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Some 80 percent of firms listed on the local stock market expect their earnings to improve in the current quarter compared to a year, data showed on Dec. 10. According to the data compiled by market tracker FnGuide, combined operating profit of the 217 companies listed on the main bourse was es...
Hanwha Systems, the defense industry unit of Hanwha Group, said Monday it has partnered with a US innovation platform to explore joint business opportunities. The company has signed a “strategic partnership” with Plug and Play, the world’s leading innovation platform for startups and corpora...
Hanwha Systems announced on Dec.8 that its $25 million investment in US-based air taxi startup Overair has got final approval from authorities. The two companies plan to jointly develop personalized aerial vehicles following the US Committee on Foreign Investment’s greenlight. Overair, previousl...
SK Innovation said Dec. 5 that it has built its first electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing plant in China. The completion ceremony for BEST -- a joint venture established by SK Innovation, Beijing Automotive Group and Beijing Electronics -- in Changzhou in the eastern Chinese province of...
SK Innovation said Dec. 4 it has signed a six-year deal with Swiss-based Glencore PLC to secure supplies of cobalt, a key material used in EV batteries. Under the agreement, SK Innovation will receive a total of 30,000 tons of cobalt, which is enough to make batteries for 3 million EVs, from Sw...
Doosan Bobcat said Dec. 3 it will acquire the zero-turn mower business of US grounds care equipment manufacturer Schiller Grounds Care. Under the agreement, Doosan Bobcat will acquire Schiller Grounds Care’s manufacturing facility in Wisconsin and its three brands of grounds care equipment -- ...
ULSAN -- SK Energy, an affiliate of SK Innovation, is set to complete the construction of its vacuum residue desulfurization facility in January, in time for the implementation of tighter environmental regulations. In response to heightening environmental concerns and growing harmful emissions fro...
S-Oil, headquartered in Seoul and wholly owned by Saudi Aramco, is unlikely to be affected by concerns about lower fuel prices and stricter environmental rules, according to analysts. The new International Maritime Organization rules -- IMO 2020 -- lowering the limit of sulfuric content in bunker ...
South Korean steel firm Posco said on Dec. 1 that it would offer incentives to socially responsible firms from Monday as part of its own efforts to contribute to society. Socially responsible firms refer to companies that are recognized as such under three laws established to encourage entreprene...
GS Energy, a unit of energy and retail conglomerate GS Group, said Nov. 28 it has partnered with a Vietnamese asset management firm to build a power plant fired by liquefied natural gas there to tap into the local electricity market. The company has signed an initial agreement with VinaCapital ...
Large South Korean companies’ ability to service their debts worsened sharply in the first nine months of this year due to plunging profits, a corporate tracker said Nov. 27. The interest coverage ratio for 241 out of the country’s top 500 firms averaged 5.08 as of end-September, compared wit...
BUSAN -- Some 75 trade agencies from 10 Southeast Asian countries gathered at the ASEAN-ROK Business Expo for a two-day investment seminar as part of the commemorative summit held in Busan, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency said Nov. 26. The seminar, dubbed Invest ASEAN 2019, featured bo...
The number of newly established firms in South Korea fell nearly 7 percent in the first nine months of the year on a one-off factor, data showed Nov. 25. A total of 945,322 new businesses were set up in the January-September period, down 6.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the data fr...
Air New Zealand on Nov. 25 began flight services to South Korea to absorb growing travel demand from Asia’s fourth-biggest economy. On Nov. 23 (local time), Air New Zealand flight NZ75 departed Auckland International Airport for Seoul’s Incheon International Airport for the first time in more...
Samsung Heavy Industries, the world’s second-biggest shipbuilder by orders, said Nov. 25 it has received a $1.5 billion LNG carrier order. Under the deal with an unidentified client in the Eurasian region, Samsung will build the LNG carrier by September 2022, the company said in a regulatory f...
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