SK Chemicals to show eco-friendly cosmetic containers in China

SK Chemicals to show eco-friendly cosmetic containers in China

South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. will participate in the China Beauty Expo 2023, hold in Shanghai, China, from May 12 for three days. This event is ...

S.Korea’s beauty brand Laneige enters UK, Middle East market

S.Korea’s beauty brand Laneige enters UK, Middle East market

Amorepacific Corp.'s cosmetic brand Laneige announced on Tuesday that it is accelerating its global business expansion by entering the UK and Middle...

Amorepacific chairman's 2nd daughter emerges as 3rd-largest shareholder

 Amorepacific chairman's 2nd daughter emerges as 3rd-largest shareholder

Amorepacific Group, South Korea’s cosmetic giant, announced on Thursday that Chairman Suh Kyung-bae has donated a 2.5% stake to his second dau...

Gucci picks Korean royal palace for 2024 collection

Gucci picks Korean royal palace for 2024 collection

Seoul is emerging as a new venue for global luxury brands’ fight for pride, with Louis Vuitton and Gucci set to unveil their new fashion colle...

LG H&H hosts Korean Royal Court Culture event with Four Seasons Seoul

LG H&H hosts Korean Royal Court Culture event with Four Seasons Seoul

South Korea's major consumer goods company LG H&H Co. announced on Thursday that its cosmetics brand, The History of Whoo, hosts an event called...

CJ Olive Young introduces Beauty Box filled with K-beauty products

CJ Olive Young introduces Beauty Box filled with K-beauty products

South Korea's health and beauty store chain operator CJ Olive Young Co. announced on Thursday that it will introduce its K-beauty curation service c...

S.Korea's Amorepacific opens new space in metaverse

S.Korea's Amorepacific opens new space in metaverse

Amidst the accelerated entry of fashion and beauty brands into the metaverse to seize future opportunities, Amorepacific Corp. has also joined the b...

F&F bets on China's beauty market under MLB brand

F&F bets on China's beauty market under MLB brand

F&F Co., a South Korean retailer of Western brands such as Major League Baseball (MLB), has been rapidly penetrating China's cosmetics market, w...

CGBio opens cosmetic surgery clinic in Bali using bio-medical tech

 CGBio opens cosmetic surgery clinic in Bali using bio-medical tech

CGBio, a South Korean bio-renewable medical company, announced on Monday that it opened a medical esthetic clinic, called Nulook, in Bali, Indonesia...

S.Korean firms with focus on emerging Asia to shine

S.Korean firms with focus on emerging Asia to shine

South Korean companies with a large proportion of sales to emerging Asia are expected to shine in the stock market this year as their revenue from t...

S.Korea's Samsung C&T wins 2023 Asia Design Prize

S.Korea's Samsung C&T wins 2023 Asia Design Prize

On Monday, Samsung C&T Corp.'s construction division announced that Dongrae Raemian iPark in Busan, South Korea, a project in which it participa...

Olive Young exports K-beauty products to Middle East

Olive Young exports K-beauty products to Middle East

Olive Young, a health and beauty platform, has begun targeting the Middle Eastern cosmetics market.South Korea's CJ Olive Young, which operates Oliv...

Cosmax to make inroads into Japanese market in earnest

Cosmax to make inroads into Japanese market in earnest

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's cosmetics original design manufacturing (ODM) company, said on Thursday that it would start targeting the Japanese market...

Cosmax shows off advanced beauty tech at CES with Seoul Nat'l Univ.

Cosmax shows off advanced beauty tech at CES with Seoul Nat'l Univ.

Cosmax, a cosmetics original design manufacturer (ODM) of South Korea, said on Tuesday that it unveiled the beauty technology developed jointly ...

CJ CheilJedang develops biodegradable cosmetic containers

CJ CheilJedang develops biodegradable cosmetic containers

CJ CheilJedang Corp. said on Thursday that it has applied a biodegradable container developed from a composite material mixed with PHA (polyhydroxya...

Shinsegae Int'l secures domestic sales rights for Italian brand Davines

Shinsegae Int'l secures domestic sales rights for Italian brand Davines

South Korea's fashion retail giant Shinsegae International on Monday said it has acquired the domestic rights to sell the Italian haircare brand Dav...

Shilla Duty Free offers metaverse Gucci Beauty class

Shilla Duty Free offers metaverse Gucci Beauty class

Shilla Duty Free, Korea's leading duty-free shop chain, is opening a metaverse beauty class in collaboration with Gucci Beauty.The company will intr...

Coupang launches Rocket Fashion Growth division to beef up fashion retail

Coupang launches Rocket Fashion Growth division to beef up fashion retail

Coupang, Inc. recently established the Rocket Growth Fashion division, according to industry insiders on Monday. As the name suggests, the team...

Vietnamese MZers ensnared by K-beauty, K-fashion, K-everything

Vietnamese MZers ensnared by K-beauty, K-fashion, K-everything

HANOI – Vietnam’s young people are avid fans of Korean culture, collectively known as Hallyu. Trang, a 21-year-old college student, is o...

Gucci to hold Alessandro Michele-directed show at Korean royal palace

Gucci to hold Alessandro Michele-directed show at Korean royal palace

Italian luxury fashion house Gucci will hold a fashion show choreographed by its famous creative director Alessandro Michele at a South Korean royal...

Kolmar Korea to enter $22 billion UAE Halal cosmetics market

Kolmar Korea to enter $22 billion UAE Halal cosmetics market

Kolmar Korea Co., a supplier to global cosmetics brands such as Estee Lauder, is set to enter the 30 trillion won ($22 billion) Halal beauty market ...

Korea’s top beauty chain CJ Olive Young puts IPO on hold

Korea’s top beauty chain CJ Olive Young puts IPO on hold

CJ Olive Young, South Korea’s top beauty store chain, has suspended its process to seek a stock market listing, becoming the latest major loca...

China's lockdown slams Korean beauty giants' Q2 earnings

China's lockdown slams Korean beauty giants' Q2 earnings

South Korea’s two major cosmetics firms, Amorepacific Corp. and LG H&H Co., posted their second-quarter earnings heavily impacted by Chi...

Korean beauty brands rush for vegan certification

Korean beauty brands rush for vegan certification

As more consumers seek out eco-friendly products, a growing number of South Korean cosmetics brands are in a hurry to be certified as vegan.With lab...

K-beauty sales see sharp drop at China's major shopping event

K-beauty sales see sharp drop at China's major shopping event

South Korean cosmetics giants failed to win over Chinese consumers at the 618 Shopping Festival, one of the largest online annual shopping events in...

K-beauty makers focus on US as China business slows

K-beauty makers focus on US as China business slows

South Korea’s major cosmetics makers are trying to lure more customers in North America as the K-beauty boom has been weakening in China, the ...

Lotte to end dawn delivery service where Coupang, Kurly lead

Lotte to end dawn delivery service where Coupang, Kurly lead

South Korea’s retail giant Lotte Group will cease dawn delivery services for fresh food from this weekend, two years after it jumped into the ...

Goldman exits Korean beauty startup without profit

Goldman exits Korean beauty startup without profit

Goldman Sachs has divested of its stake worth 75 billion won ($62 million) in South Korea's cosmetics startup GP Club Co. without a profit due to de...

Gucci to open world’s fourth Osteria restaurant in Seoul

Gucci to open world’s fourth Osteria restaurant in Seoul

Seoulites are set to enjoy Gucci’s fine-dining experience from later this month.The Italian luxury fashion house said on Wednesday it will ope...

K-beauty vegan rebel Dear Dahlia in Paris' Galeries Lafayette

K-beauty vegan rebel Dear Dahlia in Paris' Galeries Lafayette

South Korean cosmetics brand Dear Dahlia successfully opened a boutique in Europe’s largest department store in 2019 – just two years ...

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