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KOREA REPORT - NOVEMBER, 2020.
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TOPICS.
Daily
number of coronavirus cases in SKorea surpassed 500 for first time in eight
months [p.2]
Ruling
Democratic Party raised its coronavirus vaccine supply target to 44 mil people
[p.3]
British
PM Boris Johnson invited President Moon to join next year's G7 [p.4]
SKorea
signed mega free trade pact that would create world’s largest trading bloc
[p.4]
K-pop
superstars BTS has swept prizes from the People's Choice Awards 2020 [p.6]
Biden
administration would seek bottom-up approach to disarming nuclear NK [p.7]
President
Moon predicted SKorea’s economy will return to normal track in 1H 2021 [p.8]
SKorean
exporters are expected to suffer from sky-high freight rates throughout next
year [p.8]
Nine
major global IBs projected SKorea’s economy to shrink 1.2% this year [p.9]
SKorea's
trade surplus recorded $5.93 bil in Nov, seventh consecutive month of surplus
[p.10]
Total
of 17 SKorean conglomerates, made list of 2020 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
[p.12]
Posco
Energy began operations of its new liquefied natural gas carrier business
[p.13]
Korea
Gas successfully carried out world’s first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering test
[p.13]
Korean
Air to acquire Asiana Airlines with support of Korea Development Bank [p.14]
SKorea's
exports of automobiles fell 3.2% on-year in Oct to 200,667 units [p.15]
SKorea’s
market capitalization logged KW2,032.38 tril ($1,827 bil) for the first time
[p.17]
SKorea's
foreign reserves came to a record high of $436.3 bil as of end Nov [p.17]
Global
shipyards were awarded new orders of 11.56 mil cgt, down 48% on-year in Jan-Oct
[p.18]
Korea
won new orders of 720,000 cgt, 69% shares of global order intakes [p.18]
Daesun
Shipbuilding signed MOU with Dongil Steel for transfer of management right
[p.21]
