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...Icahn profited from the campaign after KT&G accepted many of his suggestions....
...KT&G has rebuffed the fund, which holds a 1 per cent stake in the company....
...KT Corp was not immediately available for comment....
...Sulphur dioxide emissions from cars was 3.2m kt versus 62m kt from cruise ships, with Carnival accounting for half that, the study found....
...More than 3m South Koreans are expected to switch to 5G — up to 100 times faster than existing 4G networks — by the end of this year, according to KT Corp....
...South Korean operators such as KT Corp, SK Telecom and LG Uplus have spent at least $2.6bn this year alone on 5G technology, according to government estimates, as the country pins high hopes on the new technology...
...A DD scoop to start: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, Germany’s Axel Springer and the world’s largest rating agencies are among the list of companies set to enter a bidding war for Acuris, the owner of Mergermarket...
...On February 15, it said it would sell its 28.7 per cent stake in Singaporean telecom operator M1 to local conglomerate Keppel Corp and Singapore Press Holdings for RM1.65bn ($403m)....
...Mr Hwang, a former executive at Samsung Electronics, took the helm of KT Corp in 2014 with his term renewed for another three years last year....
...The ministry tested heated tobacco devices including PMI’s IQOS, British American Tobacco’s Glo, and Lil, made by leading South Korean cigarette maker KT&G Corp....
...At the Winter Olympics in South Korea this month, KT Corporation and Intel will showcase the technology....
...The partnership has helped to cement Mr Hwang’s status as one of the rare stars among South Korean business leaders — and propel him into the CEO’s chair at KT Corp, the country’s biggest telecoms company...
...Potential participants include Mirae Asset, the country’s leading asset manager; Kyobo Life Insurance; telecoms company KT Corp and online shopping site Interpark....
...An SK subsidiary, SK Planet, sells access to webtoons through its app store, and KT publishes webtoons itself....
...In a statement, KT&G said it would respond to the lawsuit based on how it had dealt with previous lawsuits. BAT declined to comment. Shares in KT&G closed unchanged at Won82,400 in Seoul on Monday....
...“The demand for alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks still has room to grow,” says Raenoo Bhandasukdi, a Bangkok-based analyst at KT Zmico Securities....
...The move was in response to a sales ban imposed this month by regulators on SK Telecom and rivals KT and LG UPlus for giving customers handset subsidies above the Won270,000 ($252) legal limit....
...“Our goal at Resorts World Las Vegas is to complement existing properties and bring a new and unique entertainment destination to the Las Vegas Strip.” said KT Lim, Genting chairman....
...There was unexpected interest from South Korea’s KT Corporation, although it said earlier this month that it had withdrawn because of differences in valuation....
...KT Corp has submitted a preliminary bid for Vivendi’s controlling stake in Morocco’s largest telecoms operator, as it seeks to expand in emerging markets....
...Other mobile operators that will support Firefox OS include América Móvil, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Hutchison Three, KDDI, KT, MegaFon, Qtel, SingTel, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telenor, Telstra,...
...KT Corp dropped 5.3 per cent to Won35,500 after saying on Wednesday that it had submitted a preliminary bid for a Moroccan telecoms company. SK Telecom shed 4.1 per cent Won152,000....
...Corp seeks stake in Maroc Telecom KT Corp, South Korea’s largest telephone and internet company by sales, has submitted a preliminary bid for Vivendi’s controlling stake in Morocco’s largest telecoms operator...
...Ambassador Park Hee-Kwon (pictured left) was a driving force behind a $200m government-to-government contract for Korea Aerospace Industries (Kai) to supply 20 KT-1 trainer jets to the Peruvian military....
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