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Seoul Semiconductor Co., the world’s second-largest light-emitting diode (LED) display maker, won a patent lawsuit in Germany, setting a recor...

Hyundai Oilbank Co. extended a deal with US independent fuel distributor Sunoco LP to export petroleum products to Hawaii as the South Korean refine...

South Korean conglomerates in recent years have ramped up their investment in startups, yielding positive returns. Hyundai Motor Co. Vice Pre...

SEOUL—North Korea unleashed its biggest barrage in years, firing nearly two dozen missiles, including one that flew south of its disputed mari...

Korean Air Lines Co., the country’s flag carrier, plans to bring in new airplanes and spend $1.7 billion on safety measures after a recent spa...

It took a whole year for Domino’s Korea to convince the Michigan-based delivery pizza behemoth for an exemption to its corporate guidance of u...

Samsung Electronics Co. suffered a drop in smartphone shipments during the third quarter on weak demand, adding to concerns over the sector’s ...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is open to new investments in overseas real estate, the pension fund’s American real estate...

South Korea’s Teachers’ Pension (TP) will continue its focus on residential and logistics in global real estate investments next year, t...

Mirae Asset Financial Group is set to chip in some $200 million toward Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. in acquisiti...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-largest foundry company, is set to expand production technology of chips for automobiles, sensors ...

A buyer who works for the men's fashion division of a South Korean department store had trouble sleeping ahead of the fall sale that ran from Sept. ...

South Korea is poised to post a trade deficit for the seventh straight month in October, which would mark the longest period of shortfalls in 25 yea...

South Korea has moved a step closer to achieving a record 28 trillion won ($20 billion) in weapons exports this year, with Hanwha Defense Co. clinch...

The South Korean state-run National Pension Service (NPS) has been spotted selling dollars for won, supporting the ailing local unit, as the world&r...

South Korea, the world’s largest shipbuilding country, will expand its production of high-value-added specialized vessels, such as liquefied h...

CHANGWON, South Gyeongsang Province -- General Motors Co. may consider making electric vehicles in South Korea, the country manager said on Wednesda...

POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., is looking to forge a long-term contract to supply cathode, a key...

Samsung Asset Management Co., South Korea’s largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) manager, will focus on global, active and bond-type ETFs, as we...

POSCO Group, the world’s sixth-largest steelmaker, broke ground on Friday for a high-purity nickel refining plant in South Korea to meet risin...

South Korean biopharmaceutical firms are facing challenges in clinical trials overseas alongside the rising Korean won to the US dollar exchange rat...

The Inflation Reduction Act provides a plethora of subsidies to boost domestic manufacturing for goods that help combat climate change. Tweaks to ...

Renowned artificial intelligence (AI) scholar Masashi Sugiyama said his research goal is to develop AI that can work and learn alongside people.Su...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven translation has been dominated by big tech.Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC is the global leader while Naver Cor...

South Korea’s online portal giant Naver Corp. is poised to hire an investor relations (IR) executive whose chief responsibility will be to com...

NEW YORK – Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) will significantly influence a wide range of industries as millions of global investors flock to th...

A South Korean court judged that Bitcoin, the world’s leading virtual currency, is not money and therefore the cryptocurrency is not subject t...

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it will significantly raise the use of locally produced neon, a ...

Celltrion Inc., South Korea’s biopharmaceutical giant, made a foray into the digital healthcare sector for its future growth by launching a sm...

NEW YORK – The chief executive officer of Naver Cloud Park Won-ki said that if South Korean startups using the company’s cloud services ...