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NAND business
SK Hynix’s $9 bn Intel NAND deal ‘not overvalued’: CEO
SK Hynix Inc.’s $9 billion deal to acquire Intel Corp.’s NAND memory chip business is not overvalued as the price tag reflects the US firm...
Oct 30, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
SK Holdings' board underpins new standard in Korea
On Jul. 21, SK Holdings Co.'s board of directors rejected management's request to simplify the reporting procedure for investment proposals. Among the...
Oct 29, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Lotte Rental shelves share sale plan as IPO market cools
Lotte Group has indefinitely postponed its plan to list Lotte Rental Co., in the latest sign of a cooldown in the local initial public offering market...
Oct 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Post Lee Kun-hee
Samsung shares jump on looming ownership reform
Shares in Samsung C&T Corp., in which Samsung Group’s owner family hold a 33.4% stake, leapt by as much as 21% in heavy trading on Oct. 26, ...
Oct 26, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Post Lee Kun-hee
Samsung heirs’ $9 bn tax bill may lead to share sale, weak control
The three children and the wife of Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who died on Oct. 25 at the age of 78, is expected to face inheritance taxes of ...
Oct 25, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cylindrical batteries
LG Chem gears up to supply new batteries to Tesla; shares surge
Shares of LG Chem Ltd. surged on Oct. 22 as investors snapped up the electric vehicle battery maker on Tesla Inc.’s record quarterly earnings, a...
Oct 22, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Immersive content
SK Telecom tackles 5G content business
South Korea's largest mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. aims to ramp up its 5G content business and foray into overseas markets to boost its presence in t...
Oct 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholding restructuring
Hyundai Gloivis, Mobis shares jump on ownership revamp hopes
Two Hyundai Motor Group arms – Hyundai Glovis Co. and Hyundai Mobis Co. – saw their shares rocket Oct. 20 on growing market talk of a poss...
Oct 20, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix to buy Intel’s NAND business in $9 bn cash deal
SK Hynix Inc. has signed a 10.3 trillion won ($9 billion) all-cash deal to buy Intel Corp.’s NAND memory chip business that will propel the Sout...
Oct 20, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chinese startups
SK, KTCU see gains from Chinese startup’s Nasdaq IPO
SK Group and the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU) may walk away with handsome gains from their joint investment of 360 billion won ($314 mil...
Oct 16, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Korean IPOs lose steam as Big Hit shares plummet
Big Hit Entertainment Co., the South Korean entertainment agency behind global sensation BTS, saw its shares drop by as much as 22% on Oct.16, the sec...
Oct 16, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
SK Telecom to spin off mobility unit, launch JV with Uber
SK Telecom Co. is spinning off its mobility platform business as a separate entity and also launching a joint venture with US ride-hailing company Ube...
Oct 16, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen fuel
SK Gas sets sights on liquid hydrogen as LPG market fizzles
SK Gas Ltd., South Korea’s No. 1 liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) producer, is preparing to enter the liquid hydrogen manufacturing market as part ...
Oct 11, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Robust SUV sales drive Korean carmakers’ US market share to 9-yr high
South Korean automakers’ share of the US passenger car market has risen to its highest level in nine years, boosted by brisk sales of sport util...
Oct 05, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Tesla unveiling offers opportunity for Korean EV battery makers; shares down
Tesla Inc.’s announcement that it will adopt a new battery technology to significantly improve an electric vehicle’s range and power shoul...
Sep 23, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Tesla CEO's tweets allay concerns over EV battery supplies; LG Chem shares rise
Shares of LG Chem Ltd. rebounded on Sept. 22 from their shaky performance in the past few sessions, buoyed by Tesla Inc. founder Elon Musk’...
Sep 22, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pre-IPO
SK Innovation’s battery arm secures $258 mn in pre-IPO placement
SK Innovation Co.’s wholly owned subsidiary SK IE Technology Co. (SK IET) is set to fetch 300 billion won ($257.6 million) in a pre-IPO placemen...
Sep 22, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
SK sells 4.6% in Asian logistics property developer ESR for $408 million
South Korea’s SK Corp. has sold part of its stake in ESR Cayman Ltd., an Asian logistics real estate developer, for 480 billion won ($408 millio...
Sep 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korea’s car-sharing platform becomes 12th unicorn following $42.5 mn injection
South Korea’s leading car-sharing platform Socar Inc. has become the country's 12th unicorn valued at around 1.1 trillion won after re...
Sep 16, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Grab Holdings
Singapore's ride-sharing giant Grab raises $200 mn from STIC Investments
Grab Holdings Inc., a Singapore-based technology company, has raised $200 million from South Korean private equity firm STIC Investments Inc., the fir...
Sep 11, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Kakao Games
Kakao Games shares hit upper limit for two consecutive days, further fueling IPO hype
Kakao Games Corp. shares reached the daily upper limit for the second consecutive day on Sept. 11, pushing the company to the third place on KOSDAQ wi...
Sep 11, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Celltrion
Celltrion rebuts JP Morgan’s heavy downgrade; shares rebound from sharp fall
South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. on Sept. 10 rebutted J.P. Morgan’s massive downgrade of its target price for the biopharmaceutical company. T...
Sep 10, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Renewable energy
Hanwha Solutions, affiliates’ shares soar on Green New Deal, defense
Share prices of Hanwha Solutions Corp. and other Hanwha Group units are being re-rated as the companies shift their business focus to the green energy...
Sep 08, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Restructuring
Doosan Heavy to wrap up first-round restructuring with $1.1 bn new share sale
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd., the debt-ridden South Korean power plant builder, is set to wrap up the first round of its debt r...
Sep 04, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Samsung Life shares rally as governance issue looms on likely stake sale
Shares of South Korea’s largest life insurer, Samsung Life Insurance Co., have rallied in recent sessions on expectations that the company will ...
Sep 02, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Doosan Group
Doosan Heavy shares rally as investors look beyond financial woes
Shares of Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd., a South Korean power plant builder, jumped to their highest level in more than two year...
Sep 01, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
SK Hynix to issue $500 mn in dollar bonds to brace for protracted slowdown
South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. plans to raise $500 million by issuing dollar-denominated bonds in October to gird itself for a protracted industry ...
Aug 31, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech
Chipmaker Kioxia to raise 85.3 bn yen in Japan IPO; SK Hynix to retain stake
Global memory-chip maker Kioxia Holdings Corp., held by US private equity firm Bain Capital, is expected to raise 85.3 billion yen (953.6 billion won)...
Aug 29, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
K-pop market remains bullish as entertainment shares soar
South Korean entertainment giants, SM Entertainment Co, YG Entertainment Inc, and JYP Entertainment Corporation, are sitting pretty as their share pri...
Aug 28, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPO
Former Toshiba Memory eyes October IPO; will SK Hynix take profit?
Global memory-chip maker Kioxia Holdings Corporation is poised for listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October, set to be Japan's biggest initial p...
Aug 26, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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