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Business & Politics
S.Korea to launch K-Ricebelt project in Africa
South Korea has launched an official development assistance (ODA) project for a "K-Ricebelt" to produce rice for 30 million people every year in Afr...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia scouts ex-Stellantis executive Pierre-Martin Bos as PBV director
Kia Corp. has brought a former Stellantis N.V.’s commercial vehicle specialist on board for its purpose-built vehicle (PBV) business in Europe...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
S.Korea’s imports of LFP cathode reverses to growth after 8 years
South Korea's imports of cathode materials used to make lithium ferrophosphate (LFP) batteries in the first five months of this year rose for the fi...
Jul 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Ad-tech unicorn Moloco’s endeavor to unlock potential continues
SILICON VALLEY – Moloco Inc., a Silicon Valley-based ad-tech solution startup valued at more than $2 billion, is dreaming big to become a vers...
Jul 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor breaks out of 3-year slump in China
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. has broken out of its slump in China, with its Chinese joint venture posting its first sales growth in four ye...
Jul 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Korean startups feel bite of funding drought in H1
The drought in venture capital funding worsened in South Korea in the first half of this year, taking an especially heavy toll on platform and b...
Jul 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
LG Elec Q2 profit misses forecast on costs; stocks tumble
LG Electronics Inc., the world’s leading home appliance maker, missed quarterly profit projections due to one-time costs related to job cuts, ...
Jul 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE secures $319 mn contract for three VLGC
HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE), the intermediate shipbuilding holding company of HD Hyundai Co., announced on Friday tha...
Jul 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea logs current account surplus in May on brisk sales of goods
South Korea’s current account swung to the black in May from a deficit the prior month, thanks to a surplus in the goods account for the secon...
Jul 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy triples lithium orders from SQM for US benefits
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, agreed to nearly triple lithium procurement from Sociedad ...
Jul 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
S.Korea’s best-selling premium fashion brand Time to go global
Handsome Corp., a fashion house of South Korea’s major retailer Hyundai Department Store Group, will launch The Time, an upmarket collection...
Jul 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
FDI pledges to S.Korea set fresh record in H1 2023
Foreign direct investment pledges to South Korea from January to June of this year soared 54.2% on-year, hitting a record high for the first-half pe...
Jul 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
IVIM Tech supplies biomicroscope to leading US children’s hospital
South Korea’s IVIM Technology has supplied the world’s first all-in-one intravital microscopy platform that it released last year to a m...
Jul 05, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia’s Gwangju auto plant gears up for 2nd heyday with EVs
GWANGJU, South Jeolla Province -- Kia Corp.'s plant in Gwangju, about 270 kilometers south of Seoul, bustled with workers and cars, including its be...
Jul 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Travel & Leisure
Hanatour sees surge of package tourists in June
South Korea’s top travel agency Hanatour Service Inc. saw a dramatic 661% increase in package tourists in June from the previous year, recordi...
Jul 04, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD KSOE bags $2.3 bn in vessel orders, achieves 90% of 2023 target
South Korea’s biggest shipbuilder HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) has recently bagged over 3 trillion won ($2.3...
Jul 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia set fresh H1 sales record in US, beating H1 2021
South Korea’s largest automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and its sister company Kia Corp. posted record first-half-year sales in the US this year, am...
Jul 03, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Korean ETFs’ net asset value doubles in 3.5 years
South Korea’s exchange-traded funds (ETFs) surpassed 100 trillion won ($75.7 billion) in net asset value for the first time on Thursday, 21 ye...
Jun 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
KT, Samsung to cooperate in building S.Korean-style full stack AI
South Korea's KT Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. will pool their capabilities to build domestically developed full stack artificial intelligence...
Jun 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
LG sees $76 bn in 2023 vehicle system order backlog
The automotive electronics business is emerging as a new cash cow for South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc., a household name in the home applianc...
Jun 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pension funds
NPS logs 8.6% return on investment as of end-April 2023
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has logged an 8.63% profit in fund management in January-April this year thanks to strong equity ...
Jun 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Noroo Paint unveils biodegradable plastic container
South Korea’s Noroo Paint on Wednesday said it developed an eco-friendly plastic container capable of oxidative biodegradation for its main pr...
Jun 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai’s IONIQ 6 named Best EV of 2023 in US
Hyundai Motor Co.'s electric vehicle IONIQ 6 has been named Car and Driver's 2023 EV of the Year on Thursday. According to Hyundai Motor, IONIQ...
Jun 29, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan inks $214 mn deal for Korea combined cycle power plant
Major South Korean power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. won a 280 billion won ($214.5 million) deal to supply key components such as a gas tu...
Jun 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Plasma to supply $30 mn in blood products to Singapore
South Korea's SK Plasma on Wednesday announced the launch of full-scale production this month of the blood products albumin and immunoglobulin for S...
Jun 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai bets big on futuristic displays, eyes roll-up screen in 3 years
South Korea’s top auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co. said on Tuesday it expects to begin mass production of its rollable vehicle display &ndas...
Jun 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea to return to Japan’s preferential trade partner list in July
Japan has decided to put South Korea back on the list of its preferential trade partners, nearly four years after its removal. The Korea-Japan trade...
Jun 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Korea’s KHNP wins project for tritium removal plant in Romania
State-backed Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) has won a €200 million order to build a tritium removal facility (TRF) at a nuclear pow...
Jun 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Three-fifths of Kia EV9 pre-order customers are new to Kia
About 60 percent of reservations for the EV9, Kia Corp.'s large electric SUV, are first-time buyers for the brand."Sixty percent of the individual c...
Jun 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
S.Korean builders feel tailwind from Middle East
South Korean construction companies, struggling with soaring raw material prices and higher interest rates, are poised to bounce back with a string ...
Jun 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Lee Jae-myung to meet with top business leaders this week ahead of G7 summit
- 2 Korea to allow non-profits to buy bad consumer loans
- 3 LG to drive future growth in emerging markets with battery prowess
- 4 South Korean President Lee, Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba seek closer ties
- 5 Naver Ventures to plant flag in Silicon Valley with TwelveLabs bet