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Mergers & Acquisitions
EQT Partners to acquire S.Korea’s SK Shieldus for $2.3 bn
EQT Partners AB, the world’s third-largest private equity firm, is poised to buy a controlling stake in South Korean security service provider...
Feb 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Korean firms scurry to expand nickel, lithium supply chains
South Korea’s leading companies such as SK, POSCO, LG and LX are scurrying to expand their supply chains for lithium and nickel, key raw mater...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
US calls on 2 S.Korean pharmaceutical companies for swift end to legal battle
Following its lawsuit against Daewoong Pharmaceutical, South Korea's Medytox Inc. is waging an all-out legal war against domestic counterpart Hugel ...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
BOK holds rates as it lowers growth, inflation forecasts
South Korea’s central bank held its policy interest rate unchanged on Thursday as it slashed forecasts for economic growth and inflation altho...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver, Creverse sign agreement for hyperscale AI education cooperation
Naver Corp., South Korea's largest search engine company, has signed an agreement with Creverse Co., an education company, to provide support for el...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea to spur defense sector tech with $1.5 bn R&D investment
South Korea plans to accelerate growth in the defense industry, a future growth engine of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, by investing more tha...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
SK Telecom, NTT Docomo jointly publish technical white paper
SK Telecom Co. announced on Wednesday that it had published a technical white paper on 6G common requirements and 5G base station power-saving measu...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung maintains No.1 position in global TV market
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. maintained its No. 1 position in the global TV market in 2022, accounting for nearly 30% of TV sales, ac...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Daewoo E&C, Jeju Air kick off K-UAM Grand Challenge phase 1 project
Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. and Jeju Air Co. have teamed up to participate in the Korean urban air mobility (K-UAM) project. The two c...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
BOK sees interest rate as tight amid continued drop in exports
South Korea’s central bank said on Tuesday it regards the current interest rate as tight, suggesting the monetary authority may hold the polic...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korea United Pharm signs contract to supply medicines to Saudi Arabia
Korea United Pharm. Inc. announced on Monday that it signed a contract to supply nine types of medicines, including 11 anticancer drugs, to Saudi ph...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK Nexilis signs $1 billion deal to supply copper foil to Northvolt
SK Nexilis Co., a unit of South Korean chemical materials maker SKC Ltd., said on Sunday it has signed a 1.4 trillion won ($1.08 billion) deal to su...
Feb 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
S.Korean won near 2-month low as US data fans Fed hike views
The South Korean won skidded to a near two-month low on Friday as hotter-than-forecast US inflation data added to expectations that the Federal Rese...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea's Engel coefficient rises sharply amid COVID-19 pandemic
South Korea’s low-income households are feeling the pinch of rising food prices amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by a local t...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
S.Korea's Kakao Enterprise introduces Matching 2.0 strategy
Kakao Enterprise, a leading IT platform business operator in South Korea, recently announced its "Matching 2.0" strategy to enhance the quality of s...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Samsung C&T to cancel $2.3 bn worth of treasury shares, stocks up
Samsung C&T Corp.’s share price zoomed on Thursday on news that the company will cancel its entire treasury stock holdings worth about 2.9...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
POSCO Int'l's pharmaceutical biz in Sudan attains No. 2 market ranking
A pharmaceutical company in Sudan set up by South Korea's POSCO International to find business opportunities in and make social contributions to the...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
KAI expects 2023 sales to grow by a third, driven by fighter jets
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), South Korea’s sole military aircraft manufacturer, said on Wednesday it aims to achieve 3.83 trillion w...
Feb 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
S.Korea's EcoPro boosts raw material plant for cathode materials
South Korea's EcoPro Co., a leading cathode supplier for global battery makers, is expanding its plant for raw materials used in secondary battery c...
Feb 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Hyundai Green Food breaks $1.5 billion in sales for first time in 2022
Hyundai Green Food Co., an affiliate of Hyundai Department Store Group, saw its main business unit of food surpass 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) in ...
Feb 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
LG Chem builds S.Korea's first plant for clinical trials
LG Chem Ltd. has built South Korea’s first pharmaceutical plant dedicated to clinical trials, which the company expects to speed up its medici...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea’s trade outlook dismal in Feb with stagnant exports
South Korea’s trade deficit in just the first 40 days of this year inched close to 40% of its worst-ever annual deficit last year amid a conti...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Samsung Asset Management's bond-type ETF assets exceed $7.9 billion
Investment in South Korea is pouring into bond-type exchange-traded funds (ETFs) under the anticipation that interest rate hikes end this year. Such...
Feb 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Hanmi Pharmaceutical reports record-high revenue in 2022
South Korea's Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. last year saw record-high performance thanks to its self-developed drugs, surpassing its previous best year o...
Feb 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
SK Hynix set for largest-ever corporate bond issue at bargain prices
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is gearing up for its largest-ever corporate bond issue in South Korea at lower-th...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Telecom to launch multimodal AI to match ChatGPT
South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. will adopt natural language generation and processing capabilities for its nascent artificial intelligence servic...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG makes big B2B push to regain momentum, boost profits: CEO
South Korea’s home appliance giant LG Electronics Inc. is stepping up efforts to enhance its presence in the global business-to-business marke...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Korea EV battery makers lose market share against Chinese rivals
South Korean electric vehicle cell makers lost a market share against Chinese competitors last year as they failed to fully benefit from a surge in ...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Medytox to sell off 2.2 mn shares of Daewoong's American partner Evolus
Medytox Inc. said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that it is selling off approximately 2.19 million shares of Evolus, Daewoong Pharmaceutical's ...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Fintech firm Kakao Pay logs first yearly net profit in 2022
Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., posted a net profit last year for the first time since its ...
Feb 08, 2023 (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