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 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
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
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 Electronics Inc. will roll out its new flagship soundbar system — powered by AI and 15-channel sound — in North America later this mo...
Seoul landmark Donuimun D Tower put up for sale
South Korean real estate firm Mastern Investment Management is set to sell off Donuimun D Tower, a landmark office building in Seoul, for about 900 ...
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 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...
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...
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 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 Inc., a South Korean startup operating the Google-backed learning app Qanda, has released its first study app catering to US university s...
Australian real estate debt, capitalizing on growth: Savills IM
The commercial real estate (CRE) debt market in Australia has grown rapidly over the last decade. According to the Australian Prudential Regulation ...
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...
IGIS Asset Management's controlling stake put on sale
South Korea’s IGIS Asset Management Co., one of the largest real estate firms in Asia, has put the company’s 25% stake plus control prem...
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 Electronics Co. on Wednesday unveiled two new microSD cards boasting high performance and capacity usually found in solid-state drives (SSDs...
NH Investment launches $150 mn real estate fund
South Korea’s NH Investment & Securities Co. said on Wednesday it has launched a 200 billion won ($150 million) real estate fund for insti...
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 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 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
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 Corp., the energy and trading unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Monday it will build new trac...
Hyundai Everdigm enters NA construction machinery market
South Korea’s Hyundai Everdigm Corp. announced on Monday that it has signed a dealership agreement with the US-based heavy equipment special...
KB Kookmin Bank opens KB Prasac Bank in Cambodia
KB Kookmin Bank announced on Monday that it held an opening event for the integrated commercial bank KB Prasac Bank PLC in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on ...
Hyundai to reignite Brazil’s mobility push with $1.1 billion investment
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Friday it will invest $1.1 billion in Brazil to reinvigorate the South American country&...
Defy convention with long-run plans to upvalue Korean stocks
The South Korean stock market has been on an upward swing in recent weeks, with many partly attributing it to President Yoon Suk Yeol’s pledge...
Samsung to unveil Galaxy Fit3 in global market
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will release its new fitness band, the Galaxy Fit3. The device features an expansive 40mm di...
SK Telecom invests in Lambda to foray into AI cloud market
SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said on Wednesday it has invested in Lambda, a graphics processing unit (GPU) cloud prov...
Norway’s prime office value drop hits Korean retail investors
A South Korean real estate fund is set to post a 100% loss as the value of its sole asset, a prime office building wholly leased to Norway’s l...
