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Korea’s leading firms across multiple industries, from consumer electronics to agricultural equipment, are widening the use of edge computing ...

A consortium led by South Korea’s GS Group is in talks to acquire a controlling stake in Hugel Inc., the country’s top maker of botulinu...

Samsung Life Insurance Co. has drawn attention from South Korean pension and savings funds with its $90 million purchase last month of a stake in Sa...

The world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker KT&G Corporation is rapidly widening the global reach of its e-cigarette products, which have beco...

SK Group has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality prior to 2050, the year set by the United Nations (UN) to reach net-zero carbon emissions globally...

South Korea’s chemicals and industrial materials maker Kolon Industries Inc. have added another 15,000 tons of annual capacity in its hydrocar...

Japan’s Honda Motor Co. has announced it is exiting the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle market, leaving Toyota Motor Corp. and South Korea’s ...

South Korea’s capital Seoul will be finally hosting the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in August 2022, with BTS as the global ambassador...

GS Group has become South Korea’s first business group to purchase carbon-neutral crude oil, in a move to strengthen its ESG efforts.South Kor...

Coupang Corp. has executed changes in leadership roles to focus more on overseas ventures. The company has entered Japan and Singapore this year. So...

South Korea’s leading oil and gas company GS Energy Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of GS Holdings, and Spain’s largest utility company...

The telecom companies in South Korea, one after another, are taking bold steps outside their traditional turf of mobile business.  They are eng...

South Korea-based Brave Mobile Inc., the operator of service matching platform Soomgo, has secured 32 billion won ($28.6 million) in a Series C fund...

The global webtoon battleground between South Korea's leading platforms Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp. has expanded into Southeast Asia with each compa...

South Korea's Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) has abandoned its onsite only due diligence requirements on alternative deals in an effort...

Hyundai Motor Group and three other South Korean conglomerates have agreed to launch an industry-wide consultative body on hydrogen, underscoring an...

Samsung SDI Co., one of South Korea’s top three electric vehicle battery makers, is considering launching a battery production joint venture i...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. has begun the official process of South Korea’s largest-ever initial public offering that is expected to raise over 10...

HYBE Co., the global entertainment powerhouse behind BTS, has successfully closed its previously announced rights offering to raise 445.5 billion wo...

South Korea’s major conglomerates SK Group and Lotte Group have joined hands to strengthen their foothold in the fast-growing hydrogen sector....

Global auto companies are moving forward with their electric vehicle (EV) and other future mobility initiatives as the global semiconductor shortage...

McDonald’s has launched The BTS Meal on May 26 in the first selected group of 12 markets including Brazil, Canada and the US. The BTS meal is ...

LG Chem Ltd. suffered a broad sell-off on May 26, with more than 4 trillion won ($3.6 billion) of its market cap vanishing in a single trading day, ...

SK Innovation Co. signed an agreement on May 26 to participate in South Korea's first government-led project to develop carbon capture and storage (...

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has unveiled an upgraded version of its fuel cell truck XCIENT, turning up the heat on rivals in...

South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae Group is strengthening its luxury hotel business with the grand opening of Josun Palace in the Gangnam ne...

Early this month, when Anchor Equity Partners was in intense negotiations with Kakao Corp. over the terms of its 600 billion won ($530 million) inve...

Samsung Group, Hyundai Motor Group, SK Group and LG Group, companies unofficially accompanying South Korean President Moon Jae-in on his state visit...

As smartphones have become essential to everyday life, chat fiction -- storytelling in the form of fictional text messaging -- has become popular am...

South Korea's Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS), Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) and Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) ar...