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Banking & Finance
Shinhan to boost Vietnam digital services with Tiki
South Korea's Shinhan Financial Group has picked Vietnam’s e-commerce startup Tiki as its first strategic partner in the Southeast Asian count...
May 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Dongkuk buys 15% stake in Vietnamese steel fabricator
Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., South Korea’s leading color-coated steel manufacturer, said on Wednesday it has acquired a 15% stake in VSSC Steel Cen...
Apr 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hana Fin. boosts Vietnam presence with BIDV Securities stake
South Korea's Hana Financial Investment Co. has become the second-largest shareholder in Vietnam's BIDV Securities after buying a 35% stake in the V...
Apr 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
COVID test kit maker SD Biosensor buys Italian medical device firm
SD Biosensor Inc., South Korea’s top manufacturer of COVID-19 test kits, said on Friday that it has signed a deal to purchase a 100% stake i...
Apr 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
FutureChem seeks FDA nod for prostate cancer radiopharma trials
FutureChem Co., a South Korean radiopharmaceutical company, is seeking the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval for clinical tests of it...
Apr 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Healthcare
KT taps Vietnam for digital healthcare and AI-powered diagnosis
KT Corp., a major telecommunications company in South Korea, is set to enter the Vietnamese healthcare market with a pilot telemedicine service an...
Apr 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kumho Tire, labor union in tug of war over international plants
Kumho Tire Co., South Korea’s No. 2 tire maker, struggled to agree with its unionized workers on more overseas plants although the company des...
Apr 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Startups need to embrace ESG, industry insiders say
Environmental initiatives such as RE100 and high Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards are not just for conglomerates anymore, accor...
Apr 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Daewoo E&C jointly creates $400 mn fund for overseas M&As
Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. of South Korea and IMM Investment Global, the Hong Kong-based affiliate of Korean equity firm IMM Investme...
Mar 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korea rises as test bed for global luxury brands
South Korea is becoming a test bed for global high-end brands such as Balenciaga, Valentino, IWC and Breitling. The world's top luxury brands, pre...
Mar 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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War in Ukraine
Korea jittery over oil, gas, commodity weaponization
South Korea’s energy and raw materials imports have surged to all-time highs in value terms in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,...
Mar 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai to debut IONIQ 6 in July to rival Tesla Model 3
Hyundai Motor Co. will unveil the much-anticipated IONIQ 6, its first all-electric sedan on an exclusive EV platform, in July, to compete with the l...
Feb 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pharmaceuticals
Celltrion, Humasis to ship $300 mn COVID-19 test kits to US
South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. and diagnostic kit manufacturer Humasis Co. have signed contracts to supply their jointly-dev...
Feb 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Bank of Korea to test CBDC on Samsung devices, not on iPhone
The Bank of Korea (BOK) will launch real-life, offline tests for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) project on Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy ...
Jan 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Vietnam gives traction to Korean banks' global push
South Korea's leading banks began to reap the rewards of their efforts to become regional players in Asia, with their aggressive investments in Viet...
Jan 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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M&As
The Princeton Review up for sale by Korean edutech firm
South Korea's leading edutech service firm has put The Princeton Review up for sale, five years after it acquired the US college test preparation se...
Jan 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
LG Household’s China strategy put to test as shares crash
LG Household & Health Care Ltd.’s shares have been flying high since its market debut in 2001, and have more recently basked in the global...
Jan 10, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
Biotech firm EDGC embarks on metaverse journey
EONE-DIAGNOMICS Genome Center Co. ( EDGC ) announced this week it would participate in AI Human Metaverse Project consortium – along with seven ...
Jan 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pharmeceuticals
Kolon resumes Invossa phase 3 clinical trials in US
Kolon TissueGene Inc., the cell therapies unit of South Korean pharmaceutical company Kolon Life Science Inc., said on Dec. 28 it has resumed admi...
Dec 28, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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COVID-19
SK Bioscience to sell Novavax COVID-19 vaccine in Thailand, Vietnam
SK Bioscience Co., a biopharmaceutical unit of South Korea’s SK Group, said on Friday it has acquired non-exclusive rights to sell US-based No...
Dec 24, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pharamaceuticals, biotech
Celltrion to conduct tests on Omicron variant detected in Korea
Biopharmaceutical powerhouse Celltrion Inc. plans to use its treatments to test the Omicron variant detected in Korea, according to a high-level com...
Dec 06, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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ROK-U.S. SCM
US and South Korea to update wartime plans for North Korea
SEOUL—The U.S. and South Korea said they would update their joint wartime contingency plans for North Korea, as the Kim Jong Un regime has&n...
Dec 03, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korean Air gets Vietnam’s regulatory approval for acquisition of Asiana
Korean Air Lines Co. (KAL) said on Tuesday it has obtained regulatory approval from Vietnam for its 1.8 trillion won ($1.6 billion) deal to acquir...
Nov 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
SK to invest $340 mn in Vietnam’s major retail platform The CrownX
South Korea’s conglomerate SK Group said on Nov. 11 that it agreed to invest $340 million in The CrownX, a retail platform of Masan Group Corp...
Nov 11, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG to expand medical equipment business with pain-relieving device
LG Electronics Inc. is expanding its business scope to the medical equipment sector with a plan to unveil a pain-relieving device in an effort to ga...
Nov 10, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Dongkuk eyes $1.7 billion sales from color steel business in 2030
Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., South Korea’s third-largest steelmaker, said on Monday that it aims to grow its color coated steel business to 2 trill...
Nov 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Supply chain
Korea scrambles to address DEF supply shortage
South Korea is stepping up efforts to secure diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) such as diversification of supply sources as the shortage of the liquid used...
Nov 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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REITs
KTB to launch REITs for logistics centers in Vietnam and housing in US
South Korean asset manager KTB Asset Management Co. plans to launch two overseas real estate investment trusts (REITs) to invest in Vietnam-based lo...
Nov 02, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea fires two ballistic missiles off its East Coast
SEOUL—North Korea launched two ballistic missiles off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, in Pyongyang&rs...
Sep 15, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)