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Steel
POSCO restarts furnace after upgrade with smart system
POSCO, the world’s seventh-largest steelmaker, on Thursday restarted a blast furnace in South Korea following a revamp applying a smart system...
Jun 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
HD Hyundai Oilbank to export SAF to Japan
HD Hyundai Oilbank Co., South Korea’s refiner backed by Saudi Aramco, said on Sunday that it will export sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Ja...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai to launch EV model of Staria minivan in 2026
South Korea’s top automaker, Hyundai Motor Co., is slated to launch an electric vehicle model of its Staria van in 2026 to respond to the inte...
Jun 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Dongkuk CM establishes European branch in Germany
Dongkuk Coated Metal Co. (Dongkuk CM), the cold-rolled steel business unit of South Korea's Dongkuk Steel Group, announced on Wednesday that it op...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hyundai Glovis adopts system to meet US' green policies on car carriers
Hyundai Glovis Co., the world’s third-largest car shipping company, is set to introduce an emission reduction system for its vehicle carriers ...
May 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Block deals of Korean stocks surge ahead of tighter regulation
Block trades of South Korean listed shares have surged by six times so far this year from the same period in 2023, according to the Financial Superv...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Short selling
Korea may partially lift short-selling ban from June: regulator
NEW YORK -- South Korea may partially lift a ban on short selling in the domestic stock market from as early as June, before removing the blanket ba...
May 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Korea to launch alternative stock exchange in 2025
South Korea will launch the country’s first alternative stock exchange Nextrade Co. in the first half of next year to enable stock trading for...
May 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Weak property market cuts into Korean securities firms’ profits
dd South Korea’s securities firms suffered a 20% fall in overall net profit last year hurt by the weak property market, adding to bearish vie...
Mar 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Labor reform urged in Korea with higher wages than Japan
Wages at South Korean companies, both large and small, have surpassed those of their Japanese counterparts.According to a report on wage comparisons...
Mar 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fraud scandals
Doosan Enerbility faces record $15 mn in fines for improper bookkeeping
South Korea's major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. faces a record-breaking fine to the tune of about 20 billion won ($15 million) over it...
Feb 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Short selling
Korea’s top regulator detects more foreigners’ naked shorting
South Korea’s top financial regulator is detecting more circumstances of naked short-selling worth tens of millions of dollars by foreign inve...
Jan 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
South Korea set to abolish financial investment gains tax: Yoon
South Korea plans to abolish capital gains taxes on financial investments to revitalize the lackluster domestic financial market and help individual...
Jan 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
BNP Paribas, HSBC fined $20.4 million in Korea for naked short-selling
South Korea’s financial regulator has slapped a combined 26.52 billion won ($20.4 million) in fines on BNP Paribas SA, its Korean brokerage un...
Dec 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Korea’s 6G frequency bands picked as standard candidates
Sixth-generation (6G) communication frequency bands proposed by South Korea have been adopted as global standard candidates by the industry's freq...
Dec 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
US regulations push Korean battery industry to cut reliance on China
The South Korean battery industry is facing pressure to cut its reliance on Chinese capital as the US government on Dec. 1 issued guidance that will...
Dec 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai's Supernal plans to build flying taxi plant in US
Hyundai Motor Group plans to build a flying electric taxi plant in the US as the South Korean automotive group aims to bring flying cars to the mark...
Nov 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Imported cars set to snap 3-year growth streak in S.Korea
Imported passenger cars are expected to see their first retreat in four years in South Korea on the growing popularity of domestic luxury models suc...
Nov 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korean shipyards to beat Chinese rivals with green tankers
South Korean dockyards aim to expand their presence in the global tanker market dominated by Chinese players with vessels designed to transport or s...
Nov 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
Korea plans wider crackdown on foreigners’ short-selling
South Korea’s financial regulator plans wider investigations into illegal short-selling trades by major foreign investment banks to ease conce...
Oct 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Five most common frustrations of Korean entrepreneurs
A South Korean company recently gave up on its plan to venture into the burgeoning robot market.Fair-trade regulations that prohibit the creation of...
Oct 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Electronics avoids EU’s digital market regulations
Samsung Electronics Co. has steered clear of the European Union’s new set of regulations designed to rein in the dominance of Big Tech compani...
Sep 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
KT, Vector Institute to cooperate for hyperscale AI
South Korea's KT Corp. announced on Wednesday that it has been in talks with Canada's Vector Institute to explore collaborative opportunities in the...
Sep 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
SK E&S seeks Australia's support for Barossa LNG, CCS projects
SK E&S Co. has asked Australia to support its liquefied natural gas fields in the country and a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in neig...
Jul 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
S.Korea to form $6.2 bn corporate venture capital fund pool by 2025
The South Korean government and the private sector will jointly create a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund pool worth more than 8 trillion won ($...
Jul 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
BOK keeps door open for another rate hike on Fed, debts
South Korea’s central bank on Thursday kept the door open for another interest rate hike after leaving the policy borrowing cost unchanged for...
Jul 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
Go bolder with regulatory reform to foster unicorns in Korea: KERI
Regulatory reform is still slow in South Korea, obstructing innovation in technologies and industries, and the government must take bolder action to...
Jul 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy Industries captures ship's underwater noise
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries revealed on Tuesday that it has attained cutting-edge technology enabling the precise analysis of ...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
S.Korean auditors enjoy sharp pay rise under new laws
The average salary of accountants at Big Four accounting firms in South Korea has more than doubled over the past few years, as financial regulators...
Jun 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Foreign buying of Korean stocks, bonds at record high, boosting won
Foreigners bought a record $11.43 billion in South Korean stocks and bonds in May, boosting the value of the won versus the dollar amid the greenbac...
Jun 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)