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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Motor launches trade-in program to revive EV sales
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, said on Thursday it introduced a trade-in program in the country for electric vehicles to boos...
Mar 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Palliser Capital backs proxy fight with Samsung C&T
Palliser Capital, a London-based hedge fund, said on Sunday it will vote in favor of other activist shareholders’ proposals for Samsung C&...
Mar 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Kakao Ventures invests in AI optimization startup Omelet
Kakao Ventures Corp. has made an undisclosed amount of seed investment into Omelet, a South Korean early stage startup developing industrial operati...
Feb 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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North Korea
While the World Was Looking Elsewhere, North Korea Became a Bigger Threat
SEOUL—In March 2022, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walked out of a massive hangar wearing a bomber jacket and dark sunglasses. He pointed to t...
Feb 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
KHNP, Centrus sign LOI for nuclear fuel supply
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) announced on Monday that it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with the US-based Centrus Energy Corp. to...
Feb 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hyundai E&C likely to win Bulgaria’s nuclear project
South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) was picked as the preferred bidder for Bulgaria's new nuclear react...
Feb 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Innotek establishes $108 mn win-win growth fund
South Korea's LG Innotek announced on Friday that it held the 2024 Win-win Growth Partnership Day on the previous day.LG Innotek signed the 2024 Fai...
Feb 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
Defy convention with long-run plans to upvalue Korean stocks
The South Korean stock market has been on an upward swing in recent weeks, with many partly attributing it to President Yoon Suk Yeol’s pledge...
Feb 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor launches EVery care for electric cars
Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Thursday that it launched EVery Care, an integrated program that will take care of customers' electric vehicle (EV) l...
Feb 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
HD KSOE seeks to build nuclear power plant ships
HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) is hastening to advance into the nuclear power plant ship market in collaboration wit...
Feb 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Innocean, HYBE launch Seventeen project in Bangkok
Innocean Worldwide Inc., the global marketing communications arm of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Wednesday that it has launched a K-pop boy g...
Jan 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Elec opens its first overseas EV charger plant in Texas
South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. has opened its first overseas EV charger factory in Fort Worth, Texas. The move comes as the global home app...
Jan 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
UAE, Korea’s Naver Z join hands for virtual reality tech
South Korea’s Naver Z Corp., the operator of virtual world platform Zepeto, said Monday it will join forces with the United Arab Emirates&rsqu...
Dec 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
KHNP eyes Canada's nuclear energy project with ARC, NB Power
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) said on Wednesday it has signed a non-binding agreement with ARC Clean Technology Canada Inc. and New Bruns...
Nov 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Foreign visitors to S.Korea on course to top 10 mn milestone
The number of foreign visitors to South Korea spiked 158.3% to 1.23 million in October from the month previous, the Korea Tourism Organization said ...
Nov 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea to raise unskilled foreign worker visa quota to record high
South Korea is set to increase its visa quota for non-professional foreign workers to a record high and expand the sectors in which they can work to...
Nov 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
S.Korea-UK upgrade bilateral ties, sign deals on nuclear plants, chips
LONDON – South Korea and the UK have agreed to upgrade their bilateral relationship and closely cooperate in the defense, security and busines...
Nov 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Hyundai Motor Group spins off three in-house startups
Hyundai Motor Group announced on Tuesday it spun off three in-house startups Eficar, Hcharge Lab, and 3I Solution. Eficar provides a service th...
Nov 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hyundai Wia to defend against illegal drones
South Korea's second-largest automotive parts supplier Hyundai Wia Corp. plans to develop an anti-drone system (ADS) technology tailored to the uniq...
Nov 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean AI startups Allganize, Neurophet raise over $35 mn
South Korea’s artificial intelligence technology startups Allganize Inc. and Neurophet Inc. raised about 47 billion won ($35 million) in total...
Nov 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan Enerbility secures contract for cask design from KHNP
South Korea's Doosan Enerbility Co. announced on Thursday it secured a contract for dry storage systems of spent nuclear fuel comprehensive design s...
Nov 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
KHNP submits final bid for Czech Republic’s new nuclear power unit
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) has submitted a final bid to the Czech Republic’s state-run Elektrarna Dukovany II (EDU II) to cons...
Nov 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
ESTsoft, LG Energy sign AI human education program contract
South Korea's AI service specialist company ESTsoft Corp. announced on Tuesday it has signed an education content supply contract with LG Energy Sol...
Oct 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Johnson & Johnson more interested in Korean bio startups
Johnson & Johnson, a global pharmaceutical giant, showed more interest in South Korean bio startups with competitive innovation despite the rece...
Oct 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Israel-Hamas war takes toll on S.Korean pilgrims
The war in Israel and Gaza, which has paralyzed some parts of the Middle East, is also set to put a complete stop to South Koreans’ tours of t...
Oct 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
KHNP closes in on Romania’s nuclear plant refurbishment project
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) is eyeing to participate in a project to refurbish Romania-based Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant’s unit...
Oct 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Naver integrates points program with Samsung Pay
The online money and points of South Korea's Naver Pay, an affiliate of the country's largest web portal Naver Corp., can now be used at offline sto...
Sep 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
KT, BI Matrix to develop natural language processing AI
South Korea's KT Corp. is partnering with the intelligent solutions specialist company BI Matrix to develop technology that uses artificial intell...
Sep 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
US court rules in favor of Korea's nuclear reactor exports
A US district court on Monday dismissed Westinghouse Electric Corp.’s lawsuit against South Korean state-run companies to block their nuclear ...
Sep 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hyundai E&C, Poland bolster partnerships in nuclear power
Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., a major affiliate of South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co., is boosting its networks in the nuclear p...
Sep 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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