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[Graphic News] COVID-19 helps toy salesBusinessFeb 20, 2020Sales of toys are surging in South Korea as children stay home longer and people pay more attention to their health due to the prolonged scare over COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by a new co... -
Korean chipmakers start to worry about COVID-19TechnologyFeb 20, 2020South Korean chipmakers have started to be concerned about a looming slowdown in demand for chips and impact on production in the wake of an unexpected spike in the number of COVID-19 infections acro... -
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[Monitor] More companies purchase renewable energy directlyIndustryFeb 20, 2020More companies around the world are purchasing renewable energy directly from power producers, under the corporate renewable power purchase agreements, data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance showed. ... -
Hyundai develops world's first automated gearshift that reads traffic aheadTransportFeb 20, 2020Hyundai Motor Group said Thursday that it has developed a self-controlling gearshift that measures traffic ahead and predicts optimized gearing, which it said is the first of its kind in the world. ... -
Hanjin Group joins hands with startup accelerator Plug and PlayTransportFeb 20, 2020Hanjin KAL, the holding firm of Hanjin Group which owns the country’s largest air carrier Korean Air, said Thursday that it has partnered with US startup accelerator Plug and Play for business divers... -
KT&G most lucrative firm among Korea’s top 30 groups: reportIndustryFeb 20, 2020South Korea’s tobacco giant KT&G is the most profitable company among the nation’s top 30 conglomerates, while Hanjin Group and Doosan Group, on the contrary, are in urgent need of improving their fi... -
LG Household to buy Physiogel's biz right for US, Asia marketsIndustryFeb 20, 2020LG Household & Health Care Ltd., a major South Korean cosmetics company, said Thursday it has signed a deal to acquire Physiogel business rights for the Asian and North American regions from British ... -
Preorders for Samsung's Galaxy S20 smartphones start in S. KoreaIndustryFeb 20, 2020Preorders for Samsung Electronics Co.'s new flagship smartphone line started in South Korea on Thursday, with local mobile carriers rolling out various promotions to attract customers. Samsung said ... -
Samsung C&T secures W1.15tr power plant deal in UAEIndustryFeb 20, 2020Samsung C&T, the construction arm of Samsung Group, said Wednesday it clinched a 1.15 trillion won ($960 million) power plant deal in the United Arab Emirates. According to the company, it won the o... -
Hyundai Motor chairman steps down as board chairTransportFeb 19, 2020Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Mong-koo will step down as the chair of the board, as he was not reappointed as an internal director at the firm’s board meeting, the automaker said Wednesday. Chu... -
Lotte declares green campaign for affiliatesIndustryFeb 19, 2020Retail and travel giant Lotte said Wednesday it has prepared a new environment friendly campaign for all of its affiliates, under a five-year plan to reduce food waste, minimize packaging and reuse r... -
Iran warns Korean tech firms: reportsTechnologyFeb 19, 2020South Korean tech giants including Samsung Electronics may face punitive measures by Iran in relation to business decisions that may have been influenced by US sanctions, reports and industry watcher... -
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[Chew on IT] Samsung chips vs. SK hynix chips: How do they fare against each other?TechnologyFeb 19, 2020The Korea Herald looks at advancements in chip manufacturing technologies, past and present -
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[Monitor] Involuntary retirees in 40s, 50s reach 500,000IndustryFeb 19, 2020The number of Koreans in their 40s and 50s forced to retire from their jobs last year has reached close to 500,000, the largest figure in five years, data from Statistics Korea released by Rep. Choo ... -
South Korea’s environment monitoring satellite successfully launchedTechnologyFeb 19, 2020The world’s first geostationary environment-monitoring satellite Chollian 2B made by South Korea has been successfully launched and reached outer space, the country’s aerospace research institute sai...
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