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Korean Air to introduce new planes, spend $1.7 bn on safety

Korean Air to introduce new planes, spend $1.7 bn on safety

Korean Air Lines Co., the country’s flag carrier, plans to bring in new airplanes and spend $1.7 billion on safety measures after a recent spa...

EQT Partners to invest $1.4 bn in Korea's No. 2 physical security firm

EQT Partners to invest $1.4 bn in Korea's No. 2 physical security firm

Sweden’s EQT Partners AB is set to acquire a 36.87% stake in South Korean security services provider SK Shieldus Co. from a consortium led by ...

Dongwon Industries reborn as holdings company after 53 years

Dongwon Industries reborn as holdings company after 53 years

Korea's seafood giant Dongwon Industries on Wednesday said its completed merger with Dongwon Enterprise has given their parent Dongwon Group a new h...

Public-private battery alliance launched to source critical minerals

Public-private battery alliance launched to source critical minerals

The South Korean government, in tandem with the private sector, launched a battery alliance on Tuesday in a bid to support the companies in sourcing...

S.Korea prepares to launch $7.6 bn stock market stabilization fund

S.Korea prepares to launch $7.6 bn stock market stabilization fund

South Korea last week completed the process needed to launch a stock market stabilization fund of 10.76 trillion won ($7.6 billion). The timing for ...

Korea's POSCO gets greener via integrated CO2-free brand

Korea's POSCO gets greener via integrated CO2-free brand

Korea's POSCO has introduced the integrated brand Greenate to symbolize the commitment of the nation's top steelmaker to achieve carbon neutrality b...

Foreign PE firms on hunt for Korea Inc. with strong dollar

Foreign PE firms on hunt for Korea Inc. with strong dollar

Foreign private equity firms have taken advantage of the strong dollar to dominate corporate acquisition deals in South Korea, adding to expectation...

Korea’s 1st export decline in 2 years dims BOK’s big-step rate hike outlook

Korea’s 1st export decline in 2 years dims BOK’s big-step rate hike outlook

South Korea’s exports fell for the first time in two years in October, posting a trade deficit for seven months in a row – the clearest ...

Korea's Meritz Group likely to sell off its asset management arm

Korea's Meritz Group likely to sell off its asset management arm

South Korea’s Meritz Financial Group Inc. is poised to sell off its subsidiary Meritz Asset Management Co., The Korea Economic Daily understoo...

Korea should open retail electricity market for renewables

Korea should open retail electricity market for renewables

South Korea on Oct. 26 officially launched the carbon neutrality commission based on laws for green growth, which took effect last March, amid the g...

Korea's SK Chemicals to make chemically recycled food containers

Korea's SK Chemicals to make chemically recycled food containers

South Korea's SK Chemicals on Tuesday said it has joined forces with Poolinglim P&P to make the nation's first food containers using chemically ...

Korea's underwear giant BYC asked to open accounting books

Korea's underwear giant BYC asked to open accounting books

Insider trading without due process.This is what South Korea's Truston Asset Management, the No. 2 stakeholder of underwear giant BYC with 8.13%, ha...

Korea’s KHNP inks nuclear power plant deal with Poland

Korea’s KHNP inks nuclear power plant deal with Poland

Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) signed an initial agreement for a nuclear power plant in Poland, paving the way to win an expected $30 bill...

EcoPro BM to build battery materials plant in Canada

EcoPro BM to build battery materials plant in Canada

EcoPro BM Co., South Korea’s leading battery material producer, is set to build a plant in Canada with a $704 million investment in a partners...

Domino’s Korea to use third party delivery agents, the franchise's first case

Domino’s Korea to use third party delivery agents, the franchise's first case

It took a whole year for Domino’s Korea to convince the Michigan-based delivery pizza behemoth for an exemption to its corporate guidance of u...

Korea's stock deposits dip to lowest point since July 2020

Korea's stock deposits dip to lowest point since July 2020

Monthly average deposits for stock investment in South Korea are poised to drop below 50 trillion won ($35.1 billion) for the first time since July ...

Korea’s Peak Bio makes Nasdaq debut via SPAC deal with Ignyte

Korea’s Peak Bio makes Nasdaq debut via SPAC deal with Ignyte

Peak Bio Co., a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, is debuting on the Nasdaq through a merger with US blank cheque company Ignyte Acquisition C...

BOK to ease Legoland developer default-led credit crunch

BOK to ease Legoland developer default-led credit crunch

South Korea’s central bank joined rescue moves to improve liquidity in the local bond market and alleviate the fallout from a debt default by ...

Vietnamese MZers ensnared by K-beauty, K-fashion, K-everything

Vietnamese MZers ensnared by K-beauty, K-fashion, K-everything

HANOI – Vietnam’s young people are avid fans of Korean culture, collectively known as Hallyu. Trang, a 21-year-old college student, is o...

Korea to face more headwinds after Q3 growth hits 1-yr low

Korea to face more headwinds after Q3 growth hits 1-yr low

The South Korean economy grew at its slowest pace of the year in the third quarter on weak net exports, adding to concerns over a further slowdown i...

Korea Post's insurance arm uses buyout, senior debt as core strategies

Korea Post's insurance arm uses buyout, senior debt as core strategies

Korea Post’s insurance bureau will maintain its core-satellite strategy in private equity and debt investments for both stable revenue streams...

Coupang launches ultra-fast Rocket Delivery service in Taiwan

Coupang launches ultra-fast Rocket Delivery service in Taiwan

Coupang Inc., South Korea’s answer to global e-commerce giant Amazon.com, said on Wednesday it has launched its ultra-fast delivery service in...

Korea's $35 bn plan yet to ease Legoland default woes

Korea's $35 bn plan yet to ease Legoland default woes

South Korea’s $35 billion rescue plan provided a temporary painkiller to the domestic bond markets rattled by Legoland Korea developer’s...

Korea must embrace diversity to sustain K-culture: Sam Richards

Korea must embrace diversity to sustain K-culture: Sam Richards

When Penn State University sociology professor Sam Richards introduced Korean pop culture into his lectures three years ago, he compared its power t...

Korea's Mirae Asset to invest $200 mn in Musk’s Twitter deal

Korea's Mirae Asset to invest $200 mn in Musk’s Twitter deal

Mirae Asset Financial Group is set to chip in some $200 million toward Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. in acquisiti...

Robust consumer spending in South Korea despite economic downturn

Robust consumer spending in South Korea despite economic downturn

A buyer who works for the men's fashion division of a South Korean department store had trouble sleeping ahead of the fall sale that ran from Sept. ...

South Korea on course for seventh month of trade deficit

South Korea on course for seventh month of trade deficit

South Korea is poised to post a trade deficit for the seventh straight month in October, which would mark the longest period of shortfalls in 25 yea...

Korea’s FTC to toughen reviews on platform sector M&As

Korea’s FTC to toughen reviews on platform sector M&As

South Korea’s antitrust body is set to strengthen reviews on acquisitions for different businesses in the platform industry to resolve the pro...

Goldman taps TPG Korea's Lee as Seoul office PE head

Goldman taps TPG Korea's Lee as Seoul office PE head

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is set to hire Lee Seung-june, managing director at US investment firm TPG's Seoul office, as Goldman Sachs' private equity...

CJ ENM’s TVing looks beyond Korea with Yonder, other K-drama series

CJ ENM’s TVing looks beyond Korea with Yonder, other K-drama series

South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co.’s over-the-top streaming platform TVing is taking its original sci-fi drama series Beyond the...

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