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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hyundai Heavy wins $202 mn shipbuilding order
Hyundai Heavy Industries Group has won an order worth 227 billion won ($202 million) to build three liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers, said its...
Apr 12, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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League table
Morgan Stanley tops Korea's Q1 M&A league table
Morgan Stanley reclaimed its top position in South Korea's M&A advisor league table in the first quarter of this year for the first time in two ...
Mar 31, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Venture capital
GS Galtex to partner with Kakao for mobility services
South Korea's GS Caltex Corp., aiming to become a logistics platform, will invest around 30 billion won ($26 million) in Kakao Mobility Corp. to str...
Mar 31, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy sets new global record with $2.5 bn order
South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has landed an order to build 20 very large container ships (VLCS) at 2.8 trillion won ($2.5 billion), t...
Mar 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Mando wins $1.2 bn suspension parts order from Volkswagen
South Korean auto parts maker Mando Corp. will supply 1.4 trillion won ($1.2 billion) worth of suspension system components to Volkswagen AG over th...
Mar 23, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hyundai Heavy adds $724 mn order, reaching 29.5% of 2021 target
Hyundai Heavy Industries Group has won new orders worth 823 billion won ($724 million) to build a total of 10 vessels for four global clients in Afr...
Mar 15, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Kakao forays into pet taxi service; buys Pet Me Up
South Korea-based Kakao Mobility Corp., a subsidiary of mobile giant Kakao Corp., has acquired the country's leading pet taxi service, Pet Me Up, in...
Mar 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Hyundai Motor's IONIQ 5 pulls in record pre-orders
Hyundai Motor Co.'s latest all-electric vehicle is making headlines in Europe, with over 10,000 users signing up for the 3,000 units of the limited ...
Mar 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Monthly trade infographics
South Korea claims top spot in 2020 global shipbuilding orders
South Korean shipbuilders won the most shipbuilding orders worldwide in 2020, overtaking China and claiming the lead in the global shipbuilding indust...
Feb 10, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Two thirds of Koreans use OTT services; YouTube favored
Two out of every three Koreans used over-the-top (OTT) media last year, with YouTube the favored platform from which to watch videos and other strea...
Feb 02, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
Serial entrepreneur builds gateway for cloud services
“You see all of these buildings? All of the companies in these buildings will become our clients."These were the words of Lee Han-joo, chief e...
Jan 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung wins Intel foundry order; TSMC takes GPU deal
Samsung Electronics Co. has clinched its first order from Intel Corp. to manufacture Intel-designed chips, as the world’s top memory chipmaker...
Jan 21, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK Innovation buys 13% stake in China’s EV battery-swap station operator
SK Innovation Co. has signed a deal to acquire a 13% stake in a Chinese electric vehicle battery-swap station operator, as the South Korean company ...
Jan 21, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG bonds
Hyundai Steel receives $1.9 bn in orders for green bonds
South Korea-based Hyundai Steel Co. received around 2 trillion won ($1.9 billion) worth of orders in Monday's bookbuilding for its green bond issue,...
Jan 19, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung, other foundry players at full capacity as chip orders surge
Samsung Electronics Co. and other global foundry players are running their plants at full capacity as makers of cars and electronic devices compete ...
Jan 06, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korean shipbuilders kick off 2021 with $1 bn container ship, LNG carrier orders
South Korea’s two major shipyards have started off 2021 with decent orders, brightening the outlook for the country to retain its leadership i...
Jan 05, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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League table
Credit Suisse retains top spot in Korea’s M&A advisory league
Credit Suisse has maintained its top position on South Korea’s M&A advisory league table in 2020, working on most of the high-profile deal...
Dec 30, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Overseas orders
Daewoo E&C wins $3.1 bn in orders from Iraq, Mozambique
Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. has racked up two orders totaling $3.1 billion from Iraq and Mozambique to build a port and an LNG train, ...
Dec 24, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Korean shipbuilders sailing toward order target; shares on uptick
Shares of South Korea’s shipbuilders have been neglected in the market, lagging growth and value stocks, as orders for new ships almost stalle...
Dec 22, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Autonomous driving startup 42dot plans Level 4 self-driving in Seoul
42dot, a South Korea-based autonomous driving startup, plans to launch a Level 4 self-driving service in some areas of Seoul next year.The company s...
Dec 21, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Airlines
Hahn & Co finances $700 mn Korean Air deal with about $400 mn debt
Hahn & Co., a South Korean private equity firm, has completed the payment for the 790 billion won ($722 million) purchase of Korean Air Lines' i...
Dec 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Hyundai Motor JV to launch robotaxi services in US by 2023
Hyundai Motor Group's autonomous driving joint venture Motional and US-based ride-hailing company Lyft have joined forces to offer robotaxi servic...
Dec 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hyundai Heavy hits jackpot again, clinches $915 mn ship orders
South Korea's major shipbuilding companies are on a winning streak, securing lucrative contracts to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, Ve...
Dec 16, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy, Daewoo Shipbuilding fetch over $4 bn in orders
South Korea’s shipbuilding industry appears to be entering full recovery mode after almost a year-long drought in orders thanks to Samsung Heavy...
Nov 23, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hyundai Heavy, Samsung Heavy pull in over $1 trn in VLCC orders
South Korea’s shipbuilders have made a clean sweep of year-end orders owing to to contracts placed for very large crude carriers (VLCCs). Demand...
Nov 17, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hyundai Heavy affiliate wins $375 mn order for 2 LNG carriers
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co., a shipbuilding arm of Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, has won a 425 billion won ($375 million) orde...
Nov 02, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
BTS may be allowed to delay military service to age 30
South Korea is likely to allow the seven members of boy band BTS to postpone their mandatory national military service by two years until the age of 3...
Oct 13, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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LNG carriers
Daewoo wins $1.8 bn LNG ship orders from Europe
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. has secured $1.8 billion in orders to build six liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers in Europe, in it...
Oct 12, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Samsung Electronics
Samsung beats TSMC to win new Qualcomm order to make mobile chips
Samsung Electronics Co. has clinched a deal with Qualcomm Technologies Inc. to manufacture 5G-capable mobile application processors designed for mid-r...
Oct 06, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Foreign cloud service providers led by Amazon, MS play big in Korea
Global cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) are taking a greater share of South Korea’s serverless computing market, where ...
Sep 25, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
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- 2 Korea to allow non-profits to buy bad consumer loans
- 3 LG to drive future growth in emerging markets with battery prowess
- 4 South Korean President Lee, Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba seek closer ties
- 5 Naver Ventures to plant flag in Silicon Valley with TwelveLabs bet