SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Eastar Jet Co., a South Korean budget carrier, said Sunday it resumed flights starting with a domestic route, three years after it suspended operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and a court-led restructuring. It resumed 20 flights between Gimpo, west of Seoul, and the southernmost island of Jeju, including [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The loan exposure of nonbanking financial companies to real estate project financing (PF) has spiked to an alarming level in recent years, posing potential credit risks amid a decline in the housing market, industry data showed Sunday. The volume of exposure by insurance companies, securities firms, credit card companies [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — In 1993, it was discovered that the Soviet (now Russian) Navy had dumped approximately 1,000 tons of radioactive nuclear waste in the East Sea, 190 kilometers southeast of Vladivostok. Although the Soviet Union claimed that the concentration of nuclear waste released was lower than the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Trax Crossover by General Motors Co. (GM) has received more than 6,000 preorders in South Korea after its debut earlier this week, industry sources said Saturday. The preorders that began Wednesday here are expected to top 10,000 early next week, they said. GM plans to fully operate its [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES) said Friday it will invest 7.2 trillion won (US$5.56 billion) to build what will be its second standalone battery manufacturing site in the United States, sticking to its earlier plan after a period of reconsideration. LGES will spend 4.2 trillion won to build a [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Advanced Materials Inc., a unit under South Korea’s energy-to-defense Hanwha Group, will spend US$147 million to build a facility in the U.S. state of Georgia to supply a key material to Hanwha’s solar panel arm, the Georgia governor’s office has said. The factory will be located in Cartersville, [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chemical firm SK Geocentric Co. said Friday it is spending an additional 400 billion won (US$310 million) to build a second factory for advanced packaging materials in China. SK Geocentric signed the initial agreement earlier this week with Weixing Chemical on expanding the ethylene acrylic acid (EAA) [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. said Friday it has set up a branch in Thailand to gain a share in the local market dominated by Japanese carmakers. Hyundai has recently established Hyundai Mobility Thailand and will begin its operations on April 1, a company official said over the phone. [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s overseas direct investment slightly increased in 2022 on-year to a fresh high on the back of the chips and automobile industries, although the overall growth was limited in the face of economic uncertainties, data showed Friday. The value of investments made overseas by South Korean companies reached [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — BGF Retail Co., the operator of CU convenience stores, said Thursday it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with domestic start-up KEIL to convert near-expired food items into feed for mealworms. Under terms of the MOU, BGF Retail will provide the near-expired food items waiting for disposal at [...]