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After over 11 years, the Korea-Japan Oi! Festival returns. This time it brings together six Japanese bands and six Korean bands for one big show at western Seoul's Club Freebird Reboot.
It's a busy weekend in a busy month for those in Korea's overworked, underappreciated live music scene. But among all the shows happening this weekend, Chainsaw Fest at Club SHARP is worth taking a close look at. The show features 10 punk, hardcore, metal and ska bands from Korea as well as Japan. Upstairs, SHARP Ink will be hosting a tattoo flash day and flea market.
SK On, the electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing subsidiary of SK Innovation, showed that it expects to benefit from the U.S.' Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), amid lingering uncertainties about when the company will start making a profit. During Thursday's conference call on SK Innovation's third-quarter earnings, SK On Vice President Ryu Jin-suk, who is in charge of the company's business strategies, said to investors and analysts that the new U.S. law should bring substantial benefits to non-Chinese battery manufacturers.
[Courtesy of SK on]SEOUL -- Australia is a supplier of important minerals used for electric vehicle batteries and other products in South Korea, but a non-profit trade organization in Seoul suggests that companies should step up efforts to diversify supply lines and avoid risks from their relia