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Mergers & Acquisitions
S.Korea kicks off privatization of top container line HMM
South Korea has started the process to privatize the country’s No. 1 container line HMM Co. by tapping advisors for the sale of the controllin...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung’s DRAM market share rises amid industrywide revenue drop
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, saw its DRAM market share rise in the fourth quarter of last year despite a sig...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korea's KSOE wins order for 3 LNG carriers at $770 mn
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, a shipbuilding holding company of HD Hyundai Group, has secured a contract for liquefied natural gas ...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Plant, machinery maker Doosan seeks future from chips, robots
BARCELONA -- South Korea’s plant and machinery powerhouse Doosan Group is seeking its future growth engines from the semiconductor and robot s...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai autoworker: Dream job for many South Koreans
In South Korea, blue-collar work has for decades been shunned by job seekers because of the hard manual labor as well as the widely held perception ...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Samsung SDI wins $95 mn EU aid for Hungary battery plant
Samsung SDI Co. has secured €89.6 million ($95 million) in subsidies from the European Union for its first electric vehicle battery plant in Hu...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Biologics bags $183 million CMO order from Pfizer
Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s No. 1 contract drug maker in terms of production capacity, has won a $182.7 million contract manufacturing ...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
US CHIPS Act threatens Samsung, SK Hynix’s memory supremacy
WASHINGTON D.C. – The Biden administration’s “Chips for America” program aims to keep China’s growing clout in the sem...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
EastarJet to resume flights after three years of suspension
South Korean budget carrier EastarJet will resume flights on the domestic Gimpo-Jeju route on Mar. 26 after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 ...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK IE Technology mulls adding LiBS factory in US, says SKIET president
SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), a global top lithium-ion battery separator (LiBS) player under South Korea’s energy and battery maker SK Innovat...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion teams up with bio venture to develop new anti-cancer drug
South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. will develop an anti-cancer drug that combines oncolytic virus technology with biosimilars un...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus to show off total smart factory solutions at trade show
LG Uplus Corp., a mobile telecom service carrier in South Korea, announced on Tuesday that it would present a complete set of smart factory solution...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver’s HyperCLOVA X: More Korean-proficient than ChatGPT
South Korea’s online giant Naver Corp. will unveil an updated version of its AI platform HyperCLOVA, HyperCLOVA X, which it said better unders...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Samsung leader eyes solid-state batteries as future growth engine
Samsung Group appears set to up its investment in solid-state batteries, a game changer in the electric vehicle sector, as South Korea’s top c...
Feb 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Novel medicines poised to be Korea’s next mainstay export
South Korea, a major global generic and biosimilar medicine producer with leading names such as Samsung Biologics Co. and Celltrion Inc., has rapidl...
Feb 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung Electro-Mechanics unveils chip substrate for autonomous driving
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. has developed an advanced semiconductor substrate for autonomous driving, which is expected to drive the top South Kor...
Feb 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung, SK Hynix face cap on tech level of chips made in China
WASHINGTON D.C. – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, might be unable to manufacture a...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung introduces Neo QLED, OLED core technologies in Europe
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Friday about hosting the 2023 European Tech Seminar in Frankfurt, Germany, for two days from the previous day.T...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
POSCO Int'l, Daesang sign MOU to cooperate in food business
POSCO International, South Korea's largest general trading company, announced on Friday that teams up with Daesang Corp. in the food business area.P...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung unveils new Exynos mobile chips for midrange smartphones
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has unveiled a duo of new Exynos mobile application processor (AP) chips to pow...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai, Kia to join global small EV war with new models
Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s top automaker, will aim at the world’s affordable small electric vehicle segments with new models as ...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
SK Networks to expand investment in tech firms for future growth
SK Networks Co., the general trading and rental arm of South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate SK Group, will expand direct funding for tech ...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung opens 5G pilot network to 4th largest mobile carrier in US
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it has successfully completed the opening of a 5th-generation mobile communications (5G) pilot ne...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Samsung’s old textile mill transformed into idea accelerating lab
Samsung Electronics Co. has opened its first regional C-Lab Outside campus in Daegu – where its founder Lee Byung-chull started his first busi...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
FuriosaAI speeds up development of next-gen AI chip with Hugging Face
FuriosaAI Inc., South Korea’s fabless chip designer, has teamed up with Hugging Face Inc., a New York-based AI company boasting a massive tran...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO Steeleon’s eco-friendly steel plate gets US certification
POSCO Steeleon Co., a South Korean steelmaker and a unit of POSCO Group, said on Wednesday that its biomass color steel plate has been certified as ...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung maintains No.1 position in global TV market
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. maintained its No. 1 position in the global TV market in 2022, accounting for nearly 30% of TV sales, ac...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, LG ditch BOE in likely Apple deal for iPad Pro OLED panels
Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co. will likely win orders from Apple Inc. to build organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for the US tech ...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
CJ Investment fosters Korean startups to discover new growth engines
CJ Investment, the corporate venture capital arm of CJ Corp., announced on Tuesday its plans to foster promising South Korean startups in order to d...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Kyochon sets sights on Western expansion with Canadian franchise deal
Kyochon F&B, the operator of South Korea's premier fried chicken brand Kyochon Chicken, said on Tuesday that it has secured a master franchise a...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
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