Hyundai Rotem releases data on eco-friendly railway businesses

Hyundai Rotem, the railway system subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Monday it has published information about its sales and research a...

SK Ecoplant changes North American corporation name

SK Ecoplant Co., a construction company of S.Korea's SK Group, said on Monday that it would change the name of its North American corporation BETEK,...

Citibank Korea provides $412 mn to POSCO for Argentine business

Citibank Korea signed on Jan. 25 a financial contract with POSCO Argentina, a subsidiary of South Korea's steel and secondary battery raw material g...

LG Group to invest $2.7 bn in decarbonization by 2030

South Korea's No. 4 conglomerate LG Corp. is set to accelerate its net zero by 2050 strategies.LG will invest 3.4 trillion won ($2.7 billion) by 203...

Online portal Naver to release AI-powered search chatbot in H1

South Korean online portal giant Naver Corp. is set to launch a beta version of Search GPT, an artificial intelligence-powered search service, in th...

LG Uplus, LS Electric partner to support S.Korea's small businesses

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, said on Friday that it has entered into a partnership with LS Electric Co. to expa...

S.Korea's science minister calls small modular reactors 'game changers'

Minister of Science and ICT Lee Jong-ho on Thursday pledged full support for the development of small modular reactors (SMRs), which he called a "ga...

S.Korea's online K Bank withdraws plan for Kospi listing

South Korea's K Bank has withdrawn its highly anticipated plan to hold an IPO this year in the judgement of a lower corporate value due to the slugg...

UK's Croda to buy Korean bio materials maker for $286 mn

Croda International Plc., a British specialty chemicals company, is set to acquire South Korean bio materials producer Solus Biotech Co. for some 35...

LG Energy inks $3.3 bn ECV battery deal for N.America, Europe

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s third-largest secondary battery maker, has inked a supply deal estimated up to $3.3 billion for North Ame...

NYLIM taps Sungyun Hong as head of Seoul office

New York Life Investments (NYLIM) has appointed Sungyun Hong as head of its Seoul office, the US asset management firm said on Wednesday. Hong ...

KB Financial Group holds investment conference via metaverse

South Korea's KB Financial Group on Tuesday presented its investment philosophy to individual and institutional customers in the metaverse, a three-...

S.Korea's Samkang M&T undergoes relaunch with new name SK oceanplant

South Korea's Samkang M&T Co., a specialist in offshore wind plants and shipbuilding, has been renamed SK oceanplant under a strategy to raise t...

Hanmi's Rolvedon set to post $10 mn in Q4 net sales in US

South Korean drugmaker Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co.’s neutropenia agent, Rolvedon (eflapegrastim-xnst), is forecast to achieve about $10 million i...

Kia launches 2024 Niro model with enhanced features

Kia Corp. announced on Wednesday the launch of the 2024 Niro, a compact crossover SUV hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) models, which will be availab...

POSCO Int'l to expand LNG storage capacity for $810 mn

POSCO International Co. will sharply increase its liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage capacity by spending 1 trillion won ($810 million) to build a ...

Bluecove buys Grand Hyatt Seoul for over $565 million

South Korean real estate firm Bluecove Investment has signed an agreement to acquire five-star hotel Grand Hyatt Seoul for more than 700 billion won...

Foreigners net sell S.Korean bonds for first time in four years

Foreign investors dumped South Korean bonds in Janaury, becoming net sellers of the securities for the first time in four years as they booked pro...

Samsung to showcase customized home appliances at KBIS 2023

Samsung Electronics Co. will showcase its home appliance lineup that focuses on sustainability and personalized design at the 2023 Kitchen & Bat...

DB HiTek to expand high value-added specialized image sensor business

South Korea's chip foundry DB HiTek Co. attained foundry process technology and is set to expand its high-value-added specialized image sensor busin...

Korea’s Hyundai Electric wins $86 mn transformer deal in US

Hyundai Electric & Energy Systems Co., a power equipment and energy solution affiliate of the world’s largest shipbuilding group holding c...

Hyundai Mobis bags record $4.6 bn orders from global carmakers

South Korea's Hyundai Mobis, a key affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, last year enjoyed its best year in orders received from abroad.The company on T...

Korea boosts energy cooperation with natural resource-rich W.Australia

South Korea has boosted its energy cooperation with Western Australia, the biggest of Australia's six states and packed with natural resources.Minis...

Hanwha Solutions, SKS Credit propel to build eco-friendly data center

Hanwha Solutions Corp. said on Monday that its business unit Hanwha Solutions Insight Division has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with S...

GM Korea to launch Trax, Cadillac EV; likely turn to profit this year

GM Korea Co. expects to turn to profit this year after years of losses as the South Korean subsidiary of the US auto giant plans to bring six new an...

Korea’s nuclear power: Ample export opportunities ahead

The recent energy crisis dealt a particularly hard blow to Europe given its heavy dependency on Russian gas. The world was once again awakened to th...

Gmarket reports rise of niche travelers in this year's first half

The full-scale resumption of overseas travel by people in South Korea has fueled the trend of "niche travelers" who travel abroad whenever they have...

Samsung hires two ex-Ericsson executives to lead network business

South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has hired two former executives of Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson to boost its ne...

LG Energy to raise capex by 50% in bet on strong EV growth

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, plans to ramp up capital expenditure by more than half thi...

Samsung seeks to sell more smartphones in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is an attractive smartphone market for both heavyweights and mass-market players given the relatively large number of young people wh...