Big Firms’ H1 Investment Gains 4.6 pct on Chip Boom

SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean big companies’ investments expanded nearly 5 percent in the first half of the year thanks mainly to a semiconductor boom, a corporate tracker said Friday. Global tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. and 331 other large firms in Asia’s fourth-largest economy invested a combined 82.8 trillion won (US$70.3 [...]