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Korean chipmakers Analysts rebut Morgan Stanley’s chip winter view; oversupply unlikely

Morgan Stanley’s recent view that the global chip industry faces an imminent winter and companies like SK Hynix Inc. will suffer is exaggerate...

Real estate Korea's warehouses suffer oversupply, rising vacancies

Logistics centers in Seoul suburbs are suffering oversupply and rising vacancy rates, according to a report from South Korean commercial real estate...

Korean chipmakers Samsung, SK Hynix expect chip prices to stay firm in 2024

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chip makers, forecast the prices of DRAM and high-bandwidth memory (...

Korean chipmakers SK Hynix’s HBM chip orders fully booked; 12-layer HBM3E in Q3: CEO

ICHEON, Gyeonggi Province – SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., said on Thursday i...

Batteries US regulations push Korean battery industry to cut reliance on China

The South Korean battery industry is facing pressure to cut its reliance on Chinese capital as the US government on Dec. 1 issued guidance that will...

Batteries SK, Lotte cut copper foil output; to up Malaysia capacity

SK Nexilis Co. and Lotte Energy Materials Corp., South Korea’s two leading copper foil producers, have continued to reduce factory operation r...

Batteries Hopes rise for Korean copper foil makers’ gains under IRA

South Korea’s SK Nexilis Co., the world’s largest copper foil producer, is in negotiations with six electric vehicle battery makers to s...

Korean stock market Goldman Sachs slashes Korean cathode stock targets; market ignores

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has slashed the target prices of South Korean top cathode stocks, namely EcoPro BM Co. and POSCO Future M Co., by nearly ha...

Real estate Korean warehouse project financing on brink of debt crisis

Warehouse development projects in South Korea, which boomed amid COVID-19, are facing challenges such as suspension of construction projects and ban...

Petrochemicals Contrarian leader's bets drive Kumho Petrochem's record profits

At the end of last year, executives of Kumho Petrochemical Co. were in a heated debate on whether or not to expand the capacity of nitrile butadiene...