HK inno.N’s IPO price set at top end with record demand for Kosdaq listing

HK inno.N’s IPO price set at top end with record demand for Kosdaq listing

HK inno.N Corp. (inno.N), a pharmaceuticals unit of South Korea's Kolmar Korea, set the initial public offering price at the top end of the proposed...

POSCO to build $200 mn nickel refining plant to ramp up battery materials

POSCO to build $200 mn nickel refining plant to ramp up battery materials

POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker by output, said on Wednesday it is spending 230 billion won ($200 million) to build a nickel sulfa...

Samsung SDI to build EV battery plant in US

Samsung SDI to build EV battery plant in US

Samsung SDI Co. plans to set up an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in the US, joining South Korean battery producers’ move to gain ground ...

Oshkosh-Hanwha consortium named bidder for design of US Army vehicle

Oshkosh-Hanwha consortium named bidder for design of US Army vehicle

A consortium led by Oshkosh Defense and Hanwha Defense Co. has been named a contender for the design of a US Army war vehicle that will replace...

Hanwha Defense chosen as contender for design of US Army war vehicle

Hanwha Defense chosen as contender for design of US Army war vehicle

Hanwha Defense Co. has been named a contender for the design of a US Army war vehicle that will replace around 3,500 M2 Bradley vehicles that have b...

COVID-19 shakes up Korea’s list of richest stock owners

COVID-19 shakes up Korea’s list of richest stock owners

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up the list of Korea’s richest people in terms of stocks held. Among the 20 richest share owners in Korea as ...

Hyundai Honorary Chairman Chung inducted into Automotive Hall of Fame

Hyundai Honorary Chairman Chung inducted into Automotive Hall of Fame

Hyundai Motor Group Honorary Chairman Chung Mong-koo was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame (AHF) on Thursday, acknowledging his work in deve...

China, S.Korea top BofA's emerging markets list

China, S.Korea top BofA's emerging markets list

South Korea was picked as one of the two most attractive emerging markets along with China thanks to the country's fast digitization and low vulnera...

Sandbox Network sets up China affiliate for business expansion

Sandbox Network sets up China affiliate for business expansion

South Korea’s largest multichannel network (MCN) company Sandbox Network Inc. has made another major step forward in expanding its China busin...

Kookmin Bank to co-finance $840 mn US solar project

Kookmin Bank to co-finance $840 mn US solar project

Kookmin Bank, South Korea's largest lender, will provide a $100 million loan to finance a solar power project led by US-based investment firm ECP as...

Korean drugmakers race to release Stelara biosimilars

Korean drugmakers race to release Stelara biosimilars

South Korea’s major drugmakers such as Celltrion Inc., Samsung Bioepis and Dong-A St are going for broke to release biosimilars of Stelara, Jo...

SK Materials’ shares fly high on rosy business outlook

SK Materials’ shares fly high on rosy business outlook

Shares of SK Materials Co., the industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Group, are hovering around all-time high levels ami...

Doosan Heavy to invest $60 mn more in US NuScale Power

Doosan Heavy to invest $60 mn more in US NuScale Power

South Korea’s major power plant builder Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. will further invest in NuScale Power LLC, a US small mo...

SK Materials to form a JV with US battery startup Group14 Technologies

SK Materials to form a JV with US battery startup Group14 Technologies

SK Materials Co., SK Group’s industrial gas manufacturing arm, will set up a joint venture (JV) with a US battery materials startup Group14 ...

Samsung launches upgraded commercial MicroLED display The Wall

Samsung launches upgraded commercial MicroLED display The Wall

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest TV maker, is launching an upgraded model of The Wall, a large-size modular MicroLED display produ...

Masayoshi Son's top pick Yanolja eyes 2023 Nasdaq listing

Masayoshi Son's top pick Yanolja eyes 2023 Nasdaq listing

South Korea's largest travel platform Yanolja has raised 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion) from the Masayoshi Son-led SoftBank Vision Fund II, marking t...

Hana Alternative logs over 9% return on US residential project

Hana Alternative logs over 9% return on US residential project

South Korea's Hana Alternative Assets Management Co. is estimated to have achieved an annualized return of 9.83% from the $51.5 million mezzanine lo...

Top industry talents launch AI chip startup; market takes note

Top industry talents launch AI chip startup; market takes note

South Korea-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Rebellions Inc. is drawing industry attention as AI chips become mainstays of the semiconduct...

IMM PE to buy $1.3 bn stake in Korea’s top furniture brand Hanssem

IMM PE to buy $1.3 bn stake in Korea’s top furniture brand Hanssem

Hanssem Co., South Korea’s largest furniture and home furnishing company, said on Wednesday its honorary chairman and other key shareholders h...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics targets EV parts

Samsung Electro-Mechanics targets EV parts

Samsung Electro-Mechanics, a South Korean electronic components maker, aims to expand its business in the booming electric vehicle (EV) parts market...

LG Chem challenges top latex player Kumho with aggressive expansion

LG Chem challenges top latex player Kumho with aggressive expansion

South Korea’s top chemical maker LG Chem Ltd. has vowed to leapfrog crosstown rival Kumho Petrochemical Co. to become the world’s top la...

SK Hynix joins Micron in 4th-gen 10nm DRAM production

SK Hynix joins Micron in 4th-gen 10nm DRAM production

SK Hynix Inc. has kicked off mass production of its 8 Gigabit (Gb) LPDDR4 mobile DRAM chips based on the 1a nanometer (1anm) node, according to the ...

World’s top COVID-19 test kit maker draws $28 bn in IPO subscriptions

World’s top COVID-19 test kit maker draws $28 bn in IPO subscriptions

The IPO of SD Biosensor Inc., which has sold the most COVID-19 test kits in the world -- selling more than 700 million kits from February 2020 to Ma...

SK IE Technology throned as top battery materials stock on Korean bourse

SK IE Technology throned as top battery materials stock on Korean bourse

SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), a unit of SK Innovation Co., has climbed to the top ranking among battery materials makers in terms of market capitali...

Grocery delivery platform Oasis valuation tops $650 mn; eyes US expansion

Grocery delivery platform Oasis valuation tops $650 mn; eyes US expansion

South Korea-based grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp., referred to as Oasis Market, has attracted 50 billion won ($44 million) from global private...

LG Electronics sees decent growth in US home appliance business

LG Electronics sees decent growth in US home appliance business

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. expects to post significant revenue growth in its home appliance business in the second quarter, driven by p...

Leeno Industrial hits 52-week high, eyes top 10 on Kosdaq

Leeno Industrial hits 52-week high, eyes top 10 on Kosdaq

The stock price of South Korea’s Kosdaq-listed electronic testing components maker Leeno Industrial Inc., previously a small company whose mar...

Samsung, Hanwha Q Cells to offer IoT home energy solutions in US, EU

Samsung, Hanwha Q Cells to offer IoT home energy solutions in US, EU

Samsung Electronics Co. and South Korea’s leading solar panel maker Hanwha Q Cells Co. have joined hands to provide smart home energy solution...

Hyundai Motor invests $100 mn in US battery startup SES

Hyundai Motor invests $100 mn in US battery startup SES

Hyundai Motor Co. is set to invest $100 million in US-based electric vehicle battery startup SolidEnergy Systems (SES) to obtain next-generation tec...

SK Biopharm aims to make it to global top 10 healthcare firms by 2030

SK Biopharm aims to make it to global top 10 healthcare firms by 2030

South Korea’s SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. said on Friday it aspires to become one of the world’s top 10 healthcare companies by 2030 with ...

S.Korea’s leading ERP player Douzone Bizon up for sale; EQT Partners in talks MSCI maintains S.Korea’s emerging-market status; level playing field required GEPS taps former KB Asset chief risk officer as new CIO Affinity Equity nets $220 mn from block sale of Shinhan Financial F&F’s bid for TaylorMade complicates Centroid's exit