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Korean games
Nexon to release The First Berserker: Khazan in China
South Korea’s online game developer Nexon Korea Corp. said on Monday it signed a deal with China's Tencent Games to publish its new action rol...
Dec 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Sono International seeks IPO in 2025 with $2.1 billion in corporate value
South Korea’s top resort operator Sono International Co. is seeking an initial public offering of its shares on the Korean market next year, r...
Dec 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Controversy brews over HYBE Chair Bang’s investment deal with PEFs
Bang Si-hyuk, founder and chairman of HYBE Co., the South Korean entertainment giant behind K-pop global sensations BTS and NewJeans, is embroiled i...
Nov 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea Zinc’s role questioned in SM Entertainment stock manipulation case
When OneAsia Partners, a Seoul-based private equity fund operator, revised part of its PEF Havana I’s articles of association on Feb. 14, 2023...
Nov 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea's HJ S&C eyes US Navy MRO market
HJ Shipbuilding & Construction Co. (HJ S&C) said on Wednesday it won a 124.7 billion won ($894 million) contract from the Defense Acquisit...
Nov 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Hyosung TNC mulls takeover of chemical affiliate’s specialty gas unit
Hyosung TNC Corp., the world’s top spandex maker, is considering taking over the specialty gas business of its chemical affiliate, news of whi...
Nov 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hyosung Chemical scraps specialty gas unit sale to IMM, STIC
Hyosung Chemical Corp. has failed to reach an agreement with a consortium of IMM Private Equity and STIC Investments Inc. to sell its specialty gas ...
Nov 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Biologics wins $668 million CDMO deal with European pharma
Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Wednesday it has signed two drug manufacturing contracts worth a combin...
Nov 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Alux's export contracts with US, Japan top $5 million
South Korean drone maker Alux Co. said on Monday its cumulative export contracts with the US and Japan have surpassed 7 billion won ($5 million). Th...
Nov 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
Samsung E&A wins $214 mn petrochem plant contract in Qatar
Samsung E&A Co. said on Friday that it won a contract for the RLP ethylene storage plant construction project in Qatar, valued at 300 billion wo...
Nov 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Korea’s DL Group to sell hotels for $462 mn in further restructuring
DL Group, South Korea’s petrochemical-to-construction conglomerate is putting some hotels on the market to raise an estimated 650 billion won ...
Nov 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hanwha Ocean wins $51.2 mn deal for two LNG carriers
Hanwha Ocean Co., South Korea’s third-largest shipbuilder, secured a new contract to build two LNG carriers, making it the domestic shipyard w...
Nov 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Dalton Investments raises stake in cosmetics ODM Kolmar
Dalton Investments Inc., a US-based activist fund, has secured a 5.02% stake in South Korea’s Kolmar Holdings Co., stoking speculation the wor...
Nov 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Taihan Cable secures $65 mn cable contract in US
South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. said on Tuesday its US sales subsidiary, TE USA, secured a long-term cable contract in the western US....
Nov 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Volpara to supply breast cancer SW to US Defense Health Agency
Lunit, a South Korean cancer diagnostics AI company, said on Monday its US subsidiary Volpara Health secured a 10 billion won ($7.5 million) contr...
Nov 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix, Samsung to cut legacy DRAM output as Chinese firms catch up
South Korea’s two leading memory chipmakers – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. – are moving to significantly reduce their...
Nov 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Mediaiplus aims to be the Amazon of clinical trials
Mediaiplus Inc., South Korea’s only provider of data analytics and contract research organization (CRO) matching services for clinical trials,...
Nov 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Hyundai may nearly double shipbuilding capacity in Vietnam
HD Hyundai Co., the world’s second-largest shipbuilder, is likely to nearly double its vessel construction capacity in Vietnam to meet surging...
Oct 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Czech anti-trust body puts signing of nuclear power deal on hold
The Czech anti-trust body put a temporary block on the conclusion of a contract with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) for the construction...
Oct 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Rights offerings
Korea Zinc to raise $1.8 bn in rights issues amid face-off with MBK
Korea Zinc Inc. will raise 2.5 trillion won ($1.8 billion) in rights issues in December following its share buybacks and allocate 20% of them to its...
Oct 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Samsung Securities lowers Samsung Electro-Mechanics target price
South Korea's Samsung Securities lowered its target price for Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. to 160,000 won ($120) from 210,000 won. The securit...
Oct 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Financial to use excess capital for share buybacks, dividends
KB Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s largest financial holding group, is set to use its excess capital for share buybacks and dividends next...
Oct 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung mobile chief to talk with Qualcomm on Galaxy S25 chips
Global smartphone leader Samsung Electronics Co.'s mobile business chief is expected to hold talks with senior executives of Qualcomm Inc. about s...
Oct 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea Zinc ups share buyback price, volume to counter MBK
Korea Zinc Inc. said on Friday it will buy back more shares at a higher price than originally planned to counter North Asia-focused private equity f...
Oct 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
MBK not to raise Korea Zinc tender offer price after regulator warning
MBK Partners will not raise its tender offer prices again for Korea Zinc Inc. and its affiliate Young Poong Precision Corp. after hiking them twice ...
Oct 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung Apologizes for Falling Behind in AI Chips Race
SEOUL—For a major maker of semiconductors such as Samsung Electronics Co. , the artificial-intelligence boom should be a time of great promise...
Oct 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai Motor, Waymo forge multi-year, strategic partnership
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Friday it has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Waymo LLC to jointly ...
Oct 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea Zinc, MBK face-off for control of zinc smelter takes new twist
The face-off between Korea Zinc Inc. and MBK Partners for control of the world's No. 1 lead and zinc smelter shows no sign of abating as the private...
Oct 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Artificial intelligence creates DRAM divide between hot sellers, laggards
In recent years, the big buzz across industries has been around the power of artificial intelligence, with some critics raising concerns about AI ex...
Oct 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Korea Investment lowers price target for Samsung Electro-Mechanics
Korea Investment & Securities lowered the target price of Samsung Electro-Mechanics by 14.3% on Sunday, citing weaker-than-expected third-q...
Sep 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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