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Korean SMEs
Home&Shopping partners with K-Market to explore opportunities in Vietnam
Home & Shopping, South Korea's home shopping channel specializing in products of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), announced on Th...
Dec 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung Elec expands 5G network solution supply to NTT Docomo
Samsung Electronics Co. is expanding its presence in Japan’s telecommunications market with a supply of 5G network equipment to NTT Docomo Inc...
Nov 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Sandbox Network pursues corporate restructuring to dig out of red
Sandbox Network, Inc. announced on Sunday that it will go through corporate restructuring and encourage employees to voluntarily resign, hit by cont...
Nov 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Education giant Kyowon to showcase animated film 'Georanger'
South Korea’s education behemoth Kyowon Co. said it will unveil an animated film featuring its own characters, in a move to kickstart its inte...
Nov 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Delivery startup VtoV raises $7.2 million from Series A round
South Korean logistics startup VtoV, the operator of optimized delivery service To-Day, raised 9.5 billion won ($7.2 million) from a Series A round....
Nov 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Oil prices to remain high, petrochem a concern: GS Caltex CEO
GS Caltex Corp. Chief Executive Hur Sae-hong said on Monday he expects global oil prices, which remain elevated due to geopolitical tensions, won&rs...
Oct 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Siltron, UK's IQE to produce high-efficiency wafers for Asian market
South Korean silicon wafer maker SK Siltron Co. has teamed up with UK-based wafer products supplier IQE plc to produce gallium nitride (GaN) epitaxi...
Oct 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
LG Elec., Uplus team up to expand service robot business
South Korea’s home appliance giant LG Electronics Inc. and mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. will join forces to expand their service robot busine...
Sep 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Broadband develops green, efficient network technology
South Korea's internet service provider SK Broadband Co. has developed optical communications technology that simultaneously provides differing degr...
Sep 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Hyundai Motor, KT in $540 million share swap deal for future mobility
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and telecom giant KT Corp. have agreed to expand their future mobility partnership through a 750 billion won...
Sep 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Kakao joins race to become private 5G network provider
Kakao Enterprise Corp. is poised to become a private 5G network provider, for use within the parent company Kakao Corp. and for serving outside clie...
Sep 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Korean teens prefer TikTok over KakaoTalk, says survey
South Korean teens appear to prefer to do their social networking on TikTok over KakaoTalk, as short-form videos surge in popularity worldwide. ...
Aug 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Com2uS announces plans to build real-life-like metaverse platform
South Korea’s Com2uS Studios, the creator of the popular game Summoners War, said on Thursday it will unveil a real-life-like metaverse platfo...
Aug 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion gains sales approval for biosimilar Vegzelma in Europe
Celltrion Healthcare Co., South Korean biopharmaceutical giant Celltrion Inc.'s global marketing affiliate, said on Friday it has obtained the Europ...
Aug 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
South Korea arms exports triple; rises to 8th-largest exporter
South Korea has become the world’s eighth-largest arms exporter, with its exports rising threefold – the fastest pace among the wo...
Jul 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LG Uplus aims to recycle 100% of industrial waste in 3 years
LG Uplus Corp. announced it will recycle 100% of industrial waste from its plants by 2025.The mobile network arm of LG Corp. published a report titl...
Jul 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
South Korea’s merch-producing platforms target influencers
Digital content creators in South Korea – YouTube partners, Tiktok creators and webtoon writers – are no longer relying solely on subscr...
Jul 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Samsung wins multi-billion-dollar camera module deal from Tesla
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., the electronic components unit of Samsung Group, has won a multi-billion-dollar deal to supply camera modules to Tesl...
Jul 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Broadband applies quantum cryptography to Korea network
SK Broadband Co., a South Korean internet service provider, succeeded in using quantum cryptography for the government’s backbone communicatio...
Jun 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver to enter smart building market with 5G, AI robots
South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp. is set to enter the local smart building market with its cloud-based 5G networks and artificia...
Jun 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Naver Webtoon to form JV with Japan’s TBS for original IP
Naver Webtoon Corp., the digital comics and novel platform of South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp., has agreed to set up a joint vent...
May 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion to sell biosimilar products via its own channel in Europe
South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. plans to sell all of its biosimilar products through its own sales channels in Europe to impr...
May 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mobile networks
Samsung wins US 5G equipment order from Dish Network
Samsung Electronics Co. has been chosen to supply 5G network equipment to Dish Network Corp., a US wireless carrier in the middle of building a 5G n...
May 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SK Networks sees $80 mn valuation gain from Kurly
South Korea's grocery delivery app Kurly Inc. has generated a valuation gain of 100 billion won ($80 million) for SK Networks Co., or a triple-digit...
Apr 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Networks on hunt for one billion-dollar M&A target
South Korea's SK Networks Co. is looking for an acquisition worth over 1 trillion won ($816 million) to accelerate its shift away from trading and r...
Apr 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Investors
Healthcare, tech top Korean LPs' favorite PE sectors
Healthcare and technology are the preferred sectors for global private equity investment, a survey of South Korea's major asset owners has shown. Co-i...
Apr 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Investors
Healthcare, tech top Korean LPs' favorite PE sectors
Healthcare and technology are the preferred sectors for global private equity investment, a survey of South Korea's major asset owners has shown. Co-i...
Apr 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Bioscience seeks multi-billion-dollar M&As, eyes gene therapy sector
SK Bioscience Co., the biopharmaceutical unit of South Korea’s SK Group, is seeking multi-billion-dollar mergers and acquisitions to expand it...
Mar 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Rising global TV prices: A boon and risk for Samsung, LG
Global TV prices rose by a third last year and are expected to continue their uptrend this year, which could be a boon for the world’s two lar...
Mar 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
Krafton signs MOU with Solana for blockchain-based games and services
South Korea’s leading game developer Krafton Inc. announced Wednesday it signed a memorandum of understanding with San Francisco-based Solana ...
Mar 23, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)