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IPOs
d’Alba maker Bmonument, Memebox, Easytem line up for Korean IPOs
South Korea’s promising beauty and healthcare device startups are looking to go public on the domestic bourse to scale up after gaining popula...
Jun 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Lotte Energy Materials sets sights beyond copper foil: CEO Kim
MUNICH – Lotte Energy Materials Corp. is one of South Korea’s leading battery materials specialists.Formerly known as Iljin Materials Co...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Korea Zinc speeds up separation from Young Poong in management feud
South Korea’s largest zinc smelter Korea Zinc Co. is accelerating its efforts to terminate its decades-long business relations with parent You...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
K-Sure to support Korean firms' participation in Vietnam's gas project
Korea Trade Insurance Corp. (K-Sure) announced that it will leverage medium- and long-term financial support to assist domestic companies in partici...
Jun 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Affinity to buy Korea's No. 2 car leasing firm for $591 mn
Affinity Equity Partners will buy a 100% stake in South Korea’s second-largest car leasing company SK Rent-a-Car Co. for 820 billion won ($591...
Jun 20, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Korean soju maker HiteJinro aims high with its first Vietnam plant
HANOI – Thai Binh, a port city about 120 km southeast of the Vietnamese capital, has long been associated, in people’s minds, with the i...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fashion
S.Korea's Handsome opens global flagship store System Paris
South Korean fashion company Handsome Corp. announced on Wednesday that it will open its first global flagship store System and System Homme Paris i...
Jun 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Catering firm Ourhome taps founding family’s eldest daughter as CEO
The eldest daughter of catering service provider Ourhome Ltd.’s founding family, Koo Mi-hyun, was on Tuesday appointed chief executive of the ...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean games
Netmarble's new RPG 'Solo Leveling' logs $70 mn sales in 1st month
South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp. is enjoying growing sales of its new action role-playing game (RPG) “Solo Leveling: Arise,” ...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Spaceflight venture Innospace eyes July Kosdaq IPO
South Korean spaceflight startup Innospace, which fired the country’s first private launch vehicle last year, aims to list on the Kosdaq in Ju...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Tcha Partners mulls largest-ever sale of Korean bus operators
Seoul-based private equity firm Tcha Partners Asset Management Co., which owns 17 domestic quasi-public bus operators via four funds that closed at ...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Korean IT firms prefer engineers with business capabilities
More South Korean information technology companies are seeking engineers with business capabilities as artificial intelligence is expected to take o...
Jun 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Asiana's cargo unit to be sold for $362 mn to Air Incheon
South Korean flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co. has tapped Air Incheon, a local airline dedicated to cargo business, as the preferred bidder to acqui...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Korean food firms chase sizzling K-food demand with expansion
South Korean food companies are scrambling to ramp up factory output at home and abroad to meet the insatiable appetite for Korean flavors and aroma...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Telecom invests $10 mn in Perplexity
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Thursday that it invested $10 million in Perplexity, the US-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Jun 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung unveils new foundry tech; AI chip sales to rise ninefold
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, on Wednesday unveiled a new contract chipmaking techno...
Jun 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Rights offerings
Dim outlook for Korean biotech firms’ rights offerings
South Korea’s bio and tech-heavy Kosdaq-listed Shaperon Inc. raised 12.7 billion won ($9.2 million) from its latest rights offering, selling o...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Innotek begins supplying AI chip substrates to Big Tech
LG Innotek Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, is for the first time supplying high-performance chip substrates for AI devices to g...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Transys to export EV drive systems to CEER
Hyundai Transys Inc., an auto parts affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Wednesday that it signed a contract to supply a 3 trillion won ($...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Q Capital named K-drama maker Chorokbaem's preferred bidder
Seoul-based private equity firm Q Capital Partners seeks to buy a 39.3% stake with management rights in South Korean drama series producer Chorokbae...
Jun 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK-backed TerraPower breaks ground on nuclear power plant in US
Bill Gates’ nuclear energy firm TerraPower LLC, backed by South Korean conglomerates SK Inc. and HD Hyundai Co., has broken ground on its firs...
Jun 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
France's Archimed seeks to delist aesthetic laser maker Jeisys
French private equity firm Archimed SAS, managing around €7 billion ($7.5 billion) in assets as of end-May, plans to secure a controlling stake...
Jun 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
Hyundai, Kia to require stricter ESG compliance from subcontractors
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group plans to require stricter environmental, social and governance compliance from its partners st...
Jun 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Foreign VIP customers boost Korean department stores' sales
Wei Liu, a 41-year-old Taiwanese businessman, snapped up 300 million won ($220,000) worth of luxury brand products at Hyundai Department Store&rsquo...
Jun 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
SK Biopharm mulls acquiring firms, drug sales rights in US
SAN DIEGO, California -- South Korea’s SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. is considering acquiring firms in the US, or the sales rights to some of thei...
Jun 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Hanmi Semiconductor wins $110 mn HBM equipment order from SK Hynix
South Korean chip equipment company Hanmi Semiconductor Co. announced on Friday that it has received an order from SK Hynix Inc. for its dual TC bon...
Jun 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Samsung Biologics eyes windfall gain amid US-China row
SAN DIEGO – Samsung Biologics Co. is enjoying a stream of contract development and manufacturing order inquiries from big pharmaceutical compa...
Jun 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Private equity
Affinity fails in Lock&Lock tender offer; eyes equity swap
Hong Kong-based Affinity Equity Partners is planning for an equity swap between its new entity and South Korean food container maker Lock&Lock...
Jun 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Nvidia co-leads Series A round for AI startup Twelve Labs
Global chip giant Nvidia Corp. has co-led a $50 million Series A funding round for Twelve Labs, a South Korean artificial intelligence company speci...
Jun 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate bonds
Korea’s non-financial firms rush to issue perpetual bonds
Perpetual bond offerings by non-financial firms in South Korea are poised to hit new records this year as many companies have flocked to the hybrid ...
Jun 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
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- 3 Lee vows policy overhaul to spur dividend payouts
- 4 IFEZ to apply for designation of southern Gangwha as free economic zone
- 5 Jollibee to buy chicken chain Norang Tongdak amid global K-food frenzy