S.Korean sovereign wealth fund KIC to set up Mumbai office

Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has kicked off procedures to open a Mumbai-based office later this year, The Korea Economic...

CJ Group adopts AI-based copywriter for producing marketing content

South Korea's CJ Group on Tuesday said it will develop and run a personalized artificial intelligence (AI) copywriter that automatically produces ma...

CGBio opens cosmetic surgery clinic in Bali using bio-medical tech

CGBio, a South Korean bio-renewable medical company, announced on Monday that it opened a medical esthetic clinic, called Nulook, in Bali, Indonesia...

Apple Pay to launch in South Korea on March 21

Apple's mobile payment service, Apple Pay, is set to launch domestically in South Korea on March 21, according to industry sources on Monday.With th...

Hyundai to boost India presence via takeover of GM plant

Hyundai Motor Co., the leading South Korean carmaker, is set to expand its presence in India with a takeover of General Motors Co.’s plant in ...

Pulmuone looks to enter US plant-based convenience food market

Pulmuone, a leading South Korean producer of plant-based foods such as tofu and bean sprouts, is trying to expand the K-food territory in the global...

Hyundai L&C targets China’s interior materials market

Hyundai L&C, a South Korean building materials company under the Hyundai Department Store Group, said on Sunday that it has entered the Chinese ...

Tourist arrival gap between S.Korea, Japan widens sharply

Since Japan resumed visa-free travel for South Koreans in October last year, South Koreans have been flocking to the neighboring country.But the num...

SK Ecoplant targets European waste battery recycling market

SK Ecoplant Co., its Singaporean subsidiary TES-AMM, and domestic eco-friendly business and secondary battery materials leader Ecopro Co. are poised...

Samsung, Arm partner Gaonchips eyes US as next offshore base

Gaonchips Co., a long-term Samsung Electronics Co’s chip design house partner that also works with British fabless chip company Arm Inc., will...

DB HiTek sees capacity utilization rate rise to 80%

South Korea's semiconductor foundry company DB HiTek Co. last month saw its capacity utilization rate rise to the mid-80% level thanks to rising dem...

Foreign investors net buyers of Korean stocks for 5th straight month

Foreign investors bought more South Korean stocks in February, extending their buying spree to five months.The Financial Supervisory Service of Kore...

Yoon’s US visit to test Biden’s trust as ally over chip, battery issues

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s summit meeting with his US counterpart Joe Biden next month will celebrate 70 years of the Korea-US sec...

SentBe, back from brink of collapse to play in major league

SentBe, a South Korean fintech startup operating a personal international remittance app of the same name, is readying to play in the bigger global ...

S.Korea's DB HiTek to split off fabless, bulk up foundry business

DB HiTek Co., a leading chipmaker in South Korea, said on March 7 it is set to split off its fabless unit by May 2 to ramp up its foundry business.D...

KEXIM bank inks $6 billion financing deal with Aramco

The Export-Import Bank of Korea said on Tuesday it has signed a three-year framework agreement with Saudi Arabian Oil Co.(Aramco), to provide up to ...

Hyundai eyes greater SUV market share with new Kona EV

Hyundai Motor Co. on Tuesday unveiled the all-new Kona Electric, its first fully revamped compact sport utility vehicle in five years, as the top So...

Samsung reclaims world's top spot in chip sales: Omdia

Samsung Electronics Co. topped the global chipmakers with $67.1 billion in revenue last year, according to London-based tech research firm Omdia ear...

S.Korea reigned supreme on global shipbuilding market in February

South Korea’s shipbuilding industry has blown away that of China in order volume.Clarkson Research, a British shipbuilding and shipping market...

Korea's Indent Corp. raises $8 mn for AI-based video review marketing

Indent Corporation, a South Korean startup that operates an AI-based video review marketing solution called VReview, announced on Tuesday that it ha...

Global PC, tablet market to shrink over 10% in 2023: research

The global market for personal computers and tablets is expected to shrink by more than 10% this year, as the demand for remote work and learning de...

HYBE barely ups SM stake in tender offer amid tensions with Kakao

HYBE Co. has raised its stake in the K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co. by merely 0.98% in a tender offer, after just one institution and minority i...

Global smartphone shipments to edge lower in 2023: IDC

Global smartphone shipments will decline 1.1% this year to 1.2 billion units, down from the previous 2.8% growth forecast due to weak demand and m...

S.Korea-Indonesia central banks renew currency swap agreement

Central banks of South Korea and Indonesia renewed a bilateral local currency swap arrangement to keep supporting trade and financial cooperation fo...

Samsung launches new TV ad campaign in London ahead of global release

Samsung Electronics Co. is ramping up its marketing efforts for its latest line of high-end TVs, including the 2023 Neo QLED 8K model, with a giant ...

South Korean tire makers raise prices despite weak sales

South Korea’s three largest tire makers are raising product prices despite their weak sales in anticipation of an imminent market rebound amid...

Musinsa selected as one of Asia's most innovative companies

Musinsa, a fashion e-commerce platform based in South Korea, on Friday was named one of this year's "Top-10 Most Innovative Companies in Asia-Pacifi...

Samsung’s DRAM market share rises amid industrywide revenue drop

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, saw its DRAM market share rise in the fourth quarter of last year despite a sig...

Hyundai autoworker: Dream job for many South Koreans

In South Korea, blue-collar work has for decades been shunned by job seekers because of the hard manual labor as well as the widely held perception ...

SK Materials makes equity investment in ION for CO2 capture partnership

SK Materials Co., an industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Inc., has made an equity investment in ION Clean Energy Inc., ...