Asian Manufacturing

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, has unveiled the automated manufacturing process at its smart factory for the EV6, its firs...

South Korea’s MBK Partners, one of the largest private equity firms in Asia, said it has raised $1.8 billion for its second special situations...

South Korea's top three retail groups -- Lotte, Shinsegae and GS -- are struggling with increased losses in the Southeast Asian market, once believe...

POHANG, South Korea - When POSCO Chemical Co., better known as a refractory brick manufacturer until the early 1990s, announced its entry into the a...

A South Korean electric equipment maker has decided not to seek any new orders as a spike in prices of commodities such as copper and supply disrupt...

Korea Investment Corp. (KIC) focused on strengthening venture capital (VC) strategies and expanding co-investments with general partners (GPs) this ...

The Korea Economic Daily is hosting Asia's biggest alternative investment forum in Seoul on Oct. 27, where chief executives of the National Pension ...

Hyundai Motor Group chairman Chung Euisun has declared that the world’s fifth-largest carmaker will target the electric vehicle market in Sout...

General Motors Co. said it would recover from supplier LG Electronics Inc. nearly all of the $2 billion cost of recalling Chevrolet B...

Joseph Bae, co-president of KKR & Co., was named as its co-chief executive officer this week, becoming the second Korean descendent CEO to lead ...

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. said on Friday the company and the University of California San Diego have jointly developed a next-gene...

The US private credit markets-focused Monroe Capital LLC has made its foray into Asia by opening an office in South Korea, where the National Pensio...

Affinity Equity Partners is putting Burger King's operations in South Korea and Japan up for sale, after the US hamburger franchise overtook its big...

Hyundai Motor Group’s long-term ambition to create a full-fledged hydrogen value chain, from fuel cell production to hydrogen-powered logist...

South Korea-based Naver Financial, the fintech arm of online giant Naver Corp., has invested $20 million in a Series B funding round for the US-base...

The number of the trillion won club of South Korean manufacturing sector is set to nearly triple this year even as a resurgence in the COVID-19 is...

South Korea's pharmaceutical group Green Cross Corp., or GC Pharma, will combine its two cell therapy developers listed on the junior Kosdaq market ...

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 ...

South Korea’s top carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. is making innovations in its electric vehicle manufacturing processes. The company on July 1 reve...

German biopharmaceutical company CureVac N.V. may choose South Korea as one of its global production bases for the COVID-19 vaccine following Korean...

Naver Corp.’s Japan-based messaging app affiliate Line Corp. is rapidly expanding its digital banking business in Asian countries outside Kore...

The global chip shortage is impacting South Korea’s COVID-19 test device makers. They are paying up to 10 times the normal price of semiconduc...

South Korea’s wind tower manufacturer CS Wind Corp. has acquired full ownership of the world’s largest tower manufacturing facility loca...

Luxury brands are hiking up prices in South Korea. Designers such as Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Chanel have increased their prices in Korea this year...

Samsung Biologics will be entering the drug substance segment of the COVID-19 vaccine contract manufacturing business. According to industry sources...

Seoul-based IMM Private Equity has fully exited its 300 billion won ($265 million) investment in the country's No. 2 electric wire manufacturer by s...

South Korea’s carbon emission regulations – strengthened again this year – are projected to exert financial pressure on the countr...

In the US and European film markets, where movies directed by Westerners or non-Asian filmmakers have long dominated the industry, Asians are finall...

Amorepacific Corp., the South Korean beauty giant, has signed a partnership agreement with Shopee, a Singaporean e-commerce platform, to expand it...

Hana Financial Investment Co. has acquired a small South Korean industrial waste treatment company in a consortium with two private equity firms, in...