large-scale battery business unit
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Tech
Korean chipmakers rewrite China business strategy amid US trade ban
South Korean chipmakers and display manufacturers will lose a major client in China when US trade sanctions targeting the technology giant Huawei Tech...
Sep 14, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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LG Chem flies lithium-sulfur battery-loaded aircraft into stratosphere
LG Chem Ltd. has completed a test flight of an unmanned plane in the stratosphere using its lithium-sulfur battery for the first time in South Korea.T...
Sep 14, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Battery
LG Chem flew lithium-sulfur battery-loaded aircraft into the stratosphere.
LG Chem Ltd. has completed a test flight of an unmanned plane at the highest altitude using its lithium-sulfur battery for the first time in South Kor...
Sep 14, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Electronics
Samsung to make Nvidia’s latest gaming chips in stepped-up foundry business
Samsung Electronics Co. will manufacture Nvidia Corp.’s latest gaming chips as the South Korean tech giant aims to expand its presence in the fo...
Sep 02, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Korean battery makers take charge in global EV market outperforming rivals
South Korean battery makers LG Chem Ltd., Samsung SDI Co., and SK Innovation Co. are steaming ahead in the global electric vehicle market pulling in a...
Sep 01, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy storage system
Korean ESS companies ramp up overseas business eyeing 40% revenue hikes
South Korean tech heavyweights Samsung SDI Co. and LG Chem Ltd. are expected to expand their market share as they secure hefty energy storage system (...
Aug 31, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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electric vehicle battery
Korean manufacturers tangled in EV battery feud; Korean court rules in favor of LG Chem
The Seoul Central District Court has upheld the validity of LG Chem Ltd.'s patent infringement case in the US against SK Innovation Co. in its fi...
Aug 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Air
Korean Air seals $835 mn in-flight business sale to private equity firm
Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd. signed a definitive agreement on August 25 to sell its in-flight duty-free and meal service business to South Korea’s ...
Aug 25, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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M&A
CJ Logistics seeks to sell construction business; Credit Suisse named as advisor
CJ Logistics Corp. is seeking to sell its profit-making construction business as part of its parent group’s restructuring scheme.The logistics s...
Aug 20, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Battery
Korea’s leading EV battery makers’ R&D spending hits record $1 bn in H1
South Korea’s three leading electric-vehicle (EV) battery makers are investing heavily in EV research & development projects to gain ground ...
Aug 18, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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foundry industry
Samsung ramps up foundry business as manufacturer of IBM's 7nm CPU
Global electronics giant Samsung Electronics' foundry plant is set to manufacture IBM's POWER10 Processor -- the company's first 7-nanometer...
Aug 18, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicle battery
Korean EV battery makers' shares tumble on Morgan Stanley downgrade
Shares of South Korea’s three leading electric-vehicle (EV) battery makers LG Chem Ltd, SK Innovation Co. and Samsung SDI Co. fell 5% on August ...
Aug 14, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Battery
SK Lubricants up for sale as parent firm bulks up EV battery business
SK Innovation Co. Ltd., the single shareholder of SK Lubricants Co. Ltd., has put the lube base oil supplier up for sale as the parent company seeks n...
Aug 13, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Large-cap stocks lead KOSPI’s rally; more gains seen as laggards play catch-up
South Korea’s large-cap stocks have posted hefty gains in recent trade, driving the liquidity-driven markets higher after robust second-quarter ...
Aug 11, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Foreign insurers’ Korean units likely up for sale on tougher rules, falling profits
Following in the footsteps of Prudential Financial Inc., foreign insurance companies are expected to put their Korean units up for sale to meet tighte...
Aug 11, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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M&A
Hanwha taps into ESS business by acquiring 100% stake in US-based Geli
Hanwha Q CELLS has acquired a 100% stake in the energy software company Growing Energy Labs, Inc (Geli) in a move to step up its energy business in th...
Aug 08, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Korea’s EV battery trio, led by LG Chem, emerge as market’s top picks
South Korea’s three electric-vehicle battery makers have become the local market’s top picks as their combined market capitalization nearl...
Aug 06, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
US insurer Cigna’s Korean unit says no decision yet on its possible sale
LINA Life Insurance Co., wholly owned by the US life insurance group Cigna, said on August 6 that its parent group has not made a decision to sell the...
Aug 06, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPO
Korean game platform seeks $323 mn IPO in non-contact business boom
Kakao Games Corp., a unit of South Korea’s top mobile messaging app operator, is seeking to raise up to 384 billion won ($323 million) from an i...
Aug 05, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Korean logistics centers see high demand from untact businesses amid global pandemic
Logistics center operations in Korea have remained strong amid the global pandemic on account of e-commerce and third-party logistics' ...
Jul 22, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Local activist fund KCGI opposes Korean Air's sale of in-flight businesses
Korea Corporate Governance Improvement (KCGI), a local activist private equity fund, is unhappy with Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd's decision to sell ...
Jul 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Air
Korean Air to sell in-flight business to Hahn & Company for about $840 mn
Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd. has tentatively agreed to sell its in-flight duty free and meal service units to the country's second-largest private equity...
Jul 06, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Air
US hedge fund calls on Korean Air to sell baggage handling unit
A US hedge fund with a stake in Korea Airport Service Co. Ltd. (KAS), a majority owned by Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd., is calling on the carrier to sell...
May 11, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Prudential to sell Korean unit to KB Financial for $1.9 bn
Prudential Financial Inc. has decided to sell its South Korean insurance arm to KB Financial Group for about 2.3 trillion won ($1.9 billion) and will ...
Apr 10, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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M&A
eBay puts South Korean unit up for sale in $4 bn deal
eBay Inc. has decided to sell 100% of its South Korean operations which it valued at about 5 trillion won ($4 billion), the latest in a series of reor...
Mar 04, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
DTCP to scale Korean start-ups into global unicorns
Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges visited SK Telecom in June and discussed ways to collaborate in 5G mobile communication services. The two companies ...
Dec 03, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hanwha Group units underwrite $240 mn debt on US car park operator
Hanwha Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. and two other financial arms of South Korea’s Hanwha Group have underwritten $240 million of a 30-year deb...
Sep 26, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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KKR hires Macquarie Korea’s exec for infrastructure business
KKR & Co. has hired a key investment manager of Macquarie Korea in a new hire of senior staff to expand Asia infrastructure business. Keith Kim, ...
Sep 09, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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KEPCO unit-German fund buys Sweden’s wind project for $300 mn
Korea Midland Power Co. Ltd., a unit of South Korea’s utility giant KEPCO, has acquired a wind power project in Sweden in a consortium with a German p...
Aug 31, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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Keppel Group unit set to net $250 mn from value-add deals in Seoul
Alpha Investment Partners, part of Singapore-based Keppel Capital, is set to secure over $250 million from selling two Seoul office buildings for arou...
Mar 21, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)
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