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ESG
HMM joins UNGC to strengthen ESG management
HMM Co., a South Korean container shipping company formerly known as Hyundai Merchant Marine, said on Monday that it has joined the United Nations G...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, LG Elec target N.American air conditioner market at trade show
Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are vying for the North American market for air conditioners with their cutting-edge solutions in th...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
LG Electronics honored for resolving consumer complaints
LG Electronics Inc. on Monday said it was named an "excellent business for independently resolving consumer complaints" by the Korea Consumer Agency...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
South Korean companies rattled by activist shareholders
South Korea’s major companies are under attack by activist shareholders, who are exerting ever-increasing clout over critical corporate decisi...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK Ecoplant changes North American corporation name
SK Ecoplant Co., a construction company of S.Korea's SK Group, said on Monday that it would change the name of its North American corporation BETEK,...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LS Electric receives int'l certification for R&D process security
LS Electric Co., a South Korean electric power and automation equipment maker, has achieved a major milestone by obtaining international standard ce...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
South Korean biotech firms tap Middle East as next key market
South Korean biotech companies are speeding up their foray into the Middle East to tap oil money as they seek new growth engines beyond fossil fuels...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's Boryung receives EU GMP certification
South Korean pharmaceutical company Boryung announced that its production facility for anti-cancer injections in Yesan, South Chungcheong Province, ...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Aekyung commences mass production of eco-friendly plasticizers
Aekyung Chemical, an affiliate of South Korea's Aekyung Group, has begun mass-producing eco-friendly plasticizers derived from recycled waste plasti...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Lotte Ineos Chemical to expand vinyl acetate monomer plant
Lotte Ineos Chemical, South Korea's lone maker of acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomer (VAM), on Monday said it will expand its VAM output capacity...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Lotte Construction develops eco-friendly concrete
Lotte Engineering & Construction has developed eco-friendly concrete that can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 90%. In collaboration wit...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Daewoong receives approval for its GERD drug Fexuclue in Ecuador
Daewoong Pharmaceutical said Friday that it has obtained marketing authorization from Ecuador's National Agency for Health Regulation, Control and S...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
NCSOFT lays off 20% of US operation before new game release
NCSOFT Corp., South Korea’s major game developing and publishing company, has recently laid off about 20% of its North American operation, joi...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
SK Bioscience climbs two notches in ESG evaluation, receives BBB rating
SK Bioscience Co., a biopharmaceutical arm of South Korea's SK Group, announced it has received a BBB rating in its latest environmental, social, an...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Doosan Bobcat moves into European market with compact tractors
Doosan Bobcat's small tractors for agriculture and landscaping will enter the European market. After entering America's ground maintenance equipment...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
LG Uplus narrows operating profit gap with bigger rivals in 2022
LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, reported more than 1 trillion won ($814.2 million) in operating profit in 2022 for...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus, LS Electric partner to support S.Korea's small businesses
LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, said on Friday that it has entered into a partnership with LS Electric Co. to expa...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering ends fears over stock overhang
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a subholding company for shipbuilding, oil refining and machinery conglomerate HD Hyundai Co. ...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Prestige Biopharma submits clinical trial plan in Australia
Prestige Biopharma, a Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company with operations in South Korea and the US, has applied to the Australian clini...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
SK Ecoplant passes industry-first carbon reduction target verification
South Korea's construction and engineering company SK Ecoplant Co. said on Thursday that it has passed the greenhouse gas reduction target verificat...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
UK's Croda to buy Korean bio materials maker for $286 mn
Croda International Plc., a British specialty chemicals company, is set to acquire South Korean bio materials producer Solus Biotech Co. for some 35...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Jay Park's Won Soju ready to land in United States
"Won Soju" launched by a South Korean rapper Jay Park will be exported to the United States. Liquor company Won Spirits said on Thursday that it has...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Taihan Cable to build ultra-high voltage power grids in Germany
South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. on Thursday said it won two orders to build high-voltage power grids in Germany.The deals are with Ten...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Financial Group holds investment conference via metaverse
South Korea's KB Financial Group on Tuesday presented its investment philosophy to individual and institutional customers in the metaverse, a three-...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
S.Korea's Woowa Brothers launches professional service robot affiliate
Woowa Brothers, the parent company of South Korea's food delivery app Baedal Minjok, on Wednesday spun off its professional service robot unit into ...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
S.Korea's Samkang M&T undergoes relaunch with new name SK oceanplant
South Korea's Samkang M&T Co., a specialist in offshore wind plants and shipbuilding, has been renamed SK oceanplant under a strategy to raise t...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Lunit launches AI-based pathology analysis solution with US firm
South Korea's medical imaging startup Lunit said on Wednesday that it has launched Guardant360 TissueNext, an AI-based pathology analysis solution d...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical to export tech to British company
South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical has licensed a new drug candidate for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) to CS Pharmaceuticals (CSP) of the U...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean SMEs
SGC Solutions expands overseas sales channels for its brand Glasslock
South Korea's glassware maker SGC Solutions said Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea Small & Medium Bu...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Kakao Mobility enters Laos under biz strategy for Southeast Asia
South Korea's Kakao Mobility has entered Laos under a plan to use the country as a base for the transportation company's operations in Southeast Asi...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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