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Korean won touches 18-month low as Fed may raise rates sooner

Korean won touches 18-month low as Fed may raise rates sooner

South Korea’s won currency hit a 1-1/2-year low as the US Federal Reserve signaled the central bank may raise interest rates sooner than expec...

Lotte, Shinsegae compete head-on for Ministop Korea

Lotte, Shinsegae compete head-on for Ministop Korea

South Korea's two retail heavyweights Lotte and Shinsegae are in head-to-head competition for the country's fifth-largest convenience store chain Mi...

LG Chem, China’s Huayou Cobalt to build battery metal JV in Korea

LG Chem, China’s Huayou Cobalt to build battery metal JV in Korea

South Korea’s top chemical maker LG Chem Ltd. will partner with China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. to launch a battery material joint ve...

Korea’s CHA Biotech to triple US CDMO capacity

Korea’s CHA Biotech to triple US CDMO capacity

CHA Biotech, South Korea’s stem cell therapeutics developer, is set to expand its biomaterials contract development and manufacturing organiza...

Export-Import Bank of Korea eyes $3 bn global bond sale

Export-Import Bank of Korea eyes $3 bn global bond sale

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) is planning to sell up to $3 billion worth of new global bonds this week, tipped to be the largest-ever bond...

Convergence, metaverse, green: Korea Inc.’s themes at CES 2022

Convergence, metaverse, green: Korea Inc.’s themes at CES 2022

South Korea’s major companies are showcasing robots, mobility and the metaverse rather than cutting-edge models of their conventional products...

Korea mulls measures on Indonesia’s coal export ban

Korea mulls measures on Indonesia’s coal export ban

South Korea is preparing measures to secure coal as Indonesia, the world’s largest supplier of thermal coal, banned exports of the commodity t...

Korean dental implant maker hit by $160 mn embezzlement

Korean dental implant maker hit by $160 mn embezzlement

Trading in shares of South Korea's top dental implant manufacturer Osstem Implant Co. was suspended on the Kosdaq market on Monday, after the compan...

SK Telecom and KT to compete in AI chipmaking 

SK Telecom and KT to compete in AI chipmaking 

SK Telecom Co. and KT Corp. are poised to go head to head in manufacturing chips for artificial intelligence. The telecom giants will utilize their...

Korea to join Egypt’s 1st nuclear power plant project

Korea to join Egypt’s 1st nuclear power plant project

South Korea is set to participate in Egypt’s first nuclear power plant project built by Russia as a state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power ...

Korea 2021 steel output set to top 70 mn tons on supercycle

Korea 2021 steel output set to top 70 mn tons on supercycle

South Korea’s steel output last year was estimated to have topped 70 million tons as the industry enjoyed a steel supercycle for the first tim...

Korea 2021 exports hit record on strong sales of key products

Korea 2021 exports hit record on strong sales of key products

South Korea’s exports last year hit a record on strong sales of key products such as semiconductors, automobiles and petrochemicals.Exports su...

LG Energy to heat up Korea’s record IPO market in 2022

LG Energy to heat up Korea’s record IPO market in 2022

South Korea’s initial public offering market is expected to set a record in 2022, heating up from the start of the year as LG Energy Solution ...

Netmarble joins P2E market with ITAM takeover

Netmarble joins P2E market with ITAM takeover

Netmarble Corp. is in discussion with blockchain gaming and NFT platform ITAM Games for a merger and acquisition deal. The move signals Korea's larg...

Korea’s SK Geo Centric, Japan’s Tokuyama to set up IPA JV

Korea’s SK Geo Centric, Japan’s Tokuyama to set up IPA JV

South Korea’s leading petrochemical company SK Geo Centric Co. and Japan’s chemicals producer Tokuyama Corp. plan to found a joint ventu...

POSCO mothballs Korea’s oldest blast furnace for carbon neutrality

POSCO mothballs Korea’s oldest blast furnace for carbon neutrality

Park Tae-joon, the late honorary chairman of POSCO Co., and other key founding members of the global steel giant celebrated on June 9, 1973, when So...

NH, KB ranked top S.Korean equity, debt underwriters

NH, KB ranked top S.Korean equity, debt underwriters

Fundraising via initial public offerings and rights issues in South Korea more than doubled to 27.2 trillion won ($23 billion) in 2021 from a year a...

Korea’s Ants dump single-day record $2.7 bn shares, turn eyes overseas

Korea’s Ants dump single-day record $2.7 bn shares, turn eyes overseas

South Korea’s retail investors on Tuesday dumped 3.16 trillion won ($2.7 billion) worth of shares on the country’s two main stock market...

Affinity picks Goldman as adviser for Burger King Korea, Japan sales

Affinity picks Goldman as adviser for Burger King Korea, Japan sales

Affinity Equity Partners has chosen Goldman Sachs as its adviser for the planned sale of its entire stakes in Burger King’s operations in Kore...

Korea’s IPO market renews record highs

 Korea’s IPO market renews record highs

South Korea’s initial public offering market continues to rewrite history this year. More than 20 million people have participated in the...

China’s tighter grip on supply chain hurts Korean battery makers

China’s tighter grip on supply chain hurts Korean battery makers

While the recent urea crisis laid bare South Korea’s heavy dependence on China for the basic raw material, concerns are growing that the count...

S.Korea's car output tumbles to lowest in 17 years

S.Korea's car output tumbles to lowest in 17 years

South Korea's car output in 2021 is estimated to have tumbled to its lowest level in 17 years as a global shortage of semiconductors slowed down pro...

HK inno.N’s K-CAB a blockbuster drug with $843 million exports

HK inno.N’s K-CAB a blockbuster drug with $843 million exports

South Korea’s HK inno.N Corp. has signed a 640 billion won ($540 million) contract to license out its technology for K-CAB, a gastroesophageal...

Korea battery makers suffer under growing China dominance

Korea battery makers suffer under growing China dominance

South Korean battery manufacturers are suffering from the growing dominance of their Chinese competitors in the world’s electric vehicle marke...

Korea’s No.1 bakery franchise successfully settles in US

Korea’s No.1 bakery franchise successfully settles in US

Paris Baguette, South Korea’s top bakery franchise, has successfully settled in the US market, paving the way to expand its business throughou...

Naver Webtoon to acquire Korea’s virtual human maker

Naver Webtoon to acquire Korea’s virtual human maker

Naver Webtoon Ltd., the digital comics platform of South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp., is set to acquire the management rights of d...

VCs in Korea shell out in search of next unicorns

VCs in Korea shell out in search of next unicorns

2021 has been a heyday for Korea’s startup ecosystem – especially for the VCs that invest in it. In the first three quarters of this ye...

Kosdaq Listed Companies Association announces top Kosdaq blue chips

Kosdaq Listed Companies Association announces top Kosdaq blue chips

The Kosdaq Listed Companies Association of South Korea announced its top Kosdaq blue chips during its 13th annual award conference held on Dec. 16...

Unicorns like Socar and Kurly to dominate Q2 IPOs

Unicorns like Socar and Kurly to dominate Q2 IPOs

Korea’s first mobility unicorn Socar and an online grocery delivery service operator Kurly Inc. are scheduled to begin the process of an IPO e...

Korea's gaming industry turns to blockchain, unwavered by Seoul’s policy

Korea's gaming industry turns to blockchain, unwavered by Seoul’s policy

Come next year, Korea’s online game developers are poised to release a number of games on blockchain platforms.The companies have lined up the...

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