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Electronics
80% of Korea's data centers to use homegrown AI semiconductors by 2030
South Korea by 2030 will upgrade its level of domestic artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors to the world's best by using the nation's high-pe...
Dec 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Bionote slashs IPO price to 9,000 won, 50% lower than previous valuation
Everybody is aware that investment fever on biotech firms has already cooled due to rising interest rates and concerns over the fizzling economy, an...
Dec 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy-GM JV secures $2.5 bn loan from US for EV battery production
South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. said on Wednesday its joint venture with General Motors Co. has attracted $2.5 billion via a loan...
Dec 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan, DL consortium to invest $130 mn in X-Energy for SMR project
A South Korean consortium led by Doosan Enerbility Co. and DL E&C Co. is investing $130 million in X-Energy LLC, a US nuclear reactor and fuel d...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
EV charging service firm Scalardata attracts 3 bn won from GS Energy
Scalardata, a South Korean start-up running an electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure integration platform "evmodu.kr," announced on Monday t...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
S.Korea's Bespin Global secures $107 mn from Middle East
South Korea's cloud management company Bespin Global said on Monday that it has secured 140 billion won ($107 million) in investment from e& Ent...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Doosan Enerbility gets int'l certification for offshore wind power system
South Korea's heavy industry company Doosan Enerbility Co. on Monday said it is Korea's first to receive international certification for an eight-me...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
SK Energy buys stake in subscription car wash service
South Korea is seeing growth in the variety of services for the rising number of eco-friendly electric vehicles (EVs) on the nation's roads.Industry...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Markets
Leading S.Korean trade body, 31 brokerages urge delay in financial investment tax
South Korea's Korea Financial Investment Association and 31 domestic securities companies on Sunday released a joint statement urging a delay in the...
Dec 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
Dajia Insurance likely to put Korea's ABL Life up for sale again
China’s Dajia Insurance Group Co. seeks to divest of a full stake in its South Korean subsidiary ABL Life Insurance Co. with an estimated valu...
Dec 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Sovereign wealth funds
KIC buys stake in US credit asset manager Golub Capital
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has made its first direct investment in an asset management firm, the South Korean sovereign wealth fund said on ...
Dec 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
LS Cable inks $159 mn Taiwan submarine cable supply contract
LS Cable & System Ltd., South Korea’s top wire and cable producer, signed a formal contract worth 150 million euros ($159 million) to supp...
Dec 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Samsung tightens belt to gird for worsening economic conditions
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, is drastically cutting costs while maintaining investments in f...
Dec 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Art tech platform Tessa attracts strategic investment from Kyobo Securities
The art tech platform Tessa said on Thursday that it has succeeded in attracting strategic investment from Kyobo Securities Co. The amount of invest...
Dec 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Logistics
Coupang to invest $4.7 billion in supply chains in Korea over 12 years
South Korea's e-commerce giant Coupang has briefed US Ambassador to Seoul Philip Goldberg at the company's fulfillment center in Daegu, a fa...
Dec 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Naver affiliate Line Games seeks $756 million IPO in Korea
Line Games Corp., an affiliate of South Korea’s internet giant Naver Corp., plans to list its shares on the Korean stock market via an initial...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Dragonfly, CJ ENM sign MOU on content business
Dragonfly said on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with CJ ENM Co. to cooperate in moving into new content busines...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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AgTech
S.Korea sends dairy cows, livestock genetic resources to Nepal
The South Korean government is donating dairy cows and genetic resources for cattle to Nepal.The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs on ...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cloud computing
Private equity juggernauts bid for $758 million worth of KT Cloud shares
A number of private equity giants in South Korea and beyond are bidding for shares worth up to 1 trillion won ($758.2 million) in KT Cloud, a subsid...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
S.Korea develops carbon composite materials as its 2nd steel industry
The South Korean government will invest 185 billion won ($139.6 million) by 2030 in the development of technology for carbon composite materials, wh...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Group
Samsung’s Lee visits UAE nuclear plant project on first trip as chairman
Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee is in Abu Dhabi to meet with businesspeople and politicians and tour the Barakah nuclear power plant project in the ...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
LG plans additional $4 billion investment in Vietnam
South Korean electronics giants including LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics plan to pour billions of dollars of additional investment into Viet...
Dec 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
Daol Financial Group to let go of VC affiliate, hit by liquidity crunch
The Daol Financial Group is widely expected to let go of its venture capital arm in the midst of a worsening liquidity crunch. The VC firm Daol...
Dec 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Twelve Labs secures $12 mn for AI-powered video analysis platform
Twelve Labs Inc., a South Korean artificial intelligence-powered video search platform developer, closed its seed extension round with an additional...
Dec 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Companies
SK Discovery launches bio strategy, investment division
Korea's chemical company SK Discovery Co. on Tuesday said it launched a bio strategy and investment division headed by Kim Jung-hoon, director of SK...
Dec 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Nexen Tire develops AI-based tech for road surface detection
Nexen Tire Corp. on Monday said it developed technology for road surface detection and analysis of tire braking distance using artificial intelligen...
Dec 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Taihan earns certification for extra-high voltage transmission cable
Taihan Cable & Solution said on Monday that it had completed the development of a 500-kV current cross-linked polyethylene extra-high voltage DC...
Dec 06, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Real estate
DWS taps Steven Kim as APAC real estate asset management head
German asset management giant DWS Group said on Dec. 5 that it has appointed DWS Asset Management Korea’s Director Steven Kim (Kim Sang-wook) ...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean restaurant startup GFFG raises $23 million in Series A round
South Korean lifestyle hospitality startup Good Food For Good (GFFG) announced Monday that it raised 30 billion won ($23.2 million) in Series A roun...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Capital raising
Nearly half of Korean firms plan no domestic investment next year
Rising gloom over the business environment due to a financial market crunch and weak Korean won has led to nearly half of Korea's firms having no pl...
Dec 05, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Hyundai Steel to displace Baoshan as GM Korea's supplier
- 2 S.Korea’s No.1 dried seaweed firm Kwangcheonkim up for sale for $295 mn
- 3 BOK chief warns against aggressive policy rate cuts, sees need for fiscal stimulus
- 4 S.Korea eases path for foreign REITs in senior housing push
- 5 Koramco targets $7 bn bets on Korea data centers