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Bio & Pharma
JW Pharma to conduct Phase 3 trials in Thailand for gout treatment
South Korea's JW Pharmaceutical Corp. on Thursday said it received approval from Thailand's Food and Drug Administration to conduct Phase 3 clinical...
Sep 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung may use Qualcomm’s new AP for next Galaxy top model
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, may use Qualcomm Inc.’s new application processor (AP) for the top-end model ...
Sep 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Seoul envisions its own Hudson Yards in the city's east end
Seoul, the capital of South Korea for more than six centuries since the Joseon dynasty, is poised to revamp its city planning for the next century w...
Sep 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea to change rocket launch permit system to licensing model
South Korea will change its system for sending projectiles into space to a licensing model covering one to five years instead of requiring approva...
Sep 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
Korean financial markets tumble as Fed signals higher rates
South Korean stocks, bonds and its currency tumbled on Thursday as the US Federal Reserve gave indications of another interest rate hike this year a...
Sep 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Shinyoung Asset, Baillie Gifford launch global growth stock fund
Shinyoung Asset Management Co. has joined hands with Baillie Gifford & Co., a UK investment management firm, to launch a long-term growth stock ...
Sep 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
B2B, home appliance giant LG's new money spinner
A sense of crisis gripped South Korean home appliance giant LG Electronics Inc. two years ago when consumers tightened their purse strings on growin...
Sep 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Samsung SDI gets top int'l grade for zero-waste landfills
South Korea’s Samsung SDI Co. on Wednesday said all of its domestic business sites received the highest grade of Platinum in the Zero Waste to...
Sep 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy develops laser high-speed welding robot for LNG vessels
South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries said on Thursday that it has developed the maritime sector's first laser high-speed welding robot, aimed at s...
Sep 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver’s 'Cue:' throws down the gauntlet to MS Bing Chat
Naver Corp., South Korea’s dominant web portal operator, on Wednesday launched a beta service of its new generative artificial intelligence te...
Sep 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung tops US customer satisfaction in PC sector
Samsung Electronics Co. has been rated as the most satisfactory PC brand among US consumers, according to a survey by the American Customer Satisfac...
Sep 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hankook Tire cuts more jobs as it struggles to recover from fire
South Korea’s largest tire maker Hankook Tire & Technology Co. plans to cut more jobs through a voluntary retirement scheme as the company...
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Japanese steelmakers flood South Korea on back of weaker yen
Japanese steelmakers are expanding their market shares in South Korea, backed by the yen's drop against the Korean won to the lowest in eight years....
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
KEPCO's new CEO heralds electricity rate hikes, drastic reforms
South Korea’s near-monopoly power company Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) is expected to raise electricity rates and lessen its outsized re...
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung, UMich to research on Galaxy Watch’s fitness feature
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Wednesday that it is conducting research in collaboration with the University of Michigan to enhance fitness fe...
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
S.Korea's Cosmax wins halal award in Indonesia
Cosmax Inc., a South Korean original development manufacturer (ODM) of global cosmetics that also does research and development in the field, has wo...
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Genome & Co.’s bile duct cancer drug candidate enters Phase 2 trials
Genome & Company, a South Korean developer of microbiome-based drugs, on Tuesday said its GEN-001, a leading immunotherapy drug candidate for bi...
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Kakao Pay’s tie-up with Alipay spurs growth in China
BEIJING – Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., is rapidly growing in China’s fintech...
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK becomes top shareholder of US contract drug maker CBM
SK Pharmteco Co., a South Korean contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), said on Wednesday it has secured management rights of t...
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Daesang opens Jongga kimchi pop-up store in London
South Korean food maker Daesang Corp. has launched a pop-up store for its kimchi brand called Jongga in London, UK, the company announced on Wednesd...
Sep 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korea’s Lotte Shopping aims to double profit, seek new biz
Lotte Shopping Co., South Korea’s retail giant, aims to double its profit in three years by expanding its Southeast Asian operations and cemen...
Sep 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Dongwon founder vows to acquire Korea’s top container line HMM
Dongwon Group, South Korea’s leading seafood and logistics conglomerate, has vowed to acquire HMM Co., the country’s top container ship ...
Sep 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
K-food behind Japanese travelers' rush to S.Korea
South Korea is actively promoting itself as a foodies’ heaven to invite more Japanese tourists who have already contributed the most to the co...
Sep 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung’s canine love rewarded as its guide dog school turns 30
Back in the 1990s, South Korea was internationally denounced as a country where people eat dog meat.People hardly recognized nor paid attention to t...
Sep 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
K-pop without ‘K’ nurtured to evolve into global mainstream genre
Bang Si-hyuk, founder and chairman of South Korea’s entertainment powerhouse HYBE Co., has been leading a global girl group audition program i...
Sep 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Koreans’ US dollar selling spree continues in anticipation of weaker USD
US dollar investors in South Korea have not backed down from their shorting position of the currency despite the strengthening dollar against the Ko...
Sep 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Seoul Semiconductor secures key EV LED patents
Seoul Semiconductor Co., the world’s No. 3 light-emitting diode (LED) maker, has secured key patents for LEDs to be used in electric vehicles ...
Sep 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Alipay’s Ant becomes No.2 shareholder of S. Korea’s Toss Payments
Ant Group Co., the operator of China’s biggest mobile payment platform Alipay, has become the second-largest stakeholder of Toss Payments, the...
Sep 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
KAI's FA-50 participates in NATO Days 2023
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), South Korea's sole military aircraft manufacturer, announced on Monday that its FA-50GF light fighter expor...
Sep 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Netflix, S.Korea’s SK Broadband to settle longstanding legal dispute
Netflix Inc., the world’s top streaming service, and SK Broadband Co., South Korea’s No. 2 internet service provider, said on Monday tha...
Sep 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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