Conglomerate investments rise 4.6% in H1, led by chipmakers
Aug 20, 2021
South Korea’s large business groups increased their investments by nearly 5 percent in the first half of 2021, according to data by a local market researcher on Friday. Including the country’s biggest tech giant Samsung Electronics, the top 332 Korean companies invested a combined 82.8 trillion won ($70.3 billion) in the January-June period, up 4.6 percent from a year earlier, showed figures released by CEO Score. The investment amount surged 12.6 percent in the first half of 201