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Korean banks to cut corporate loans for profitability

Korean banks to cut corporate loans for profitability

South Korea’s Hana Bank is set to reduce new corporate loans despite rising demand to improve profitability and soundness after having increas...

South Korea sets sights on fostering EDA tech to win HBM chip war

South Korea sets sights on fostering EDA tech to win HBM chip war

In an escalating war in the semiconductor industry, insiders know there’s one technology critical for gaining chip supremacy: Electronic desig...

Hanwha’s Flexell Space to supply satellite solar cell to Terran Orbital

Hanwha’s Flexell Space to supply satellite solar cell to Terran Orbital

Flexell Space, an in-house space solar cell-developing startup under South Korea’s Hanwha Systems Co., will supply its tandem flexible batteri...

Duty-free stores: Golden goose gone for Korean retailers

Duty-free stores: Golden goose gone for Korean retailers

South Korea welcomed a record-high number of post-pandemic foreign tourist arrivals for a single quarter in the first three months of this year, but...

S.Korea’s consumer goods exports to top $100 bn in 2024: KOTRA

S.Korea’s consumer goods exports to top $100 bn in 2024: KOTRA

South Korea is projected to reap more than $100 billion from selling the country’s consumer goods overseas this year. Exports of such products...

Upstage, Amazon to cooperate on AI solutions

Upstage, Amazon to cooperate on AI solutions

Upstage, South Korea’s artificial intelligence startup, announced on Thursday that it signed a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (S...

Shopee to ramp up Korean goods sales in Vietnam, Thailand

Shopee to ramp up Korean goods sales in Vietnam, Thailand

Shopee Pte. Ltd., an e-commerce operator, plans to quadruple sales of South Korean products in Vietnam and Thailand by 2025 aiming to expand its glo...

Woori Financial, Natixis to manage global private equity fund

Woori Financial, Natixis to manage global private equity fund

South Korea's Woori Bank and Woori PE Asset Management announced on Thursday that they have signed a "strategic business agreement for creating a ...

SK Bioscience to buy German vaccine maker IDT Biologika for $244 mn

SK Bioscience to buy German vaccine maker IDT Biologika for $244 mn

South Korea’s vaccine developer SK Bioscience Co. will acquire a controlling stake in the world’s top 10 vaccine firm IDT Biologika GmbH...

Amazon to back K-Beauty’s broader global reach

Amazon to back K-Beauty’s broader global reach

US e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com Inc. will offer South Korean cosmetics producers one-stop support to enable them to reach millions of customers ...

Jin Air earns Sustinvest ESG A grade

Jin Air earns Sustinvest ESG A grade

South Korea's low-cost carrier (LCC) Jin Air announced on Wednesday that it received an A in the Sustinvest ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) ...

Korean Air named Skytrax world's top 100 airlines

Korean Air named Skytrax world's top 100 airlines

Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc. have been selected for the 2024 World Airline Awards by UK-based aviation consultancy Skytrax on June ...

Korean PE funds shrink in 2023 for first time in 7 years

Korean PE funds shrink in 2023 for first time in 7 years

South Korean private equity investments declined last year for the first time since 2016 due to interest rate hikes, high inflation and the Korean w...

Korea's bet on US assets up on bull stocks, EV incentives

Korea's bet on US assets up on bull stocks, EV incentives

South Korea’s financial assets in the US hit a record high last year due to the US stock market rally and Korean companies’ capital inje...

LG Uplus launches generative AI ixi-GEN

LG Uplus launches generative AI ixi-GEN

South Korean major mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. officially launched its generative artificial intelligence model ixi-GEN on Tuesday, joining its bi...

Hanwha Life Financial Services gets A+ credit rating

Hanwha Life Financial Services gets A+ credit rating

South Korea's Hanwha Life Financial Services said on Tuesday it received an A+ (Stable) credit rating from Korea Ratings, becoming the first domes...

Doosan emerges as darling in Korea’s BBB bond market

Doosan emerges as darling in Korea’s BBB bond market

Doosan Co. is poised to raise up to 80 billion won ($58 million) in bond sales this week following its credit rating upgrade as the holding company ...

Booming AI industry boosts chip packaging equipment makers

Booming AI industry boosts chip packaging equipment makers

Global chip packaging equipment manufacturers are enjoying surging demand and skyrocketing share prices thanks to the rapid growth of the artificial...

Korean seafood giant Sajo acquires Foodist for $181 million

Korean seafood giant Sajo acquires Foodist for $181 million

Sajo Group, a South Korean seafood and fisheries conglomerate, has acquired Foodist Co., a domestic food ingredient and catering service provider, f...

LG Display bets big on Tandem OLED in AI computing era

LG Display bets big on Tandem OLED in AI computing era

LG Display Co., the world’s top organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV panel maker, is raising the stakes in Tandem OLED technology to stay ah...

HD KSOE eyes $3.4 bn worth of orders from France's CMA CGM

HD KSOE eyes $3.4 bn worth of orders from France's CMA CGM

South Korea’s largest shipbuilder, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE), is eyeing around $3.4 billion worth of orde...

E-Mart24 opens first store in Cambodia

E-Mart24 opens first store in Cambodia

South Korea's convenience store chain E-Mart24 Inc. announced on Sunday that it opened its first store in Boeung Keng Kang, a bustling district of P...

LG Innotek eyes $1.4 bn in automotive sensor sales by 2030

LG Innotek eyes $1.4 bn in automotive sensor sales by 2030

LG Innotek Co., South Korea’s leading mobile camera module maker, is upping the ante to lead the automotive sensing market with high-performan...

Hyundai Glovis enters LNG transport business with Woodside Scarlet Ibis

Hyundai Glovis enters LNG transport business with Woodside Scarlet Ibis

Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, is entering the liquefied natural gas transportation business wit...

d’Alba maker Bmonument, Memebox, Easytem line up for Korean IPOs

d’Alba maker Bmonument, Memebox, Easytem line up for Korean IPOs

South Korea’s promising beauty and healthcare device startups are looking to go public on the domestic bourse to scale up after gaining popula...

QCells wins 2GW solar panel deal for US community solar farms

QCells wins 2GW solar panel deal for US community solar farms

Hanwha Q Cell Co., better known as QCells in overseas markets, has signed a solar panel supply and partnership agreement for energy storage system (...

K-Sure to support Korean firms' participation in Vietnam's gas project

K-Sure to support Korean firms' participation in Vietnam's gas project

Korea Trade Insurance Corp. (K-Sure) announced that it will leverage medium- and long-term financial support to assist domestic companies in partici...

South Korea-Japan air travelers soar to 10 mn in first five months

South Korea-Japan air travelers soar to 10 mn in first five months

The number of air passengers traveling between South Korea and Japan has surpassed 10 million in the first five months of this year, setting a new r...

Mom's Touch adds two new restaurants in Mongolia

Mom's Touch adds two new restaurants in Mongolia

South Korean homegrown burger and chicken brand Mom's Touch & Co. announced on Friday that it has recently opened its sixth and seventh stores i...

Affinity to buy Korea's No. 2 car leasing firm for $591 mn

Affinity to buy Korea's No. 2 car leasing firm for $591 mn

Affinity Equity Partners will buy a 100% stake in South Korea’s second-largest car leasing company SK Rent-a-Car Co. for 820 billion won ($591...

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