Amazon bets big on Korea digital transition with new spending

Amazon bets big on Korea digital transition with new spending

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), the world's largest cloud platform provider, said on Wednesday it will nearly triple its investment in South Korea t...

LG Energy Q3 profit at record high on gains from US battery tax credit

LG Energy Q3 profit at record high on gains from US battery tax credit

LG Energy Solution Ltd., one of the world’s leading battery makers, said on Wednesday its operating profit soared to a record high in the th...

Hyundai, Iveco solidify partnership with E-WAY H2 hydrogen fuel cell bus

Hyundai, Iveco solidify partnership with E-WAY H2 hydrogen fuel cell bus

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and Italian truck maker Iveco Group N.V. have consolidated their business partnership through th...

Overseas trips top pre-pandemic levels during Chuseok holiday

Overseas trips top pre-pandemic levels during Chuseok holiday

The number of South Koreans who spent this year’s six-day holiday of Chuseok abroad exceeded pre-pandemic levels, indicating a recovery in the...

BMW premieres new 5 Series in Korea, the model’s top market

BMW premieres new 5 Series in Korea, the model’s top market

German carmaker BMW Group on Thursday premiered its latest 5 Series premium sedan in South Korea, an indication of the growing importance of the Asi...

S.Korea’s corporate R&D spending lags global rivals

S.Korea’s corporate R&D spending lags global rivals

Major South Korean companies’ spending on research and development lags investments made by their global competitors due to lower government t...

Korea markets melt as Fed officials foresee longer-than-expected high rates

Korea markets melt as Fed officials foresee longer-than-expected high rates

South Korean financial markets lost ground on Wednesday with the 10-year government bond yield at a one-year high as US Federal Reserve policymakers...

SK E&S, Honeywell UOP to capture carbon from LNG plants

SK E&S, Honeywell UOP to capture carbon from LNG plants

SK E&S Co., a clean energy unit of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, and Honeywell UOP, a US major refining and petrochemical tec...

S.Korea's travel agencies fight for survival with customized products

S.Korea's travel agencies fight for survival with customized products

South Korea’s major travel agencies, feeling threatened by the rise of online travel agencies on the tourism market, are using their strengths...

LG Chem, Huayou to build LFP cathode plant in Morocco

LG Chem, Huayou to build LFP cathode plant in Morocco

South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. said on Sunday it will build a lithium phosphate iron (LFP) cathode materials plant in Morocco in partnership with ...

Korean financial markets tumble as Fed signals higher rates

Korean financial markets tumble as Fed signals higher rates

South Korean stocks, bonds and its currency tumbled on Thursday as the US Federal Reserve gave indications of another interest rate hike this year a...

Hyundai E&C, Naver Cloud to develop futuristic healthy housing model

Hyundai E&C, Naver Cloud to develop futuristic healthy housing model

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction (E&C) on Thursday announced its signing of a deal with Naver Cloud on cooperation in the de...

Samsung SDI gets top int'l grade for zero-waste landfills

Samsung SDI gets top int'l grade for zero-waste landfills

South Korea’s Samsung SDI Co. on Wednesday said all of its domestic business sites received the highest grade of Platinum in the Zero Waste to...

Live commerce app Grip aims to expand into Japan, US in 2024

Live commerce app Grip aims to expand into Japan, US in 2024

Imagine you're using a shopping app. You talk to the seller, ask questions and receive answers in real-time on a livestream video. Now and then, the...

KEPCO's new CEO heralds electricity rate hikes, drastic reforms

KEPCO's new CEO heralds electricity rate hikes, drastic reforms

South Korea’s near-monopoly power company Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) is expected to raise electricity rates and lessen its outsized re...

Shinsegae axes E-Mart, department store CEOs amid weak sales

Shinsegae axes E-Mart, department store CEOs amid weak sales

South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae Inc. on Wednesday carried out one of its most drastic executive reshuffles, replacing chief executives of...

Samsung Galaxy to help locate lost credit cards

Samsung Galaxy to help locate lost credit cards

Samsung Electronics Co. signed a business agreement with KB Kookmin Card and American Express on Tuesday for the launch of an Internet-of-Things (Io...

Korean B2B cloud computing firm BusinessOn up for sale

Korean B2B cloud computing firm BusinessOn up for sale

BusinessOn Communication Co., a leading cloud computing firm listed on the junior bourse Kosdaq, is open to a sale of its controlling stake for arou...

Foreign visitors' portion of Jeju Island consumption increases: report

Foreign visitors' portion of Jeju Island consumption increases: report

It has been revealed that spending by foreign tourists visiting Jeju Island has significantly increased since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.Accor...

Hyundai E&C seeks expansion to Poland, Ukraine

Hyundai E&C seeks expansion to Poland, Ukraine

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction (E&C) will open a branch in Warsaw, Poland, to join a project to build small modular reacto...

NHN Commerce to expand into Chinese market with Xinxuan

NHN Commerce to expand into Chinese market with Xinxuan

NHN Commerce, South Korea's major online company NHN Corp.'s online shopping platform, announced its strategic business agreement with China's leadi...

Hyundai E&C, Poland bolster partnerships in nuclear power

Hyundai E&C, Poland bolster partnerships in nuclear power

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., a major affiliate of South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co., is boosting its networks in the nuclear p...

Lotte Mart at Seoul Station redesigned to lure foreign shoppers

Lotte Mart at Seoul Station redesigned to lure foreign shoppers

South Korea’s Lotte Mart reopened its hypermarket at Seoul train station on Thursday following a four-month renovation to attract more foreign...

VaxCell Bio's treatment shows promise for advanced liver cancer

VaxCell Bio's treatment shows promise for advanced liver cancer

South Korea's VaxCell Biotherapeutics Co. on Tuesday said its treatment for advanced liver cancer under development stopped or greatly reduced the g...

New Mercedes E-Class, world’s first to use LG’s SPM display  

New Mercedes E-Class, world’s first to use LG’s SPM display  

LG Display Co., the world’s leading organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel maker seeking to cement its market leadership, is supplying its ...

SK Forest, NH Securities to cut CO2 emissions in East Timor

SK Forest, NH Securities to cut CO2 emissions in East Timor

South Korea’s SK Forest Co. and NH Investment & Securities on Friday held a launching ceremony for their joint supply of high-efficiency c...

Upstage to develop shopping-specific AI with ConnectWave

Upstage to develop shopping-specific AI with ConnectWave

South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage on Monday said it will develop a shopping-specific AI service with domestic online ...

SK E&S signs PPA agreement with Iljin Group affiliates

SK E&S signs PPA agreement with Iljin Group affiliates

South Korea's SK E&S announced on Friday that it has entered into a direct power purchase agreement (PPA) with Iljin Global and Bearing Art, bot...

S.Korea to receive $1 bn in unpaid bills from Uzbek gas project

S.Korea to receive $1 bn in unpaid bills from Uzbek gas project

South Korean firms are poised to receive $1 billion in unpaid bill that has accumulated since 2017 from Uzbekistan’s Surgil gas project as the...

E-Mart opens 4th Korean hypermarket in Ulaanbaatar

E-Mart opens 4th Korean hypermarket in Ulaanbaatar

South Korea’s top supermarket chain E-Mart Inc. launched its fourth hypermarket in Ulaanbaatar on Thursday with a stronger push for Korean bra...

Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman courts Korean AI startups as Riyadh, Abu Dhabi vie to build tech hubs K Shipbuilding up for sale as Korean shipyards ride new boom Samsung to buy US health tech firm Xealth in digital health push Korean waste management firm Koentec on market for $730 mn US unveils 25% tariffs on S.Korea, sets Aug. 1 deadline for agreement