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Automobiles
Volvo tops S.Koreans’ favorite foreign car survey list for service
Sweden's Volvo offers the best after-sales service among imported automobile dealers in South Korea, while locals drivers are disappointed by the cu...
Jul 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Goyard bags high on SE Asians’ shopping list in S.Korea
Goyard outlets in Seoul bustled with shoppers on Friday, especially from Southeast Asia, looking for the French luxury brand’s popular bags: G...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
S.Korean tire producers rally on strong demand, low costs
South Korean tire manufacturers enjoyed healthy earnings thanks to strong global demand for electric vehicles and new cars adding to expectations th...
Jul 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
S.Korea’s men’s fashion platform Deps launches offline store
Deps, a men’s fashion platform launched by South Korean fashion brand incubator Hago L&F, is accelerating its market offensive through the...
Jul 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Hyundai Steel extends profit streak in Q2 on brisk auto steel sales
Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea’s second-largest steelmaker, plans to ramp up automotive and eco-friendly steel production after posting an ope...
Jul 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai launches high-performance brand New Avante N
South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. on Wednesday unveiled the latest version of its high-performance N brand's flagship model, the "New Avante N".The hi...
Jul 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
SK Hynix logs loss for 3rd straight quarter in Q2 but eyes recovery in H2
SK Hynix Inc. reported an operating loss in the second quarter of this year, extending its losing streak to three consecutive quarters and inflating...
Jul 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung’s new gaming monitor gets rave reviews overseas
Samsung Electronics Co.'s new premium gaming monitor "Odyssey OLED G9" has recently received consecutive praise from major global tech media outlets...
Jul 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Innocean releases brand film of Kia Sportage’s 30th anniversary
Innocean, a Hyundai Motor Group-affiliated advertising agency, has rolled out a brand film to mark the 30th anniversary of Kia Corp.'s Sportage, the...
Jul 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
HD Hyundai Infracore to sell excavator on TV home shopping
South Korea’s HD Hyundai Infracore Co. will be the nation’s first to sell an excavator, a piece of heavy equipment weighing nearly two...
Jul 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
S.Korea’s fashion brand Handsome expands overseas portfolio
South Korean fashion company Handsome Corp. is accelerating expansion of its portfolio for licensing foreign brands.The company on Monday said it co...
Jul 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia unveils The New Sorento's design
Kia Corp. unveiled "The New Sorento," the latest model of their mid-sized sports utility vehicle (SUV) on Tuesday. The redesigned SUV reflects Kia's...
Jul 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Cosmax extracts raw materials from indigenous plants in Indonesia
Cosmax Inc., South Korea's cosmetics original design manufacturing (ODM) company, announced on Monday that it will unveil a cosmetics raw material b...
Jul 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
S.Korea’s Brand X establishes Taiwanese corporation
South Korea's media and e-commerce company Brand X Co. announced on Friday that it has established a Taiwanese corporation. The move seeks to amplif...
Jul 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
Musinsa opens showroom in Tokyo for S.Korean designers’ brands
South Korea's online fashion platform Musinsa opened a showroom in Tokyo on Thursday targeting fashion buyers, as it aims to introduce domestic desi...
Jul 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Foreign carmakers hit by EV sales drop in S.Korea
Foreign carmakers such as Mercedes-Benz and Tesla Inc. suffered a sales drop in South Korea in the first half of the year, as overall car sales jump...
Jul 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor to advance future mobility with nanotechnology
Hyundai Motor Group, which seeks to pivot from a fast follower to a game changer in the global auto sector, has unveiled advanced materials technolo...
Jul 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Bain Capital in talks to buy Korean aesthetic device maker Ilooda
Ilooda, a South Korean medical aesthetic devices maker valued at around 200 billion won ($158 million), is likely to sell its management rights to U...
Jul 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Aekyung Industrial's sales on Amazon jump 58% in H1 2023
South Korea's Aekyung Industrial announced on Tuesday that its sales on the US e-commerce platform Amazon in the first half of this year increased...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
CJ Olive Young opens premium cosmetics mall
South Korea’s top beauty chain CJ Olive Young on Monday launched the premium store Lux Edit online to roll out products from both big names an...
Jul 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
Tepid luxury sales widen gap between favorite and less-favored brands
The economic slowdown may have diminished South Koreans’ appetite for foreign designer goods, but that doesn't mean they've closed their walle...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
SK’s Tmap enhances ESG efforts by navigating lowest-carbon routes
South Korea’s leading mobility platform Tmap Mobility Co. has stepped up its environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts via its naviga...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
S.Korea’s car exports hit H1 record high on brisk EV sales
South Korea’s automobile export value in the first six months of this year hit the highest-ever $35.7 billion for a half-year period, mainly d...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Electro-Mechanics starts mass-producing power inductors
South Korea's Samsung Electro-Mechanics has started mass-producing power inductors, an essential component of electric (EV) and self-driving vehicle...
Jul 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai’s commitment to N brand pays off with over 100,000 car sales
Hyundai Motor Co.'s commitment to high-performance vehicles has paid off with sales of such vehicles exceeding 100,000 units six years after the lau...
Jul 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
Tottenham forward Son’s new role: Samsung Galaxy brand ambassador
Tottenham Hotspur forward Son Heung-min has a new job in his home country, South Korea: brand ambassador for Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy smartp...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia vows to take 10% of Indian market after 1 million car output
In celebration of producing 1 million cars from its Indian plant, Kia Corp. has vowed to command 10% of the Indian car market with more diverse mode...
Jul 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung takes on Micron with new flash auto memory UFS 3.1
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has begun mass production of its latest flash memory chip, which the company sa...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Korea chip exports to rebound in Oct; car, cell exports to stay firm
South Korea expected overseas sales of semiconductors, the country’s top export item, to rebound from October while the auto, secondary batter...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung's Bespoke Goes On campaign video exceeds 20 mn views
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Tuesday that its Bespoke Goes On campaign video for the Bespoke refrigerator has surpassed 20 million views on ...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)