K-pop IP rights
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Retail
Korean dept stores to lure foreigners with K-pop, festival
South Korean department stores are set to launch various programs such as a festival and sales of K-pop star merchandise to attract foreign tourists...
Apr 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korean gov’t to export domestic tax service system abroad
South Korea's National Tax Service (NTS) is looking to export its world-renowned electronic tax administration system after successfully implementin...
Apr 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Content platforms
Netflix to inject $2.5 bn in Korean drama series, movies over next 4 years
WASHINGTON, D.C. – US streaming giant Netflix is slated to invest $2.5 billion in South Korea over the next four years to boost its cont...
Apr 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Asleep dreams big to help sleepless people worldwide find right treatment
Armed with artificial intelligence and big data technologies, Asleep hopes to find the best treatment for sleep-deprived people around the world wit...
Apr 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Korea Tourism Organization to host K-Tourist Festival in Japan
The Korea Tourism Organization announced on Thursday that it will hold a "K-Tourism Festival" on Apr. 21-22 in Hiroshima and Fukuoka, the key market...
Apr 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Obituary
K-pop group Astro's Moonbin found dead in his apartment
Moonbin, a member of K-pop group Astro, has died, South Korean police said on Thursday.According to the police and the music industry, his manager f...
Apr 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
S.Korean gov't to support domestic startups in Saudi Arabia entry
South Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups held on Wednesday the "K-Deep Tech Startup Meetup" event at Startup Alliance & Space in Gangnam dist...
Apr 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Aespa, other SM artists to join BTS' K-pop fan platform
SM Entertainment Co.'s artists such as aespa and NCT are set to join HYBE Co.'s fan engagement service., boosting the competitiveness of the platfor...
Apr 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte Department Store plans to open Line Friends pop-up store
South Korea's Lotte Department Store seeks to attract foreign tourists amid Golden Week holidays in Southeast Asia.Tourists from the region are expe...
Apr 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Hanjin to open pop-up store for S.Korean fashion brand in LA
South Korea's Hanjin Transportation, a logistics unit of Hanjin Group, announced on Wednesday that it will hold a pop-up event to promote domestic e...
Apr 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
What’s the next K-sensation after rise of 60-year-old K-ramen?
It was not easy for latecomer Samyang Foods Co. to come up with a recipe for its own instant ramen noodle 60 years ago when Japanese rival Nissin ...
Apr 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
S.Korean ramen's exports reach new heights amid K-content boom
Riding the wave of the K-content craze, South Korean ramen's overseas status is soaring. In the first quarter of this year, the ramen export value e...
Apr 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
HD Hyundai moves K-pop gala to Busan for World Expo bid
South Korea’s HD Hyundai Co. will move an annual K-pop concert to Busan this year to support the city’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo....
Apr 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korea's Musinsa promotes domestic fashion brands in Tokyo
South Korea's e-commerce fashion platform Musinsa announced on Friday that it opens a K-fashion brand pop-up store in Tokyo's Harajuku until April 1...
Apr 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
CJ Olive Young introduces Beauty Box filled with K-beauty products
South Korea's health and beauty store chain operator CJ Olive Young Co. announced on Thursday that it will introduce its K-beauty curation service c...
Apr 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
S.Korean Openedges’ chip IP licensed by Toyota affiliate Aisin
Openedges Technology, South Korean semiconductor design intellectual property (IP) platform, announced on Wednesday that it has entered into a vehic...
Apr 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
NongHyup opens office in Vietnam to strengthen K-food exports
South Korea's NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, announced on Wednesday that it has opened an office in Vietnam with pla...
Apr 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
TIMWORK lifts trophy at March D.Camp startup pitch competition
TIMWORK Inc., a South Korean digital construction plan management software developer, won first prize at D.Camp’s March startup pitch competit...
Apr 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Louis Vuitton to launch the third pop-up restaurant in S.Korea
The French luxury brand Louis Vuitton to open a pop-up restaurant in South Korea. This is the third one since May and September last year. Acco...
Apr 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea invests $763.4 mn in strategic tech IP like aerospace, robotics
The South Korean government will inject this year budget of 1 trillion won ($763.4 million) in intellectual property (IP)-related projects.The Presi...
Apr 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte Shopping: Resurrected in Indonesia after death in China
JAKARTA – On a hot spring day in March, Lotte Mart’s Gandaria City Mall hypermarket was as bustling with shopping Indonesians as usual.I...
Mar 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Kwangdong introduces new drug candidate for pediatric myopia
South Korean pharmaceutical company Kwangdong Pharmaceutical announced on Monday that it has signed a contract with Hong Kong-based Zhaoke Ophthalmo...
Mar 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK Energy wins first place in K-BPI gas station sector in Korea
SK Energy, an energy and petrochemical unit of South Korea's SK Group, has won first place for 17 consecutive years in the gas station sector of the...
Mar 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fiber & Textile
Cowell Fashion acquires Superdry’s Asia-Pacific IP rights for $50 mn
South Korea's innerwear company Cowell Fashion Co. has acquired the Asian rights to the British fashion brand Superdry for $50 million and plans to ...
Mar 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LS Cable wins $86 mn contract to supply submarine cables to Taiwan
LS Cable & System Ltd. announced on Thursday that it has won a contract worth about 110 billion won ($86 million) to supply submarine cables for...
Mar 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korea’s KCC develops AI-based color matching system
South Korea’s chemical and auto parts maker KCC Corp. on Monday said it developed the K-Smart system of using an artificial intelligence (AI)-...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Rights offerings
Hyundai Asan to sell $30.7 million worth of shares for capital restructuring
Hyundai Asan Co. under South Korean conglomerate Hyundai Group will raise 40 billion won ($30.7 million) in its seventh share sale since it was forc...
Mar 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
CGBio opens cosmetic surgery clinic in Bali using bio-medical tech
CGBio, a South Korean bio-renewable medical company, announced on Monday that it opened a medical esthetic clinic, called Nulook, in Bali, Indonesia...
Mar 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
S.Korea's SK Ecoplant, POSCO develop K-floating body with domestic tech
South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co. and POSCO on Wednesday said they secured basic design certification from the Norwegian classification body DNV for "K-...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Medical IP's X-ray image analysis software certified as medical device
Medical IP, a South Korean medical AI company, has announced that its artificial intelligence (AI) medical image analysis software "TiSepX Lung Volu...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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