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Energy
OCI to expand polysilicon line, buy back shares to boost corporate value
OCI Co., a leading South Korean chemical and green energy company, plans to significantly increase the size of its upcoming share buyback and cancel...
Mar 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Elec to spend over $4 bn on capex in 2023, biggest in a decade
LG Electronics Inc. has decided to go bold to widen the technology gap with its rivals, with its biggest capital expenditure in a decade of more tha...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
S.Korean startup Jobis&Villains expands to UK with tax return service
Jobis&Villains Corp., a South Korean startup that offers a tax return service called “3o3,” said on Friday that it had set up a loca...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Tmap Mobility, SWM to collaborate in autonomous driving area
Tmap Mobility Co., a Korean navigation app company, announced on Friday a business agreement to promote cooperation in autonomous driving technology...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
S.Korea's Naver gets global compliance certification
South Korea’s top search portal Naver Corp. said on Friday that it had received a global certification for its compliance management system fr...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Upstage’s AskUp offers Korea’s first GPT-4-powered chatbot service
Upstage, a South Korean AI tech startup, has unveiled a new version of its generative AI chatbot powered by GPT-4, to become the first to offer Open...
Mar 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
ESG: Name of the game in investing, funding amid Korea’s green push
With South Korea’s aggressive green push at both the government and corporate levels, money is flowing back to environmental, social and gover...
Mar 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
EQT sees huge potential in security services for S.Korean SMEs
The digital security market is rapidly growing in South Korea, one of the world’s fastest-aging countries and amid its soaring labor costs.&nb...
Mar 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
F&F bets on China's beauty market under MLB brand
F&F Co., a South Korean retailer of Western brands such as Major League Baseball (MLB), has been rapidly penetrating China's cosmetics market, w...
Mar 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Robotics
Hyundai Elevator to compete in Indonesian smart city projects
Hyundai Elevator Co. said on Wednesday that it will join a South Korean government-led team to bid for smart city projects in Indonesia, where the c...
Mar 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Lotte Fine Chemical, OCI Global join hands for clean ammonia business
Lotte Fine Chemical Co., a subsidiary of Lotte Chemical Corp., and Europe’s No.1 clean ammonia producer OCI N.V., or OCI Global, will collabor...
Mar 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Rights offerings
Hyundai Asan to sell $30.7 million worth of shares for capital restructuring
Hyundai Asan Co. under South Korean conglomerate Hyundai Group will raise 40 billion won ($30.7 million) in its seventh share sale since it was forc...
Mar 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus offers foreign language chat service for customers
LG Uplus Corp., a South Korean telecom operator of LG Group, said on Tuesday that it had launched a foreign language chat service for its customers,...
Mar 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate governance
Samsung suspends business with select software partner companies
Samsung Electronics Co. has recently “suspended transactions” with select software partner companies through regular auditing, with arou...
Mar 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Metaverse
S.Korea's Krafton, Naver to set up JV for metaverse services in H1
Krafton Inc., a leading game developer in South Korea, is slated to establish a joint venture with Naver Z Corp., a metaverse unit of the country&rs...
Mar 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hahn & Co. puts SK Shipping’s tanker business up for sale
South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Co. is seeking to sell SK Shipping Co.’s tanker division, a business widely seen as the breadwinne...
Mar 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
LG Chem mulls shuttering in-vitro diagnostics business
LG Chem Ltd. is considering an exit from the in-vitro diagnostics market to focus more on novel drug development as it lagged its smaller local riva...
Mar 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
Samsung SDS to offer customized cloud services
Samsung SDS Co. is ready to offer easy-to-use, customized cloud storage services to help its clients' digital transformation, its Chief Executive Hw...
Mar 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Naver offers platform for CJ in fight vs Coupang
Naver Corp. is shaking up South Korea’s online shopping market led by Coupang Inc. as it has launched a next-day delivery service to challenge...
Mar 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
System on chips: Samsung’s new high-stakes foundry business
Samsung Electronics Co. is setting its sights on system on chips (SoCs) to continue to drive growth in its foundry business amid a protracted slowdo...
Mar 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Korea’s Shinsegae to bolster convenience store business
South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae Group is set to boost its business in the rapidly growing convenience store sector as its supermarket cha...
Mar 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
Hanwha hires former Biden confidant as US government affairs chief
WASHINGTON D.C. – South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group has hired Danny O’Brien, a top aide to US President...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hanwha Q Cells jumps into distributed energy biz with forecast service
Hanwha Q Cells, the Q Cells division of Hanwha Solutions Corp., said on Wednesday that it had started a renewable energy generation forecast service...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
S.Korea's DB HiTek to split off fabless, bulk up foundry business
DB HiTek Co., a leading chipmaker in South Korea, said on March 7 it is set to split off its fabless unit by May 2 to ramp up its foundry business.D...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KEXIM bank inks $6 billion financing deal with Aramco
The Export-Import Bank of Korea said on Tuesday it has signed a three-year framework agreement with Saudi Arabian Oil Co.(Aramco), to provide up to ...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Upcoming IPOs
Korea’s sole foreign clinic operator CHA Healthcare to go public in 2025
CHA Healthcare Co. operating nearly 90 hospitals and infertility treatment centers across the world, is set to pave the way for South Koreans' inves...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korea's AI startup Quantit attracts $23 mn Series A investment
South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) company Vaiv Company Inc. announced on Tuesday that Quantit, its fintech subsidiary, has received a 30 bi...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Kakao Brain launches web service to turn imagination into images
Kakao Brain, a South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) company owned by Kakao Corp., launched an open beta version of "B^ EDIT," a web service tha...
Mar 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Line Games launches global service for Uncharted Waters Origin
Line Games Corporation, an affiliate of South Korea’s internet giant Naver Corp., announced on Tuesday the launch of Uncharted Waters Origin, ...
Mar 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hankook & Co. buys autonomous driving tech startup 3Secondz
Hankook & Company Co., a South Korean holding company that owns tire and mobility businesses, said on Tuesday that it has acquired the autonomou...
Mar 07, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
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- 3 S.Korea’s No.1 dried seaweed firm Kwangcheonkim up for sale for $295 mn
- 4 BOK chief warns against aggressive policy rate cuts, sees need for fiscal stimulus
- 5 S.Korea eases path for foreign REITs in senior housing push