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Samsung Display joins responsible business alliance
Feb 21, 2021
Firm puts more focus on ESG for accountable global supply chain
Imprisoned Samsung heir likely to be dismissed as welfare foundation chief
Feb 21, 2021
Lee Jae-yong, the de facto head of Samsung Group, is expected to be dismissed as head of a social welfare foundation established by his late father, as he is imprisoned over a high-profile bribery case, sources said Sunday. Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation is expected to hold a board meeting next month to decide whether to strip him of the chairmanship of the foundation, according to sources at the Seoul city government and the Yongsan Ward office. Last month, Lee was sentenced to two an
Celltrion to supply antibody treatment for COVID-19 without profit margin in Korea: chairman
Feb 20, 2021
South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion will supply its antibody treatment for COVID-19 without a profit margin in South Korea, its chairman has said. Celltrion’s CT-P59 won the South Korean drug safety agency’s conditional approval earlier this month, becoming the first locally made treatment for the virus. The drug began to be supplied to local medical institutions Wednesday. CT-P59 is administered to COVID-19 patients at higher risk, referring to people aged 60 and olde
Moody's upgrades LG Electronics' credit ratings by one notch
Feb 19, 2021
Global rating agency Moody's Investors Service on Friday upgraded credit ratings of LG Electronics Inc. for the first time in seven years after the South Korean tech giant reported record earnings last year. Moody's raised the ratings of LG Electronics to Baa2 from Baa3, with its ratings outlook remaining "stable." This is the first time since February 2014 that Moody's has revised up its ratings on the major South Korean tech firm. "The upgrade reflects our expectation that, fo
LS Group Chairman Koo Ja-yeol named as next KITA chief
Feb 19, 2021
The Korea International Trade Association on Friday nominated LS Group Chairman Koo Ja-yeol, 68, as its 31st chairman. The leadership board of the trade organization, which represents over 70,000 member companies, met at the Trade Tower in Seoul’s eastern Samseong-dong and unanimously named Koo as the sole candidate for the post, officials said in a statement. Koo is slated to take office for a three-year term once his nomination is approved at KITA’s general meeting next Wednesday
Kepco shifts to black in 2020 on low fuel costs
Feb 19, 2021
Korea Electric Power Corp. (Kepco) on Friday reported a net income of 2.09 trillion won ($1.9 billion) in 2020, turning from a loss of 2.26 trillion won a year earlier on the back of the low fuel costs. Operating profit for the year was 4.08 trillion won, compared with a loss of 1.27 trillion won from the previous year, the company said in a regulatory filing. Annual sales fell 1 percent to 58.56 trillion won. During the fourth quarter, net profit reached 586 billion won, also shifting to the
[News Focus] COVID-19 widens gap among top 3 Korean game companies and the rest
Feb 18, 2021
The prolonged pandemic has intensified a polarization between top South Korean game companies and small and mid-sized ones. While the smaller players took a hit in revenue and employment amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the big three -- Nexon, NCSoft and Netmarble -- have reaped strong earnings and are returning part of them to staff and shareholders with dramatic hikes in salary and dividends. On Feb. 1, Nexon, which breached a 3 trillion-won ($2.72 billion) mark in revenue for the first time t
SsangYong Motor pins hope on government help
Feb 18, 2021
Policymakers raise concerns on heavy blow on labor market, should the troubled carmaker fall
Hanwha Solutions’ 1st YoY report card shows 29% surge in operating profit
Feb 18, 2021
Hanwha Solutions on Thursday announced its first year-over-year results after its launch on Jan. 2, 2020 through the merger of Hanwha Chemical and Hanwha Q Cells & Advanced Materials. According to its regulatory filing, the company’s revenue shrank 2.8 percent to 9.19 trillion won ($8.3 billion) on-year, but its operating profit surged 29 percent to 594.2 billion won, improving its profitability despite economic downturn from the COVID-19 crisis. Meanwhile, net profit saw a whoppin
Government, Hyundai, LG join hands to reuse dead batteries
Feb 18, 2021
Prime Minister brings Hyundai Motor chief Chung and LG battery head Kim together for partnership
Lotte Chemical develops fire-resistant urethane insulation
Feb 18, 2021
Lotte Chemical said Thursday that the company has developed urethane-based semi-non-combustible insulation product. The company added that the new fire-resistant insulation product can reduce the amount of smoke by 30 percent in case of a fire, compared to conventional urethane-based insulation products. According to the petrochemical affiliate of Lotte Group, it took two years for the firm to conduct research on the new insulation product, using purified isophthalic acid, which is widely u
Celltrion to take on S. Africa variant
Feb 18, 2021
Celltrion’s COVID-19 antibody therapy to be globally supplied at 1/5 cost of US competitors
S. Korea to increase number of eco-friendly cars to 7.85m by 2030
Feb 18, 2021
South Korea said Thursday the accumulated number of eco-friendly cars running in the country will reach 7.85 million by 2030, in line with its vision to go fully carbon-neutral by 2050. The target will mark a sharp rise from 820,000 units tallied in the previous year, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. The emission of greenhouse gases from cars will also fall 24 percent over the period. The announcement came as a part of the five-year fourth basic plan on promoting the ec
S. Korea's three major multiplexes post nearly 70% sales plunge in 2020
Feb 18, 2021
South Korea's three major multiplex chain operators have seen their respective 2020 sales plunge nearly 70 percent from a year earlier due to the fallout of the yearlong novel coronavirus pandemic, data showed Thursday. Industry leader CJ CGV, the cinema affiliate under the wing of entertainment giant CJ Group, said its sales reached 583.4 billion won ($527.9 million) last year, down 70 percent from the previous year. It shifted to an operating loss of 392.5 billion won in 2020 from an operati
S. Korea's mobile game market surges 24% to W5tr in 2020: data
Feb 18, 2021
The mobile game market in South Korea logged sharp growth of over 5 trillion won ($4.5 billion) last year amid the pandemic, data showed Thursday. Total mobile game transactions in the country were estimated at 5.3 trillion won in 2020, up 24.3 percent from the previous year, according to data from mobile app tracker IGAWorks based on estimated sales of Google's Play store, Apple's App Store and homegrown rival ONE Store. Last year's growth far outpaced that of 2019 when it grew 5.3 percent fr
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