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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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Korean startups
Former K-pop dancer turns to AI for personal training services
When Dia Kang first moved to Silicon Valley in October 2016 to create a dance app to learn K-pop moves, there was no worldwide pandemic. By Jan...
Jan 04, 2022 (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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Korean stock market
Seoul may curb margin loans to rein in household debt
South Korea is considering curbing margin loans offered by brokerage companies to stock investors, as part of the government efforts to rein in soar...
Sep 23, 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)
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Sep 14, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Coupang’s business model put to test as shares fall below IPO price
Coupang Inc., widely seen as the South Korean version of global e-commerce giant Amazon.com, has closely followed the US company’s business mo...
Sep 10, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Hanwha, Korea Western Power to test mixed hydrogen combustion
Hanwha General Chemical Co. and Korea Western Power Co. joined hands for the first test in the country to use mixed hydrogen combustion technologies...
Aug 03, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korea’s Samyang to manage 30% assets globally by 2025
Samyang Group, a South Korean food and chemicals producer, aims to manage 30% of its total assets overseas by 2025, while fostering nutrition, medic...
Aug 02, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
KOGAS attempts to expand LNG bunkering as global demand grows
Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS) aims to expand liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering business as global demand for cleaner fuels for ships is growing.LNG bu...
Jul 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
COVID-19 test kit supplier makes modest market debut
SD Biosensor Inc., the world's largest COVID-19 test kit seller, made a modest debut on the Korea Exchange on Friday, defying market expectations th...
Jul 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Biotech
Korea’s new PCR kits, devices to speed COVID-19 detection
South Korea’s biotechnology companies are releasing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) kits and equipment to detect COVID-19 infections within an...
Jul 15, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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COVID-19
Celltrion’s COVID-19 treatment reduces incidence of severity by 70%
Celltrion Inc. on July 13 said that its COVID-19 treatment Regkirona has proven effective in reducing the incidence of severe cases of the virus by ...
Jul 13, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
World’s top COVID-19 test kit maker draws $28 bn in IPO subscriptions
The IPO of SD Biosensor Inc., which has sold the most COVID-19 test kits in the world -- selling more than 700 million kits from February 2020 to Ma...
Jul 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Leeno Industrial hits 52-week high, eyes top 10 on Kosdaq
The stock price of South Korea’s Kosdaq-listed electronic testing components maker Leeno Industrial Inc., previously a small company whose mar...
Jul 05, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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COVID-19
Eyegene to kick off Korea’s first mRNA clinical trial
Eyegene Inc. will be South Korea’s first vaccine maker to conduct clinical tests of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines. Ealie...
Jul 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Biotech
Seegene develops one-stop COVID-19 testing lab on wheels; eyes MENA expansion
South Korea-based diagnostic kit maker Seegene Inc. has developed a mobile diagnostic and testing lab that offers a one-stop solution for COVID-19 t...
Jun 25, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Morai's virtual testing solution reduces testing period for self-driving cars
A self-driving car needs to pass all sorts of tests before setting off for the open road. It needs to experience different types of roads, terrain f...
Jun 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Naver, techfins poised to spark Korean loan market's Big Bang
South Korea's online giant Naver Corp. is preparing to join a government-initiated fintech platform, on which individual borrowers can directly sear...
Jun 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Chip shortage hits Korea’s COVID-19 diagnostic device manufacturers
The global chip shortage is impacting South Korea’s COVID-19 test device makers. They are paying up to 10 times the normal price of semiconduc...
Jun 07, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korea's COVID-19 test kit maker applies for $1.2 bn IPO
SD Biosensor Inc., South Korea's largest manufacturer of COVID-19 test kits, has applied for an initial public offering to raise up to 1.3 trillion ...
May 19, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Short selling
Retail investors test Celltrion, HLB shares as Korea’s GameStop
Celltrion Inc. and HLB Inc., two leading South Korean biopharmaceutical shares, shot up on Monday as the main bourse’s key index climbed back ...
Feb 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Personal pensions
Korea’s personal pensions gamble with risky stocks for higher returns
South Korea’s individual pension fund holders are moving their money out of banks and insurance companies into brokerages in pursuit of higher...
Dec 08, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
S. Korean COVID-19 test kit maker eyes listing next year
SD Bio Sensor, Inc., a South Korea-based manufacturer of COVID-19 test kits, is pushing to go public early next year, drawing market attention as a st...
Nov 19, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hanwha Systems unveils Butterfly, personal air vehicle mockup
Hanwha Systems Co., a defense and information technology service unit of Hanwha Group, on Wednesday unveiled the mockup of its personal air vehicle (P...
Nov 11, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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COVID-19
COVID-19 test kit maker Seegen flags more than 30-fold rise in Q2 OP
Operating profits at South Korea’s diagnostic reagent maker Seegen Inc. spiked by more than 36 times in the second quarter from a year earlier, ...
Aug 13, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hyundai Motor
Hyundai, Hankook Tire may rebuild relations with new test-driving center
Hyundai Motor Group has reached a tentative agreement to build the country’s biggest test-driving center at a new tire testing facility of Hanko...
Jun 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)