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Korea’s defense companies emerge as coveted growth stocks

Korea’s defense companies emerge as coveted growth stocks

South Korea’s defense companies have been regarded as typical domestic stocks with their share performances broadly linked to the size of the ...

Creditors to unveil new plans next week to sell DSME

Creditors to unveil new plans next week to sell DSME

Creditor banks of South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) are mulling new ways to find a new owner of the debt-ridden ...

Hyundai Heavy, DSME merger falls through on EU veto

Hyundai Heavy, DSME merger falls through on EU veto

The European Commission on Thursday vetoed the combination of the world’s two largest shipbuilders Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and Daewoo Shi...

Bank of Korea may hike rates this week to curb inflation, household debt

Bank of Korea may hike rates this week to curb inflation, household debt

South Korea’s central bank is almost certain to raise interest rates on Friday to curb inflation and household debt as the US Federal Reserve ...

LG Energy IPO fever lifts Korea’s battery stocks

LG Energy IPO fever lifts Korea’s battery stocks

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s No. 2 battery maker, attracted a record $9.65 trillion demand for South Korea’s largest-ever initia...

2022 Mercedes EQS EV comes with LG's flexible OLED

2022 Mercedes EQS EV comes with LG's flexible OLED

The 2022 models of Mercedes-Benz AG's electric vehicle EQS will be equipped with infotainment systems co-developed with LG Electronics Inc., the Sou...

LG Energy sets new IPO record with $9.65 trillion investor demand

LG Energy sets new IPO record with $9.65 trillion investor demand

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker, has set a new record for an initial public offering with demand for its sha...

Coupang to shake up Korea’s logistics industry landscape

Coupang to shake up Korea’s logistics industry landscape

South Korea’s e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. is looking to tap into the country’s logistics industry, shaking up the sector, while market...

LG Energy takes on CATL as it prepares for Korea’s largest-ever IPO

LG Energy takes on CATL as it prepares for Korea’s largest-ever IPO

LG Energy Solution Ltd. has vowed to outrival the world’s top battery player CATL as the South Korean company is preparing for the country&rsq...

Edison Motors and Ssangyong Motor ink takeover deal

Edison Motors and Ssangyong Motor ink takeover deal

Ssangyong Motor Co. has finally found a new owner. South Korea’s bankruptcy court approved Ssangyong Motor Co. and electric carmaker Edison Mo...

LG Household’s China strategy put to test as shares crash

LG Household’s China strategy put to test as shares crash

LG Household & Health Care Ltd.’s shares have been flying high since its market debut in 2001, and have more recently basked in the global...

CICC to form up to $3.3 bn funds for bio, chips in Korea and others

CICC to form up to $3.3 bn funds for bio, chips in Korea and others

CICC Capital, a private equity firm of China's largest investment bank China International Capital Corporation (CICC), will create funds with a comb...

GS launches corporate VC firm

GS launches corporate VC firm

GS announced the establishment of a corporate venture capital (CVC) firm Sunday, the first of its kind for a holding company in Korea. The announcem...

Kospi short sales hit $639 mn amid rate hike woes

Kospi short sales hit $639 mn amid rate hike woes

Short selling on the Korean stock market is soaring rapidly on concerns over the US Fed Reserve’s interest rate hike. Particularly, a large ...

Korea Zinc to ditch low-key strategy to go beyond metal

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...

Korean won touches 18-month low as Fed may raise rates sooner

Korean won touches 18-month low as Fed may raise rates sooner

South Korea’s won currency hit a 1-1/2-year low as the US Federal Reserve signaled the central bank may raise interest rates sooner than expec...

Lotte, Shinsegae compete head-on for Ministop Korea

Lotte, Shinsegae compete head-on for Ministop Korea

South Korea's two retail heavyweights Lotte and Shinsegae are in head-to-head competition for the country's fifth-largest convenience store chain Mi...

Biotech firm EDGC embarks on metaverse journey 

Biotech firm EDGC embarks on metaverse journey 

EONE-DIAGNOMICS Genome Center Co. ( EDGC ) announced this week it would participate in AI Human Metaverse Project consortium – along with seven ...

Self-driving car stocks to lead auto sector shares in 2022

Self-driving car stocks to lead auto sector shares in 2022

Self-driving car-related shares failed to draw attention last year as investors focused on electric vehicles and the autonomous vehicle value chain ...

LG Chem, China’s Huayou Cobalt to build battery metal JV in Korea

LG Chem, China’s Huayou Cobalt to build battery metal JV in Korea

South Korea’s top chemical maker LG Chem Ltd. will partner with China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. to launch a battery material joint ve...

Korea’s CHA Biotech to triple US CDMO capacity

Korea’s CHA Biotech to triple US CDMO capacity

CHA Biotech, South Korea’s stem cell therapeutics developer, is set to expand its biomaterials contract development and manufacturing organiza...

LG welcomes Samsung’s likely re-entry into OLED TV market

LG welcomes Samsung’s likely re-entry into OLED TV market

Samsung Electronics Co.'s expected re-entry into the OLED TV market will further expand the growing segment, which is gaining popularity in the...

Export-Import Bank of Korea eyes $3 bn global bond sale

Export-Import Bank of Korea eyes $3 bn global bond sale

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) is planning to sell up to $3 billion worth of new global bonds this week, tipped to be the largest-ever bond...

Convergence, metaverse, green: Korea Inc.’s themes at CES 2022

Convergence, metaverse, green: Korea Inc.’s themes at CES 2022

South Korea’s major companies are showcasing robots, mobility and the metaverse rather than cutting-edge models of their conventional products...

From TV to window: New displays from Samsung and LG

From TV to window: New displays from Samsung and LG

Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Display Co., the two archrivals in the TV panel market, are unveiling new displays with enhanced picture and sound qu...

Korea mulls measures on Indonesia’s coal export ban

Korea mulls measures on Indonesia’s coal export ban

South Korea is preparing measures to secure coal as Indonesia, the world’s largest supplier of thermal coal, banned exports of the commodity t...

Korean dental implant maker hit by $160 mn embezzlement

Korean dental implant maker hit by $160 mn embezzlement

Trading in shares of South Korea's top dental implant manufacturer Osstem Implant Co. was suspended on the Kosdaq market on Monday, after the compan...

SK Telecom and KT to compete in AI chipmaking 

SK Telecom and KT to compete in AI chipmaking 

SK Telecom Co. and KT Corp. are poised to go head to head in manufacturing chips for artificial intelligence. The telecom giants will utilize their...

Korea to join Egypt’s 1st nuclear power plant project

Korea to join Egypt’s 1st nuclear power plant project

South Korea is set to participate in Egypt’s first nuclear power plant project built by Russia as a state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power ...

Korea 2021 steel output set to top 70 mn tons on supercycle

Korea 2021 steel output set to top 70 mn tons on supercycle

South Korea’s steel output last year was estimated to have topped 70 million tons as the industry enjoyed a steel supercycle for the first tim...

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