Singapore Medical Group
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Chemical Industry
LG Chem supplies RO filters for Chinese lithium extraction project
South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. has supplied reverse osmosis (RO) filters for a project to extract lithium from China's largest salt lake.The company on ...
Mar 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Healthcare
LG Elec, Bayada strengthen cooperation on home care medical devices
LG Electronics Inc. announced on Tuesday that it had signed a business agreement with Bayada Home Healthcare, a US-based company specializing in hom...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Doosan Robotics signs medical robot MOU with Chinese company
Doosan Robotics Inc., a South Korean company affiliated with the Doosan Group, announced on Tuesday that it had signed an MOU with Guangxi Pinge, a ...
Mar 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hyundai Motor, Lotte chairs rank as S.Korea’s highest-paid heads
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun was ranked as South Korea’s highest-paid business owner in 2022 thanks to the group's record-high pr...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Lunit's Insight DBT gets certification from EU for medical device
South Korean medical AI company Lunit said on Monday that its 3D breast tomosynthesis artificial intelligence (AI) image analysis solution, "Lunit I...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
HD Hyundai to rename subsidiaries to boost brand identity
HD Hyundai Co., a South Korean conglomerate that operates in shipbuilding, construction equipment, oil refining and other sectors, plans to rename i...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
Two global shareholder voting advisors oppose activist funds in S. Korea
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis, the world's two biggest advisory bodies for shareholder voting rights, have recommended op...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
Doosan Group chief checks farm-construction equipment affiliate's strategy in US
South Korea’s Doosan Group on Sunday said its chairman Park Jeong-won visited the construction trade show ConExpo-Con-Agg in Las Vegas on Wedn...
Mar 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Korean 3D tech firm Koh Young looks to US medical robot market
Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean developer of 3D optical inspection devices used in electronics manufacturing, is slated to enter the US me...
Mar 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Hyundai, other Korean steelmakers slim down Chinese units
Hyundai Steel Co. has decided to sell its Beijing arm, worth 400 billion won ($310 million) in asset value, hit by declining sales of its affiliates...
Mar 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
SK sells US car-sharing firm Turo stake to earn over $32 mn
South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group exited from Turo, the US top peer-to-peer car-sharing company, to make an estimated return ...
Mar 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
CJ Group adopts AI-based copywriter for producing marketing content
South Korea's CJ Group on Tuesday said it will develop and run a personalized artificial intelligence (AI) copywriter that automatically produces ma...
Mar 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
CGBio opens cosmetic surgery clinic in Bali using bio-medical tech
CGBio, a South Korean bio-renewable medical company, announced on Monday that it opened a medical esthetic clinic, called Nulook, in Bali, Indonesia...
Mar 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korea's mattress maker Zinus posts record domestic sales in 2022
Zinus Inc., the mattress-making affiliate of South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Group, on Monday reported record-high domestic sales last year o...
Mar 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Financial Group injects $385.6 million into S.Korea’s real estate PF
South Korea’s KB Financial Group on Monday said it will provide liquidity support for the domestic market for real estate project financing (P...
Mar 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
POSCO Int’l logs highest revenue for group affiliate in 2022
POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., logged the highes...
Mar 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Samsung Chairman Jay Y. Lee pledges more anonymous donations
“I want to actively participate in volunteer work but it isn't easy because my face is known.”Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Le...
Mar 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo sued over inheritance in family feud
Koo Kwang-mo, chairman of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG, has been sued over the distribution of inherited wealth, including a s...
Mar 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder activism
ISS supports Shinhan Financial Group chairman nominee
Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) is supporting the appointment of Shinhan Financial Group chairman nominee Jin Ok-Dong as...
Mar 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
SK Group affiliates hire more female outside directors
Major affiliates of South Korea’s SK Group are recruiting a large number of female outside directors with the arrival of the season of regular...
Mar 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Hyundai Motor spins off 4 in-house startups in mobility, AI, data
Hyundai Motor Group has spun off four new in-house startups, including MOBINN with autonomous driving technology and APLAYS with AI-powered music cu...
Mar 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Advertising & Marketing
Korea's Innocean wins eight awards at Spikes Asia advertising festival
South Korea-based global marketing communications company Innocean said on Thursday that it received eight awards at the 2023 Spikes Asia, a prestig...
Mar 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
POSCO Engineering & Construction renames itself POSCO E&C
POSCO Engineering & Construction, the builder affiliate of South Korea's POSCO Group, has changed its name to "POSCO E&C" to mark the first ...
Mar 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Lunit to supply AI image analysis solutions to Singapore
South Korea's Lunit Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) medical company, announced on Wednesday that it has secured a contract to provide Lunit In...
Mar 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
Korea’s sole foreign clinic operator CHA Healthcare to go public in 2025
CHA Healthcare Co. operating nearly 90 hospitals and infertility treatment centers across the world, is set to pave the way for South Koreans' inves...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Medical IP's X-ray image analysis software certified as medical device
Medical IP, a South Korean medical AI company, has announced that its artificial intelligence (AI) medical image analysis software "TiSepX Lung Volu...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hankook & Co. buys autonomous driving tech startup 3Secondz
Hankook & Company Co., a South Korean holding company that owns tire and mobility businesses, said on Tuesday that it has acquired the autonomou...
Mar 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Korea’s SPC Samlip, Siam Makro to tie up for Thai bakery business
SPC Samlip Corp., a unit of South Korea’s food and bakery giant SPC Group, said on Monday it has forged a business partnership with Siam Makro...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion ex-Chairman Seo set to return to management; group stocks rally
South Korea’s biosimilar giant Celltrion Group’s founder and Honorary Chairman Seo Jung-jin is readying to return to management just two...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Healthcare
Kakao Healthcare to launch diabetes monitoring app
South Korea’s dominant mobile platform Kakao Corp. will kick off its healthcare services this year with the launch of a diabetes monitoring ap...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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