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Corporate governance
Hanmi Pharm’s chair poised to win management feud with her son
Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group Chairman Song Young-sook is poised to claim victory in a year-long dispute with her eldest son Lim Jong-yoon to take cont...
Dec 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hahn & Co. buys SK Enpulse’s chip wafer polishing pad business
Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. has agreed to buy the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pads manufacturing division of SK Enpulse C...
Dec 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
SPC Samlip to export ggultteok in H1 2025
SPC Samlip Corp., a subsidiary of South Korea’s food and bakery giant SPC Group, said on Monday that its rice cake franchise Bizeun developed ...
Dec 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Lotte Card Card to launch loans for affiliates in Vietnam
South Korea's Lotte Card said on Monday it will launch loans for affiliates in Vietnam.Lotte Finance Vietnam, the Vietnamese corporation of Lotte Ca...
Dec 26, 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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Economy
South Korea becomes super-aged society faster than expected
One in five South Koreans is now 65 years old or older as the Asian country grapples with the demographic challenge of a rapidly aging population an...
Dec 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Korea’s Naver Pay partners with WeChat Pay for mobile payments in China
South Korean tech giant Naver Corp. said on Tuesday it has partnered with WeChat Pay to offer a Naver Pay mobile pay and digital wallet service usin...
Dec 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hahn & Co. to buy controlling stake in SK’s specialty gas unit for $1.9 bn
South Korea’s private equity firm Hahn & Co. is set to acquire a controlling stake in the world’s top specialty gas producer SK Spec...
Dec 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
E-Land manages New Balance’s record $689 mn in Korean sales
South Korea’s retail giant E-Land Group has achieved 1 trillion won ($689 million) in Korean sales of the global sports footwear and apparel b...
Dec 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
S.Korean gov't to lift two-bottle limit on duty-free alcohol
South Korean government will lift the number restriction of duty-free alcohol bottles for inbound travelers and halve the patent fees to boost the d...
Dec 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia aims to reclaim Europe with EV2, keeps K4 output unchanged in Mexico
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest carmaker, will start producing its entry-level electrified model EV2 from its plant in Slovakia next y...
Dec 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy, Qualcomm to commercialize BMS solution
South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. said on Monday it partnered with Qualcomm Technologies to commercialize its new system-on-chip (SoC)-based bat...
Dec 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Bioscience, Sanofi to develop next-gen pneumococcal vaccines
South Korea's SK Bioscience Co. said on Friday it signed an expanded agreement with Sanofi to co-develop next-generation pneumococcal conjugate vacc...
Dec 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
M&A deals in South Korea hit 7-year low in 2024
South Korea’s mergers and acquisitions market shrank further in 2024, with leading business groups seeking to unload non-core assets to bolste...
Dec 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Korea’s Shinsegae chairman dines with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Chung Yong-jin, the chairman of South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae Group, held talks with US President-elect Donald Trump, becoming Korea's ...
Dec 22, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
S.Korea's dawn delivery pioneer Kurly sells luxury goods to uplift profit
Kurly Inc., South Korea's dawn delivery service market pioneer, has invited a third-party online retailer to sell luxury goods on its platform to bo...
Dec 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Culture & Trends
Baby Shark receives three Emmy nominations
South Korea's The Pinkfong Company, popularly known for its "Baby Shark" character, said on Friday that "Baby Shark’s Big Movie" received thre...
Dec 20, 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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Mergers & Acquisitions
MBK, Young Poong close in on majority of Korea Zinc
A consortium of MBK Partners and Young Poong Corp. has raised its stake in Korea Zinc Inc. to 46.7% of voting shares, drawing the group closer to ma...
Dec 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Daesang launches kimchi brand with three-Michelin-star chef
South Korean leading food maker Daesang Corp., the operator of kimchi brand Jongga, said on Thursday it launched San Ho Won with three-Michelin-star...
Dec 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
GIC drops Seoul landmark building sale on Korea’s political woes
Singapore’s GIC Private Ltd., the world’s sixth-largest sovereign wealth fund, dropped the sale of a landmark building in Seoul due to t...
Dec 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
POSCO to raise up to $691 million as next year’s 1st corporate bond issuer
South Korea’s steel-to-battery materials conglomerate POSCO Group plans to raise up to 1 trillion won ($691 million) in the country’s fi...
Dec 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Display, Dolby to collaborate on automotive OLEDs
South Korea's Samsung Display said on Thursday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Dolby Laboratories to jointly promote Dolby's high...
Dec 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
S.Korea's personal mobilities firm GCoo enters Africa
South Korean personal mobility (PM) company Gbike, the operator of PM sharing service platform Gcoo, said on Wednesday it started the electric kick ...
Dec 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
S.Korea’s c.bank chief sees limited impact of political turmoil on economy
South Korea’s central bank chief said on Wednesday the impact of political turmoil caused by martial law on Asia’s fourth-largest econom...
Dec 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion obtains approval of Steqeyma from FDA
South Korea's Celltrion Inc. said on Wednesday it received new drug submission (NDS) approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Steq...
Dec 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Ruthless Politics of South Korea Is Rooted in Cold-War History
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Dec 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Foreign workers in S.Korea surpasses 1 million
The number of foreign workers in South Korea has broken past the 1 million mark.According to Statistics Korea on Tuesday, as of May, there were 1.56...
Dec 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Lotte to supply advanced copper foil to Doosan for Nvidia’s Blackwell
Lotte Energy Materials Corp., a leading South Korean battery materials maker, said on Tuesday it will supply advanced copper foil to Doosan Corp.'s&...
Dec 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Fried chicken chain bhc to enter Indonesia in 2025
South Korea’s fried chicken brand bhc Group said on Tuesday it signed a master license agreement with Indonesia's Nachindo Group to enter the ...
Dec 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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