOSU, South Jeolla Province -- Yeochun NCC (YNCC) Co., South Korea’s major petrochemical producer, shut down one of its plants on Friday afte...
Feb 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung regains top spot in SE Asia smartphone market
Samsung Electronics Co. outpaced Chinese rival Oppo last year to regain the top spot in the smartphone market in four major Southeast Asian countrie...
Feb 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
Samsung hires ex-US Amb. Lippert as PR chief for N.American business
WASHINGTON D.C. – Samsung Electronics Co. has hired Mark Lippert, former US ambassador to South Korea, as an executive in charge of corporate ...
Feb 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s 2021 current account surplus misses BOK forecast
South Korea’s current account surplus last year missed the central bank’s forecast as higher raw materials prices boosted imports of Asi...
Feb 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Korea corporate borrowing costs jump to 8-year peaks
South Korean companies suffered from surging financing costs as corporate bond yields shot to eight-year highs. Affiliates of major conglomerates wi...
Feb 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra: Setting new smartphone standard
Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday announced new additions to its Galaxy S series models as the world’s top smartphone maker by volume faces...
Feb 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Singapore approves Korean Air-Asiana combination
Singapore’s antitrust authority approved the integration of Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc., paving the way for South Korea&rsqu...
Feb 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
Samsung Eng. enters Russia with €1 bn petchem plant deal
South Korea’s Samsung Engineering made inroads into Russia’s plant engineering and construction market with a 1 billion euro ($1.1 billi...
Feb 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Treasury bonds
Korea bond yields near four-year highs on extra budget
South Korea’s government bond yields jumped to their highs in almost four years as lawmakers sought to raise a supplementary budget to up to $...
Feb 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea’s reopening stocks shine despite surging Omicron cases
South Korea’s reopening stocks rallied even as the local COVID-19 cases hit record-highs with the spread of the Omicron variant. Investors rai...
Feb 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Construction Workers taps former Credit Union head as new CIO
Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) has named Lee Seong-yeong as its new chief investment officer and is in the final stage of the no...
Feb 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Industrial devices
Korea’s Point Mobile expands supply deal with Amazon to offline units
Point Mobile Co., South Korea’s top enterprise handheld devices maker, expanded a supply deal with Amazon.com Inc. to offline units of the wor...
Feb 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea Post to invest in overseas data centers and warehouses
Korea Post will increase its alternative investment from 13.6 trillion won ($11.3 billion) at the end-2021 to 16.7 trillion won ($13.9 billion) in 2...
Feb 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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