Deep Blue Forum 2023
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Aerospace & Defense
KAI seals $700 mn FA-50 fighter jet export deal with the Philippines
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) on Tuesday signed a $700 million contract to supply 12 FA-50 fighter jets to the Philippines, marking the larg...
Jun 04, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Europe looms large as K-beauty brands look to blue ocean; shares rise
South Korea’s beauty industry has been reaping decent gains from traditionally strong markets such as China and the US – the world&rsquo...
May 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Korea Investment & Securities to sell Goldman Sachs funds
Korea Investment & Securities Co. said on Tuesday it is set to sell funds operated by Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP in South Korea, offering...
May 06, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG takes on Big Tech AI in reasoning with Exaone Deep
LG AI Research, the artificial intelligence (AI) research and development unit of South Korea's LG Group, has unveiled Exaone Deep, an open-source A...
Mar 18, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hanwha develops cutting-edge stealth paint for next-generation warships
Hanwha Ocean Co., a leading South Korean warship builder, has developed and tested an advanced stealth paint designed for the country’s KDDX n...
Mar 11, 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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Energy
SK Innovation E&S to secure 10 mn tons of LNG to compete with BP, Shell
SK Innovation E&S (SKI E&S), the natural gas business unit of South Korea’s SK Innovation Co., is set to begin an LNG trading business...
Feb 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hyundai Motor taps ex-CPPIB private equity head Suyi Kim for board role
Hyundai Motor Co. has tapped Suyi Kim, former private equity head of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Benjamin Tan, an ex-portfo...
Feb 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
EQT targets healthcare, technology, business service providers in Korea
EQT, the largest private equity firm in Europe, is setting its sights on healthcare, technology companies and business service providers in South Ko...
Feb 14, 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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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT to sell financial security unit for $59 mn for restructuring
South Korea’s KT Corp. is set to sell Initech Co., its Kosdaq-listed financial security unit, for 85 billion won ($59.1 million) as the leadin...
Jan 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE wins $2.6 bn order for 12 container ships
South Korea’s largest shipbuilder HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) said on Thursday it got 3.716 trillion won ...
Jan 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s export growth at 14-month low, adds to BOK rate cut views
South Korea’s export growth fell to a 14-month low in November with shipments to the world’s two biggest markets the US and China down, ...
Dec 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Latvian President Rinkēvičs seeks closer ties with S.Korea in bio, defense
Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs, who is on a four-day working trip to South Korea, said on Friday he hopes for deeper cooperation between the two...
Nov 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
LS Electric shares jump on $358mn HVDC transformer order news
LS Electric Co., a South Korean industrial energy facility and systems supplier, is expected to sign a 500 billion won ($358 million) deal with a GE...
Nov 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Gaon Cable takes over LS Cable & System's US arm
Gaon Cable Co. said on Tuesday it has taken over the US arm of parent company LS Cable & System Ltd. to beef up its business of mid-to-low volta...
Nov 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG to expand appliance subscriptions to India to speed up leasing business
LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, is considering expanding its subscription service into new overseas markets, such as I...
Nov 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sports
Global sportswear brands race to ride on Korea’s running craze
Global sportswear makers have stepped up competition in South Korea to take advantage of the country’s growing running craze with major brands...
Nov 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Fila sportswear brand downsizes loss-making US business
South Korean-owned sportswear brand Fila said on Tuesday it scaled back its loss-making US business to improve earnings through a restructuring in N...
Nov 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
South Korea to designate Jeju as flying taxi pilot service zone
South Korea will designate its resort island Jeju a test operation zone for flying taxis as part of the country’s national urban air mobility ...
Oct 15, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign bonds
Korea to join FTSE Rusell bond index to attract $66 bn inflows
South Korea will be included in a global major bond index next year to attract an estimated $66 billion in capital inflows to Asia’s fourth-la...
Oct 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
KIS hosts 2024 Stifel Research Forum in Seoul
Korea Investment & Securities announced on Tuesday that it hosted analysts from Stifel Financial Corp. at its headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, fo...
Oct 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai's accumulated production hits 100 mn unit milestone
Hyundai Motor has achieved the 100 million-unit milestone for its accumulated production 57 years after its inception, led by the Avante compact sed...
Sep 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
KRX launches Korea Value-up Index featuring 100 best practice firms
South Korea’s securities exchange operator, Korea Exchange, launched a new corporate value-up index on Tuesday, a key plank for the government...
Sep 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion chairman announces venture into CDMO market
South Korea’s biosimilar maker Celltrion Inc. will venture into the contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) market, the com...
Sep 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai IONIQ 6 named best EV by Kelley Blue Book
Hyundai Motor Co.'s electric sedan IONIQ 6 has been named the best electric vehicle (EV) by Kelley Blue Book, the US vehicle valuation and automotiv...
Sep 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LG Group publishes 2023 ESG Report
LG Group announced on Thursday that it has published the "2023 ESG Report," detailing its sustainability management achievements in 2023 and its fut...
Sep 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korean travel retailers face downturn without Chinese big spenders
Before COVID-19 swept the world, South Korea’s top two travel retailers Lotte Duty Free and Shilla Duty Free Shop ascended to the world’...
Sep 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
BGF Retail, Deeping Source to co-work on smart convenience stores
BGF Retail Co., the operator of South Korea’s leading convenience store chain CU, said on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of understand...
Aug 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
BGF Retail’s CU looks beyond Kazakhstan deep into Central Asia
Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country 27 times the area of South Korea, did not have any modernized convenience stores until early this year.The count...
Aug 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Lee Jae-myung to meet with top business leaders this week ahead of G7 summit
- 2 Korea to allow non-profits to buy bad consumer loans
- 3 LG to drive future growth in emerging markets with battery prowess
- 4 South Korean President Lee, Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba seek closer ties
- 5 Naver Ventures to plant flag in Silicon Valley with TwelveLabs bet