Hyosung to sell its specialty gas unit for $943 mn to Korean PEs

Hyosung to sell its specialty gas unit for $943 mn to Korean PEs

South Korea’s Hyosung Group is poised to sell a 100% stake in its specialty and industrial gas unit to a consortium led by IMM Private Equity ...

Hana Financial mulls non-banking M&As for growth: CEO

Hana Financial mulls non-banking M&As for growth: CEO

Hana Financial Group, one of South Korea's top five financial groups, is mulling mergers and acquisitions in non-banking sectors in a bid to seize n...

Hanwha Q Cells gets solar power plant order in Colorado

Hanwha Q Cells gets solar power plant order in Colorado

Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar panel manufacturing arm of South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp., said on Thursday that it has secured a large-scale sola...

Routinery readies for new chapter with 2.0

Routinery readies for new chapter with 2.0

Born in South Korea but blowing up abroad, the Routinery app is designed to make small changes in users' daily routines to make a big difference in ...

Won to soften past 1,400, BOK rate cut likely in Oct: poll

Won to soften past 1,400, BOK rate cut likely in Oct: poll

The Korean won is forecast to continue its downward spiral and soften past the 1,400 threshold against the greenback this year, while the Bank of Ko...

Don’t dwell on Korea discount; light up visibility on global stage

Don’t dwell on Korea discount; light up visibility on global stage

To the world, South Korea is well known as home to the world’s top two memory chipmakers, Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., but it is...

Hanwha Aerospace to export $938mn K9 howitzer to Romania

Hanwha Aerospace to export $938mn K9 howitzer to Romania

Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s major aerospace and defense system developer, signed a 1.3 trillion won ($938 million) contract to supply ...

Korea’s taxi app i.M ties up with MK Group to land in Japan

Korea’s taxi app i.M ties up with MK Group to land in Japan

South Korea’s premium ride-hailing app i.M joined hands with Japan’s taxi operator MK Group to allow each platform's customers to use bo...

Law&Company vows to go global with AI legal assistant

Law&Company vows to go global with AI legal assistant

Law&Company Co., the operator of South Korea’s largest legal advice app LawTalk, will venture into the US legal tech market in five years ...

POSCO International completes Korea’s first non-state-run LNG terminal

POSCO International completes Korea’s first non-state-run LNG terminal

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Tuesday i...

S.Korean travelers splurge in Japan on softer yen

S.Korean travelers splurge in Japan on softer yen

South Korean travelers spent a total of 431.4 billion won ($312 million) through debit and credit cards in Japan in the first half of this year, twi...

Lunit eyes developing markets with AI cancer diagnostics

Lunit eyes developing markets with AI cancer diagnostics

Lunit Inc., a South Korean cancer diagnostics AI company, will accelerate its inroads into developing markets grappling with inadequate cancer diagn...

GC Biopharma exports Alyglo to US

GC Biopharma exports Alyglo to US

South Korea’s major pharmaceutical company GC Biopharma Corp. announced on Monday that it shipped the initial volume of Alygro, its immunoglob...

Kospi on upward run; individual investors turn bearish

Kospi on upward run; individual investors turn bearish

South Korean individual investors are strongly betting on a drop in domestic share prices, in contrast to foreign investors’ aggressive buying...

Gmarket CEO vows to reclaim lead with know-how from Alibaba, Coupang

Gmarket CEO vows to reclaim lead with know-how from Alibaba, Coupang

The new chief executive of South Korea’s Gmarket Inc. on Monday pledged to drive the local retail giant Shinsegae Group’s online shoppin...

Lotte Mall writes success story in Hanoi with Koreanization

Lotte Mall writes success story in Hanoi with Koreanization

Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi, a mega commercial complex in Vietnam, has hit a sales milestone of 200 billion won ($145 million) less than one year sin...

Foreign net buying of S.Korean stocks hits all-time high

Foreign net buying of S.Korean stocks hits all-time high

Offshore investors net purchased nearly 23 trillion won ($16.7 billion) worth of South Korea-listed stocks in the first half of this year. The buyin...

SK Innovation gets MSCI ESG's leader rating

SK Innovation gets MSCI ESG's leader rating

South Korean oil refiner SK Innovation Co. secured an AA rating in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assessment by Morgan Stanley Capi...

Korean won hits 15-year low in Q2 amid FX, economic uncertainty  

Korean won hits 15-year low in Q2 amid FX, economic uncertainty  

The South Korean currency fell to its lowest level against the US dollar in 15 years in the second quarter amid growing uncertainties surrounding gl...

Hyundai Motor car sales hit record in India for 1st half

Hyundai Motor car sales hit record in India for 1st half

Hyundai Motor Co. delivered its record-high number of cars in India during the first six months of this year but lost share in the fiercely competit...

Affinity-backed SSG.COM offers 1st voluntary redundancies

Affinity-backed SSG.COM offers 1st voluntary redundancies

Money-losing SSG.COM, once the most popular online shopping mall in South Korea, is asking some of its employees to volunteer to leave the company f...

Young rich Koreans: Financially literate, self-directing

Young rich Koreans: Financially literate, self-directing

Young South Korean millionaires want to take more control of their investments and bet on sectors they know, not relying passively on private banker...

Hanmi Semiconductor eyes $1.5 billion sales in 2026

Hanmi Semiconductor eyes $1.5 billion sales in 2026

Hanmi Semiconductor Co., South Korea’s leading chip packaging equipment manufacturer, has revised upwards its annual sales target for this yea...

Samsung SDI to ink $726 mn ESS deal with NextEra Energy

Samsung SDI to ink $726 mn ESS deal with NextEra Energy

Samsung SDI Co., the world’s sixth-largest electric vehicle cell maker, is set to provide batteries for energy storage systems (ESS) to NextEr...

Lotte Mart renewed Hanoi Store as K-food special

Lotte Mart renewed Hanoi Store as K-food special

South Korea's Lotte Mart said on Thursday it renewed its Hanoi Center store into a grocery specialty outlet, catering to the growing demand for Kore...

Korean IPO boom sets record; bubbles burst post debut

Korean IPO boom sets record; bubbles burst post debut

South Korea’s initial public offerings in the first half of this year were oversubscribed 1,610 times, the highest-ever rate for a half-year p...

Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis to buy e-commerce 11Street

Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis to buy e-commerce 11Street

South Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. is poised to acquire the country’s leading e-commerce operator 11Street Co. to ramp up its ...

PhyxUp closes in on pre-seed round with US advance

PhyxUp closes in on pre-seed round with US advance

PhyxUp Health Inc., an early stage South Korean digital healthcare startup, will soon close a pre-seed funding round, said its founder and chief, wh...

AmCham launches young professionals program

AmCham launches young professionals program

The American Chamber of Commerce in Korea (AmCham) announced on Wednesday the official launch of its Young Professionals Program (YPP), aimed at nur...

Korea’s top resort operator Sono buys T'way stake for $76 mn

Korea’s top resort operator Sono buys T'way stake for $76 mn

South Korea’s top resort operator Sono International Co. has bought a stake in T'way Air Co., a local low-cost carrier (LCC), for 105.6 billio...

Shinsegae chair likely to head Asian arm of pro-Trump Rockbridge 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