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Electronics
With Samsung’s new Bespoke lineup, it’s home made perfect
Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled a new lineup of its flagship Bespoke home appliances, including a newly introduced premium line of Besp...
Feb 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Battery materials
Korea’s Solus supplies battery copper foil to Tesla
South Korea’s Solus Advanced Materials started supplying battery copper foil to Tesla Inc. in January, becoming the country’s first batt...
Feb 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
LG's AI designer debuts at New York Fashion Week
South Korean fashion label Greedilous showcased its 2022 Fall-Winter collection on the main stage of the New York Fashion Week on Monday local time....
Feb 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Lotte to develop seawater-degradable bioplastic material
South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. plans to develop a decomposable bioplastic material in seawater for production based on petrochemicals for ...
Feb 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
KTCU posts highest investment return since 2009
Korean Teachers’ Credit Union (KTCU), a retirement fund for South Korean teachers and employees, earned an 11.3% return from investment last y...
Feb 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix to benefit from Western Digital production disruption
South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is expected to be a key beneficiary from production disruption...
Feb 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korea’s reopening stocks shine despite surging Omicron cases
South Korea’s reopening stocks rallied even as the local COVID-19 cases hit record-highs with the spread of the Omicron variant. Investors rai...
Feb 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Shopping platform Queenit receives $43 mn funding from VC juggernauts
Online shopping platform Queenit recently received 36 billion won ($30 million) from Kakao Ventures Corp., SoftBank Ventures Korea Corp. and more,...
Feb 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Samsung SDI in talks with global automaker for battery joint venture
South Korea’s Samsung SDI Co. is in talks with a global automaker to launch a battery production joint venture following its partnership last ...
Jan 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Naver recruits two AI scholars based in US
Naver Corp. is ramping up its recruitment of global talent in artificial intelligence. The South Korean tech giant announced Monday that it h...
Jan 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Microsoft $69 bn bet spurs Korea game makers' search for metaverse deals
South Korea’s game developers are expected to seek more acquisitions of the metaverse and non-fungible token (NFT) companies for new profit so...
Jan 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Digital assets
Korea's Mirae Asset to launch digital asset business
Mirae Asset Financial Group, South Korea’s capital market giant, is set to enter the digital asset business, starting with a digital asset cus...
Jan 19, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor’s Alabama plant: World’s second most productive
Hyundai Motor Co.'s US manufacturing plant in Montgomery, Alabama is the world’s second most productive assembly plant, contributing to the So...
Jan 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Korea Zinc to ditch low-key strategy to go beyond metal
South Korea's two non-ferrous metal product leaders Korea Zinc Inc. and Poongsan Corp. are tipped to report their record earnings in 2021, after str...
Jan 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Telecom taps AI expert as new technology chief
SK Telecom Co., South Korea's top mobile carrier, has tapped its e-commerce arm's chief executive and artificial intelligence (AI) expert Lee Sang-h...
Jan 04, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea 2021 exports hit record on strong sales of key products
South Korea’s exports last year hit a record on strong sales of key products such as semiconductors, automobiles and petrochemicals.Exports su...
Jan 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
Naver Webtoon to acquire Korea’s virtual human maker
Naver Webtoon Ltd., the digital comics platform of South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp., is set to acquire the management rights of d...
Dec 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
VCs in Korea shell out in search of next unicorns
2021 has been a heyday for Korea’s startup ecosystem – especially for the VCs that invest in it. In the first three quarters of this ye...
Dec 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Display OLED TV panel sales top 20 mn units on strong demand
South Korea’s major display panel maker LG Display Co. is estimated to have sold more than 20 million units of organic light-emitting diode (O...
Dec 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Coupang embraces affordable fashion industry
Korea’s e-commerce giant Coupang is looking to tap into the country’s mid-range fashion market. The company is now reversing the ...
Dec 21, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
POSCO to build mini mills for carbon neutrality
POSCO Co., the world’s No. 5 steelmaker, plans to build mini mills, electric arc furnaces for hot rolled steel, in South Korea as part of it...
Dec 20, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Korean steel mills rush to secure metal scrap from abroad
South Korean steelmakers, led by POSCO Co., are rolling up their sleeves to secure metal scrap as they are shifting into less carbon-intensive steel...
Dec 20, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
K-startups take note of growing demand for 'meta fashion'
Meta fashion, a combination of fashion, metaverse, and NFT, is becoming a global trend. The MZ generation, as those in their 20s and 30s are ca...
Dec 13, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Samsung launches merged set division as DX; robotics new growth driver
Samsung Electronics Co. has officially launched its new set division, which combines its mobile and consumer electronics businesses into a single un...
Dec 12, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy to secure $1.36 bn to raise US battery output
LG Energy Solution Ltd. is set to secure $1.36 billion to expand US battery output capacity, joining the fundraising race among South Korean battery...
Nov 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Homegrown VCs turn to Korean American startups in search of unicorns
Korean venture capital firms are ramping up their investments in Korean American-owned startups in the United States, mostly in Silicon Valley.The aim...
Nov 25, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Costa Rican president: His family K-drama fans, seeks joint production
Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada has praised South Korean movies such as the Oscar-winning Parasite and drama series such as Squid Game...
Nov 25, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Korea Zinc to double battery material output capacity
Korea Zinc Inc., the world’s top lead and zinc smelter, plans to double its production capacity of nickel sulfate, a key raw material for cath...
Nov 24, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Robots, AI replace human workers at Kia’s EV6 manufacturing factory
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, has unveiled the automated manufacturing process at its smart factory for the EV6, its firs...
Nov 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
LG Chem, GS Caltex to produce biodegradable plastic material
South Korea’s top petrochemical maker LG Chem Ltd. and the No. 2 refiner GS Caltex Corp. have agreed to jointly produce a biodegradable plasti...
Nov 19, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
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