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Construction
Ssangyong E&C wins deals for two Dubai luxury residences
Ssangyong Engineering & Construction Co. announced on Monday that it secured two luxury residence construction projects in Dubai, United Arab Em...
Mar 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SM Entertainment founder invests $5.2 million in Mindlogic
K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co.'s founder and former Chief Producer Lee Soo-man is expected to invest up to 10 billion won ($7.5 million) in Mind...
Mar 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
MBK secures $1 bn refinancing on Homeplus from Meritz
MBK Partners, the North Asia-focused private equity firm, has refinanced all of its 1.3 trillion won ($1 billion) loans on Homeplus with a new one f...
Mar 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia's European sales reach 79,000 units in February
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. reported a 2.3% rise in European sales in February, selling a combined total of 79,130 vehicles, according to data f...
Mar 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
S.Korea's drone market set for takeoff, led by startups
Starting in May, drones, not boats, will deliver parcels and even fried chicken to residents living on some of South Korea's remote islands unreacha...
Mar 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK Enmove in talks to deliver liquid cooling system to US tech firm
South Korea’s lube oil maker SK Enmove Co. is seeking to supply liquid immersion cooling systems for data centers of a US technology company, ...
Mar 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Lunit gets court approval for Volpara acquisition in New Zealand
South Korean medical AI company Lunit announced on Thursday that it received the first approval from the High Court of New Zealand for its plan to a...
Mar 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG Uplus unveils AI Callbot at Cuckoo call center
South Korea’s LG Uplus Corp. announced on Tuesday that it will introduce the smart customer support solution artificial intelligence (AI) Call...
Mar 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Hyundai Steel to resume steel production in Russia
South Korea’s Hyundai Steel Co. is expected to resume steel production in Russia two years after it took its plant offline in the country amid...
Mar 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
JPMorgan Chase’s growth driver: offline community branches
NEW YORK -- Global banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been expanding brick-and-mortar branches across the US with investments of billions of...
Mar 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
New iPad Pro to feature Samsung, LG OLED screens
South Korea’s two leading display makers Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co. are said to have been chosen by Apple Inc. to supply all the 8.5...
Mar 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung’s Family Hub Plus gets UL certification
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday that its 2024 Bespoke Refrigerator with Family Hub Plus has achieved the Diamond grade in an Internet of Thi...
Mar 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
No end in sight to Audi’s downfall in South Korea
Audi AG, once considered one of the top three German premium auto brands in South Korea, seems to have lost its charm among Korean consumers. Its sh...
Mar 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
NPS to invest up to $8.2 bn in undervalued Korean stocks
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is expected to invest up to 11 trillion won ($8.2 ...
Mar 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Hana Micron to develop 2.5D packaging for Nvidia’s H100 AI chip: CEO
With burgeoning demand for high-performance artificial intelligence chips, back-end process technology, which assembles various semiconductors and t...
Feb 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Taihan Cable develops 154-kV UHV submarine cable
South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. announced on Thursday that it has completed the development of a 154-kilovolt (kV) ultra-high-voltage ...
Feb 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
HyperCLOVA X surpasses GPT-4 in Korean AI evaluation
South Korea's Naver Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Naver Corp., announced on Tuesday that its HyperCLOVA X has scored higher than OpenAI and Goog...
Feb 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Upstage releases Solar API for Free
South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage announced on Feb. 22 that it released the beta version of its open-source small lan...
Feb 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
BOK likely to keep base rate unchanged until June: chief
South Korea’s central bank held its policy rate flat at 3.5% for a ninth straight session on Thursday as it was deemed too early for a rate cu...
Feb 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Motor Group in test run of dedicated EV plant in Korea
Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s No. 3 automaker, started a test operation of the first dedicated electric vehicle factory in South Korea to a...
Feb 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Perigee, Philippines gov’t to recycle small launch vehicle
South Korea's Perigee Aerospace Inc. announced on Tuesday that it has discussed collaboration with the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) for the laun...
Feb 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Brookfield aims to increase debt on IFC Seoul to $2 bn
Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. will increase its debt on the International Finance Center in Seoul (IFC Seoul), South Korea to up to 2.7 trillion ...
Feb 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Naver to develop HyperCLOVA X-based edu service
South Korea’s Naver Corp. announced on Friday that its cloud computing unit Naver Cloud, Daekyo, and NSDevil will co-work to develop education...
Feb 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung wins first 2 nm AI chip order from Japan’s PFN; a snub to TSMC
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has won its first 2-nanometer node artificial intelligence chip production cont...
Feb 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Foreign investors net buyers of Korean stocks for 3rd straight month
Foreign investors bought more South Korean stocks and bonds in January, extending their buying spree to three months.The Financial Supervisory Servi...
Feb 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Activist funds to wage proxy battle with Samsung C&T
Five activist funds have joined hands to wage a proxy battle with Samsung C&T Corp., demanding additional share buybacks and dividend increases....
Feb 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Telecom to enter Australian pet clinics market in H1
South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. announced on Tuesday that it has signed a commercial contract with ATX Medical Solutions, Australia's largest m...
Feb 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean Investors
Samsung Asset to launch S.Korea's first obesity treatment ETF
Korea Exchange announced on Thursday that it will list Samsung Asset Management's "KODEX Global Obesity Treatment Top 2 Plus exchange-traded fund (E...
Feb 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
LG Energy's 2nd bond issue hits record $4.2 bn in bids
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest rechargeable battery maker, drew a record 5.61 trillion won ($4.2 billion) in bids for a S...
Feb 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
LIG Nex1 inks $3.2 bn missile defense deal with Saudi Arabia
South Korea's major defense system developer LIG Nex1 Co. has clinched a $3.2 billion deal to export its latest missile interceptor to Saudi Arabia,...
Feb 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)