Nvidia co-leads Series A round for AI startup Twelve Labs

Nvidia co-leads Series A round for AI startup Twelve Labs

Global chip giant Nvidia Corp. has co-led a $50 million Series A funding round for Twelve Labs, a South Korean artificial intelligence company speci...

Samsung Heavy wins certification for ammonia fuel VLAC

Samsung Heavy wins certification for ammonia fuel VLAC

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries announced on Wednesday that it obtained Approval in Principle (AIP) from Lloyd's Register for the design of a...

Jeju Air, Lion Air codeshare Incheon-Bali route

Jeju Air, Lion Air codeshare Incheon-Bali route

South Korea’s budget carrier Jeju Air Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a codeshare agreement with Indonesia's largest low-cost airline,...

Samsung releases 2024 lineup of gaming monitors

Samsung releases 2024 lineup of gaming monitors

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Tuesday that it launched its new 2024 lineup of gaming monitors, Odyssey OLED, and high-resolution monitors, Vi...

Daesang to scale up meal kits, kimchi production in Vietnam

Daesang to scale up meal kits, kimchi production in Vietnam

Daesang Corp., South Korea’s leading food maker, said on Monday its two Vietnamese operations have each completed their second plant in the co...

LG Energy Solution to discover startups in battery sector

LG Energy Solution to discover startups in battery sector

South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. announced on Monday that it will host Battery Challenge 2024, an open innovation program to discover startup...

Line Games to launch The Play of Genesis in Taiwan, Hong Kong

Line Games to launch The Play of Genesis in Taiwan, Hong Kong

South Korea's Line Games Corp. announced on Friday that it signed a publishing agreement with Vietnam's tech giant VNG for the mobile game The Play ...

Cosmax China participates in Shanghai Beauty Expo

Cosmax China participates in Shanghai Beauty Expo

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's largest cosmetics manufacturer specializing in original design manufacturing (ODM), on Thursday that its Chinese subsidia...

Samsung Electronics holds Latin America Tech Seminar

Samsung Electronics holds Latin America Tech Seminar

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it hosted the 2024 Latin America Tech Seminar in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 28 and 29.According to...

Korean biotech Bertis to join BIO 2024 for global reach

Korean biotech Bertis to join BIO 2024 for global reach

South Korean biotech Bertis Inc. will deliver presentations at the BIO International Convention, one of the world’s largest bio and healthcare...

Webcash Global, BC Card Vietnam partner on B2B fintech

Webcash Global, BC Card Vietnam partner on B2B fintech

Webcash Global, an affiliate of South Korea's Webcash Co., announced on Tuesday that it has recently signed a business agreement with BC Card Vietna...

South Korea steps on accelerator for record 2024 car exports

South Korea steps on accelerator for record 2024 car exports

ASAN, South Chungcheong Province – At Hyundai Motor Co.'s manufacturing plant in Asan, over 60 km south of Seoul, thousands of robots were bus...

GS25 opens 300th store in Vietnam

GS25 opens 300th store in Vietnam

South Korean convenience store chain GS25 said on Sunday that it opened its 300th store in Vietnam. This is the milestone since it entered th...

Woori Bank offers internship for SE Asian students in S.Korea

Woori Bank offers internship for SE Asian students in S.Korea

South Korea's Woori Bank announced on Tuesday that it is recruiting interns targeting Southeast Asian students studying in Korea.This program aims t...

Samsung, SK Hynix expect chip prices to stay firm in 2024

Samsung, SK Hynix expect chip prices to stay firm in 2024

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chip makers, forecast the prices of DRAM and high-bandwidth memory (...

SKC to build world's top biodegradable plastic plant in Vietnam

SKC to build world's top biodegradable plastic plant in Vietnam

SKC Ltd., a chemicals arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group, said on Sunday its biodegradable material unit has broken g...

E-Land Retail to enter convenience store market

E-Land Retail to enter convenience store market

South Korea's E-Land Retail, the operator of Kim's Club, NC Department Store, and New Core Outlet operator, plans to enter the convenience store mar...

Samsung Welstory completes new Vietnam logistics center

Samsung Welstory completes new Vietnam logistics center

South Korean food and beverage company Samsung Welstory announced on Thursday that it completed a new logistics center with a cold chain system in B...

HD Hyundai unveils USV Tenebris in US

HD Hyundai unveils USV Tenebris in US

HD Hyundai Co., a South Korean shipbuilding and machinery conglomerate, announced on Thursday that it exhibited the model of its reconnaissance unma...

SK Telecom eyes tangible results from AI business in 2024

SK Telecom eyes tangible results from AI business in 2024

South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. is set to accelerate investments in artificial intelligence to bring more tangible outcomes ...

LIG Nex1 participates in Malaysia's DSA 2024

LIG Nex1 participates in Malaysia's DSA 2024

South Korea's major defense system developer LIG Nex1 Co. announced on Tuesday that it's participating in the Defence Services Asia (DSA) 2024 exhib...

Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino triples revenue

Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino triples revenue

Jeju Dream Tower Casino, located on South Korea's top tourist island of Jeju and run by Lotte Tour Development Co., surpassed $6 million in cumula...

OECD sharply revises up S.Korea GDP forecast after strong Q1

OECD sharply revises up S.Korea GDP forecast after strong Q1

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) forecasts South Korea’s economy to expand at a faster pace than it previousl...

S.Korea’s Lotte Card injects $68 mn into Vietnamese unit

S.Korea’s Lotte Card injects $68 mn into Vietnamese unit

Lotte Card Co., South Korea’s No. 5 credit card issuer, has injected $68 million into its Vietnamese unit to expand its business in the Southe...

Korean brokerages' foreign profits up on IB, bond trading

Korean brokerages' foreign profits up on IB, bond trading

South Korean brokerage firms expanded their net profits from overseas operations last year, backed by increased gains from their investment banking ...

Tous les Jours to open five stores in Cambodia

Tous les Jours to open five stores in Cambodia

Tous les Jours, the bakery brand under South Korea's CJ Foodville, announced on Monday that CJ Foodville signed a master franchise (MF) agreement wi...

NPS to commit $1.1 billion to external managers in 2024

NPS to commit $1.1 billion to external managers in 2024

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) will select domestic general partners (GPs) to manage about 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) worth...

LG Electronics hosts 'LG Showcase 2024' in UAE

LG Electronics hosts 'LG Showcase 2024' in UAE

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday that it hosted a new product showcase event called "LG Showcase 2024" in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, fr...

Korea’s Lotte sells Lotte Glory Properties Shenyang amid US-China dispute

Korea’s Lotte sells Lotte Glory Properties Shenyang amid US-China dispute

South Korea’s retail giant Lotte Group has signed a deal to sell a theme park project in Shenyang, China – its latest move to pull out o...

Hyundai Glovis expects better 2024 after beating market in Q1

Hyundai Glovis expects better 2024 after beating market in Q1

Hyundai Glovis Co. expects an improvement in earnings this year from last year after reporting better-than-expected sales and operating profit in th...

S.Korean game developer Krafton acquires Japan’s ADK for $517 million S.Korea's stablecoin frenzy fuels stock rally despite regulatory uncertainty SK Hynix joins Samsung in 200 trillion won market cap club Samsung on hiring spree to bolster US foundry sales LS Electric poised to join Nvidia's supply chain via Vertiv deal