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Korea plots massive investment in domestic materials
South Korea publicised plans to invest KRW1 trillion ($854 million) annually in developing high-tech materials to reduce its dependence on imports from Japan, after the country suddenly announced it would restrict the export of some materials to Korean companies, Yonhap News Agency reported. A representative from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said it […]
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Factbox: the High-Tech Materials at the Heart of a Japan-South Korea Row
TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) – Japan said it would tighten curbs on exports of high-tech materials used in smartphone displays and chips to South Korea amid a widening dispute over South Koreans who were forced to work for Japanese firms during World War Two. The following are some facts about the materials targeted in the curbs, their […]
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Japan slaps restrictions on tech exports to South Korea
Move amid wartime labor row threatens to snarl up supply chains South Korea’s Supreme Court has ordered Japanese companies to pay compensation for their use of wartime labor, straining the countries’ ties. TOKYO/SEOUL — The Japanese government on Monday announced it will tighten restrictions on exports of semiconductor manufacturing materials to South Korea, in a […]
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Samsung, LG brace for Japan’s economic sanctions
Samsung, LG and other IT companies are keeping a close watch on possible Japanese economic sanctions amid a deepening diplomatic row between the two nations over forced labor during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of Korea, officials said Sunday. Japan’s conservative daily Sankei Shimbun reported earlier in the day that the Japanese government plans to impose […]
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Japan to tighten export rules for high-tech materials to South Korea – media
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan plans to tighten restrictions on the export of high-tech material used in smartphones and chips to South Korea from July 4 in connection with a dispute over a South Korean ruling on war-time forced labour, the Sankei newspaper reported on Sunday. The row between Japan and South Korea flared last October […]
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Hyrdrogen Fluoride: Hotspot – Japan and South Korea
Note from the Fluoride Action Network Below is an excerpt from an excellent in-depth article that gives the background to a potential cut-off of hydrogen fluoride supplies from Japan to Korea. HF is a critical commodity needed for Korea’s semi-conductor industry. (EC). ____________________________________________________ … Earlier this year, relations between South Korea and Japan soured again. […]
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Diplomatic Conflict between S. Korea and Japan Leading to Economic Concerns
South Korean forced labor victims submitted a request to the Supreme Court on May 1 so that Japanese companies such as Nippon Steel are forced to sell their assets in South Korea. Under the circumstances, South Korean companies’ concerns are growing over increasing conflicts between South Korea and Japan with the Japanese government poised to […]
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KRICT to Commercialize Manufacturing of Essential Secondary Battery Material PVDF
Note from FAN: The molecular formula for Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), CAS # 24937-79-9, is The Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) announced on March 13 that it has signed a contract to transfer the technology to manufacture PVDF, an essential material of secondary batteries and solar cells, to Chemtros. PVDF is widely used in a […]
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Editorial: Keep economy intact
Japan is reportedly considering taking an array of retaliatory measures if a dispute with South Korea over wartime labor worsens. They include raising tariffs, halting remittances and stopping visa issuances. The Supreme Court in Seoul ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in November to compensate Koreans conscripted for labor at the company during World War II, but […]
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Japanese business group under fire for postponing talks
Excerpt Also, it is reported that Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party is considering seeking a ban on hydrogen fluoride exports to Korea, as part of the economic retaliation. Hydrogen fluoride is a core material for semiconductors, a main export product of Korea. “Though it seems not many Korean firms having business dealings with Japanese companies are […]
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