SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co. said Thursday its second-quarter net profit more than tripled from a year earlier on robust cargo deals and recovering travel demand. Net profit for the three months ended in June jumped to 450.41 billion won (US$344 million) from 129.96 billion won during the same period [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Thursday its second-quarter net profit fell 68 percent from a year earlier due to a base effect. Kakao logged a net profit of 101.2 billion won (US$77.2 million) on a consolidated basis in the three months ending [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Games Corp., the gaming unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., said Wednesday its second-quarter net profit skyrocketed over 165 times from a year earlier thanks to the success of its blockbuster mobile title “Odin Valhalla Rising” and “Uma Musume Pretty Derby,” its latest Japanese licensed game [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Geocentric Co., a chemical unit of South Korea’s SK Group, said Monday the construction began for the joint factory with Japan’s Tokuyama Corp. to produce a high-purity cleaning agent for semiconductors. SK Geocentric CEO Na Kyung-soo, Hiroshi Yokota, president of Tokuyama, and other officials attended the groundbreaking ceremony [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. on Friday said its second-quarter operating profit decreased 12 percent on-year amid rampant inflation that hurt consumer demand for TVs and other home appliances. Its operating income came in at 792 billion won (US$609 million) for the April-June quarter, falling short of analysts’ expectations surveyed by [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung SDI Co. said Friday it posted record high operating income and sales in the second quarter, driven by strong sales of electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Operating income reached 429 billion won (US$330.4 million) in the April-June period, up 45.3 percent from a year earlier, the company said in [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co. said Friday its second-quarter profit more than quadrupled from a year earlier, boosted by robust sales of petroleum products amid higher oil prices. Its battery unit, SK On Co., however, suffered an extended loss. Despite this, the refiner maintained its forecast that the loss-making battery unit [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday reported its second-quarter net profit of 11.09 trillion won (US$8.5 billion), up 15.2 percent from a year earlier, on the back of robust demand for server chips. Operating profit for the April-June period rose 12.2 percent on-year to 14.09 trillion won, the company said [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Display Co. have aborted their negotiations over the supply of OLED panels for televisions. Kim Sung-hyun, senior vice president and CFO at LG Display, said during a conference call on Wednesday that the negotiations over OLED panel supply to Samsung Electronics had come to [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Chem Ltd. said Wednesday its second-quarter net income shrank 54.1 percent from a year earlier, dented by higher oil prices, global inflation and China’s COVID-19 lockdowns. Net income came to 718.3 billion won (US$547 million) in the April-June period, compared with 1.56 trillion won the previous year, the [...]