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[Consumer This Week] Burberry, CJ, Lafuma, Nongshim, Espoir, Beyond, 7Eleven
Burberry unveils “Art of the Trench in Seoul” project Burberry, a British luxury clothing and accessories brand, has launched its “Art of the Trench in Seoul” project here. The project, which commemorates Burberry’s signature trench coat, captured various people wearing the brand’s trench coat in different parts of the city. Around 30 celebrities including actors Lee Jong-suk, Cha Seung-won and Ko Su, as well as actresses Choi Ji-woo and Han Hyo-joo participated in the making of the project. Th
Industry March 3, 2016
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Qurient garners spotlight from biotech investors
Qurient, a biotech venture firm engaged in developing new treatments, is attracting interest from investors since debuting on Korea’s tech-driven KOSDAQ stock market on Monday. On the day of its stock market debut, Qurient’s stock price surged by 15.04 percent from its starting price to close at 33,900 won on Monday. It again rose by 15 percent to close at 39,000 won on Tuesday and by 19 percent to reach a closing price of 46,600 won on Wednesday. The company’s stock price is continuing to trea
Industry March 2, 2016
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Bodyfriend ranks No. 1 in massage chair market
Bodyfriend, a South Korean health care company specializing in building premium automated massage chairs, has retaken the No. 1 spot as the country’s leading massage chair maker. The company was ranked as the top player in the segment locally in terms of market share, brand preference and brand awareness for 2015, by local market analyst Hankook Research on Wednesday. Bodyfriend took up 66.1 percent of Korea’s total massage chair industry, according to the research firm’s survey of 500 local con
Industry March 2, 2016
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[Newsmaker] Coupang to log record loss for 2015
South Korea’s top e-commerce operator Coupang is expected to have logged a record-high loss in 2015, according to Coupang and industry analysts, fueling partial concerns over its aggressive spending.A recent report by Hana Investment Securities forecast that Coupang would log an operating loss of about 400 billion won ($320 million) for 2015, up by 299 percent from a loss of 121.5 billion in 2014.Though its sales are expected to have hiked by more than 400 percent last year from 348.5 billion wo
Industry March 1, 2016
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[KOSDAQ Star] Dongsuh, a quiet achiever on hype-prone Kosdaq
This is the third in a series of articles analyzing the top 10 companies by market capitalization traded on the tech-heavy KOSDAQ market. --Ed.For a company holding the No. 3 spot on the Kosdaq stock exchange, Dongsuh Companies Inc. has surprisingly little presence in the Korean media. This family-run company is known for not being accessible to journalists, with no interviews, press conferences or other typical media-relations activities that companies here often do to promote themselves. For
Feb. 29, 2016
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Lotte, E-Mart deny bidding for Kim’s Club
Lotte Shopping and E-Mart, two of Korea’s major retail giants, on Monday denied making a bid for smaller hypermarket chain Kim’s Club. “We hereby officially deny media reports that our company is among the bidders shortlisted for the takeover of Kim’s Club,” E-Mart said in a regulatory filing. In a separate filing on the day, Lotte Shopping also denied any bid. (Yonhap)Rumors have been brewing as to which of the country’s retailers is among the three bidders shortlisted for the acquisition of th
Feb. 29, 2016
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KEPCO to pay record high of W2tr in dividends
The state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. said Monday it will hand out a record high of some 2 trillion won ($1.66 billion) in cash dividends to its shareholders for the year 2015, in its largest allotment to date. “We plan to pay 1.99 trillion won for dividends out of a net profit of 13.41 trillion won posted in 2015,” the nation’s largest utility firm said in a regulatory filing. KEPCO`s new headquarters in Naju, South Jeolla Province (Yonhap) “The decision is scheduled for discussion at the bo
Industry Feb. 29, 2016
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Drug imports fall on rise of generics
South Korea’s inbound shipments in the pharmaceutical sector, which had been increasing annually until 2014, declined by around 5 percent last year due in part to a rise in the use of domestic generic drugs, according to recent data by the Korea Pharmaceutical Traders Association. Imports of raw materials used in pharmaceutical production and of finished pharmaceutical products together declined by 5.37 percent on-year to $4.8 billion in 2015, according to the KPTA. By category, imports of star
Industry Feb. 29, 2016
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N. Korean leader observes test-fire of new weapon amid tension
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has observed the test-fire of a new anti-tank guided weapon, the North‘s state media reported Saturday, amid a growing tension with the outside world over its nuclear and missile programs. Kim claimed the portable anti-tank laser-guided rocket has the longest firing-range in the world and its rate of hits is “as accurate as a sniper’s rifle firing” as well as its armor penetrating capability and destructive power are marvelous. “He noted with great satisfaction th
North Korea Feb. 27, 2016
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Nuclear reactor shuts down over technical glitch
A nuclear reactor in South Korea‘s southwestern nuclear complex temporarily stopped operation Saturday due to a technical glitch, an official said, but it does not pose any radiation risks. The 950,000-kilowatt “Hanbit 1” reactor stopped operating at around 5:16 a.m. due to a problem in a device that condenses a steam into water, according to Min Sung-mok, an official of the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power, the operator of South Korea’s nuclear power plants. The device, which is required to mainta
Industry Feb. 27, 2016
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U.S., Russia-brokered cease-fire goes into effect across Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — A cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia went into effect across Syria on Saturday, marking the biggest international push to reduce violence in the country‘s devastating conflict, but the Islamic State group and al-Qaida’s branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, were excluded.The cease-fire aims to bring representatives of the Syrian government and the opposition back to the negotiating table in Geneva for talks on a political transition. The U.N.‘s envoy, Staffan de Mistur
World News Feb. 27, 2016
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New N. Korean rocket turns enemy tanks into ‘boiled pumpkin’
SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea on Saturday boasted of a newly developed anti-tank weapon that its leader said was so powerful it could turn the most heavily armoured enemy tanks into “boiled pumpkin”. Pyongyang‘s state media said leader Kim Jong-Un had watched tests of the portable, laser-guided rocket and declared it had the “longest firing range in the world”, and was “as accurate as a sniper’s rifle”. “He noted with great satisfaction that even the special armoured tanks and cars of the enemies wh
North Korea Feb. 27, 2016
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Samsung wins U.S. appeal in Apple patent case
A U.S. appeals court on Friday handed Samsung a win over Apple in a long-running patent fight, overriding a jury verdict ordering it to pay $119.6 million to the iPhone maker.The court ruled that two Apple patents at issue were not valid, according to a copy of the decision posted online.Samsung Electronics' booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain (Yonhap)“We are delighted with the resounding victory from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which found that two of App
Technology Feb. 27, 2016
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SK moves to bolster pharma business
SK Holdings, the parent company of South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate SK Group, said Friday it has acquired a 100 percent stake in SK Biotek, a contract manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) used to produce chemical drugs. At the same time, SK Biotek will issue new shares worth 40 billion won ($32.38 million) to expand its production facilities. The decisions were made during a company board meeting on Thursday. SK’s holding company, at the apex of the group’s governance
Industry Feb. 26, 2016
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Porsche unveils new 911 Carrera in Korea
Porsche Korea unveiled the newly upgraded 911 Carrera and 911 Carrera S in Seoul on Thursday, with plans to launch other models based on the iconic Porsche 911 sports car in South Korea this year. The two models are the first among Porsche’s redesigned 911 lineup to debut in Korea, according to Porsche Korea. New variations of the 911 will be released locally in the coming months, company officials said. Porsche unveils the new 911 Carrera and 911 Carrera S in a launch ceremony at Dongdaemun De
Mobility Feb. 25, 2016
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