China exodus to elevate Korea to Asia hub: AmCham chief

China exodus to elevate Korea to Asia hub: AmCham chief

South Korea has outstripped Hong Kong and Shanghai as a preferred Asia-Pacific headquarters destination for global companies, trailing only Singapor...

IL Science enters UK silicon lens market

IL Science enters UK silicon lens market

South Korea's IL Science Co. said on Monday that it signed a contract with the US-based automotive electronics company Polymer Optics to supply an i...

Samsung tops global soundbar market for 10th consecutive year

Samsung tops global soundbar market for 10th consecutive year

Samsung Electronics Co. has held its ground as the leader in the global soundbar market for ten consecutive years, from 2014 through 2023, according...

Upstage establishes US subsidiary in Silicon Valley

Upstage establishes US subsidiary in Silicon Valley

South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage announced on Monday that it established the US corporation Upstage AI in Silicon Valley, ...

Labor reform urged in Korea with higher wages than Japan

Labor reform urged in Korea with higher wages than Japan

Wages at South Korean companies, both large and small, have surpassed those of their Japanese counterparts.According to a report on wage comparisons...

S.Korea’s Kumho Tire to invest $751 mn to build plant in Europe

S.Korea’s Kumho Tire to invest $751 mn to build plant in Europe

Kumho Tire Co., South Korea’s No. 2 tire maker, plans to invest more than 1 trillion won ($750.8 million) by 2027 to build its first plant in ...

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

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...

Cosmax NBT targets Halal health supplement market

Cosmax NBT targets Halal health supplement market

Cosmax NBT, Inc., a health supplement original development manufacturing (ODM) affiliate of South Korea's Cosmax Group, announced on Friday that it ...

Samsung brings AI tech to its latest TV lineup to rival LG’s OLED TVs

Samsung brings AI tech to its latest TV lineup to rival LG’s OLED TVs

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest TV maker, said on Wednesday it is bringing artificial intelligence technology to its 2024 TV line...

CJ Logistics gets IATA lithium battery transport certification

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...

Hyundai L&C targets US, India with premium finishing material

Hyundai L&C targets US, India with premium finishing material

Hyundai L&C, South Korea’s Hyundai Department Store Group’s building materials unit, said on Tuesday that it will increase the propo...

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

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...

LG invests $60 million in Bear Robotics as robot OS war intensifies

LG invests $60 million in Bear Robotics as robot OS war intensifies

South Korea’s high-tech giant LG Electronics Inc. said on Tuesday it has invested $60 million in Bear Robotics Inc., a Silicon Valley-based se...

Premium children's brands buck falling birth rate in Korea

Premium children's brands buck falling birth rate in Korea

Premium children's clothing and food brands have bucked the economic slowdown in a country grappling with the world’s lowest birth rate as Sou...

Korean real estate firms put up for sale amid lasting market downturn

Korean real estate firms put up for sale amid lasting market downturn

A growing number of private real estate firms are being put up for sale in South Korea amid a prolonged market downturn and increasing delinquencies...

MBK’s Michael ByungJu Kim: Most influential in Korea’s capital market

MBK’s Michael ByungJu Kim: Most influential in Korea’s capital market

Michael ByungJu Kim, co-founder and partner of Northeast Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd., has been chosen as the most influential...

LG’s new AI-controlled soundbar to hit US market in March

LG’s new AI-controlled soundbar to hit US market in March

LG Electronics Inc. will roll out its new flagship soundbar system — powered by AI and 15-channel sound — in North America later this mo...

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

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...

Kia EV9 named UK Car of the Year 2024

Kia EV9 named UK Car of the Year 2024

Kia Corp. 's EV9, the signature large all-electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) of South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, was named the UK Car of the...

KAI to develop future aerial mobility, single-seat aircraft

KAI to develop future aerial mobility, single-seat aircraft

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), the country’s sole military aircraft manufacturer, plans to develop future aerial mobility to secure a ...

LG releases StanbyME speaker in global market

LG releases StanbyME speaker in global market

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday that it released its portable StanbyME speaker in the global market. The StanbyME speaker is dedicated to ...

Mathpresso throws down the gauntlet in US edtech market

Mathpresso throws down the gauntlet in US edtech market

Mathpresso Inc., a South Korean startup operating the Google-backed learning app Qanda, has released its first study app catering to US university s...

Lotte puts Lotte Chemical Titan in Malaysia on market

Lotte puts Lotte Chemical Titan in Malaysia on market

Lotte Chemical Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 petrochemicals company, has embarked on the process of selling its Malaysian unit Lotte Chemical Tit...

Celltrion ships initial supply of Zymfentra to US

Celltrion ships initial supply of Zymfentra to US

South Korea's Celltrion Inc. announced on Wednesday that it shipped the first supply of its subcutaneous injection type of the autoimmune disease tr...

Samsung flexes NAND muscle with high-capacity microSD cards

 Samsung flexes NAND muscle with high-capacity microSD cards

Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday unveiled two new microSD cards boasting high performance and capacity usually found in solid-state drives (SSDs...

S.Korea’s fashion brand Time to debut at Paris Fashion Week

S.Korea’s fashion brand Time to debut at Paris Fashion Week

Time, South Korea’s best-selling women’s fashion brand which is owned by Handsome Corp., will participate in Paris Fashion Week fall/w...

Samsung holds DRAM supremacy with its market share at 7-year high

Samsung holds DRAM supremacy with its market share at 7-year high

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, saw its supremacy in the DRAM segment strengthen last year with its market shar...

Mohegan fuels casino, resort market rivalry in Korea

Mohegan fuels casino, resort market rivalry in Korea

Mohegan Inspire Entertainment Resort on Yeongjong Island, near South Korea’s gateway Incheon International Airport, is attracting throngs of v...

Doosan Enerbility expands metal 3D printing into shipbuilding

Doosan Enerbility expands metal 3D printing into shipbuilding

South Korea’s Doosan Enerbility Co. said on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Pelagus 3D, a Singapore-based p...

POSCO International to build motor core plants in Poland, Mexico

POSCO International to build motor core plants in Poland, Mexico

POSCO International Corp., the energy and trading unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Monday it will build new trac...

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