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Batteries
LG Energy, Samsung SDI to build 1st US LFP battery plants with GM
May 27, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Korea’s KT signs $95 million AI partnership with Vietnam’s Viettel Group
South Korea’s leading telecommunications service provider KT Corp. said on Tuesday it has signed a 130 billion won ($95 million) strategic part...
May 27, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Biologics drives foreign lead in Korea’s biotech supply chain
A surge in orders from Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, has propelled South Korea to the forefront of global reve...
May 26, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
OpenAI sets up entity in Korea with most paid ChatGPT users outside US
OpenAI Inc., the creator of generative AI ChatGPT, has established a legal entity in South Korea, which has the largest number of paying ChatGPT subs...
May 26, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Bold food tech R&D fuels global rise of Korean cuisine
South Korea’s processed food exports are expected to reach 6 trillion won ($4.4 billion) this year after Korean food companies have aggressivel...
May 26, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG CNS, Cohere co-develop Korean-specific agentic AI
LG CNS Co., the information technology services arm of South Korea’s LG Group, has unveiled a lightweight Korean-specific large language model ...
May 26, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Financial’s Jin meets with Goldman Sachs Int'l CEO for strategies
Jin Ok-dong, chairman of South Korea’s leading financial conglomerate Shinhan Financial Group, has met with senior executives of US-based multi...
May 25, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
NPS gobbles up Korea’s top 4 financial holding stocks
South Korea’s largest institutional investor, the National Pension Service (NPS), remains a strong backer of the country’s top four finan...
May 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hanwha Q Cells eyes tandem cell mass production in 2027
Hanwha Q Cells Co., the solar panel manufacturing unit of South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp., is expected to commercialize tandem modules by 2027, ...
May 22, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK Earthon secures rights to explore 2 offshore oil blocks in Indonesia
SK Earthon Co., the petroleum exploration and production (E&P) unit of South Korea’s top energy company SK Innovation Co., has secured righ...
May 22, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Biologics to spin off biosimilar unit Samsung Bioepis
Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, will undergo a strategic split to separate its contract development and manufact...
May 22, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Mirae Asset Global Investments’ AUM tops $288 bn as global push pays off
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. now manages more than 400 trillion won ($288 billion) in assets for the first time since its first global venture ...
May 21, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Google partners with Samsung, Gentle Monster for new smart glasses
SILICON VALLEY – Google LLC is making a renewed push into the smart glasses market in partnership with South Korea’s Samsung Electronics ...
May 21, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Samsung gears up for foray into space infrastructure industry
Samsung Group is stepping up efforts to venture into the space infrastructure industry, a sector analysts say remains a blue ocean where South Korea ...
May 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Electronics poised to extend OLED TV market lead into 2025
LG Electronics Inc. is on track to retain its lead in the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV market for the 13th consecutive year, bolstered by s...
May 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea’s Lunit installs breast cancer AI diagnostic tool at 200 US hospitals
Lunit Inc., a South Korean AI-powered cancer diagnostics company, said on Monday that more than 200 healthcare institutions across the US have now ad...
May 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Bird flu in Brazil hikes wholesale chicken prices in Korea
South Korea has suspended chicken imports from Brazil following the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the South American countr...
May 19, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Vietnam, gateway for SK Group’s global renewable energy push
TIEN GIANG, VIETNAM – Off the coast of Vietnam’s Tien Giang Province, 36 wind turbines spin steadily with a constant whoosh and swish, ge...
May 19, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hanwha Philly Shipyard to localize LNG builds, expand capacity
Hanwha Group will significantly increase production capacity at its US shipyard from 1.5 vessels to 10 per year as it aims to transform the facility ...
May 19, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kumho Tire shuts Gwangju plant after fire, derailing record sales run
Kumho Tire Co. has suspended all operations at its Gwangju plant in South Korea after a fire destroyed 50-60% of the production lines in one of its t...
May 18, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea’s Naver to launch Silicon Valley venture arm in aggressive AI push
Naver Corp., South Korea’s top internet portal operator, plans to set up a dedicated venture capital arm in Silicon Valley in a move seen as a ...
May 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
UK chip testing device maker TeraView seeks Kosdaq debut
TeraView Ltd., a UK semiconductor inspection device maker, is aiming to list on South Korea’s Kosdaq market in the second half of this year, in...
May 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
K-Beauty defies seasonal slump with record $980 mn in April exports
The global appetite for Korean beauty products shows no sign of slowing, with their exports in April surging 20% year on year to a record high, even...
May 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Samsung flexes financial muscle as insurance, card units top rankings
Samsung Group’s financial affiliates are closing in on KB Financial Group for the top spot in South Korea’s financial services sector, un...
May 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Hyundai Rotem lands $301 mn Taiwan driverless train deal
Hyundai Rotem Co. has won a 420 billion won ($301 million) order to build autonomous electric trains for Taiwan’s Taichung Metro, adding to a s...
May 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
South Korea’s Rznomics inks $1.3 bn out-licensing deal with Eli Lilly
Rznomics Inc., a South Korean RNA therapeutics developer, has signed an agreement worth more than $1.3 billion with US pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly...
May 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor, PIF break ground on Saudi Arabia plant
Hyundai Motor Co. has joined forces with the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, to build its first manufacturi...
May 15, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Shinsegae Chair Chung joins Trump’s Middle East tour
Chung Yong-jin, chairman of South Korea’s retail group Shinsegae Inc., is the only Korean businessperson accompanying US President Donald Trump...
May 15, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha's 'Sea Ghost' makes waves as Greece eyes unmanned naval tech
GEOJE, South Korea – Under a slate-grey sky at the quiet port of Jangmok on South Korea’s southern coast, a sleek, 12-meter vessel slippe...
May 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hanjin KAL roars on hints of renewed control dispute with Hoban
Shares of Hanjin KAL Corp., the holding firm of South Korean flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co., extended their rally Wednesday after surging by the d...
May 14, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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