EIN News: South Korea Business News

UPDATE 1-POSCO eyes Ukraine steel, shipyard assets-source

22 Aug 2008 02:31 GMT

... SEOUL, Aug 22 (Reuters) - South Korea's POSCO ... letter of intent by next Wednesday. ID:nSEO297443 South Korea is offering a 50.4 percent stake in ... percent of consolidated group revenued from non-steel business by 2018, sees the Daewoo deal helping ...

Seoul shares seen rangebound; but oil to weigh

22 Aug 2008 01:31 GMT

... Seoul shares seen rangebound; but oil to weigh ... - - - - SK TELECOM <017670.KS> South Korea's top mobile carrier said on Friday it ... of above 6 percent from its appliance business, despite the economic slowdown and expects earnings ...

Athletes forget use-by-dates

22 Aug 2008 01:19 GMT

... - is required for shooting, where Latvia's Seoul gold medallist Afanasijs Kuzmins is 61. In ... of the sailing, millionaire American grandfather and businessman John Dane III (visions of Thurston Howell), ...

France continues to lead the way in cosmetics

22 Aug 2008 01:18 GMT

... the industry. As well as the main business activity that is based in Paris, France ... projects in the field. Pacific Chemicals Corp (South Korea) set up a perfume plant in Chartres ...

Markets Are Mixed, Banks Slip But Energy Shares Rise

22 Aug 2008 00:58 GMT

... COMPOSITE, HANG SENG, STRAITS TIMES INDEX, SYDNEY, SEOUL Asian markets open the Friday session mixed, ... city. Non-essential government agencies, schools and most businesses are also shut. ...

Seoul shares open lower; exporters, airlines down

22 Aug 2008 00:57 GMT

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Who started the Cold War II?

22 Aug 2008 00:57 GMT

... to crush Solidarity and shot down a South Korean airliner killing scores of U.S. citizens, including ... and South Ossetia is none of our business. And after this madcap adventure of Saakashvili, ...

Analog TV shutdown kills free cell-phone TV

22 Aug 2008 00:57 GMT

... an attractive option for cell phones. Carrier business models are partly at fault, but choices ... to free broadcasts are also available in South Korea, Germany and China. But only 3 percent ...

Mitsubishi To Launch New Wireless HDTV

22 Aug 2008 00:37 GMT

... Geri, AMIMONs vice president of marketing and business development. Mitsubishi selected AMIMONs wireless technology for ... Santa Clara, Calif., USA; Tokyo, Japan; and Seoul, Korea. More information is available at . ...

Groups ask court to lift gag order in Intel antitrust case

22 Aug 2008 00:37 GMT

... motion," said Michael Silverman, the spokesman. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating Intel's business tactics, and South Korea and Japan have ruled that Intel has violated antitrust law. The European Union is ...

Lower Open Expected For Tokyo Shares

22 Aug 2008 00:36 GMT

... points or 0.90 percent to 2,088.25. In South Korea, the KOSPI/Seoul Composite index dropped 28.12 points or 1.83 ... fractionally higher in the opening hour of business on Friday. On Friday's economic calendar, the ...

Free trade is good, but the world doesn't seem to be noticing

22 Aug 2008 00:35 GMT

... such growth boosts in three different decades. South Korea liberalized trade in 1965, Chile in 1974, ... and an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School. THE DAILY STAR publishes this commentary ...

Lone Star to buy IKB, the German subprime casualty

22 Aug 2008 00:35 GMT

... also acquired delinquent mortgages from Japanese and South Korean banks, golf courses in Japan and consumer ... Germany's so-called Mittelstand companies, small and mid-sized businesses with annual sales between 7.5 million and ...

MagnaChip Launches a-Si TFT Chip w/ Power-Saving Technology

21 Aug 2008 23:37 GMT

... innovation for the company's smart phone display business. We look forward to increasing MagnaChip's brand ... smart phone market." MagnaChip is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, and is an Asia-based designer and manufacturer ...

AMIMON Wireless Technology to Power Mitsubishi HDTV

21 Aug 2008 23:37 GMT

... Geri, AMIMON's vice president of marketing and business development. "Mitsubishi selected AMIMON's wireless technology for ... Santa Clara, Calif., USA; Tokyo, Japan; and Seoul, Korea. Divya Narain is a contributing editor ...