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Travel & Leisure
Japanese travelers top list of reservations to visit Seoul during BTS Festa
Trip.com, a South Korean travel platform, announced on Wednesday that the most frequent overseas travelers to Seoul during the “BTS Festa&rdqu...
Jun 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor to collect $5.9 bn in dividends from abroad for EV push
Hyundai Motor Group’s overseas subsidiaries will repatriate $5.9 billion in dividends in total to their parent in South Korea this year to hel...
Jun 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai's Kona Electric nears 300,000 in cumulative sales
Kona Electric, the best-selling Korean electric vehicle (EV) of Hyundai Motor Co.'s compact sports utility vehicle (SUV), is on the verge of reachin...
Jun 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
KB Financial, Sompo Japan team up for boosting nursing care services
South Korea's KB Financial Group and Japan's Sompo Holdings announced on Friday a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on nursing care s...
Jun 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korean golf club, apparel markets face decline in post-pandemic era
South Korea’s golf equipment and apparel markets enjoyed a boom during COVID-19. But they are facing a downturn this year amid the growing pop...
Jun 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
US emerges key to Korea’s nuclear power plants exports to Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, which is seeking to build two 1.4 gigawatts (GW) nuclear power plants, is demanding that the US allow uranium enrichment, according to...
Jun 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Financial chief in Europe to meet with BNP Paribas, investors
Jin Ok-dong, chairman of Shinhan Financial Group Co., is off to Europe for investor relations sessions with its shareholders, including BNP Paribas ...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Mirae Asset Securities, Near Protocol team up for blockchain techs
South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities announced on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for collaborative research in bloc...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Korean battery maker SK On attracts $400 mn from Hillhouse
South Korean battery maker SK On Co. has secured $400 million from Hillhouse, a Singapore-headquartered asset management firm, investment banking so...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
S.Korea to ease regulations for foreign investor in domestic market
South Korea is set to raise the annual cap for individuals' overseas fund transfers without prior notice from $50,000 to $100,000, thereby easing th...
Jun 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
S.Korea to design proven type reactor of nuclear fusion power
South Korean government has initiated the design phase for a nuclear fusion power proven type reactor, taking a significant step toward harnessing n...
Jun 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG, FuriosaAI to jointly develop next-generation AI chip
LG AI Research Institute announced on Wednesday its strategic alliance with FuriosaAI, South Korea’s fabless chip designer. The partnership ...
Jun 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Team from KAIST wins Quadruped Robot Challenge of UK
A team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has won the Quadruped Robot Challenge of the UK, easily beating models fr...
Jun 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix launches portable SSD Beetle X31
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, unveiled its latest product, the Beetle X31, a portable Solid State Drive (SSD) ...
Jun 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Yanolja teams up with SE Asia's largest travel platform
South Korea's tourism platform unicorn Yanolja announced on Monday that it will expand its overseas travel services by linking with Traveloka, a ren...
Jun 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Capital raising
HYBE in talks to raise $380 million to reach beyond K-pop: Bloomberg
HYBE Co., the South Korean entertainment powerhouse behind BTS, is said to be seeking to finance about 500 billion won ($380 million) to bring more ...
Jun 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS vows to raise alternative investment ratio, cut bond purchases
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest public pension fund, plans to raise the ratio of its alternative...
Jun 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korean overseas card spending near pre-COVID-19 levels
South Korean residents’ overseas card use jumped in the first quarter to nearly recover levesl before the outbreak of COVID-19 on rising inter...
May 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Webcash to accelerate overseas expansion as B2B fintech
South Korea's Webcash Group announced on Tuesday that it will enter the overseas market with its B2B fintech and software-as-a-service (SaaS) soluti...
May 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung takes steps toward XR device processor chips
Samsung Electronics Co. has been taking steps to develop extended reality (XR) device processor chips to challenge Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and Go...
May 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
S.Korea’s popular MMORPGs go abroad for profitability
South Korean game developers target overseas markets for their locally hit massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) to increase pro...
May 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia team up with 11 universities for vehicle electrification
South Korean auto giant Hyundai Motor Co. and its sister company Kia Corp. are joining forces with leading South Korean universities to pioneer adva...
May 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
S.Korea's UAM group to develop tourism transportation on southern coast
Urban air transportation (UAM) in South Korea will open a tourism road on the country's southern coast, which is dubbed "the nation's Mediterranean ...
May 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
BTS 10th anniversary stamps sell out online in 3 hours
The online pre-sale of K-pop band BTS' 10th anniversary stamp sold out early.According to the Korea Post on Wednesday, the online pre-sale of BTS' 1...
May 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai completes Nürburgring 24 Hours for 8th consecutive year
South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Monday that its Elantra N TCR (known domestically as Avante N TCR) and i30 Fastback N Cup Car triumphed...
May 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
UAE state funds gear up for $30 bn S.Korean investment
Senior officials of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and other major sovereign funds of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) met with executives ...
May 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
S.Korea’s popular donut brand Knotted to enter US market
South Korean lifestyle hospitality startup Good Food For Good (GFFG) announced on Wednesday a strategic plan called "New GFFG 2.0." The plan aims to...
May 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Mirae Asset Securities acquires European ETF market maker GHCO
Mirae Asset Securities UK, the UK corporation of South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities, announced on Monday that it has acquired GHCO, a market-makin...
May 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
AskUp aims to make life more convenient, even with highball recipes
Amid the generative artificial intelligence technology sensation, businesses scramble to get creative in using AI to bolster their sales, and a Sout...
May 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Blockchain
BOK, Samsung to develop offline CBDCs using Galaxy devices
South Korea’s central bank and Samsung Electronics Co. have joined hands to further advance the country’s offline central bank digital c...
May 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Lee Jae-myung to meet with top business leaders this week ahead of G7 summit
- 2 Korea to allow non-profits to buy bad consumer loans
- 3 LG to drive future growth in emerging markets with battery prowess
- 4 South Korean President Lee, Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba seek closer ties
- 5 Naver Ventures to plant flag in Silicon Valley with TwelveLabs bet