Hanwha Solutions projects over $778 mn operating profit in 2023

Hanwha Solutions projects over $778 mn operating profit in 2023

Hanwha Solutions Corp. projects its operating profit for this year would exceed 1 trillion won ($778 million) on an anticipated solar energy boom in...

Samsung C&T to cancel $2.3 bn worth of treasury shares, stocks up

Samsung C&T to cancel $2.3 bn worth of treasury shares, stocks up

Samsung C&T Corp.’s share price zoomed on Thursday on news that the company will cancel its entire treasury stock holdings worth about 2.9...

POSCO Int'l's pharmaceutical biz in Sudan attains No. 2 market ranking

POSCO Int'l's pharmaceutical biz in Sudan attains No. 2 market ranking

A pharmaceutical company in Sudan set up by South Korea's POSCO International to find business opportunities in and make social contributions to the...

Vaxcell-Bio, Cellid sign MOU to build cancer immunotherapy platform

Vaxcell-Bio, Cellid sign MOU to build cancer immunotherapy platform

Vaxcell-Bio Therapeutics, a South Korean company specializing in anti-cancer immunotherapy, announced on Wednesday its partnership with Cellid Co. t...

S.Korea's EcoPro boosts raw material plant for cathode materials

S.Korea's EcoPro boosts raw material plant for cathode materials

South Korea's EcoPro Co., a leading cathode supplier for global battery makers, is expanding its plant for raw materials used in secondary battery c...

S.Korean shipbuilders rule world’s eco-friendly vessel market

S.Korean shipbuilders rule world’s eco-friendly vessel market

South Korea’s shipbuilders have won more than half of the orders to build eco-friendly vessels so this year based on advanced technology to do...

Hyundai Capital wins IAAI Award for pioneering AI application

Hyundai Capital wins IAAI Award for pioneering AI application

Hyundai Capital, the financial services arm of the Hyundai Motor Group, was honored with the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Awar...

Lotte Fine Chemical transforms from ugly duckling to golden swan

Lotte Fine Chemical transforms from ugly duckling to golden swan

For Samsung Group, the fine chemicals business was an ugly duckling losing money while other affiliates, including Samsung Electronics Co., were flu...

Treasury yield falls signal BOK's looser grip on inflation

Treasury yield falls signal BOK's looser grip on inflation

The yield on South Korea’s benchmark three-year treasury bonds has stayed below the base rate for a month, out of sync with monetary policies ...

S.Korea’s trade outlook dismal in Feb with stagnant exports

S.Korea’s trade outlook dismal in Feb with stagnant exports

South Korea’s trade deficit in just the first 40 days of this year inched close to 40% of its worst-ever annual deficit last year amid a conti...

SK Telecom doubles capacity of its AI service's supercomputer Titan

SK Telecom doubles capacity of its AI service's supercomputer Titan

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. on Sunday said it had doubled the processing capacity of its supercomputer Titan, the brain of its artificial intellige...

S.Korean listed companies' cancelled shares reach $8.6 bn over past 3 years

S.Korean listed companies' cancelled shares reach $8.6 bn over past 3 years

South Korea's listed companies have cancelled 11 trillion won ($8.6 billion) worth of shares over the past three years.The Korea Exchange said on Su...

Survey reveals consumer preference for hybrid cars over pure EVs

Survey reveals consumer preference for hybrid cars over pure EVs

Although global automakers are ramping up efforts to increase sales of pure electric vehicles (EVs), hybrid models remain the preferred choice among...

Hyundai Motor Group ranks first in US vehicle dependability study

Hyundai Motor Group ranks first in US vehicle dependability study

Hyundai Motor Group has once again topped the U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) conducted by J.D. Power, ranking first among 16 global automoti...

Electric vehicles in S.Korea beat diesel cars in sales

Electric vehicles in S.Korea beat diesel cars in sales

Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in South Korea last year including hybrids surpassed those of diesel cars for the first time due to the price of di...

LG Electronics, Qualcomm forge ahead in autonomous driving

LG Electronics, Qualcomm forge ahead in autonomous driving

LG Electronics Inc. has joined forces with Qualcomm Technology to enhance collaboration in the fields of autonomous driving and advanced driver assi...

S.Korea’s love of luxury ushers in 3rd wave of bling boom

S.Korea’s love of luxury ushers in 3rd wave of bling boom

Global luxury brands from Louis Vuitton to Chanel and Thom Browne are readying themselves for a third wave of the luxury boom in South Korea, where ...

S.Korea to fine German carmakers for alleged R&D collusion

S.Korea to fine German carmakers for alleged R&D collusion

South Korea’s antitrust body has preliminarily decided to impose a combined fine of 42.3 billion won ($33.5 million) on four German automakers...

Seoul to run $3.9 billion fund for startups over 4 years

Seoul to run $3.9 billion fund for startups over 4 years

The local government of South Korea’s capital city Seoul this year will launch its own vision fund, dubbed the Seoul Vision 2030 Fund, to inve...

S.Korean firms showcase hydrogen offerings in United States

S.Korean firms showcase hydrogen offerings in United States

South Korean energy ministry and major Korean companies including Hyundai Motor Co., SK E&S, and Korea Zinc Co. participated in the Hydrogen &am...

Hyundai Eng. promotes MMR nuclear power plant project in Poland

Hyundai Eng. promotes MMR nuclear power plant project in Poland

Hyundai Engineering is promoting a micro module nuclear power plant project in Poland, on the heels of completing a similar project in Canada.The co...

SK Telecom to launch multimodal AI to match ChatGPT

SK Telecom to launch multimodal AI to match ChatGPT

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. will adopt natural language generation and processing capabilities for its nascent artificial intelligence servic...

Korea EV battery makers lose market share against Chinese rivals

Korea EV battery makers lose market share against Chinese rivals

South Korean electric vehicle cell makers lost a market share against Chinese competitors last year as they failed to fully benefit from a surge in ...

Prestige Bio's Herceptin biosimilar proves equivalence in clinical trials

Prestige Bio's Herceptin biosimilar proves equivalence in clinical trials

Prestige Biopharma, a South Korean biopharmaceutical developer, said on Tuesday that the final analysis of phase 3 clinical trial on the anti-cancer...

Hyundai's IONIQ 5 named Best Electric Vehicle of 2023 in US

Hyundai's IONIQ 5 named Best Electric Vehicle of 2023 in US

Cars.com, a US automobile evaluation website, named the Hyundai Motor Co.'s IONIQ 5 as the Best Electric Vehicle of 2023 on Tuesday. According to Hy...

Fintech firm Kakao Pay logs first yearly net profit in 2022

Fintech firm Kakao Pay logs first yearly net profit in 2022

Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., posted a net profit last year for the first time since its ...

Low-cost carriers in S.Korea returning to profitability

Low-cost carriers in S.Korea returning to profitability

South Korea's low-cost carriers (LCC) Jeju Air Co. and Jin Air in the fourth quarter last year each earned operating profit for the first time since...

Lotte Group to directly control global real estate unit

Lotte Group to directly control global real estate unit

Lotte Corp., the fifth-largest conglomerate in South Korea, is poised to strengthen its real estate development unit under the direct control of the...

HMM joins UNGC to strengthen ESG management

HMM joins UNGC to strengthen ESG management

HMM Co., a South Korean container shipping company formerly known as Hyundai Merchant Marine, said on Monday that it has joined the United Nations G...

Jeju Air resumes daily flights to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Vientiane

Jeju Air resumes daily flights to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Vientiane

South Korea's low-cost carrier Jeju Air Co. said on Monday that it would run daily flights from Korea to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and V...

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