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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Innovation set to flex muscle with $4 bn in new cash
SK Innovation Co., South Korea's leading electric vehicle battery maker, is on course to raise more than 5 trillion won ($4.5 billion) this year fro...
May 02, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Startup funding: Metaverse platform Anipen; autonomous vehicle simulator Morai
South Korea-based metaverse platform Anipen has raised 8.5 billion won ($7.6 million) from VC firms, including Partners Investment and Union Investm...
Apr 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Corporate storytelling: S.Korean firms' next growth key
South Korea’s major companies are increasingly adopting corporate storytelling as a means of rebranding their identities.As the companies enjo...
Apr 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Fintech platform Kakao Pay applies for Kospi IPO
Kakao Pay Corp., a unit of South Korea's largest mobile messaging app Kakao Corp., submitted an application for its initial public offering with the...
Apr 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
KOTAM raises $185 mn for BlackRock's new energy fund
Korea Transportation Asset Management (KOTAM) has raised $185 million from five domestic institutional investors to commit to BlackRock's new renewa...
Apr 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha Defense readies full-scale USV development
Hanwha Defense Co., a wholly owned defense solutions subsidiary of Hanwha Aerospace Co., got the go-ahead from South Korea’s defense procureme...
Apr 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Fashion platforms for MZers attract investors; valuations surge
Fashion e-commerce platforms that have become mainstream shopping venues for millennials and Generation Z, or MZers, are seeing their valuations sur...
Apr 21, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Hyundai Motor, SK Innovation join forces on hybrid car battery development
South Korea-based automakers Hyundai Motor Co., KIA Corp. and electric vehicle battery maker SK Innovation Co. have joined forces to jointly develop...
Apr 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung develops ultra-small, high-capacity MLCC
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. has developed an ultra-small and high-performance multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) for use in a wider range of el...
Apr 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Naver, Kakao vie for Korean web novel platform
Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp., South Korea's two online giants, are competing to acquire Munpia Inc., their smaller domestic rival in the web novel ma...
Apr 15, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
LG Chem expands carbon nanotube production with new plant
South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. has completed an extension of its production line for carbon nanotubes (CNTs), known as a wonder material for its strengt...
Apr 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Korean content shares soar as platforms eye overseas expansion
Shares of Korean content providers are flying high as platform operators such as Kakao Entertainment Corp. are looking to expand overseas to bask in...
Apr 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korean casino game developer revives Nasdaq IPO plan
DoubleDown Interactive LLC, a South Korean social casino game publisher, has resumed its Nasdaq listing process, tapping the red-hot US IPO market w...
Apr 04, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Google to buy $50 mn new shares in Kakao Mobility
Google Inc. will acquire 56.5 billion won ($50 million) worth of new Kakao Mobility Corp. shares, in a strategic investment in the South Korean mobi...
Apr 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO agrees on joint graphene cluster development
The steelmaker POSCO will lead in the creation of a graphene industry cluster in the city of Pohang, about 300km southeast of Seoul, where the compa...
Mar 31, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
French webtoon platform posts over 200% growth via Korean content
South Korea’s online content platform KidariStudio Inc. announced on Mar. 31 that its France-based webtoon arm, Delitoon SAS, logged around 10...
Mar 31, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Kia debuts all-electric EV6; runs faster, longer than Tesla, IONIQ 5
Kia Corp. on Tuesday debuted the EV6, its first dedicated electric vehicle built on Hyundai Motor Group’s new EV platform, amid intensifying com...
Mar 30, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy sets new global record with $2.5 bn order
South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has landed an order to build 20 very large container ships (VLCS) at 2.8 trillion won ($2.5 billion), t...
Mar 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung widens lead over rivals with industry’s first advanced DDR5
Samsung Electronics Co. has extended its lead in memory chips over its rivals by unveiling the industry’s first 512 gigabyte DDR5 module based...
Mar 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Consulting boom
Consulting firms enjoy boom as pandemic drives new business strategies
Slightly more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic upended the business world, the role of management consultants has become important more than ...
Mar 24, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Lotte buys S.Korea’s top secondhand e-commerce platform
South Korea’s retail giant Lotte is expanding its presence in the e-commerce sector with the acquisition of Joonggonara, the country’s l...
Mar 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Travel platform Yanolja eyes US IPO in dual listing
South Korea’s largest travel platform Yanolja has begun the internal process to list in both the US and South Korea, by which the company expe...
Mar 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Hyundai, Woowa Brothers tie up to develop last-mile delivery robot
Hyundai Motor Group and Woowa Brothers Corp., the country’s top food delivery app operator, have agreed to jointly develop delivery robots cap...
Mar 19, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
KIC, Korean pension funds in hunt for new C-level execs
South Korea's Police Mutual Aid Association (PMAA) has been looking for a new chief investment officer for a half year, while the sovereign wealth f...
Mar 17, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Online fashion platform Musinsa raises $115 mn from VC firms
South Korea’s top online fashion retailer Musinsa has raised another 130 billion won ($115 million) from Sequoia Capital and IMM Investment, g...
Mar 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Kia fully unveils EV6 with new design philosophy
Kia Corp. has now revealed full images of the EV6, its first dedicated electric vehicle (EV), ahead of the car’s world premiere on Mar. 30. Th...
Mar 15, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
Spotify, Kakao settle licensing dispute; K-pop returns to platform
Spotify Technology S.A., the world's largest music streaming service, has reached a licensing agreement with Kakao Entertainment Corp., to make musi...
Mar 11, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy may build US, Europe plants to supply new batteries to Tesla
LG Energy Solution Ltd. may build an electric vehicle battery plant in the US to supply advanced battery cells to Tesla Inc. for its new models to b...
Mar 10, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
SK, POSCO agree to develop new lightweight materials for future mobility
South Korea’s SK Global Chemical, a wholly owned subsidiary of SK Innovation, and POSCO have joined hands to develop steel and plastic composi...
Mar 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Korea’s military fund looking for new financial division chief
South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) is looking for the successor of its financial division chief Kim Jae-dong, whose extended...
Mar 04, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
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- 3 Hyundai, Waymo forge multi-year, strategic partnership for self-driving vehicles
- 4 AI startup MarqVision raises $16.5 mn to close Series A
- 5 Taihan Cable wins $630 mn power grid project in Singapore