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Travel & Leisure
H2O Hospitality rebrands itself as it eyes Middle East expansion
H2O Hospitality, a hospitality tech company that provides digital solutions for the hotel and tourism industry, said on Tuesday that it has rebrande...
Mar 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Electronics opens R&D corporation in Hanoi, Vietnam
LG Electronics Inc. will upgrade its research and development (R&D) center in Vietnam to an official corporation and boost its electric vehicle ...
Mar 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Yoon’s US visit to test Biden’s trust as ally over chip, battery issues
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s summit meeting with his US counterpart Joe Biden next month will celebrate 70 years of the Korea-US sec...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fintech
Apple Pay's S.Korea debut as early as third week in March
Apple Pay, the mobile payment service by iPhone maker, is set to launch in as early as two weeks in South Korea, home to the world’s largest s...
Mar 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
HYBE wins 2nd battle against Kakao over SM Entertainment
A South Korean court on Friday ruled in favor of SM Entertainment Co. Founder and former Chief Producer Lee Soo-man to block the company from sellin...
Mar 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
S.Korea's NPS likely to log 8.2% loss for 2022, record-low return
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is expected to post a negative return of 8.2% for 2022, according to its preliminary report on Th...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
S.Korea's GEPS logs 10.2% return on alternative assets in 2022
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) had a 4.4% loss on investment last year, seeing its assets under management (AUM) dr...
Mar 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
Inflation casts shadow over S.Korea NPS' hedging strategies
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), with 920.4 trillion won ($694.6 billion) in assets as of November 2022, faces growing concerns o...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Kakao Impact, KAIST team up for social change through technology
Kakao Impact, a corporate foundation of Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile platform company, said on Tuesday it has agreed to work with the...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Kakao vows to thwart HYBE scheme for SM control
Kakao Corp., South Korea’s dominant mobile platform, said on Monday it would mobilize all possible countermeasures against HYBE Co. ’s a...
Feb 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
KT CEO Ku Hyeon-mo drops reelection bid as controversy flares
KT Corp. Chief Executive Ku Hyeon-mo has abandoned his ambitious bid to lead South Korea’s largest telecommunications company for another thre...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
Korean sovereign wealth fund KIC logs record loss in 2022
Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) posted the largest annual loss last year since its inception in 2005, according to its 20...
Feb 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Hanjin converts Indonesian representative office to corporation
Hanjin Transportation said Tuesday that it had converted its representative office in Jakarta, Indonesia, into a corporation last month to strengthe...
Feb 14, 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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Leadership & Management
KT under pressure for transparency, fairness to pick new CEO, again
South Korea’s leading telecommunications company KT Corp. will pick a new chief executive after it came under fire over its CEO select...
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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Advertising & Marketing
Cheil Worldwide sets up Maghreb corporation in Morocco
South Korea's leading ad agency and marketing company Cheil Worldwide has established a corporation in Casablanca, Morocco, in the Maghreb to broade...
Feb 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK Ecoplant changes North American corporation name
SK Ecoplant Co., a construction company of S.Korea's SK Group, said on Monday that it would change the name of its North American corporation BETEK,...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Chong Kun Dang, Synaffix ink deal to introduce ADC technology
Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical Corp. said on Monday that it has signed a contract with Dutch biotechnology firm Synaffix B.V for the use of antibody-...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
SeAH begins construction on stainless steel pipe plant in Saudi Arabia
SeAH Gulf Special Steel Industries (SGSI), a joint venture between South Korea's SeAH CSS and Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco, has broken ground on a...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
S.Korea's Samkang M&T undergoes relaunch with new name SK oceanplant
South Korea's Samkang M&T Co., a specialist in offshore wind plants and shipbuilding, has been renamed SK oceanplant under a strategy to raise t...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign bonds
Foreigners net sell S.Korean bonds for first time in four years
Foreign investors dumped South Korean bonds in Janaury, becoming net sellers of the securities for the first time in four years as they booked pro...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Companies prioritize sense of responsibility over skills when hiring staff: study
Two-thirds of South Korea's top 100 companies are looking for talented employees with a spirit of challenge and sense of responsibility, mainly beca...
Jan 31, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung earns ISO 22301 certification for business continuity
Samsung Electronics Co.'s device solutions division has achieved ISO 22301 certification, the international business continuity management system (B...
Jan 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
KB Financial recognized as global sustainability leader
South Korea's KB Financial Group was selected as one of the "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World" list announced by Corporate Knig...
Jan 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Debt financing
Hyosung Chemical fails to sell any bonds in demand forecast
South Korea's Hyosung Chemical has failed to receive a single purchase order in its demand forecast for corporate bond issuance.Investment banking s...
Jan 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
WeMade sets up blockchain corporation in UAE
WeMade Co., South Korea's game developer and publisher and the issuer of cryptocurrency WeMix, set up WeMix MENA Ltd. in the United Arab Emirates (U...
Jan 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Korea internet data center construction faces health issue
South Korea’s information technology industry hit a snag with building new internet data centers (IDCs) due to controversies over the potentia...
Jan 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Regulations
FSS to inquire actual use of funds raised by issuing ESG bonds
From now on, companies in South Korea that have raised funds by issuing ESG (environmental, social, and governance) bonds will have to answer questi...
Jan 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Inc. eyes significant growth in bio business from 2024
SAN FRANCISCO – SK Inc., the investment and holding company of South Korea’s SK Group, expects significant growth in its biopharma...
Jan 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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