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Airlines
Korean LCCs boost travel demand to global tourist hubs
South Korean low-cost carriers (LCCs), including Air Premia Inc. and Air Busan Co., have been expanding into underserved smaller cities, but also dr...
May 12, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Korea’s Incheon Airport to upgrade, operate Uzbek airfield in $140m deal
INCHEON – South Korea’s Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC) is set to upgrade and operate an airfield in Uzbekistan to expand the...
Apr 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea’s Nextrade stock exchange debuts; YG Entertainment tops 1st day
South Korea’s first alternative stock exchange Nextrade (NXT) started trading on Tuesday, challenging the Korea Exchange’s (KRX) long-st...
Mar 04, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Alternative stock exchange Nextrade to launch on March 4
Nextrade, South Korea’s first alternative stock exchange, enabling trading of stocks listed on the Kospi and the Kosdaq for 12 hours a day is ...
Feb 06, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
NPS commits $800 mn to Almanac for strategic partnership
The National Pension Service of Korea (NPS) has committed $800 million to Almanac Realty Investors, the private real estate investment arm of Neuber...
Jan 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
BMW retains throne in South Korea’s imported car market
German luxury carmaker BMW claimed the mantle of top imported car brand in South Korea for a second consecutive year in 2024, beating out rival Merc...
Jan 06, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Asiana Airlines joins Korean Air as subsidiary
Asiana Airlines Inc., one of South Korea’s only two full-service carriers, has passed into history after 36 years of operation to be placed un...
Dec 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
BYD to debut passenger EVs in South Korea in 2025
China’s electric vehicle giant BYD Co. will debut in the South Korean passenger car market next year with premium models in hopes of becoming ...
Nov 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT succeeds 5G NTN satellite communication
South Korea's KT Corp. and its satellite subsidiary KT SAT said on Monday their integration of KOREASAT 6 with a terrestrial 5G network, utilizing...
Sep 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Fed’s big rate cut spurs Korean firms to issue foreign bonds
South Korean companies rushed to issue foreign currency bonds after the US Federal Reserve lowered interest rates for the first time in more than fo...
Sep 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
South Koreans puzzled over rising seaweed prices despite bumper crop
Dried seaweed prices are rising at a fast pace despite handsome growth in production, leaving South Koreans puzzled over what is behind the steep pr...
Sep 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Mobis unveils airbags for purpose-built vehicles
Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s sixth-largest auto parts maker, on Thursday unveiled the industry’s first airbags for purpose-built vehic...
Jul 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS logs 5.8% return in Q1 led by US tech stock rally
National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, posted a 5.82% investment return for the first quarter ...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG CNS' marketing platform MOP surpasses 800 corporate customers
South Korea’s LG CNS Co., a cloud computing services arm of LG Corp., announced on Thursday that its Marketing Optimization Platform (MOP), la...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
STX to supply car CKD to Bangladeshi company
STX Corp., a South Korean general trading company, announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to supply the complete kno...
Mar 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
S.Korea, Kazakhstan agree to expand air transport rights
South Korea and Kazakhstan have agreed to expand air transport rights during the South Korea and Kazakhstan aviation talks held in Almaty, Kazakhsta...
Mar 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Daewoong Pharmaceutical digitizes DB of 800 mn chemical compounds
South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical announced on Monday that it has established a drug development system Daewoong AI System (DAISY) which combine...
Feb 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Genesis G80, GV70 electric models win Canada Car of the Year awards
Hyundai Motor Co. 's premium brand Genesis announced on Friday that its Electrified G80 and Electrified GV70 earned prizes at the 2024 Canadian Ca...
Feb 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
China’s BYD to enter South Korea’s passenger electric car market
China’s BYD Co., the world’s largest electric vehicle maker, is set to enter South Korea’s passenger EV market, setting off alarm ...
Feb 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Bulgogi & ramyun top Jeju Air's in-flight menu in 2023
South Korea'st budget carrier Jeju Air Co. announced on Monday that its most popular in-flight meals and cabin cafe items in 2023 were bulgogi deopb...
Jan 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Infrastructure
S.Korea to develop Batam airport as Indonesia's air hub
BATAM – State-run Incheon International Airport Corp. (IIAC) is accelerating the growth of Hang Nadim International Airport in Batam, Indonesi...
Nov 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
S.Korean airlines see 12.87 mn int’l passengers in Q3 2023
South Korean airlines’ international passenger traffic in the third quarter reached 85% of that over the same period in 2019, the year befor...
Oct 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Incheon Airport’s cumulative passengers surpass 800 mn
Incheon International Airport, which opened in 2001, has surpassed a cumulative total of 800 million passengers. Incheon International Airport Corpo...
Oct 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
LG Chem to sell polarizer businesses to Chinese peers for $800 mn
LG Chem Ltd., the parent of South Korea’s No. 1 battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd., will unload its polarizer businesses to two Chinese pla...
Sep 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Hyundai Rotem unveils ultra-large servo press line
Hyundai Rotem, a subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group and a South Korean railway system manufacturer, announced on Thursday that it held a demonstrat...
Aug 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Transys' car seats rank in top 3 by US market survey
A leading US consumer satisfaction survey has ranked car seats made by South Korea’s Hyundai Transys in the top three for the fourth consecuti...
Aug 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Jeju Air to buy 40 fuel-efficient Boeing passenger planes
South Korea's largest low-cost carrier Jeju Air Co. will buy 40 next-generation passenger planes and lease 10 other new aircraft from Boeing Co. wit...
Aug 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
S.Korea's Hanon Systems hits 'home run' with heat pump for EVs
Hanon Systems, a leading South Korean maker of automotive thermal management systems, posted surprising results in the second quarter in blowing awa...
Aug 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
S.Korea-China ferries resume passenger transport after hiatus of 43 months
The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries of South Korea announced on Thursday that the passenger ferry New Grand Peace is set to embark on Friday aftern...
Aug 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Insatiable Hyundai Motor aspires to lead India with SUVs, EVs
Hyundai Motor Group must become “the first mover” in India, which has emerged as the next fierce battlefield for global car makers after...
Aug 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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