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MSCI maintains S.Korea’s emerging-market status; level playing field eyed
Currency dealers closely monitors the dollar-won movement in Seoul South Korea’s years-long bid for a developed-market status has suffered yet…
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SK Hynix joins Samsung in 200 trillion won market cap club
SK Hynix showcased a sample of the world’s first 16-layer HBM3E at CES 2025 (Courtesy of Yonhap) SK Hynix Inc.…
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Samsung on hiring spree to bolster US foundry sales
Samsung Foundry Forum 2024 qA held in San Jose, California on June 12-13, 2024 Samsung Electronics Co. is on a…
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Is chip winter over? Doomsayers gone as Korea’s DRAM exports surge
A researcher in a Samsung Electronics chip cleanroom Global memory chip markets, long weighed down by excess inventories and sagging…
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Xiaomi to open first offline store in S.Korea with premium products
Xiaomi’s flagship premium Xiaomi Ultra 15 smartphone, featuring Leica carmera lenses (Courtesy of News1 Korea) Xiaomi Inc., a Chinese technology…
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Google to invest $100 mn in Gentle Monster in XR glasses push
Gentle Monster is renowned for its conceptually designed retail spaces Google LLC has signed an agreement to invest around 145.0…
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Samsung to thrash out strategy amid Trump, Middle East crisis
Samsung’s logo is seen at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2024, the world’s largest AV systems show in Barcelona, Spain…
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S.Korea’s CDMO giant Samsung Biologics to offer CRO services
A researcher checks a bioreactor inside a Samsung Biologics cell-cultivating facilicy (Courtesy of Samsung Biologics) Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s…
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President Lee: Businesses at center of policy priorities for economic growth
President Lee Jae-myung (center) speaks before meeting with business leaders on June 13, 2025 South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on…
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Samsung supplies HBM3E to AMD’s new accelerators
AMD MI350 series (Screenshot captured from AMD’s online news release) Samsung Electronics Co. has delivered the fifth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM)…
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Micron set to supply SOCAMM chips to Nvidia ahead of Samsung, SK Hynix
Micron SOCAMM is a modular LPDDR5X memory solution for AI servers in data centers (Courtesy of Micron) In a move…
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Lee Jae-myung to meet with top business leaders ahead of G7 summit
President Lee Jae-myung (center) is set to meet with top business leaders next week South Korea’s newly elected President Lee…
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Markets in honeymoon with Lee: Kospi, won rally; bond yields spike
President Lee Jae-myung hosts his first cabinet meeting on June 5, 2025 South Korea’s financial markets showed strong gains on…
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Samsung teases new foldable phones with advanced AI
Unpacked event for Galaxy Z Fold6 and Flip6 in Paris, France in 2024 (Courtesy of Yonhap) Samsung Electronics Co. will…
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Ex-TSMC executive joins Samsung Foundry to lead US expansion
Samsung Electronics’ chip cleanroom Samsung Electronics Co. has brought a former Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) executive on board…
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Korea’s stablecoin trade at $42 bn; BOK balks at non-banks’ stablecoin deals
BOK Gov. Rhee Chang-yong (left) at fireside chat with US Fed Gov. Christopher Waller during the BOK’s 2025 International Conference…
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Samsung, Perplexity close to AI alliance: Bloomberg
Perplexity AI logo screenshot captured from the company website Samsung Electronics Co. is reportedly in advanced talks to equip its…
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Samsung to equip Galaxy Z Flip7 with Exynos AP at home
(Courtesy of Samsung) Samsung Electronics Co. plans to power its upcoming foldable smartphone with its new in-house application processor (AP),…
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Samsung Biologics drives foreign lead in Korea’s biotech supply chain
Researchers at Samsung Biologics’ third plant in Songdo, Incheon A surge in orders from Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest…
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OpenAI sets up subsidiary in Korea with top paid ChatGPT users outside US
Jason Kwon, Open AI’s chief strategy officer (CSO), speaks during a media briefing in Seoul on May 26, 2025 OpenAI…
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Samsung Biologics to spin off biosimilar unit Samsung Bioepis
Samsung Biologics booth at the BIO International Convention 2024 in San Diego (Courtesy of Yonhap) Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s…
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Google partners with Samsung, Gentle Monster for new smart glasses
Google CEO Sundar Pichai gives a keynote speech at the tech giant’s IO developer conference held at its headquarters in…
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Samsung gears up for foray into space infrastructure industry
South Korea-US joint space telescope SPHEREx successfully launched in March 2025 (Courtesy of NASA) Samsung Group is stepping up efforts…
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LG Electronics poised to extend OLED TV market lead into 2025
LG OLED TV (Courtesy of LG Electronics) LG Electronics Inc. is on track to retain its lead in the organic…
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UK chip testing device maker TeraView seeks Kosdaq debut
TeraView’s headquarters in Cambridge, UK (Screentop captured from TeraView website) TeraView Ltd., a UK semiconductor inspection device maker, is aiming…
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Hong Kong to list world’s first Samsung single-stock leverage ETF
A pair of leveraged exchange-traded funds tracking only Samsung Electronics Co. will make a debut on the stock exchange in…
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Samsung bets on data center HVAC with $1.7 bn FläktGroup acquisition
In 2024, Samsung reportedly vied for the HVAC operations of Johnson Controls International Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday announced the…
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LG, Samsung in bout for crown in wheeled TV market
LG StandbyME (Courtesy of LG) A TV mounted on a rollable stand has emerged as a new battleground between South…
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Now, thin is in – and Samsung wants to be No. 1 with Galaxy S25 Edge
▲ Invitation for Galaxy S25 Edge: Beyond slim With the advent of mobile AI, the performance arms race among smartphone…
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Hankook & Company to set up CVC with $11 mn in funding
Hankook & Company headquarters building (Courtesy of Hankook & Company) Hankook & Company Co., the holding company of Hankook Tire…
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South Korea asks US for tailored approach to chip tariffs
Container port in Busan South Korea has officially requested that the US take a distinct approach in its ongoing probe…
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Harman acquires Masimo’s audio arm in Samsung’s car audio push
B&W’s premium loud speakers under the Nautilus brand Harman International Industries Inc., wholly owned by Samsung Electronics Co., has acquired…
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Samsung steps up AR race with advanced microdisplay for smart glasses
Smart glasses (Courtesy of OpenPR) Samsung Electronics Co. has launched a major push into next-generation microdisplays for augmented reality (AR)…
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Samsung in talks to supply customized HBM4 to Nvidia, Broadcom, Google
Samsung’s HBM3E chip Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s leading memory chipmaker, is in talks to supply customized sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory,…
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SK Hynix’s Q1 profit soars on HBM chips, beats Samsung’s overall earnings
SK Hynix’s DRAM plant in Icheon SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, reported a dramatic surge in first-quarter…
