NPS to buy stake in Australia’s Metrics to expand alternative investments

NPS to buy stake in Australia’s Metrics to expand alternative investments

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, has agreed to buy a stake in Australian asset mana...

HiteJinro sees annual soju exports to Cambodia grow 31%

HiteJinro sees annual soju exports to Cambodia grow 31%

HiteJinro Co., South Korea’s leading soju maker, resumed its Jinro EDM Festival at Cambodia’s Bon Om Tuk water festival after a four-y...

Samsung hits highest US smartphone market share in 4 years

Samsung hits highest US smartphone market share in 4 years

Samsung Electronics Co. has achieved its highest market share in the US smartphone market in four years, thanks to its first AI phone the Galaxy S24...

Korea Inc.’s dividend repatriation soars on new tax breaks

Korea Inc.’s dividend repatriation soars on new tax breaks

Major companies in South Korea, such as affiliates of Samsung, LG and Hyundai Motor Group, are bringing larger amounts of capital back home from abr...

LG H&H acquires S.Korean makeup brand Hince

LG H&H acquires S.Korean makeup brand Hince

South Korea's LG H&H Co. announced on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement to acquire a 75% stake in Vivawave, which owns the domestic premiu...

SK Hynix, Samsung's fight for HBM lead set to escalate on AI boom

SK Hynix, Samsung's fight for HBM lead set to escalate on AI boom

Long-time runner-up SK Hynix Inc. significantly narrowed the market share gap with global memory leader Samsung Electronics Co. to 6.3 percentage po...

Hanmi Semiconductor wins $31 mn order HBM equipment for SK Hynix

Hanmi Semiconductor wins $31 mn order HBM equipment for SK Hynix

South Korean chip equipment company Hanmi Semiconductor Co. said on Friday that it has secured a 41.5 billion won ($31.4 million) deal with SK Hynix...

Samsung, LG Electronics top 2 global TV makers in H1

Samsung, LG Electronics top 2 global TV makers in H1

Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc., two South Korean tech giants, respectively achieved the No. 1 and No. 2 spots in the global TV set ...

Cruise ship from China to visit S.Korea's Jeju Island on Aug. 31

Cruise ship from China to visit S.Korea's Jeju Island on Aug. 31

Reservations for cruise ships visiting South Korea's Jeju Island are flooding in amid China's resumption of all group tours to its neighboring cou...

S.Korea is far more reliant on China for rare earth metal than Japan: report

S.Korea is far more reliant on China for rare earth metal than Japan: report

South Korea is far more dependent than Japan on neodymium permanent magnets from China at 88%, while the rate for Japan, a land devoid of rare earth...

Starbucks to offer super-size Trenta drinks in S.Korea

Starbucks to offer super-size Trenta drinks in S.Korea

Starbucks will roll out its biggest size for iced drinks, the Trenta, next week in South Korea, which was chosen as its first overseas market to int...

Kia unveils flagship EV9 design; world premiere in March

Kia unveils flagship EV9 design; world premiere in March

Kia Corp. on Wednesday showcased its large flagship electric sport utility vehicle EV9 as the No. 2 South Korean carmaker is extending its EV lineup...

Leading S.Korean trade body, 31 brokerages urge delay in financial investment tax

Leading S.Korean trade body, 31 brokerages urge delay in financial investment tax

South Korea's Korea Financial Investment Association and 31 domestic securities companies on Sunday released a joint statement urging a delay in the...

Celltrion to seek FDA approval for sale of Remsima SC by year-end

Celltrion to seek FDA approval for sale of Remsima SC by year-end

Celltrion Inc. said it has confirmed the effectiveness and safety of Remsima SC in its third-phase global clinical trials, conducted on 438 patients...

Korea’s 2021 current account surplus misses BOK forecast

Korea’s 2021 current account surplus misses BOK forecast

South Korea’s current account surplus last year missed the central bank’s forecast as higher raw materials prices boosted imports of Asi...

POSCO's lithium reserves in Argentina soar to $31 bn

POSCO's lithium reserves in Argentina soar to $31 bn

The value of lithium reserves at a salt lake in Argentina, which South Korean steelmaker POSCO acquired for $280 million in 2018, is estimated to ha...

Korean REIT nets $31 mn from Tokyo property stake sale

Korean REIT nets $31 mn from Tokyo property stake sale

JR AMC Co. Ltd., a real estate investment trust manager in South Korea, has recently disposed of its stake in a luxury office building in central Toky...

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