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Pension funds
Inflation casts shadow over S.Korea NPS' hedging strategies
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), with 920.4 trillion won ($694.6 billion) in assets as of November 2022, faces growing concerns o...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Battery material maker EcoPro Materials eyes $2.3 billion IPO
EcoPro Materials Co., a unit of South Korea’s battery materials group EcoPro Group, is looking to list its shares on the country’s main ...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
FADU joins ranks of unicorns as S.Korea’s first fabless chip firm
FADU Technology has become South Korea’s first fabless semiconductor unicorn after successfully raising funds from share sales before its init...
Feb 28, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Kakao vows to thwart HYBE scheme for SM control
Kakao Corp., South Korea’s dominant mobile platform, said on Monday it would mobilize all possible countermeasures against HYBE Co. ’s a...
Feb 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Four Hyundai, Kia models win US IIHS top safety awards
Hyundai Motor Group’s four models earned the safest vehicle awards even with a tougher crash test by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safet...
Feb 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
EQT Partners to acquire S.Korea’s SK Shieldus for $2.3 bn
EQT Partners AB, the world’s third-largest private equity firm, is poised to buy a controlling stake in South Korean security service provider...
Feb 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Insurance
DB Insurance acquires Vietnam's 10th largest insurer VNI
DB Insurance has acquired Vietnam National Aviation Insurance (VNI), Vietnam's 10th-largest property and casualty(P&C) insurance company. With a...
Feb 24, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Central bank
BOK holds rates as it lowers growth, inflation forecasts
South Korea’s central bank held its policy interest rate unchanged on Thursday as it slashed forecasts for economic growth and inflation altho...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
AmCham pledges to make S.Korea Asia's top biz hub
The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in South Korea on Thursday said it seeks to make the nation Asia's top business hub on the 70th anniversar...
Feb 23, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shareholder value
Hyundai takes lead in Korea’s dividend policy reform
The Hyundai Motor Group is set to become South Korea’s first conglomerate to disclose dividend allocations ahead of the ex-dividend date, a mo...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hankook Tire's Ventus S1 evo3 tops braking performance in Germany
Hankook Tire & Technology's high-performance tire, the Ventus S1 Evo3, claims the top spot in the braking distance category of the 2023 Summer T...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Samsung maintains No.1 position in global TV market
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. maintained its No. 1 position in the global TV market in 2022, accounting for nearly 30% of TV sales, ac...
Feb 22, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO decides to build electric furnace at Gwangyang Works
South Korea’s leading steelmaker POSCO on Tuesday said it will begin its transition to a low-carbon production system by building an electric ...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Patty-cooking robotics startup Aniai completes seed funding
Aniai Inc., a foodservice robotics developer founded by a South Korean, said on Feb. 21 it has attracted $3 million via a seed funding round to boos...
Feb 21, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Lexus, Volvo: Koreans' top picks among foreign brands in after-sales service
Lexus, the premium brand of Japanese carmaker Toyota Corp., offers the best after-sales service among imported cars in South Korea, followed by Swed...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Elec wins best eco-friendly washing machine title in US
Consumer Reports, a prominent consumer magazine in the US, has named LG Electronics Inc.'s washing machines as the "best eco-friendly washing machin...
Feb 20, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus to invest $77.3 million annually against data theft
South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. will spend 100 billion won ($77.3 million) a year to enhance data security about a m...
Feb 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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AgTech
Korea's Daedong to speed up growth with smart farming machines
Daedong Corp., South Korea’s top agricultural machinery manufacturer, aims to accelerate growth based on new businesses such as smart machines...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
S.Korea to lure global talent with high pay for space agency
South Korea is set to attract global talent with high salaries for a planned government space agency as the country aims to boost long-term growth i...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai Mobis ramps up patent development for future mobility tech
Hyundai Mobis, a South Korean auto parts maker and a key affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, said on Thursday that it filed more than 3,000 patents la...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean stock market
Samsung C&T to cancel $2.3 bn worth of treasury shares, stocks up
Samsung C&T Corp.’s share price zoomed on Thursday on news that the company will cancel its entire treasury stock holdings worth about 2.9...
Feb 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Behind the Scenes
Law firm's paper on SM: Trigger of SM Ent.'s management feud
On Jan. 19, SM Entertainment Co. founder and former Chief Producer Lee Soo-man received a 17-page document written by South Korea’s largest la...
Feb 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Korea's Dongsuh to rival Nestle in local capsule coffee market
South Korea’s No.1 instant coffee maker Dongsuh Foods Corp. is set to rival global food and beverage giant Nestle in the local capsule coffee ...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy Solution tops global EV battery market excluding China
South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. for the second straight year was No. 1 on the global market for electric vehicle (EV) batteries excluding Chin...
Feb 14, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
SK Telecom doubles capacity of its AI service's supercomputer Titan
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. on Sunday said it had doubled the processing capacity of its supercomputer Titan, the brain of its artificial intellige...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ECM/DCM
S.Korean listed companies' cancelled shares reach $8.6 bn over past 3 years
South Korea's listed companies have cancelled 11 trillion won ($8.6 billion) worth of shares over the past three years.The Korea Exchange said on Su...
Feb 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
LS Cable to inject $53.3 million to set up EV parts JV with HAI
LS Cable & System Ltd. will spend 67.5 billion won ($53.3 million) to set up a joint venture with Austria’s Hammerer Aluminium Industries ...
Feb 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
S.Korea's banks see deposits plummet $35.5 billion in Jan
Banks in South Korea last month saw deposits plummet over 45 trillion won ($35.5 billion) from the previous month due to a decline in deposit intere...
Feb 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Seoul to run $3.9 billion fund for startups over 4 years
The local government of South Korea’s capital city Seoul this year will launch its own vision fund, dubbed the Seoul Vision 2030 Fund, to inve...
Feb 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Philip Morris aims to top Korea's heated-tobacco market with Iluma
Philip Morris International Inc., a major US tobacco maker, aims to regain the throne in South Korea's competitive heat-not-burn cigarette market wi...
Feb 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 Lee Jae-myung to meet with top business leaders this week ahead of G7 summit
- 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