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Banking & Finance
Woori Bank to add two new branches in India 2024
South Korea's Woori Bank plans to open two new branches in India in the first half of next year. The bank announced on Tuesday it has obtained ...
Oct 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
CJ CheilJedang’s frozen rice sales surpass $74 mn in US
South Korean food company CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Monday the cumulative sales of its frozen rice products produced and sold in the United ...
Oct 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Kumho Petrochem, POSCO look to carbon nanotube JV, share swap
South Korea’s Kumho Petrochemical Co. and POSCO International Corp. are considering launching a joint venture to produce carbon nanotubes (CNT...
Oct 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Hanjin opens representative office in Mongolia
South Korea's Hanjin Transportation announced on Friday it has opened a representative office in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to expand its logistics hu...
Oct 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
CU to sell souvenir snack set for foreign tourists
South Korean convenience store chain CU next month will launch a souvenir snack set for foreign tourists.This will be the first product of its kind ...
Oct 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Biologics eyes new drugmaker acquisitions
BARCELONA -- Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s top contract manufacturing organization by capacity, is looking for acquisitions of new drugma...
Oct 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung Electro-Mechanics sees share price target cut
South Korean brokerages have downgraded their target prices for Samsung Electro-Mechanics, following a significant earnings shock in the third quart...
Oct 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Korean garment maker Hansae targets growth amid economic woes
HO CHI MINH CITY – South Korean garment maker Hansae Co. expects to see decent growth in sales and profits next year despite the global clothi...
Oct 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean SMEs
Neo Chair cements No. 1 spot as office chair brand on Amazon
Neo Chair, almost unheard of in its home country South Korea, is the top-selling office chair brand on Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce platfo...
Oct 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy Solution to start producing cheaper EV batteries
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, plans to manufacture cheaper EV batteries such as lithium ...
Oct 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Future M sees cathode material prices falling 12% in Q4
South Korean electric vehicle battery materials maker POSCO Future M Co. predicts that cathode material prices in the fourth quarter will drop as mu...
Oct 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
CS Wind eyes $2.2 bn sales in 2024 with Bladt
CS Wind Corp., a South Korean wind turbine tower manufacturer, expects its sales next year to double from last year’s to reach about 3 trillio...
Oct 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Hanmi Pharma’s Phase 3 trials for anti-obesity medicine approved
South Korea’s Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. on Monday said the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety approved Phase 3 clinical trials for the company&...
Oct 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2023
Alternative investment forum ASK 2023 to begin Oct. 25 in Seoul
Major institutional investors in South Korea and global asset managers will share their views on the world economy and asset allocation strategies a...
Oct 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia aim for 20% share in Middle East with EVs by 2030
Hyundai Motor Co. and its sibling Kia Corp. together target selling 550,000 cars annually in the Middle East by 2030 to control about 20% of the reg...
Oct 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korea's HMM creditors convert $739 mn bonds into shares
Shares of HMM Co., South Korea’s No. 1 container line, are likely to fall as its main creditors exchanged perpetual convertible bonds (CBs) an...
Oct 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Kakao Enterprise, Salesforce establish joint sales partnership
South Korea's Kakao Enterprise Corp. announced on Friday that it has formed a joint sales partnership with Salesforce Korea to support digital innov...
Oct 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
HDC IPark Mall opens S.Korea's first Nintendo pop-up store
South Korea’s HDC IPark Mall has opened Japanese game giant Nintendo’s first official pop-up store at the Yongsan location in Seoul fr...
Oct 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte Duty Free focuses energy on stores in Seoul
South Korea’s Lotte Duty Free, which removed its stores from Incheon International Airport in late June, is channeling its energy toward boost...
Oct 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor muscles into online used car market
Hyundai Motor Co. is slated to start selling certified used cars online from Oct. 24, three years after its announcement to enter the 30 trillion wo...
Oct 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Bioepis releases Soliris biosimilar in Europe
Samsung Bioepis Co., a biopharmaceutical research and development unit under South Korea's Samsung Group, is rolling out its latest product Epysqli,...
Oct 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Taeyoung to sell cash cow to shore up ailing construction arm
South Korea’s medium-sized business group Taeyoung Group said on Wednesday it is near to selling its cash cow logistics unit to shore up its f...
Oct 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Ably's amood to support K-fashion's expansion into Japan
South Korean fashion commerce platform Ably Corp. announced on Wednesday its Japanese shopping platform amood starts a one-stop service for domestic...
Oct 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Brookfield puts Conrad Seoul on market at over $370 mn
Brookfield Asset Management is seeking to sell off five-star hotel Conrad Seoul at more than 500 billion won ($369.5 million), tapping real estate i...
Oct 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Robot dog Spot patrols Kia auto plant late at night
South Korean carmaker Kia Corp. ’s plant in Hwaseong, a southern suburb of Seoul in Gyeonggi Province, is guarded late at night by Spot, a fou...
Oct 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
100 new South Korean AI vanguards to be unveiled
One hundred new South Korean startups at the vanguard of development of innovative AI technology will be unveiled later this month, according to The...
Oct 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, LG waging fierce war in OLED screen panels
South Korea’s Samsung Display and LG Display Co. are locked in a fierce war for supremacy in manufacturing OLED panels for monitors amid boomi...
Oct 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Hanwha Robotics produces kitchen automation robots
South Korea’s Hanwha Robotics on Sunday announced its signing of an agreement on the development and commercial use of a robotics system for k...
Oct 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
HSBC, BNP Paribas to be fined for naked short sales in S.Korea
South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) will fine the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd. (HSBC) and Bank BNP Paribas the large...
Oct 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Kia unveils low-cost EV models to reboot sales growth
Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, showcased new low-cost electric vehicles on Thursday to boost the slowing growth in clean automobile...
Oct 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
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- 5 Jollibee to buy chicken chain Norang Tongdak amid global K-food frenzy