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Tech, Media & Telecom
Zigbang completes Samsung SDS home IoT takeover
Zigbang, a South Korean proptech startup that provides real estate search and transaction services, has completed the acquisition of Samsung SDS Co....
Jul 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Chips, forex gains shore up Samsung's Q2 earnings
Samsung Electronics Co.’s second-quarter earnings remained steady compared to three months before, with robust memory chip sales for data cent...
Jul 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to ramp up hiring for foundry business
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. plans to sharply increase the number of local employees in its semiconductor division this year to address tal...
Jul 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung Elec. celebrates world's first shipment of 3-nanometer chips
Samsung Electronics Co. held a ceremony on Monday to celebrate its first shipment of 3-nanometer semiconductor chips, notching its lead in the race ...
Jul 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung presents Texas with $200 bn chip investment plan proposition
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, has presented a tax break proposal to the State of Texas as part of its plan to inv...
Jul 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung develops next-generation data storage device
Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled an upgraded data storage device that significantly reduces the computer processing time and energy cons...
Jul 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Samsung SDI to build new battery plant in Malaysia by 2025
South Korea’s battery manufacturer Samsung SDI Co. held a groundbreaking ceremony for Plant 2 to make cylindrical batteries in Seremban, Mal...
Jul 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
SK Square makes its first exit seeking new target firms
South Korean investment firm SK Square Co. has sold all of its shares in Korean biotech NanoEntek Inc., a 28.4% stake, for 58 billion won ($44.3 mil...
Jul 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
IGIS, KKR to buy Shinhan Investment HQ for $487 mn
A consortium led by South Korea’s IGIS Asset Management Co. and US private equity giant KKR & Co. is set to acquire Shinhan Investment Cor...
Jul 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea’s 5G, cryptography likely to be adopted as global standards
South Korea’s five technologies on 5G mobile networks, cloud computing and cryptography have been preliminarily chosen as global standards, a ...
Jul 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Biologics to double CDMO capacity with new plants worth $5.3 bn
Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, plans to double its manufacturing capacity by building four additional plants w...
Jul 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Bioepis sees greater market for Byooviz eye disease biosimilar
NEW YORK – Samsung Bioepis Co., a biopharmaceutical unit of South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung, is one step ahead of its rivals in t...
Jul 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
South Korea’s Mirae Asset Group bets $100 million on SpaceX
Mirae Asset Securities Co. is poised to invest $100 million in US spacecraft and satellite communication corporation SpaceX. The South Korean f...
Jul 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung develops world’s fastest graphics DRAM chip
Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled a sample of the industry’s fastest graphics DRAM, designed to significantly advance the graphics ...
Jul 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
Samsung Engineering wins $680 mn gas plant project in Malaysia
Samsung Engineering Co. has won a $680 million gas plant construction order in Malaysia from UK-headquartered energy giant Shell plc’s subsidi...
Jul 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
Samsung Elec. showcases virtual playground on Roblox
Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled a virtual playground within Roblox, the world’s top metaverse game platform with 54 million users a day, as t...
Jul 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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The KED View
The case for improved Seoul-Tokyo relations
Unlike the West or China, which showed vastly different reactions, most South Koreans had a more complicated initial response to the news of forme...
Jul 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Alternative investments
Korean firms eye alternative assets for safer investments, survey finds
South Korean corporates are increasingly eyeing alternative assets seeking downside protection amid interest rate hikes and equity and bond price dr...
Jul 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mobile networks
Samsung Elec. to launch Korea's first dual SIM smartphones in August
Samsung Electronics Co. is slated to enable embedded subscriber identity modules (eSIMs) into its new foldable smartphones available in South Korea ...
Jul 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion, Samsung Biologics eye record-high annual sales
South Korea’s two major biopharmaceutical companies, Celltrion Inc. and Samsung Biologics Co., are respectively expecting more than 2 trillion...
Jul 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Blockchain game developer Planetarium Labs raises $32 mn
Planetarium Labs raised $32 million in a Series A funding round, led by Animoca Brands, and joined by Samsung Next, WeMade, and Krust Universe.The s...
Jul 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung Elec's Q2 earnings signal end of upward run
Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday estimated that its second-quarter operating profit and sales edged down from three months before, reversing its ...
Jul 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Hyundai E&C, Samsung Eng. partner with Saudi Aramco
South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction (Hyundai E&C) Co. and Samsung Engineering Co. were selected as official partners of N...
Jul 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea faces risk from record $114 bn in inventory assets
South Korea’s major listed companies held record inventory assets as they piled up raw materials to deal with the global supply chain disrupti...
Jul 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Samsung wins multi-billion-dollar camera module deal from Tesla
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., the electronic components unit of Samsung Group, has won a multi-billion-dollar deal to supply camera modules to Tesl...
Jul 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Korea shipbuilders throttle up wind farm business
South Korea’s major shipbuilders are competing to lead the global wind farm industry, an emerging game-changer in the renewable energy sector,...
Jul 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung's 3 nm chip narrows microchip gap with TSMC
Samsung Electronics Co. has kicked off mass production of 3-nanometer chips based on the industry’s smallest process node as a global first, a...
Jun 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
Samsung Eng. to invest in Vietnam for SE Asia water biz
Samsung Engineering Co. agreed to spend $41 million on Vietnam’s largest private water treatment company for the eco-friendly business in Sout...
Jun 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Materials, Showa Denko to jointly seek US semiconductor gas business
SK Materials Co., an industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Inc., and Japanese chemicals company Showa Denko K.K. have agr...
Jun 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung nears 3-nano chip mass production ahead of TSMC
Samsung Electronics Co. is close to mass producing 3-nanometer chips based on a next-generation ultramicro fabrication process as a global first and...
Jun 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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