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    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Batteries
      Korea Zinc expands nickel production to meet US battery demand

      Plant under construction would make South Korean company the largest non-Chinese producer of nickel sulphate

      Park Ki-deok
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      South Korea optimistic of inclusion in key world bond index

      Becoming a constituent of FTSE Russell WGBI could provide boost of up to $67bn in foreign capital inflows

    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      South Korean film industry rocked by box office fraud allegations

      Flourishing sector that won global acclaim beset by scandal over millions of forged cinema ticket sales

      Still from ‘Emergency Declaration’
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      South Korea launches samurai bond in Japan as bilateral relations improve

      Bank of Japan’s dovish monetary policy has made yen-denominated debt issuance attractive

      From left, US president Joe Biden, Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      #techAsia
      BYD makes its move and China suppliers go easy on hiring Premium content

      The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

      BYD’s ATTO 3 electric car
    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      Chinese robot waiters fuel Korean anxiety over labour shortages

      Imported machines designed to serve diners in restaurants outnumber homemade rivals

      A artificial intelligence serving robot delivers meal during a demonstration at a restaurant on September 15 2020
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Inside BusinessChristian Davies
      Prosecutor-turned-president looms over South Korean business

      Yoon Suk Yeol pardons company leaders but state makes an intervention elsewhere

      Yoon Suk Yeol
    • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
      InterviewPOSCO
      Korea battery materials maker onshores China supply chain to win US subsidies

      Posco’s battery materials chief says company is targeting the growing EV market

    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Travel & leisure industry
      Japanese and South Korean shares surge on return of Chinese tour groups

      Markets cheer Beijing’s move to scrap pandemic-era restrictions on overseas travel to 78 countries

      A tourist takes a photograph in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo in 2019
    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      Semiconductors
      South Korean politician urges US to abandon China chip strategy

      Former Samsung executive Yang Hyang-ja warns of risk of damaging relations with Asian allies

      Yang Hyang-ja
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      The Big Read
      Tech cold war: South Korea pivots from China to US

      Washington is courting chipmakers and battery manufacturers with large subsidies but demanding they loosen ties with their other major market

      President Yoon Suk Yeol, with a Hyundai electric car, a Samsung DRAM chip and symbols from the flags of the US, China and South Korea
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
      Samsung releases latest foldable smartphones as competition intensifies

      Google’s entry and Chinese rivals’ expansion pose a threat to South Korean group’s leadership in niche segment

      Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip and Z Fold phones on display
    • Monday, 17 July, 2023
      Equities
      South Korean ‘ant’ traders battle hedge funds in swarm on battery shares

      Retail investors have driven nine-fold rise in EcoPro’s shares this year in echo of US meme stock craze

      Videograb from EcoPro BM website
    • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
      News in-depth
      South Korean motor lubricant exports to Russia surge after oil majors retreat

      Chevron joint venture and SK Group subsidiary profit despite western pullback following Ukraine invasion

      Russian T-72B3M battle tanks roll through the Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
      Samsung forecasts 96% quarterly profit fall to 14-year low due to chip glut

      Semiconductor maker says it is working to capitalise on demand for artificial intelligence wafers

      A woman walks past a Samsung Electronics store in Seoul
    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      South Korea allows new bank entrants for first time in 30 years

      Government seeks to increase competition in sector dominated by five lenders

      A picture of the Seoul city skyline
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      The Big Read
      The South Korean ‘master’ of chips accused of sharing secrets with China

      Choi Jin-seok denies stealing Samsung technology. But the case underscores how the country is torn between geopolitical rivals

    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      Asia manufacturing
      US overtakes China as market for South Korean goods

      Shifts in supply chains part of changing pattern of global trade

      Kia cars bound for shipment are parked next to a vehicle carrier at the port of Pyeongtaek
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Semiconductors
      Ex-Samsung executive alleged to have stolen tech to recreate chip plant in China

      Six others also indicted as Korea toughens response to leakage of secrets

      Two people in silhouette travelling up and down opposite sides of an escalator at Samsung Electronics in Seoul
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Asia-Pacific equities
      AI ‘euphoria’ and EV bets drive South Korea market rally

      Foreign investors are scouring the globe for chipmaker stocks

      A picture of people working in the Samsung factory
    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      New York sues Hyundai and Kia over ‘explosion’ of car thefts

      Viral TikTok videos on how to steal the vehicles led to a surge in crime, says the city’s law department

      New cars are displayed at a dealer in San Leandro, California
    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Batteries
      Korea Inc’s big battery bet on Indonesia at risk from US restrictions

      Involvement with Chinese partners on nickel and other battery-related ventures could fall foul of IRA legislation

      A worker processes nickel at a smelter near Sorowako in Indonesia
    • Sunday, 28 May, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      S Korea’s Naver to target foreign governments with latest ChatGPT-like AI model

      Localised versions to address political and cultural sensitivities as well as US data controls

      The icon for a messaging and calling service application operated by LINE and controlled by Naver
    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      Semiconductors
      South Korea warns US could ‘overburden’ its chipmakers with China limits

      Seoul expresses concern about ‘guardrails’ in Chips Act affecting US subsidies and Chinese expansion

      Joe Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol stand with a delegation in a large factory while a technician speaks
    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
      Samsung faces threat of first-ever strike amid chip slump

      Once known for hardline approach to labour, South Korean group confronts challenge from 10,000-strong union

      Employees enter the Samsung Electronics semiconductor manufacturing plant in Hwaseong, South Korea
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