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Infrastructure
Australia’s renewables speeding toward net zero: Palisade
Australia, among the largest carbon emitters globally, is embarking on a once-in-a-generation shift from heavy dependence on fossil fuels to the ele...
Sep 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung offers guide to greener, smarter life with SmartThings
BERLIN – Concerned about extreme weather and skyrocketing energy bills? “Keep calm” and head to Berlin where Samsung Electronics C...
Sep 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Mirae Asset seeks to buy India’s 9th-largest brokerage Sharekhan
South Korea’s leading asset manager Mirae Asset Financial Group aims to enhance its presence in India by acquiring Sharekhan, the Southeast As...
Aug 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
SK Group commemorates chairman's 25th year since inauguration
SK Group, South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate, will commemorate the 25th anniversary of Chey Tae-won’s inauguration as chairman on Sept. 1....
Aug 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
WEMIX listed on US virtual asset exchange Tapbit
South Korean game publisher WeMade Co. announced on Thursday that its cryptocurrency WEMIX will be listed on the US cryptocurrency exchange Tapbit.&...
Aug 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
DGB Fin to set up asset management firm in Singapore
South Korea’s DGB Financial Group is poised to set up an asset management unit in Singapore, its first overseas fund management arm, according...
Aug 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS likely to give full rights on asset managment to experts
The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, is poised to give investment experts full rights ...
Aug 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Investment banking
Mirae Asset Securities exceeds $3 bn in overseas equity
Mirae Asset Securities Co. said on Tuesday it owns more than 4 trillion won ($3 billion) of equity capital in overseas operations as of June 30 of t...
Aug 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB, Shinhan, Woori improve rankings on Top 1,000 bank list
South Korea’s KB Financial Group, Shinhan Financial Group and Woori Financial Group improved their rankings on the list of the global top 1,00...
Aug 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Citibank Korea’s H1 net profit more than doubles on-year
Global banking giants’ South Korean units saw their first-half earnings led by non-interest income and business expenditures. Citibank Korea&r...
Aug 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Mirae Asset Global Investments buys Australian robo-advisor firm
South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments announced its acquisition of Stockspot, a prominent Australian robo-advisor specialist.In a statement r...
Aug 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
KCGI Asset Management appoints former KIS head as new CMO
South Korea’s KCGI Asset Management, formerly Meritz Asset Management, announced on Friday that it has hired Cho Won-bok, former division head...
Aug 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
S.Korea's Hanon Systems hits 'home run' with heat pump for EVs
Hanon Systems, a leading South Korean maker of automotive thermal management systems, posted surprising results in the second quarter in blowing awa...
Aug 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Advanced memory is strategic asset for Korea’s chip supremacy: Hwang
South Korea, home to the world’s two largest memory chipmakers – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. – has been the dominant...
Aug 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Morgan Stanley subsidiary takes 5% stake in JYP Entertainment stock
A Morgan Stanley-affiliated asset manager has bought more JYP Entertainment shares, raising its stake to more than 5 percent.Asset management firm M...
Aug 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LG Electronics reduces 220,000 tons of CO2 emissions in 2022
LG Electronics Inc. reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 220,000 tons compared to the previous year at both domestic and overseas facilities. The...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Macquarie seeks to sell off Korea’s tank terminal operator
Macquarie Korea Asset Management seeks to sell off a Korea tank terminal operator six years after the acquisition, at around 400 billion won ($314.8...
Jul 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Financial logs record profit in Q2, above consensus estimates
South Korea’s second-largest financial institution KB Financial Group Inc. achieved record-high quarterly net profit in the April-June period ...
Jul 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
EcoPro to log record-high foreign net purchases in July
South Korean battery materials maker EcoPro Co., the stock price of which has soared more than nine times on the junior bourse Kosdaq since Januar...
Jul 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Mirae Asset’s global ETFs exceed $100 bn in net asset value
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., South Korea’s leading asset manager, said on Tuesday its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) worldwide have surpa...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
BOK chief says aging without assets key challenge to S.Koreans
JEJU -- South Korea’s central bank chief on Friday warned of the growing risk of aging without assets in Asia’s fourth-largest economy a...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
KIC up 8.3% in net value of stocks, debts in H1 2023
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) saw the net value of its traditional assets rise 8.25% in the first half of this year, backed by the strong perfo...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Hyundai Steel to open carbon-neutral steel lab by 2023
Hyundai Steel Co., a unit under South Korean auto giant Hyundai Motor Group, is set to kick off research on hydrogen-based steelmaking as its new la...
Jul 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korean ETFs’ net asset value doubles in 3.5 years
South Korea’s exchange-traded funds (ETFs) surpassed 100 trillion won ($75.7 billion) in net asset value for the first time on Thursday, 21 ye...
Jun 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private debt
Private real estate debt shines on banks' financing gaps: Savills
More global investors are turning to the private debt market as bank loans are getting tougher under stricter lending regulations. Among a range of ...
Jun 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion puts Takeda’s assets up for sale after 3 years
South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. has put its Japanese Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.'s primary care assets acquired in 2020 on sale as the biosimilar g...
Jun 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
POSCO-led consortium wins $6.7 bn green hydrogen deal from Oman
A consortium led by South Korean steelmaker POSCO Group won a $6.7 billion deal to build the world’s largest green hydrogen plant in Duqm, a p...
Jun 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Mirae Asset Securities, Near Protocol team up for blockchain techs
South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities announced on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for collaborative research in bloc...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
S.Korea's Jeju Dream Tower Casino exceeds $7.6 mn in net monthly sales
Jeju Dream Tower Casino, located on South Korea's top tourist island of Jeju and run by Lotte Tour Development Co., broke the 10 billion won ($7.6 m...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
S.Korea's Mirae Asset, Hana Financial Group form security token tie-up
South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities on Thursday said it signed an agreement with Hana Financial Group on the security token consortium Next Finance...
Jun 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)