SPC Group’s bakery brand, Paris Baguette, announced on April 2 the opening of its 20th store in Singapore, located at Square 2.The new Singapore Square 2 store is situated on the first floor of the Square 2 shopping mall, which is connected to Novena Station. The Square 2 shopping mall is a complex
SAESOL Tech, at the forefront of providing security solutions for autonomous connected cars under the leadership of CEO Junhyouk Han, is delighted to announce the recent achievement of Grade 1 GS (Good Software) Certification for its flagship solution, V2X SCMS. This certification underscores SAESOL
The author is an analyst for Shinhan Securities. She can be reached at kimaram@shinhan.com -- Ed.Gaining a solid fan base among NAVER Webtoon subscribersYLAB, listed on the KOSDAQ in July this year, is a webtoon studio that has published popular titles like Island, Reawakened Man, Terror Man, Get Sc
The author is an analyst for NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at junsup@nhqv.com -- Ed.Mirae Asset Life’s share price is moving strong in response to majority shareholders’ share purchasing activity. However, it is unclear as to how long these purchase effects will last.Share price ener
Hyundai Motor Group, which controls both Hyundai Motor and Kia Corp., ranked seventh globally, posting sales of 378,462 electric vehicles (EVs), battery electric vehicles (BEVs), plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and hydrogen fuel cell cars sold worldwide from January to September this year. Including sales o
China has overtaken Germany as the top exporter of electric vehicles (EVs) to Korea.Korea’s imports of Chinese EVs totaled US$172 million in October, according to the Korea International Trade Association (KITA). That’s more than double the amount of Korea’s German EV imports (US$70 million). This i
Hyundai Motor Group’s three car brands -- Hyundai, Kia and Genesis -- sold 173,428 units in the U.K. passenger car market in the first 10 months of this year, up 8.7 percent year on year, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) on Nov. 20. Their market share stood at 10.8
Coupang Play, the fastest-growing OTT service in Korea, has completed its executive reinforcement within the engineering organization and is accelerating its efforts to enhance the product experience. The executives appointed by Coupang Play are Rohit Puri, Head of Engineering, and Sekwon Choi, Head
Kim Byung-gu, the head of LG Display’s automotive business group and executive vice president, unveiled LG Display’s OLED displays designed for automotive use and introduced the entire portfolio of premium brands involved in automotive production and development for the first time at IMID 2023, whic
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at pk.park@nhqv.com -- Ed.With valuation multiples for the global dental implant industry continuing to rise, we view the key in selecting out investment targets as being market growth potential. Our market estimations analysi
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at hwdoh@nhqv.com. -- Ed. The use of GPUs and HBM for machine learning, which has grabbed the spotlight as of late, is on the rise. Hanmi Semiconductor is a manufacturer of indispensable bonding equipment for the application o
The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry and 12 South Korean business groups, including Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor, LG, Lotte and Hanwha, hosted Korea Night 2023 in Davos, Switzerland.The event was to help Busan become the venue of Expo 2030. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol attended it, too.T
When SK On received a request from a global automaker in 2018 to make an electric vehicle (EV) battery that can be fast charged within 18 minutes, the South Korean battery manufacturer did not hesitate to say “yes.”It was the beginning of SF Battery (Super Fast Battery) which claimed the Best of Inn
Spotify - the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service - released its annual Wrapped campaign this year, unveiling a series of data on how fans worldwide listened this year. And as part of the 2022 Wrapped, Spotify also disclosed how the world listened to the K-pop genre specificall
For the last two to three years, Samsung Electronics has focused on developing ultra-micro chip fabrication nodes to win competition with Taiwan's TSMC. The two global foundry giants competed neck and neck to grab the title of the world’s first to mass produce 5-nm and 3-nm chips. However, in te
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at minjae.lee@nhqv.com. -- Ed. Doosan Enerbility is a maker of key equipment for large-scale NPPs, SMRs, and offshore wind projects, which are all to be essential in achieving energy security. We believe that the company’s som
SPC Group’s bakery brand Paris Baguette has opened three additional stores in Paris, France.Paris Baguette announced on Oct. 4 that it has opened a store in Montparnasse, its fifth branch in Paris. In the first half of this year, it opened the third store, the Boel Dieux Branch, and the 4th store, t
Pernod Ricard Korea has launched ‘Redbreast,’ an ultra-premium craft whiskey that is made in the unique Irish style of single pot still.Single pot still whiskey is a unique category from Ireland. It is a method in which both malted barley and barley is distilled using a copper single pot still whisk
The author is a market analyst of Shinhan Investment Corp. He can be reached at junechoi1@shinhan.com. – Ed. Investment insights found from IPOsThe Korean IPO market has suffered a slowdown along with the broader market, with the monthly average number of IPOs down from 7.4 during the stock market r
Samsung Electronics has put forward a plan to invest about US$200 billion in the United States over the next 20 years. It is a large-scale investment plan that envisions building 11 new semiconductor production lines in Texas.The company submitted a tax benefit application to the Texas State Governm