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Corporate restructuring
Lotte Chemical nears offloading Pakistani unit as part of restructuring
Lotte Group, South Korea’s sixth-largest conglomerate, is speeding up its business streamlining efforts amid mounting debts as it has moved on...
Feb 17, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Motor launches future strategy division overseeing M&As
Hyundai Motor Group has created a future business strategy division that serves as a control tower for the automotive group’s expansion into n...
Feb 16, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
LX International seeks to acquire nickel, copper mines in Indonesia
LX International Corp., the trading unit of South Korea’s LX Group, said on Friday it is seeking to acquire a nickel mine and a copper mine in...
Feb 07, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung set to rebuild with leader Lee cleared of all charges
Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong was found not guilty of accounting fraud, stock manipulation and other criminal charges by a Seoul app...
Feb 03, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
LG Electronics secures control of Bear Robotics
LG Electronics Inc. has secured control of Bear Robotics Inc., a service robot developer, by raising its stake to 51% from 21% as it aims to expand ...
Jan 24, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
KT to sell financial security unit for $59 mn for restructuring
South Korea’s KT Corp. is set to sell Initech Co., its Kosdaq-listed financial security unit, for 85 billion won ($59.1 million) as the leadin...
Jan 23, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Sono Hospitality heralds proxy fight to control T’way Air
Sono Hospitality Group, South Korea’s top resort operator, has vowed to more actively horn in on the business of T'way Air Co., portending a p...
Jan 22, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Korea seeks tighter control over digital coins, mulls mandatory disclosures
South Korea plans to tighten its controls over cryptocurrency trade in the country by mandating information disclosures for listed virtual assets an...
Jan 15, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy to supply batteries to US solar EV startup Aptera for 7 years
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s third-largest battery maker, agreed to supply cylindrical products to Aptera Motors Corp., a US solar ele...
Jan 10, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea Zinc chair reported to prosecutors over rights issue
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has reported Korea Zinc Inc.'s Chairman Choi Yun-birm and its board of directors to prosecut...
Jan 08, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai, Kia sell 7.23 mn units together in 2024, eye more sales in 2025
Hyundai Motor Co. and its sibling Kia Corp. have set a target to sell a combined 7.39 million units around the globe this year with greater focus on...
Jan 03, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korean drugmakers control more than half of European biosimilar market
South Korea’s two leading drugmakers, Celltrion Inc. and Samsung Bioepis Co., have achieved a significant milestone in the European biosimilar...
Jan 02, 2025 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
India to acquire 100 units of Hanwha Aerospace’s K9 howitzers via L&T
India will acquire 100 units of the K9 self-propelled howitzers developed by South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace Co. from Larsen & Toubro (L&am...
Dec 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Hanwha Systems to export K11's tactical control to Egypt
Hanwha Systems Co., a leading South Korean defense company, said on Monday it will export fire tactical control systems of K11 Fire Direction Center...
Dec 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Machinery
Hyundai Rotem delivers driverless metro cars to Taiwan
Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean rolling stock and defense equipment maker, said on Friday it held a ceremony to mark the arrival of the first ba...
Dec 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Hanmi Pharm’s chair poised to win management feud with her son
Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group Chairman Song Young-sook is poised to claim victory in a year-long dispute with her eldest son Lim Jong-yoon to take cont...
Dec 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hahn & Co. buys SK Enpulse’s chip wafer polishing pad business
Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. has agreed to buy the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pads manufacturing division of SK Enpulse C...
Dec 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hahn & Co. to buy controlling stake in SK’s specialty gas unit for $1.9 bn
South Korea’s private equity firm Hahn & Co. is set to acquire a controlling stake in the world’s top specialty gas producer SK Spec...
Dec 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kia aims to reclaim Europe with EV2, keeps K4 output unchanged in Mexico
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest carmaker, will start producing its entry-level electrified model EV2 from its plant in Slovakia next y...
Dec 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Display, Dolby to collaborate on automotive OLEDs
South Korea's Samsung Display said on Thursday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Dolby Laboratories to jointly promote Dolby's high...
Dec 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Celltrion BioSolutions launched to venture into CDMO
Celltrion Inc. on Tuesday launched its contract development and manufacturing organization unit Celltrion BioSolutions Co. in its foray into the CDM...
Dec 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai AutoEver establishes JV in Indonesia
South Korea's Hyundai AutoEver Corp. said on Monday it built the joint venture PT Terra Link technology in Indonesia with India's MapmyIndia. T...
Dec 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hyosung TNC acquires Hyosung Chemical’s specialty gas unit for $642 mn
Hyosung TNC Corp., a South Korean textile and yarn maker, said on Thursday it will acquire the specialty gas division of Hyosung Chemical Corp. for ...
Dec 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Asiana Airlines joins Korean Air as subsidiary
Asiana Airlines Inc., one of South Korea’s only two full-service carriers, has passed into history after 36 years of operation to be placed un...
Dec 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Mirae Asset rises to 12th-largest ETF manager with $141 billion in assets
South Korea’s leading asset manager Mirae Asset Financial Group has emerged as the world’s 12th-largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) manag...
Dec 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Opposition-controlled Korean Parliament passes slashed $470 bn budget
South Korea's opposition-controlled National Assembly on Tuesday passed a government budget bill for 2025, slashed from the government's proposal am...
Dec 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Samsung C&T, Hitachi Energy to team up for HVDC projects
South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. said Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Sweden's Hitachi Energy to cooperate for high-vol...
Dec 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
LG Electronics embarks on Indian unit's $1.8 bn IPO
LG Electronics India Pvt., wholly owned by LG Electronics Inc., has embarked on the process of going public to raise up to 2.6 trillion won ($1.8 bi...
Dec 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Hanmi breaks ground pharmaceuticals complex in Beijing
South Korea's Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. said on Friday that Beijing Hanmi Pharm, its subsidiary in China, held the groundbreaking ceremony for a proj...
Dec 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Hong Kong-based PEF Affinity Equity to acquire control of Lotte Rental
Affinity Equity Partners, a Hong Kong-based investment firm, will acquire a controlling stake in South Korea’s No. 1 car rental and leasing co...
Dec 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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