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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korean Army opens Future & Innovation Research Center at KAIST
South Korean army announced that the Korea Army Research Center for Future & Innovation, a defense-related advanced science and technology resea...
May 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Renault Korea seeks to establish R&D center in Busan
Renault Korea has announced plans to establish an R&D center in Busan.The Busan city government announced it will sign a "Business Cooperation A...
May 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
SK, Hana Financial groups to jointly develop credit rating model
South Korea’s SK Group and Hana Financial Group are jointly developing a next-generation credit rating model for the financially disadvantaged...
May 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Mirae Asset Securities acquires European ETF market maker GHCO
Mirae Asset Securities UK, the UK corporation of South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities, announced on Monday that it has acquired GHCO, a market-makin...
May 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT to open medical checkup center in Hanoi, Vietnam
South Korea's KT Corp. next year will launch a medical checkup center in Hanoi, Vietnam, under a strategy to advance its digital healthcare business...
May 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
POSCO International to set up EV parts factory in Poland
POSCO International, the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., plans to build an elect...
May 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pre-IPOs
Doosan begins pre-IPO funding round for US fuel cell unit HyAxiom
Doosan Corp., the holding company of South Korean plant-to-machinery conglomerate Doosan Group, is slated to attract $200 million for its hydrogen f...
May 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
CJ Logistics to establish global distribution center in Saudi Arabia
South Korea's CJ Logistics unveiled plans on Thursday to construct a Global Distribution Center (GDC) in Saudi Arabia, a burgeoning logistics hub in...
May 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Mirae Asset Securities joins Singapore Exchange's trading membership
South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities has made history as the first Korean financial investment firm to join the Singapore Exchange's (SGX) trading...
May 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Korean Air to launch in-flight wi-fi service for int'l routes
Korean Air Lines Co. announced on Tuesday that it will begin in-flight wi-fi service on selected international routes starting from June 1.Korean Ai...
May 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private debt
Korean app market One Store to raise $151 mn for Kiwoom's exit
One Store Co., a South Korean homegrown app store, is slated to attract more than 200 billion won ($151.3 million) as its 100 billion won loan, whic...
May 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG bonds
S.Korean green bonds draw strong demand amid ESG fever
South Korean green bonds eligible for government support enjoyed robust demand despite lower yields, as investors upgraded environmental, social, ...
May 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LS Group opens LS Dream Center in Hanoi for Korean-Vietnamese families
South Korea's LS Group said on Thursday that it has partnered with a domestic non-government organization (NGO) Cooperation and Participation in Ove...
May 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
POSCO International aims to join Top 10 global food enterprise
POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc. , has unveiled an ...
May 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Spooked by data leak, Samsung bans use of ChatGPT, other AI tools
Alarmed by a recent accidental data leak, Samsung Electronics Co. has banned one of its biggest business divisions from using ChatGPT and other gene...
May 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
KT launches two new AI serving robots
South Korea's KT Corp., said on Tuesday that it has unveiled two new AI service robots with upgraded features for enhanced driving stability and w...
May 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Meritz emerges fast to take on South Korea’s big financial companies
Back in the early 2000s, Meritz was an obscure, lesser-known insurance-related company in South Korea’s financial arena.Part of Hanjin Group, ...
May 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea's Kakao Pay to buy 51% of US financial firm Siebert
Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment and digital wallet service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., announced on Thursday it has signed an a...
Apr 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
S.Korea, UL Solutions sign agreement for supporting domestic startups
The South Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced on Thursday that it has signed a business agreement with global certification agency UL Sol...
Apr 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea, Airbus plan to open domestic tech research center
South Korea and European aircraft maker Airbus Group will open a technology research center in the country and discuss boosting cooperation in suppl...
Apr 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, MS open Gaming Hubs in London, New York
Samsung Electronics Co. has partnered with Microsoft to launch gaming hubs in the heart of London and New York. The two companies have installed Sam...
Apr 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
S.Korea’s Woori Financial profit up on interest rate margins
Woori Financial Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest financial holding company, logged growth in a quarterly net profit as larger interest rate...
Apr 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Elec gets open-source software security certification
South Korean electronics giant LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday that it has been recognized as a company that complies with the "Internationa...
Apr 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
CJ OliveNetworks opens S.Korea's first logistics center with 5G
South Korea's digital service company CJ OliveNetworks on Thursday said it set up the mobile communications network "Ieum 5G" exclusively for busine...
Apr 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korean firms applies for record-high 76,592 patents abroad in 2022
The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) on Thursday said the number of patents filed overseas by domestic companies last year set a record-hi...
Apr 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Research & Development
POSCO Holdings opens new R&D center in Pohang
POSCO Holdings said on Thursday that it has opened a headquarters for POSCO N.EX.T Hub, which will lead the R&D efforts for the entire POSCO G...
Apr 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Financial Chairman to hold overseas IR in Japan
Shinhan Financial Group's Chairman Jin Ok-dong is set to embark on his first overseas business trip since taking office as chairman last month. From...
Apr 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Hyundai donates medical wearable robot to support rehabilitation
Hyundai Motor Co. donated on Wednesday two medical wearable robots to Asan Medical Center in the south of Seoul for "gait rehabilitation robot thera...
Apr 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
IGIS, KKR delay plan to set up Seoul-based real estate JV
IGIS Asset Management Co., the largest real estate investment firm in South Korea, and US private equity giant KKR & Co. have indefinitely postp...
Apr 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
POSCO International to transform into green company by 2030
POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., on Thursday unvei...
Apr 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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