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Banking & Finance
Hana Bank opens overseas office in Monterrey, Mexico
Hana Financial Group announced on Thursday that it opened the Monterrey Office, the first business channel of Hana Bank Mexico, in Monterrey, Mexico...
Sep 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea Investment Management to launch two India-focused ETFs
Korea Investment Management said on Wednesday it will launch two active exchange-traded funds (ETFs) targeting the Indian market on September 10.The...
Sep 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Activst fund KCGI struggles to fund Hanyang Securities deal
KCGI, a South Korean private equity firm, has been struggling to raise funds for its 244.9-billion-won ($183 million) purchase of a controlling stak...
Sep 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung, SK Hynix ramp up DRAM business on rapid AI growth
Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc.,the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, are expanding their dynamic random access memory business...
Sep 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
KCC develops automated painting robot
South Korean chemical and auto parts maker KCC Corp. said on Monday that it developed the country's first autonomous painting robot Smart Canvas.T...
Sep 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Will Samsung take over Nokia’s mobile network assets?
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, has expressed interest in the mobile networks business of Nokia Oyj, a global telec...
Sep 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS logs 9.71% return in H1 led by US tech stocks
National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, posted a 9.71% investment return for the first half of ...
Aug 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
KT&G to sell Korean office tower to Pebblestone for $90 mn
KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, is set to sell an office tower in South Korea to a local asset manager for an estimat...
Aug 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Culture & Trends
Korea to launch regular K-content festival in June
South Korea plans to host a regular event showcasing its cultural products such as K-pop and foods in June of next year with the goal of making the ...
Aug 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Orion seeks M&As, facility expansion with dividends from China, Vietnam
Orion Holdings Corp., a leading South Korean confectionery and snack maker, has been active in overseas markets for decades, particularly in China a...
Aug 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
POSCO to sell entire stake in P&O Chemical to OCI
POSCO Future M Co., a battery materials affiliate of South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., will sell its entire stake in P&O Chemical Co...
Aug 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
LG to seek most of profit from new growth engines
LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, aims to generate most of its profit from future growth drivers by 2030 as the South Ko...
Aug 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy looks to battery safety diagnosis software business
LG Energy Solution Ltd., one of the world’s top battery makers, said on Wednesday it is entering the battery safety diagnosis software busines...
Aug 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Kolon Global, Hana Bank to form onshore wind power fund
South Korea's Kolon Global Corp. announced on Tuesday it signed an agreement with Hana Bank, Hana Alternative Asset Management, and MDM Asset Manage...
Aug 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Korea’s Mirae Asset to open AI business unit in New York
Mirae Asset Group, the pioneer in South Korea’s mutual fund industry, plans to set up an artificial intelligence business unit in New York as ...
Aug 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Asan Nanum Foundation revamps fund management
The Asan Nanum Foundation, a nonprofit foundation set up in 2011 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hyundai founder Chung Ju-yung’s death,...
Aug 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
CPPIB global private equity head Suyi Kim to leave
Suyi Kim, global private equity head at Canada Pension Plan Investments Board (CPPIB), is set to leave the world’s seventh-largest pension fun...
Aug 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Companies
Hyundai AutoEver wins $66 mn public safety contract in Angola
Hyundai AutoEver Corp., a software subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group, secured consecutive contracts to build public safety systems in African countr...
Aug 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver Cloud takes the lead in Korea’s public AI business
South Korean online giant Naver Corp.'s cloud subsidiary is expanding its presence in the country’s public artificial intelligence market by w...
Aug 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Korean Telco giant KT’s Midas touch with hotel business
KT Corp., one of South Korea’s top three mobile carriers, is on a roll in the hotel business despite its late foray into the hospitality indus...
Aug 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Yanolja to restructure affiliates to boost profit before Nasdaq IPO
South Korea’s top travel and accommodation booking platform operator Yanolja Co. is seeking to streamline and restructure its affiliates to bo...
Aug 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Kakao to launch conversational AI platform for B2C commerce
South Korean mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. said on Thursday that it will accelerate its artificial intelligence push by launching a conversation...
Aug 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
NCSOFT teams up with Vietnamese unicorn VGN to tap SE Asian market
South Korea’s gaming behemoth NCSOFT Corp. has set up a joint venture with Vietnamese tech unicorn VNG Corp. to tap into Southeast Asia starti...
Aug 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Gas maker Air Products Korea put on sale for around $3.6 bn
US industrial gas maker Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has put its South Korean unit up for sale for an estimated 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion), in...
Aug 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
PUBG’s Krafton taps ex-Apple, Samsung execs for global business
South Korean gaming giant Krafton Inc. has hired former executives of not only global game developers but also tech leaders such as Apple Inc. and S...
Aug 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
SK Telecom logs higher quarterly profit on AI, lower costs
SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, reported a higher quarterly profit as its cost-cutting and strong artificial intelligence (A...
Aug 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Korean e-commerce startup funding sharply drops since 2022
South Korean e-commerce companies have seen a sharp decline in series A funding over the past three years amid intensifying competition with Chinese...
Aug 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Low-cost carrier Fly Gangwon rebranded as Parata Air
South Korea's low-cost carrier (LCC) Fly Gangwon, based in Gangwon Province, has rebranded itself as Parata Air and is embarking on a new beginning....
Aug 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Activist fund KCGI to buy Hanyang Securities for $180 mn
South Korean private equity firm KCGI Co. is expected to acquire local brokerage house Hanyang Securities Co. for 244.9 billion won ($179.8 million)...
Aug 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
MezzoMedia acquires digital ad agency DBASE&
MezzoMedia, a digital marketing solutions company under South Korea's entertainment company CJ ENM Co., announced on Thursday that it acquired the d...
Aug 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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