Danish wind turbine firm Vestas to invest $300 million in Korea

Danish wind turbine firm Vestas to invest $300 million in Korea

DAVOS, Switzerland – Danish wind turbine producer Vestas Wind Systems A/S has said it would invest $300 million in South Korea and positively ...

Daewoong accelerates investment in CDMO business

Daewoong accelerates investment in CDMO business

Daewoong, the holding company of South Korea's pharmaceutical-oriented Daewoong Group, is speeding up its pace to beef up its contract development a...

KSOE wins this year's first LNG carrier order worth $783 million

KSOE wins this year's first LNG carrier order worth $783 million

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), an intermediate shipbuilding holding company of HD Hyundai Co., said on Tuesday that it recent...

Lotte Chem to sell Pakistan unit for $156 mn to finance other projects

Lotte Chem to sell Pakistan unit for $156 mn to finance other projects

Lotte Chemical Corp. is set to sell its Pakistan unit for 192.4 billion won ($155.8 million won) to a chemical company in the country as the South K...

PIF, GIC to invest $964 mn in Korea's Kakao Entertainment

PIF, GIC to invest $964 mn in Korea's Kakao Entertainment

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC have agreed to invest a combined $964 million in K...

Naver secures largest stake in Spain's online marketplace Wallapop

Naver secures largest stake in Spain's online marketplace Wallapop

Naver Corp. has made a massive additional investment in Wallapop, Spain's online market for used items and Europe's equivalent to Korea's Danggeun M...

PAG joins race to buy Korean burger chain Mom's Touch

PAG joins race to buy Korean burger chain Mom's Touch

Pacific Alliance Group (PAG), a Hong Kong-based alternative investment firm, joined the bidding on Jan. 10 to acquire a 100% stake in South Korean h...

SK Hynix issues $1 bn sustainability-linked bonds

SK Hynix issues $1 bn sustainability-linked bonds

South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. has raised $1 billion in sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) to become the world's first memory chipmaker to issue ...

S.Korea resumes egg imports in 13 months due to soaring prices

S.Korea resumes egg imports in 13 months due to soaring prices

As egg prices soared due to the spread of bird flu or avian influenza, the South Korean government resumed imports of eggs to ease price pressure.It...

Korean apparel retailer F&F to produce global K-pop stars

Korean apparel retailer F&F to produce global K-pop stars

South Korean outdoor clothing retailer F&F Co. made a foray into the entertainment sector to create a synergy of K-content and fashion, competin...

S.Korea posts 2nd current account deficit in 3 months due to flat exports

S.Korea posts 2nd current account deficit in 3 months due to flat exports

South Korea in November last year suffered its second current account deficit in three months due to plummeting exports of key items like semiconduc...

South Korea develops 1,000 super gap startups

South Korea develops 1,000 super gap startups

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups on Monday said it would release the next day its plan for the so-called 2023 Super-gap Startup 1,000+ Project in w...

Korean activist fund KCGI buys Meritz Asset Management

Korean activist fund KCGI buys Meritz Asset Management

A consortium led by Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI), a local activist fund, said on Jan. 9 it signed a share purchase agreement l...

Broadcom to give Samsung warranties to avoid Korea penalties

Broadcom to give Samsung warranties to avoid Korea penalties

US chipmaker Broadcom Inc. agreed to provide three-year warranties and technical support for components equipped in products such as smart devices o...

POSCO to issue up to $553 million in unsecured bonds

POSCO to issue up to $553 million in unsecured bonds

South Korea's top steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc. is expected to issue won-denominated unsecured bonds worth up to 700 billion won ($553.9 million) t...

Korean government to finance $625 million for K-content in 2023

Korean government to finance $625 million for K-content in 2023

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol emphasized on Thursday the importance of K-content, saying content will become the most important industry to s...

Smart Study Venture creates $28.4 million Baby Shark Tourism Fund

Smart Study Venture creates $28.4 million Baby Shark Tourism Fund

Smart Study Ventures, a corporate venture capital (CVC) affiliated with The Pinkfong Company, said on Thursday that it has created a "Baby Shark Nex...

Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market

Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. kept their fifth place in sales in the US market for the second consecutive year. Despite production setbacks due to...

S.Korea's automotive unit Kolon Mobility Group reborn as separate entity

S.Korea's automotive unit Kolon Mobility Group reborn as separate entity

South Korea's Kolon Mobility Group has been launched with Lee Kyu-ho, the great grandson of the Kolon Group founder Lee Won-man, as co-CEO. Formerly...

Blackpink's 'Ddu-du Ddu-du' music video surpasses 2 billion views

Blackpink's 'Ddu-du Ddu-du' music video surpasses 2 billion views

K-pop girl group Blackpink's “Ddu-du Ddu-du” music video has surpassed 2 billion views on YouTube on Wednesday, its record label YG Ente...

SFA signs display equipment deal with China's Tianma Microelectronics

SFA signs display equipment deal with China's Tianma Microelectronics

SFA Engineering Corp., South Korea's largest manufacturer of display manufacturing equipment, on Wednesday said it landed an order worth 142.1 billi...

Com2verse attracts investment of $9.4 million from strategic partners

Com2verse attracts investment of $9.4 million from strategic partners

Com2verse, Com2uS Corp.'s metaverse subsidiary said on Tuesday that it has secured a strategic investment of 4 billion won ($3.1 million) each from ...

Applied Materials injects $40 mn in glass substrate maker Absolics

Applied Materials injects $40 mn in glass substrate maker Absolics

Applied Materials Inc., a global leading equipment and software supplier to semiconductor makers, has invested 51 billion won ($40.2 million) in Abs...

Digital wallet Klip sees its subscriber number surpass 2 million

Digital wallet Klip sees its subscriber number surpass 2 million

Ground X, Kakao Corp.'s blockchain technology subsidiary, said on Monday that the number of cumulative subscribers to its digital asset wallet "Klip...

S.Korea's Alteogen signs $145 million tech export deal with Swiss company

S.Korea's Alteogen signs $145 million tech export deal with Swiss company

South Korea's bio company Alteogen Inc. on Friday said it signed its fourth technology export contract since its 2018 development of the human recom...

KT Investment injects $27.8 million in 20 startups this year

KT Investment injects $27.8 million in 20 startups this year

KT Investment said on Thursday that it invested 35 billion won ($27.8 million) in 20 startups this past year, and that six invested companies succee...

Doosan Corp. starts building flexible copper-clad layer plant

Doosan Corp. starts building flexible copper-clad layer plant

South Korea's Doosan Corp. is expanding its production line for flexible cooper-clad layers (FCCL) to boost competitiveness in electronic materials ...

S.Korea's Medicox boosts unit for oral insulin, medical cannabis

S.Korea's Medicox boosts unit for oral insulin, medical cannabis

South Korea's Medicox Co. on Wednesday said it will raise 40 billion won ($32 million) to boost its unit for oral insulin and cannabidiol (CBD).The ...

Young Poong Precision to increase control over Korea Zinc

Young Poong Precision to increase control over Korea Zinc

Young Poong Precision Corp., an industrial pump and chemical plant valve maker under South Korea's Young Poong Group, is aggressively increasing con...

Korea auto output to increase slightly in 2023: research

Korea auto output to increase slightly in 2023: research

Domestic automobile output next year is forecast to increase 1.4% over this year to 3.7 million units.The Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association...

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