POSCO Future M named Fortune Asia Future 30

South Korea’s POSCO Future M Co. has been named Asia Future 30 by the US economic media Fortune on Mar. 27, according to the company on Thursd...

Ferrari, SK On team up to innovate battery technology

Ferrari S.p.A. joined hands with SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery producer, to innovate cell technology as the It...

IMM PE puts South Korea’s top travel agency Hanatour up for sale

IMM Private Equity Inc., a Seoul-based private equity firm, is selling its controlling stake in Hanatour Service Inc., South Korea’s top trave...

SM Bexel to localize military drone battery packs

SM Bexel Co., the battery manufacturing affiliate of South Korea's SM Group, announced on Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)...

Solus Advanced Materials poised to lead EV copper foil market: CEO

Solus Advanced Materials Co. is not a household name among ordinary electric vehicle drivers. But the South Korean company is a little giant to gl...

Korea’s IPO market heats up with HD Hyundai Marine, K Bank

South Korea’s initial public offering market is heating up as HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co., which aims to raise 742.6 billion won ($553.4 mi...

Hyundai, Red Sea Global agree on EV, AAM projects in Saudi luxury resorts

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group said on Monday it has agreed with Saudi Arabia’s state-sponsored developer Red Sea Globa...

Hyundai to nearly double ultra-fast EV chargers by 2024

Hyundai Motor Group is set to increase its ultra-fast electric vehicle chargers across South Korea from current 286 to 500 by next year, the auto gi...

POSCO new chief vows to keep fostering battery materials business

POSCO Holdings Inc.'s new Chairman Chang In-hwa on Thursday pledged to keep fostering its electric vehicle battery materials business, the group&rsq...

Hyundai vows to cut costs, seek shift toward SDVs as EV uptake slows

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has vowed to sharpen its electric vehicle price competitiveness through tech advancement and eff...

LG Chem reshuffles R&D unit to turn into EV materials maker

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s largest petrochemical company, is strengthening its research & development capabilities as it aims to transfor...

Korea eyes $1.5 bn injection in KDB to boost chip, battery sectors

South Korea may inject some 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) into Korea Development Bank (KDB) by the end of this month to support the state-run bank's...

EverCharge to install EV chargers at Oracle Park

South Korea’s SK E&S Co. announced on Sunday that its US-based electric vehicle (EV) charging subsidiary EverCharge Inc. will install hund...

SK On in talks with Nissan to supply batteries in US

South Korean rechargeable battery maker SK On Co. is in talks with Nissan Motor Co. to jointly produce battery cells for the Japanese carmaker in th...

Korea Zinc, LG Chem team up for US recycling business

Korea Zinc Inc., the leading global zinc and lead smelter, and LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s top petrochemical producer, joined hands for the pl...

Hankook Tire-sponsored Formula E São Paulo Round 4 to be held

The 2024 São Paulo E-PRIX, the fourth round of the 10th season of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, the world's premier electric vehi...

Hyundai to bring Casper EV to Japan, premium Genesis cars to India

Hyundai Motor Co. will bring its electric Casper crossover city car to Japan next year as part of a bid to reinvigorate its performance in the neigh...

Hyundai Motor unveils design of commercial EV platform

Hyundai Motor Co. unveiled the design of its first commercial electric vehicle (EV) platform ST1 on Thursday. ST1 is a commercial platform based on ...

Hyundai Mobis develops integrated module for EV front face

Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s sixth-largest automotive parts maker, known as Mobis outside of its home South Korea, announced Thursday that i...

Hyundai Motor, Kia to recall 170,000 EVs

Around 170,000 units of electric vehicles (EVs) from Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. are voluntarily recalled, the largest recall in the domestic EV...

DGB Financial launches overseas asset management

South Korea's DGB Financial Group announced on Thursday that it opened its first overseas subsidiary Hi Asset Management Asia (HiAMA) in Singapore.H...

Hyundai Rotem unveils lamination press for EV motor cores

South Korea's Hyundai Rotem Co. announced on Wednesday that it unveiled a lamination press for electric vehicle (EV) motor cores at its Dangjin plan...

CJ Logistics gets IATA lithium battery transport certification

South Korea’s CJ Logistics said on Wednesday that it obtained the certification CEIV lithium battery, or the Center of Excellence for Independ...

SK Ecoplant, TES to enter Japan’s battery recycling market

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management firm, said on Tuesday it is entering Japan’s battery recycling m...

SK Signet builds system to enhance EV charger cybersecurity

SK Signet Inc., South Korea's electric vehicle (EV) charger manufacturer, announced on Tuesday that it has established an enhanced cybersecurity sys...

EV charging speed, battery sector’s emerging battlefield

South Korea’s three major battery makers are rushing to shorten times for electric vehicle charging, the main issue for consumers reluctant to...

LG Energy, Qualcomm to develop battery management system

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, announced on Sunday that it will dev...

BMW EV sales roar in Korea on strong lineup of new models

BMW, already one of the top two best-selling imported car sellers in South Korea, has beaten the world’s No. 1 EV seller Tesla Inc. in the cou...

Hyundai Motor, Toyota compete to take upper hand in Brazil

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and Japan’s No. 1 carmaker Toyota Motor Corp. have been competing for decades to take the ...

Kia streamlines global sales service for EV transition

Kia Corp., a South Korean carmaker under Hyundai Motor Group, has drastically reorganized its global after-sales service operations to offer more sy...