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Investment banking
MBK’s ByungJu Kim, UBS’ Kyungin Lee: Most influential in capital market
Michael ByungJu Kim, co-founder, partner and chairman of Northeast Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd., and Kyungin David Lee, UBS Gl...
Jan 20, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Webtoons
Piccoma tops consumer spending ranking in Japan
Kakao Piccoma, a Japanese digital comics app subsidiary of South Korean mobile giant Kakao Corp., topped the consumer spending ranking in the Japane...
Jan 17, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
CVC poised to buy S.Korea’s top contact lens maker OLENS
CVC Capital Partners is in the final stage of talks to acquire OLENS, South Korea’s largest contact lens brand, for about 500 billion won ($34...
Jan 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Display unveils industry’s brightest OLED panel for AI TVs
LG Display Co., the world’s top organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel maker, on Thursday unveiled a fourth-generation screen optimized for...
Jan 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
LG CNS set to price February IPO at top of price band
LG CNS Co., an information technology service company, is set to price its initial public offering at the top of its proposed price range to raise 1...
Jan 15, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Hyundai starts to construct Peruvian Navy warships
South Korea's HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. officially launched the Peruvian navy's four warship project on January 10. The Peru Warship Pr...
Jan 13, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Regulator denies reporting MBK to prosecutors over Korea Zinc
A senior Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) official on Thursday denied a report that the regulatory body has referred MBK Partners and Young Poong...
Jan 09, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Korean cosmetics beat Chanel, Lancôme to rank top in US, Japan
South Korea’s cosmetics products, also known as K-beauty, have gained global renown, overtaking French brands such as Chanel and Lancôme...
Jan 05, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Hyundai Rotem delivers driverless metro cars to Taiwan
Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean rolling stock and defense equipment maker, said on Friday it held a ceremony to mark the arrival of the first ba...
Dec 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Koreans flock to cryptos amid Trump-fueled crypto craze
The number of South Koreans investing in cryptocurrencies recently broke past 15 million — about 30% of the country’s population —...
Dec 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
POSCO carries out drastic top management reshuffle
POSCO Group on Monday replaced chief executives of key seven units in a drastic overhaul of the South Korean steel-to-battery materials group to shi...
Dec 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
LG Energy wins 7.5GWh ESS project from Excelsior Energy in US
LG Energy Solution Ltd. has landed a deal with US renewable energy infrastructure fund Excelsior Energy Capital (Excelsior) to supply a 7.5-gigawatt...
Dec 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Korea bags Romanian project to refurbish nuclear reactor
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) on Thursday inked a final agreement with Romania’s Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica (SNN) to r...
Dec 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Affinity to transform top Korean car rental firms into mobility service providers
Affinity Equity Partners aims to develop leading South Korean car rental companies into mobility service providers to create additional profitabilit...
Dec 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Korea’s OCI, US partner CPS Energy sign 20-year energy storage deal
South Korean solar cell company OCI Holdings Co. said on Tuesday it has signed a deal with US power supplier CPS Energy to jointly build a 120-megaw...
Dec 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Samsung C&T, Hitachi Energy to team up for HVDC projects
South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. said Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Sweden's Hitachi Energy to cooperate for high-vol...
Dec 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Hanmi breaks ground pharmaceuticals complex in Beijing
South Korea's Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. said on Friday that Beijing Hanmi Pharm, its subsidiary in China, held the groundbreaking ceremony for a proj...
Dec 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Hanwha E&C to resume $10.4 billion Bismayah new city project in Iraq
Hanwha Engineering & Construction Co., an affiliate of South Korea’s Hanwha Group, said on Friday it is set to fully resume a $10.4 billio...
Dec 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Executive reshuffles
SK promotes restructuring keymen to SK On, SK Discovery top posts
SK Group on Thursday promoted the keymen of its business overhauls to top posts at intermediary holding company SK Discovery Co. and battery maker S...
Dec 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Korean displays regain top spot with premium information tech OLEDs
South Korean display makers regained ground in the global organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel market in the second quarter, elbowing out the p...
Dec 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Executive reshuffles
Samsung reshuffles top brass; Co-CEO to control memory business
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s No. 1 memory chipmaker, reshuffled its leadership on Wednesday in a sweeping move as it faces an uph...
Nov 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Korea Zinc, Hanwha to co-work on Austrailian BESS project
Korea Zinc Inc., the world’s top lead and zinc smelter, said on Tuesday its Australian subsidiary Ark Energy selected Hanwha Corp. as the pref...
Nov 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
Samsung C&T-Sumitomo consortium wins $3.7 billion Qatar project
An international consortium involving South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corp. and financial firms has won a $3.7 billion project to build a desali...
Nov 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Samsung C&T, LS Electric to establish US solar JV
South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. and LS Electric Co. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Monday to expand solar power projects in the U...
Nov 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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K-pop
K-Pop group ATEEZ tops Billboard 200 for 2nd Time
K-pop group ATEEZ has claimed their second No. 1 spot on Billboard's main album chart, the Billboard 200, with their latest mini-album, Golden...
Nov 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
KEPCO wins Saudi Arabia's two gas power plant projects
Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) announced on Thursday that it was selected as the final successful bidder to build and operate two 1.9GW combined...
Nov 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
LS Cable, Denmark's CIP sign LOI for floating offshore wind
South Korea's LS Cable & System Ltd. said on Wednesday that it signed a letter of intent (LOI) for offshore wind cooperation with Copenhagen Inf...
Nov 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
TVing beefs up sports content, narrowing gap with Netflix
TVing, a South Korean over-the-top (OTT) platform, is beefing up its live sports programming and TV series featuring baseball players to catch up to...
Nov 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Alux's export contracts with US, Japan top $5 million
South Korean drone maker Alux Co. said on Monday its cumulative export contracts with the US and Japan have surpassed 7 billion won ($5 million). Th...
Nov 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hyundai Rotem to supply ground weapons to Peru
South Korea's Hyundai Rotem Co. said on Monday it signed an agreement with the Peruvian Army to supply K2 main battle tanks, armored vehicles, and o...
Nov 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Lee Jae-myung to meet with top business leaders this week ahead of G7 summit
- 2 Korea to allow non-profits to buy bad consumer loans
- 3 LG to drive future growth in emerging markets with battery prowess
- 4 South Korean President Lee, Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba seek closer ties
- 5 Naver Ventures to plant flag in Silicon Valley with TwelveLabs bet