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559 noticiasApple and LG Electronics jointly develop smart home devices under LG brand
Apple and LG Electronics are jointly developing smart home devices — a camera-equipped video doorbell, smart door lock, security camera and smart thermostat — which will be sold under the LG brand, according to Bloomberg reports cited by Ko…
La CEO de AMD, Lisa Su, visitará Corea el 7 de octubre para el Gamer Day; se esperan conversaciones sobre chips de IA
La presidenta y CEO de AMD, Lisa Su, visitará Corea el 7 de octubre, unos siete meses después de su viaje de marzo, para asistir a un evento “AMD Gamer Day” a las 2 p.m. en Dragon City, en Yongsan-gu, Seúl, informó AMD. Su y el vicepresiden…
Asian Games exemption row: Ahn Cheol-soo urges review, defense ministry regrets remarks
People Power Party lawmaker Ahn Cheol-soo said on 7 October that the military service exemption for Asian Games gold medalists should be reviewed for abolition starting with this tournament, noting the rule is a presidential decree that Pre…
Kling AI de Kuaishou planea una OPV en Hong Kong tan pronto como el próximo año y busca 1.000 millones de dólares
Kling AI, el servicio de vídeo con IA de Kuaishou, planea cotizar en Hong Kong tan pronto como el próximo año, según CLS, IT Home y 36Kr. IT Home informó de que la OPV podría recaudar al menos 1.000 millones de dólares y que se han seleccio…
Shinsegae invierte 1.000 millones de dólares en el acuerdo con Warner Bros. mientras Paramount completa la adquisición
Shinsegae Group dijo que su unidad Shinsegae Property invertirá 1.000 millones de dólares (unos 1,4 billones de wones) en la adquisición de Warner Bros. liderada por Paramount Skydance, junto a David Ellison y la firma de inversión estadoun…
POSCO completes second Argentine lithium plant, eyes 50,000-ton output
POSCO Holdings held a completion ceremony on 6 October local time for the upstream stage of its second brine lithium plant near the Hombre Muerto salt flat in Argentina, the company said on 7 October. The plant has 23,000 tons of annual lit…
SME Minister Lee So-young unveils startup venture regulatory innovation committee at audit
South Korea's SMEs and startups minister, Lee So-young, said on October 7 that her ministry will create a "Startup Venture Regulatory Innovation Committee" to find regulatory improvements, and set out plans to expand the small-business soci…
Land minister says Gangnam, Yongsan home prices have turned negative
Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Hong Ji-seon told a National Assembly audit on Oct 7 that home prices in Seoul's Gangnam three districts and Yongsan have turned negative, and said price growth should ease with the market stabili…
South Korea re-designates 92 population decline regions, adding Busan Geumjeong, Dongducheon and Tongyeong
South Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety re-designated 92 cities, counties and districts as population decline regions on Oct. 7, up from 89 in the first designation five years ago. Busan's Geumjeong-gu, Gyeonggi's Dongducheon and …
Burger King ends Yoo Hae-jin ad campaign amid “Assassin(s)” dispute and boycott calls
Burger King ended its advertising campaign featuring actor Yoo Hae-jin for the autumn menu item Truffle Mushroom Whopper, about two weeks after the product's Sept 16 launch, as online calls to boycott products he advertises spread amid the …
Nongshim floats 6-meter Shin Ramyun cup on London's Thames in brand campaign
Nongshim said it floated a roughly 6-meter-tall Shin Ramyun cup sculpture along the River Thames in London, departing Royal Docks on the afternoon of Oct 6 local time and passing the London Eye and Big Ben. The company said the installation…
Korea's FSS tells 21 securities firms to shift to preventive internal audits
The Financial Supervisory Service met auditors from 21 securities firms in Seoul on Oct 7 and told them to move from audits that catch problems after the fact to preventive checks that protect investors first. The regulator cited repeated v…
Korea's top individual tax delinquent Kwon Hyuk to pay 393.8 billion won
The National Tax Service said on Oct 7 that Kwon Hyuk, chairman of Sido Group and the country's largest individual tax delinquent, has submitted a plan to pay 393.8 billion won in back taxes in full, 15 years after the tax was assessed. He …
UAE sets phased caps on salt, sugar and fat in packaged foods, fines up to Dh500,000
The UAE’s Ministry of Health and Prevention has begun implementing a resolution that caps sodium, sugar and fat in selected packaged foods, with phased limits running until the end of 2030. The rules apply to locally made and imported produ…
MBK's 2.4 mln Homeplus shares cancelled free of charge; 600 bln won burden stays
MBK Partners' 2.4 million Homeplus common shares, acquired for about 2.5 trillion won, were cancelled without compensation on September 14 under a court-approved rehabilitation plan, Bloter and Korean business outlets reported. MBK and Chai…
Paramount Skydance closes $110bn Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition
Paramount Skydance completed its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery for $110bn, and the combined company is named Skydance. Its shares will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SKYD, while WBD shares stopped trading on Nasd…
Hyundai Engineering wins 870bn-won Incheon data centre project with KT Cloud
Hyundai Engineering said it won a project worth about 870 billion won to build a 50-megawatt data centre in Incheon, with KT Cloud as joint contractor and, according to KT Cloud, design-build-operate partner. Hyundai Engineering says constr…
Suhyup Bank president selection fails again at second committee vote
Suhyup Bank's bank president recommendation committee failed for a second time on Oct 6 to name a final candidate, because no nominee won the required four votes from the five-member panel. The vote again split 3-2 between incumbent preside…
Los ingresos de LG Electronics en el tercer trimestre ascienden a 23,8 billones de wones y el beneficio operativo sube un 13,5 %, pero queda por debajo del consenso
LG Electronics reportó ingresos preliminares del tercer trimestre de 23,827 billones de wones, un 8,9 % más que un año antes, y un beneficio operativo de 781.800 millones de wones, un 13,5 % más. Ambas cifras quedaron por debajo del consens…
Former Yaskawa Electric president Masahiro Ogawa dies at 62
Masahiro Ogawa, former president and vice chairman of Yaskawa Electric, died on Oct. 2 of illness at 62, the company announced on Oct. 5. An engineer who spent most of his career in the industrial robot business and helped open the US marke…