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Corporate governance
Dongwon Industries reborn as holdings company after 53 years
Korea's seafood giant Dongwon Industries on Wednesday said its completed merger with Dongwon Enterprise has given their parent Dongwon Group a new h...
Nov 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Domino’s Korea to use third party delivery agents, the franchise's first case
It took a whole year for Domino’s Korea to convince the Michigan-based delivery pizza behemoth for an exemption to its corporate guidance of u...
Oct 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea's stock deposits dip to lowest point since July 2020
Monthly average deposits for stock investment in South Korea are poised to drop below 50 trillion won ($35.1 billion) for the first time since July ...
Oct 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung smartphone shipments down 7.4% in Q3; outlook dim
Samsung Electronics Co. suffered a drop in smartphone shipments during the third quarter on weak demand, adding to concerns over the sector’s ...
Oct 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
NPS considers new investment in global real estate
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is open to new investments in overseas real estate, the pension fund’s American real estate...
Oct 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ASK 2022
Teachers' Pension continues focus on global residential, logistics
South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension (TP) will continue its focus on residential and logistics in global real estate investments next year, t...
Oct 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea's Mirae Asset to invest $200 mn in Musk’s Twitter deal
Mirae Asset Financial Group is set to chip in some $200 million toward Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. in acquisiti...
Oct 24, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Korea eyes $20 bn in weapons exports as Hanwha inks $6 bn Polish deal
South Korea has moved a step closer to achieving a record 28 trillion won ($20 billion) in weapons exports this year, with Hanwha Defense Co. clinch...
Oct 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
S.Korea to widen tech gap with global shipbuilding rivals
South Korea, the world’s largest shipbuilding country, will expand its production of high-value-added specialized vessels, such as liquefied h...
Oct 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Chemical may clinch megadeal to supply cathode to Ford Motor
POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., is looking to forge a long-term contract to supply cathode, a key...
Oct 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
Samsung Asset says to pursue global, active, bond-type ETFs
Samsung Asset Management Co., South Korea’s largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) manager, will focus on global, active and bond-type ETFs, as we...
Oct 17, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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E-commerce
Korea's luxury e-commerce platform Balaan completes Series C
South Korean luxury e-commerce platform operator Balaan Co. will complete the attraction of 25 billion won ($17.3 million) in investment in a Series...
Oct 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Korean bio suffers as weak won lifts global clinical trial costs
South Korean biopharmaceutical firms are facing challenges in clinical trials overseas alongside the rising Korean won to the US dollar exchange rat...
Oct 14, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Rights offerings
KB's Indonesian subsidiary to launch $551 mn rights issue
Bank KB Bukopin, South Korean bank KB Bank's Indonesian subsidiary, is set to raise capital by issuing 8.44 trillion rupiah ($550.6 million) in new ...
Oct 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Korea's Naver to ramp up global IR activity as stock continues decline
South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp. is poised to hire an investor relations (IR) executive whose chief responsibility will be to com...
Oct 11, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Hanwha E&C abandons Bismayah project in Iraq; $581 mn loss expected
South Korean builder Hanwha Engineering & Construction Co. has aborted a $10 billion project to build a Bismayah new city in Iraq after failing ...
Oct 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Korean corporate bond issuance hits 2022 monthly low in September
South Korean corporate bond issuance in September hit a monthly low this year on souring investor sentiment due to interest rate hikes.Corporate bon...
Oct 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korea's data solution provider for small biz becomes unicorn
Korea Credit Data (KCD), a South Korean data solutions provider for small business owners, has become a Korean unicorn, or an unlisted company with ...
Oct 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Asset management
NFT to become game changer in new era: KED Conference in New York
NEW YORK – Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) will significantly influence a wide range of industries as millions of global investors flock to th...
Oct 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
NHN Cloud to raise $141 mn from stock issuance
South Korea’s cloud service provider NHN Cloud Corp. is eyeing 1.1 trillion won ($776 million) corporate value via a new stock issuance, marki...
Oct 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix hikes use of locally produced neon gas for chip manufacture
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it will significantly raise the use of locally produced neon, a ...
Oct 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
Tiger Alternative, Ocean West sell 7 warehouses in US for $1 bn
A consortium led by South Korea’s Tiger Alternative Investors Co. and Los Angeles-based real estate firm Ocean West Capital Partners sold seve...
Sep 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Sinking won fans doubts over Korea’s economic fundamentals
The tanking South Korean won currency has stoked doubts over the fundamentals of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, although the government contin...
Sep 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK On inks lithium deal with Australian firm for US tax credit
SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, has signed a deal with an Australian lithium producer. Securing the core ...
Sep 29, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea Investment & Securities and Stifel Financial form joint venture
Korea Investment & Securities Co., a subsidiary of Korea Investment Holdings, announced on Wednesday that it has formed a joint venture with Mis...
Sep 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Kospi hits two-year low; regulators mull short-selling ban
South Korea's stock market tumbled to its lowest level in more than two years on Wednesday, as fears of a slowing global economy and rising inflatio...
Sep 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Entertainment
Squid Game makes Rolling Stone's 100 greatest TV shows list
Netflix original South Korean drama "Squid Game" has been selected as one of the 100 greatest TV shows of all time by US music and pop culture magaz...
Sep 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Lotte Chem to buy Iljin at $1.9 bn for battery material biz
South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. is set to acquire major domestic battery material maker Iljin Materials Co. at some 2.7 trillion won ($1.9 ...
Sep 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
Korean crypto buyers show higher risk appetite than global peers
South Korean cryptocurrency investors appear willing to take more risks than their global counterparts, balancing their portfolios between market le...
Sep 27, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Foreign exchange
Korean won at fresh low since global financial crisis as markets crash
The South Korean won on Monday extended losses to a fresh low since the 2008-09 financial crisis as local financial markets lost ground, alongside t...
Sep 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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