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Business & Politics Seoul mulls joint review of Alaska LNG project with Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam

South Korea has proposed forming a consortium with Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam to jointly assess the feasibility of investing in the $45 billion Alask...

Short selling All listed stocks to be available for shorting in South Korea

South Korea will allow short selling of all listed stocks in the country as of Monday for the first time in five years, raising expectations of more...

Mergers & Acquisitions Samsung Electronics' key M&A man returns; big deals in the offing

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker and leading smartphone and electronics maker, has been absent from the mergers and a...

Korean chipmakers Samsung to unveil Mach-1 AI chip to upend SK Hynix’s HBM leadership

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, is developing a next-generation artificial intelligence chip, Mach-1, with which th...

Economy S.Korean newly married couples’ birth rate at record low

South Korea’s fertility rate among newly married couples, who account for most of the country’s newborns, hit a trough last year, adding...

Regulations Korea plans wider crackdown on foreigners’ short-selling

South Korea’s financial regulator plans wider investigations into illegal short-selling trades by major foreign investment banks to ease conce...

Economy South Korean exporters jittery as China's slowdown raises red flag

South Korea’s exporting companies are increasingly feeling the heat as its top export market China is sounding alarm bells over the world&rsqu...

Bio & Pharma SK Bioscience to invest $1.8 billion, seeks M&As for inorganic growth

SK Bioscience Co., the drug-making unit of South Korea’s SK Group, plans to spend 2.4 trillion won ($1.8 billion) over the next five years and...

Pharmaceuticals GS Group joins race to acquire Korea’s botox maker Hugel

A consortium led by South Korea’s GS Group is in talks to acquire a controlling stake in Hugel Inc., the country’s top maker of botulinu...