Phase 1 trials
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Foreign exchange
Korean won falls on firm US jobs data, new BOJ head report
The South Korean won currency skidded to a four-week low on Monday as stronger-than-expected US employment data renewed expectations that the Federa...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Prestige Biopharma submits clinical trial plan in Australia
Prestige Biopharma, a Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company with operations in South Korea and the US, has applied to the Australian clini...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Meritz Securities poised to become Korea’s No. 1 for first time
Meritz Securities Co., once a mid-tier securities firm in South Korea, is expected to command the local market as No. 1 after earning more than 1 tr...
Feb 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Bioscience's SKYCellflu approved by Chilean health authority
SK Bioscience Co., a bio and pharmaceutical affiliate of South Korea's SK Group, announced on Thursday that its world-first cell culture-based quadr...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
GC Cell's AB-101 NK therapy achieves FDA fast-track status
South Korea's bio firm GC Cell announced on Wednesday that its US affiliate Artiva Biotherapeutics has received fast-track designation from the US F...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Kim&Chang sets to enter Indonesia's legal market
Kim & Chang, South Korea's leading law firm, is poised to expand into Indonesia, joining the race among major legal firms seeking a foothold in ...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Korean Air launches development of Korean regional GPS system
South Korea's national flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co. on Tuesday announced the start of its development of the Korean Positioning System (KPS), a...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
South Korea's Jeju Air to open up Indonesian skies
Jeju Air Co. and Indonesia's largest airline corporation will work together to develop flight routes and discover new tourism business opportunities...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha kickstarts localization of 1,000-hp gas turbine engine components
A project to lengthen the lifecycle of 1,000-horsepower gas turbine engine core components and materials, which is led by Hanwha Aerospace Co. locat...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS underperforms global peers by returns for Q1-Q3 2022
South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, ranked 10th out of the global 42 state-owned investors by rate...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
A-Team Ventures succeeds in attracting $4.1 mn investment from LX
A-Team Ventures, which runs an online manufacturing platform "Capa," said on Friday that it has raised a Series B funding of 5 billion won ($4.1 mil...
Jan 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Inventage Lab launches clinical trials for addiction treatment in Australia
South Korea's Inventage Lab, a developer of a drug delivery system platform, on Wednesday said it received approval from the Human Research Ethics C...
Jan 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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AgTech
Korean tractor exports hit record high of $1.3 bn in 2022
Exports of South Korean tractors hit a fresh record high for the second consecutive year in 2022, according to Korea Customs Service on Jan. 24. Kor...
Jan 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HSD Engine's order volume exceeds $162.1 million in one month
Growth in shipbuilding orders has greatly boosted the sales of manufacturers of related equipment such as ship engines. South Korea's HSD Engine, wh...
Jan 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Healthcare
S-1 unveils AED with analysis time reduced to 2 seconds
S-1 Corp., a security affiliate of South Korea's Samsung Group, has been expanding its presence into the automated external defibrillator (AED) area...
Jan 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor sells 1 mn electric vehicles worldwide
In 11 years since Hyundai Motor Group started selling electric vehicles (EVs), the cumulative sales volume of EVs in the global market has finally s...
Jan 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
KSOE wins orders for 7 LNG carriers in 1 week
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a mid-level shipbuilding holding affiliate of HD Hyundai Co., has landed successive orders for...
Jan 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Global smartphone shipments hit 10-year low in 2022
Global smartphone shipments last year declined to their lowest level in 10 years, showing how consumers closed their wallets amid the economic downt...
Jan 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
NGeneBio's diagnostic products start to be used in clinical tests in Vietnam
South Korea's medical diagnostics company NGeneBio Co. said on Wednesday that it is expanding its business in the Southeast Asian precision diagnost...
Jan 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
South Korean companies ink $6.1 billion MOUs with UAE partners
ABU DHABI – Business leaders from South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed 24 initial agreements worth at least $6.1 billion...
Jan 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Medipost completes first dose of Cartistem in phase 3 clinical trials in Japan
South Korea's stem cell research company Medipost Co. said on Monday that it has completed the administration of Cartistem, a stem cell treatment fo...
Jan 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis set for February IPO
South Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. aims to raise up to $166 million through a listing next month, becoming the country’s first...
Jan 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
S.Biomedics gets approval for Parkinson's disease clinical trials
South Korea's biomedicine firm S.Biomedics said on Friday that it has won approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety for phase 1 and 2a clin...
Jan 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
KAI aims to become world's No. 7 aerospace company by 2050
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) seeks to become the world's No. 7 aerospace company by 2050, aiming to rival the likes of global defense giant...
Jan 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
SK Hynix issues $1 bn sustainability-linked bonds
South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. has raised $1 billion in sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) to become the world's first memory chipmaker to issue ...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korea resumes egg imports in 13 months due to soaring prices
As egg prices soared due to the spread of bird flu or avian influenza, the South Korean government resumed imports of eggs to ease price pressure.It...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
GCCL develops Korea's first automatic clinical trial data sharing system
Global Clinical Central Lab (GCCL), an affiliate of South Korean pharmaceutical firm Green Cross Corp., said on Monday it has jointly developed Kore...
Jan 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S-1 calls AI video solutions core of this year's AI security market
Access management of facial recognition needs the most improvement this year and artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions such as intelligent cl...
Jan 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
South Korea develops 1,000 super gap startups
The Ministry of SMEs and Startups on Monday said it would release the next day its plan for the so-called 2023 Super-gap Startup 1,000+ Project in w...
Jan 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Capital raising
Lotte E&C, Meritz Securities conclude $1.2 billion investment deal
Lotte Engineering & Construction (E&C) has secured financing of 1.5 trillion won ($1.2 billion).The company on Monday announced its conclusi...
Jan 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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