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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled in favor of SK Innovation in a patent dispute with LG Energy Solution, throwing a spanner in a tussle between the two Korean battery makers that had been going LG Energy's way.
 
The trade commission ruled in an initial determination Thursday “there is no violation” of intellectual property rights by SK Innovation of LG Energy Solution's battery technology.

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Apple pulled the plug on its intranet, blocked the door and physically restrained an investigator when the Fair Trade Commission raided the offices of the smartphone maker in 2016 and 2017, the regulator said.
 
The FTC is fining the company for interfering with its investigation and has referred the case the prosecution, a first for the regulator for this sort of infraction.

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With AstraZeneca vaccines supplies delayed, health authorities said they will use some second dose reserves and expand the inter-dose interval for patients if necessary.
 
Kim Ki-nam, an official of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, said in a press briefing Tuesday, "For AstraZeneca vaccinations, we have been using second dose reserves in the first inoculation stage, without disrupting second shot schedules."

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An extraordinarily severe yellow dust storm from northern China and Mongolia blanketed South Korea on Monday, prompting authorities to issue a yellow dust warning for the entire country for the first time in 11 years.
 
According to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), the yellow dust that originated from a storm in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and the Inner Mongolia Plateau in China from March 26 to 28 was carried to the Korean Peninsula on the northwesterly wind.

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SK ie technology, an SK Innovation subsidiary that makes battery separators, said Sunday it will invest 1.13 trillion won ($1 billion) to expand its European facilities in response to growth in the electric vehicle (EV) market.
 
It is the biggest single investment by SK ie technology to date.

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The son of a South Korean man abducted by North Korean soldiers during the Korean War won a civil suit against the North Korean state and leader Kim Jong-un in a South Korean court Thursday.
 
Judge Kim Yeong-soo, who presided over the trial at the Seoul Central District Court, ruled that the plaintiff, only identified by the surname Choi, was entitled to 50 million won ($44,000) in compensation from the North and Kim.

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Daegu police on Wednesday opened an investigation into claims circulating online that President Moon Jae-in's vaccine was secretly switched –– and he did not get the AstraZeneca jab.
 
On Tuesday, Moon and First Lady Kim Jung-sook became the first Koreans over 65 to be vaccinated for Covid-19. The first couple got their shots at a public health center in Jongno, central Seoul, near the Blue House, ahead of the president's trip to Britain for a Group of Seven summit in June.

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Former Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon on Tuesday defeated Ahn Cheol-soo in public opinion polls to become the sole conservative candidate in the upcoming Seoul mayoral by-election.
 
Oh, who is running for the main opposition People Power Party (PPP), was declared the winner of two mobile phone surveys that polled voters on which of the two conservative candidates they preferred.

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Korea launched a 500-kilogram Compact Advanced Satellite into the atmosphere Monday, the first of five in a government plan to transfer satellite technology to private firms.
 
The CAS500-1 model was one of 38 satellites carried into space by Russia’s Soyuz 2.1a launcher, which took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3 p.m. 

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The Moon Jae-in administration wants to crack down hard on the inside information land-buying scandal, a government official said, and if a single employee at Land and Housing Corp. (LH) is found to be guilty, no bonuses will be paid to LH workers.
 
The LH controversy has become a major threat to the ruling Democratic Party’s chances in the upcoming Seoul mayoral by-election and the government is working hard at damage control. 

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