Hyundai E&C to commercialize CCS for the first time in S.Korea

Hyundai E&C to commercialize CCS for the first time in S.Korea

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction announced that it has won the contract for the preliminary front-end engineering and design (Pr...

Korea chip exports to rebound in Oct; car, cell exports to stay firm

Korea chip exports to rebound in Oct; car, cell exports to stay firm

South Korea expected overseas sales of semiconductors, the country’s top export item, to rebound from October while the auto, secondary batter...

Novartis $391 mn deal powers Samsung Biologics backlogs to record high

Novartis $391 mn deal powers Samsung Biologics backlogs to record high

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s top contract manufacturing organization by capacity, inked a $391 million contract from Novartis, nearly fi...

Korea logs current account surplus in May on brisk sales of goods

Korea logs current account surplus in May on brisk sales of goods

South Korea’s current account swung to the black in May from a deficit the prior month, thanks to a surplus in the goods account for the secon...

Hyundai-LG’s Indonesia battery financing chosen as Asia deal of 2022

Hyundai-LG’s Indonesia battery financing chosen as Asia deal of 2022

The $711 million financing organized by Hyundai Motor Co. and LG Energy Solution Ltd. last year for their battery joint venture in Indonesia has bee...

Kumho Tire signs official sponsorship deal with AC Milan

Kumho Tire signs official sponsorship deal with AC Milan

South Korea's Kumho Tire Co. has signed a sponsorship agreement as the official tire partner with the prestigious Italian football club AC Milan.Kum...

S.Korea’s contents export size surpasses home appliances, textiles

S.Korea’s contents export size surpasses home appliances, textiles

South Korea's contents export size recorded $13.3 billion last year, surpassing the export values of home appliances ($8 billion) and textile produc...

Singapore's CDL buys Nine Tree hotel in Seoul for $107 mn

Singapore's CDL buys Nine Tree hotel in Seoul for $107 mn

Singapore-based major real estate firm City Developments Ltd. (CDL) has bought Nine Tree Premier Hotel Myeongdong II from South Korea’s Shinha...

Hanwha Ocean mulls large investments in warship facilities

Hanwha Ocean mulls large investments in warship facilities

Hanwha Ocean Co., the world’s fourth-largest shipbuilder, is considering large investments in new facilities to manufacture warships as the co...

Deal reached on LG-Stellantis battery plant subsidy; construction resumes

Deal reached on LG-Stellantis battery plant subsidy; construction resumes

All construction work at a battery joint venture in Canada between South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. and multinational automaker Stellanti...

SCM Lifescience kicks off anti-hair loss product exports to SE Asia

SCM Lifescience kicks off anti-hair loss product exports to SE Asia

South Korea’s stem cell tech company SCM Lifescience on Wednesday said it has started full-scale exports to Southeast Asia of its hair loss ca...

Woongjin ThinkBig signs licensing deal with Disney

Woongjin ThinkBig signs licensing deal with Disney

South Korean educational technology company Woongjin ThinkBig Co. on Tuesday said it signed a licensing agreement with Walt Disney Korea, the domest...

Samsung Biologics wins $897 mn in two deals with Pfizer

Samsung Biologics wins $897 mn in two deals with Pfizer

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract manufacturing organization (CMO) in terms of production capacity, said on Tuesday it has w...

Korea inflation at 21-month low; BOK may end rate hikes

Korea inflation at 21-month low; BOK may end rate hikes

South Korea’s headline inflation dropped for a fifth straight month to a 21-month low, adding to expectations that the central bank might not ...

LCC Air Premia to be jointly managed by two PE firms

LCC Air Premia to be jointly managed by two PE firms

Air Premia Inc., a South Korean low-cost carrier, will be jointly managed by two Seoul-based private equity firms – JC Partners and AP Holding...

HD KSOE bags $2.3 bn in vessel orders, achieves 90% of 2023 target

HD KSOE bags $2.3 bn in vessel orders, achieves 90% of 2023 target

South Korea’s biggest shipbuilder HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) has recently bagged over 3 trillion won ($2.3...

GC Biopharma inks $90mn deal for blood products in Brazil

GC Biopharma inks $90mn deal for blood products in Brazil

South Korea's GC Biopharma Corp. on Monday announced on Monday that it has a supply contract with Blau Farmacêutica, a Brazilian pharmaceutica...

Convenience store giant BGF Retail signs IPR deal with YG Plus

Convenience store giant BGF Retail signs IPR deal with YG Plus

South Korea's BGF Retail, which runs the leading domestic convenience store chain CU, on Monday said it will sign a deal with YG Plus, which special...

Indonesia yet to notify Korea of payment plan for joint fighter program

Indonesia yet to notify Korea of payment plan for joint fighter program

Indonesia has yet to provide South Korea with a timetable for payment on a joint fighter jet program as promised, undermining trust in Jakarta&rsquo...

SK E&S eyes business split-up to raise up to $1. 5 bn

SK E&S eyes business split-up to raise up to $1. 5 bn

South Korea’s SK E&S Co. is seeking to split up its business to raise up to 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion), according to people with knowle...

S.Korea exports halal-certified beef to Malaysia for 1st time

S.Korea exports halal-certified beef to Malaysia for 1st time

Halal-certified premium Korean beef Hanwoo was exported to Malaysia on Thursday, marking the culmination of seven years of quarantine negotiations f...

Doosan inks $214 mn deal for Korea combined cycle power plant

Doosan inks $214 mn deal for Korea combined cycle power plant

Major South Korean power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. won a 280 billion won ($214.5 million) deal to supply key components such as a gas tu...

SK Plasma to supply $30 mn in blood products to Singapore

SK Plasma to supply $30 mn in blood products to Singapore

South Korea's SK Plasma on Wednesday announced the launch of full-scale production this month of the blood products albumin and immunoglobulin for S...

Korea’s KHNP wins project for tritium removal plant in Romania

Korea’s KHNP wins project for tritium removal plant in Romania

State-backed Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) has won a €200 million order to build a tritium removal facility (TRF) at a nuclear pow...

S.Korean content biz event in Indonesia targets SE Asian consumers

S.Korean content biz event in Indonesia targets SE Asian consumers

An export conference for South Korean content this week in Jakarta, Indonesia, targeted the Southeast Asian market's population of 600 million.The I...

S.Korea's military aircraft exports to NATO get major boost

S.Korea's military aircraft exports to NATO get major boost

South Korea has concluded a deal with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on mutual recognition of certification of military aircraft airw...

US beats China to become S.Korea’s No.1 export destination in 2022

US beats China to become S.Korea’s No.1 export destination in 2022

South Korea last year exported most to the US thanks to brisk sales of the country’s cars in the world’s No. 1 economy, whereas trade wi...

Monthly exports set for growth in June for 1st time in 10 months

Monthly exports set for growth in June for 1st time in 10 months

South Korea’s exports in the first 20 days of June rose from a year earlier, seeing growth in the period for the first time since last August....

Singapore includes KS Standards in construction guidelines

Singapore includes KS Standards in construction guidelines

KS standards have been included in Singapore's Class 1 Building and Construction guidelines (BC1). As a result, it is expected that steel exports to...

Korea's Doosan Enerbility sells Bobcat stake in $214 mn block deal

Korea's Doosan Enerbility sells Bobcat stake in $214 mn block deal

South Korea’s major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. has sold a minority stake in Doosan Bobcat Inc., its construction equipment unit...

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