S.Korea prepares to launch $7.6 bn stock market stabilization fund

S.Korea prepares to launch $7.6 bn stock market stabilization fund

South Korea last week completed the process needed to launch a stock market stabilization fund of 10.76 trillion won ($7.6 billion). The timing for ...

Korea’s 1st export decline in 2 years dims BOK’s big-step rate hike outlook

Korea’s 1st export decline in 2 years dims BOK’s big-step rate hike outlook

South Korea’s exports fell for the first time in two years in October, posting a trade deficit for seven months in a row – the clearest ...

Korea’s KHNP inks nuclear power plant deal with Poland

Korea’s KHNP inks nuclear power plant deal with Poland

Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) signed an initial agreement for a nuclear power plant in Poland, paving the way to win an expected $30 bill...

LG Chem posts strong Q3 earnings, buoyed by battery business

LG Chem posts strong Q3 earnings, buoyed by battery business

South Korea’s top chemicals company LG Chem Ltd. on Monday posted strong third-quarter sales and profit as gains at its battery affiliate offs...

EcoPro BM to build battery materials plant in Canada

EcoPro BM to build battery materials plant in Canada

EcoPro BM Co., South Korea’s leading battery material producer, is set to build a plant in Canada with a $704 million investment in a partners...

Domino’s Korea to use third party delivery agents, the franchise's first case

Domino’s Korea to use third party delivery agents, the franchise's first case

It took a whole year for Domino’s Korea to convince the Michigan-based delivery pizza behemoth for an exemption to its corporate guidance of u...

HD Hyundai’s machinery units post profits despite slump in China

HD Hyundai’s machinery units post profits despite slump in China

HD Hyundai Co., the holding company of South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, saw its two construction equipment affiliates post strong...

Germany’s MBraun, Korean university to co-work on solar cells: CEO

Germany’s MBraun, Korean university to co-work on solar cells: CEO

MBraun, an affiliate of Germany’s Indus Holdings AG, plans to invest 1 billion won ($702,000) in a South Korean university as part of a deal t...

Korea’s Peak Bio makes Nasdaq debut via SPAC deal with Ignyte

Korea’s Peak Bio makes Nasdaq debut via SPAC deal with Ignyte

Peak Bio Co., a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, is debuting on the Nasdaq through a merger with US blank cheque company Ignyte Acquisition C...

BOK to ease Legoland developer default-led credit crunch

BOK to ease Legoland developer default-led credit crunch

South Korea’s central bank joined rescue moves to improve liquidity in the local bond market and alleviate the fallout from a debt default by ...

Vietnamese MZers ensnared by K-beauty, K-fashion, K-everything

Vietnamese MZers ensnared by K-beauty, K-fashion, K-everything

HANOI – Vietnam’s young people are avid fans of Korean culture, collectively known as Hallyu. Trang, a 21-year-old college student, is o...

SK Hynix eyes DDR5 dominance with industry’s fastest chip modules

SK Hynix eyes DDR5 dominance with industry’s fastest chip modules

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is aiming to secure market dominance for a next-generation DRAM chip called DDR5 b...

Korea's Mirae Asset to invest $200 mn in Musk’s Twitter deal

Korea's Mirae Asset to invest $200 mn in Musk’s Twitter deal

Mirae Asset Financial Group is set to chip in some $200 million toward Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. in acquisiti...

South Korea on course for seventh month of trade deficit

South Korea on course for seventh month of trade deficit

South Korea is poised to post a trade deficit for the seventh straight month in October, which would mark the longest period of shortfalls in 25 yea...

Korea’s FTC to toughen reviews on platform sector M&As

Korea’s FTC to toughen reviews on platform sector M&As

South Korea’s antitrust body is set to strengthen reviews on acquisitions for different businesses in the platform industry to resolve the pro...

CJ ENM’s TVing looks beyond Korea with Yonder, other K-drama series

CJ ENM’s TVing looks beyond Korea with Yonder, other K-drama series

South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co.’s over-the-top streaming platform TVing is taking its original sci-fi drama series Beyond the...

Korea’s KHNP likely to sign nuclear power plant deal with Poland

Korea’s KHNP likely to sign nuclear power plant deal with Poland

Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) is expected to sign an initial agreement to build a nuclear power plant in Poland, separate from a three-wa...

Hyundai to ramp up hybrid vehicle production next year

Hyundai to ramp up hybrid vehicle production next year

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, will increase production of hybrid models by some 15% next year to focus on the popular segmen...

NPS emerges as savior of Korea’s ailing won currency

NPS emerges as savior of Korea’s ailing won currency

The South Korean state-run National Pension Service (NPS) has been spotted selling dollars for won, supporting the ailing local unit, as the world&r...

LG Energy set to ink graphite deal with Australia’s Syrah Resources

LG Energy set to ink graphite deal with Australia’s Syrah Resources

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. said on Thursday it has signed an initial agreement to explore graphite procurement from Australia&rsquo...

S.Korea to widen tech gap with global shipbuilding rivals

S.Korea to widen tech gap with global shipbuilding rivals

South Korea, the world’s largest shipbuilding country, will expand its production of high-value-added specialized vessels, such as liquefied h...

POSCO Holdings' Q3 profit tumbles on steel mill shutdown

POSCO Holdings' Q3 profit tumbles on steel mill shutdown

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of the world’s sixth-largest steel maker, missed market estimates for its quarterly profit as last mo...

Hyundai, Kia to reflect $2 bn quality costs in Q3 earnings

Hyundai, Kia to reflect $2 bn quality costs in Q3 earnings

Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp., South Korea’s top two automakers, plan to reflect 2.9 trillion won ($2 billion) more in quality...

Hyundai Mobis supplies EV modules to Mercedes in US

Hyundai Mobis supplies EV modules to Mercedes in US

South Korea’s top auto parts manufacturer Hyundai Mobis Co. has begun supplying key modules for Mercedes-Benz AG’s electric vehicles pro...

Samsung, Qualcomm unveil industry’s fastest LPDDR5X DRAM chip

Samsung, Qualcomm unveil industry’s fastest LPDDR5X DRAM chip

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday it has successfully proved the performance of its latest LPDDR5X DRAM on Qualcomm Te...

Kakao’s power outage casts doubts over growth strategies

Kakao’s power outage casts doubts over growth strategies

South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. is facing increasing concern over its growth strategies centered on business expansions throug...

Samsung Asset says to pursue global, active, bond-type ETFs

Samsung Asset says to pursue global, active, bond-type ETFs

Samsung Asset Management Co., South Korea’s largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) manager, will focus on global, active and bond-type ETFs, as we...

LG Elec speeds up robot biz expansion in logistics sector

LG Elec speeds up robot biz expansion in logistics sector

LG Electronics Inc., the world’s top home appliance maker, has ramped up expansion of robot applications in the smart logistics sector with it...

S.Korea exempts foreign investors from treasury bond tax

S.Korea exempts foreign investors from treasury bond tax

South Korea on Oct. 17 started exempting foreign investors from two types of taxes on Korean treasury bonds and monetary stabilization bonds investm...

Poland poised to buy Hanwha’s multiple rocket launchers

Poland poised to buy Hanwha’s multiple rocket launchers

Poland is on the verge of buying additional artillery rocket systems developed by Hanwha Defense Co., following a string of weapons purchase agreeme...

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