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Airlines
Korea airlines grounded by oil, currency, interest rates
South Korea’s airlines are suffering from surging oil prices, a weaker won and rising interest rates as the global border reopening has yet to...
Jun 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
SK Innovation to focus on small reactors, batteries, waste recycling
SK Innovation Co., the refinery and chemicals unit of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK, is accelerating a shift toward eco-friendl...
Jun 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
S-Oil shuts processing units after one killed, nine injured in blast
ULSAN, South Korea -- S-Oil Corp., Saudi Aramco’s refining unit in South Korea, has shut some of its production facilities in a move that will...
May 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Hyundai Oilbank steps up eco-friendly white bio business
Hyundai Oilbank Co., a South Korean petroleum and refinery company, is slated to tap into the white biotechnology market. The company has selected w...
May 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Korea's big three trading firms log record profit in Q1
South Korea’s top three general trading companies, LX International Corp., POSCO International Corp. and Samsung C&T Corp. achieved record...
May 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
SK Innovation logs record profit in Q1 on strong refining biz
SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s top refiner, enjoyed the record quarterly earnings on strong crude prices and margins, joining the list of do...
Apr 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
S-Oil logs record earnings in Q1 on high crude, margins
S-Oil Corp., Saudi Aramco’s refining unit in South Korea, enjoyed record earnings in the first quarter on healthy crude prices and refining ma...
Apr 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK Earthon to explore oil block off Malaysian coast
South Korea’s SK Earthon Co., an energy and petroleum unit of SK Innovation Co., and Malaysia's Petroleum Sarawak Exploration & Production...
Apr 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy sells undelivered drillships to PEF
South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. has sold its four undelivered drillships to a domestic private equity fund for a combined 1.04 trillion w...
Apr 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
Korea’s Q1 facility investment cut in half, spooked by macroeconomic risks
South Korea’s major companies are drastically cutting their capital spending as heightened macroeconomic risks coupled with growing external u...
Apr 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Companies
Bulk of Korean firms to face losses if oil price soars to $150
Seven out of 10 South Korean companies predict they will swing to operating losses if global oil prices soar to $150 a barrel, a survey showed on Su...
Mar 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
SK Geo Centric invests $55 mn in US plastic waste recycling firm
South Korea’s SK Geo Centric Co. invested $55 million in US plastic waste recycling company PureCycle Technologies Inc. in a move to transform...
Mar 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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War in Ukraine
Korea jittery over oil, gas, commodity weaponization
South Korea’s energy and raw materials imports have surged to all-time highs in value terms in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,...
Mar 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea reopening stocks rally as govt. eases COVID-19 restrictions
South Korea’s reopening stocks jumped on Friday as the government eases COVID-19-curbing restrictions and as the number of the Omicron variant...
Mar 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korean won extends losses as oil hits 14-year high
South Korea’s won currency skidded to a fresh low in nearly two years as oil prices spiked to a 14-year peak with fears of a prolonged war bet...
Mar 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korean won nears 2-year low, adds to inflation woes
The South Korean won currency tumbled to its lowest point in almost two years on Friday, adding to inflationary pressure in Asia’s fourth-larg...
Mar 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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War in Ukraine
Korea swings to trade surplus in Feb; Russia risks loom
South Korea logged a trade surplus in February on strong exports after deficits in the previous two months, the recovery remained fragile, given Rus...
Mar 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pre-IPOs
SK Ecoplant raises over $800 mn from Korean PE firms
South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co. has raised a total of 1 trillion won ($830 million) from four domestic private equity firms, including 390 billion won...
Feb 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
BOK sees inflation at 11-year high as oil tops $100 on Ukraine crisis
South Korea’s central bank expects consumer inflation to hit an 11-year high this year as oil prices jumped above the $100 a barrel level for ...
Feb 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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War in Ukraine
Ukraine crisis haunts global stocks; oil prices surge
Global stock markets tumbled and oil prices hit their highest levels since 2014 on Tuesday as Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into b...
Feb 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea Inc. revises business plans as rising oil prices hit economy
South Korean companies are revising their business plans for this year as soaring oil prices slam Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Inflation is ...
Feb 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Ecoplant buys e-waste recycling firm for $1 bn
South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co. has acquired Singapore-based electronic waste (e-waste) disposal and recycling company TES Envirocorp Pte. Ltd for $1 ...
Feb 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Nuvilab uses the latest tech to tackle age-old issue of food waste
South Korea’s food data analysis firm Nuvilab, Inc. is not a household name – at least yet. The startup is rather familiar to investors...
Feb 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Hyundai Engineering drops IPO plan on stock market weakness
Hyundai Engineering Co., the plant engineering and construction unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, dropped a listing plan to raise up ...
Jan 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
ESG fever puts Korean oil refiners in quandary over facility upgrades
South Korea’s four major oil refiners have for decades been at the forefront of the industry push to upgrade facilities, a combined multi-bill...
Jan 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Hyundai Engineering to make hydrogen from plastic waste
Hyundai Engineering Co., a construction unit of South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group, is spending 400 billion won ($336 million) to build a plant to pr...
Dec 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK to co-invest $50 mn in US-based Fulcrum BioEnergy
South Korea's SK Inc. on Thursday said it would co-invest $50 million in the US-based Fulcrum BioEnergy with a domestic private equity fund, in a bi...
Dec 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea's Oct c/a surplus down 40% on oil price rises
South Korea's current account surplus in October narrowed by 40% from a year earlier, with the rapid rise in crude oil and raw material prices offse...
Dec 07, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate rebranding
Korean oil refiners keen to change company names
Hyundai Oilbank Co. and S-Oil Corp. are discussing changing their names to join other South Korean oil refiners, which recently underwent corporate ...
Nov 25, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hyundai Oilbank to make naphtha from plastic waste
Hyundai Oilbank Co. is set to produce naphtha by injecting plastic waste pyrolysis oil into the process of refining crude oil, poised to become the ...
Nov 18, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)