Kolon Ind expands tire cord fabric plant in Vietnam

Kolon Ind expands tire cord fabric plant in Vietnam

Kolon Industries Inc. has expanded the capacity of its polyester tire cord fabric plant in Vietnam, the South Korean company said on Wednesday.The f...

Aircraft maker KAI: Hanwha Group's new M&A target?

Aircraft maker KAI: Hanwha Group's new M&A target?

Hanwha Group’s agreement to buy a controlling stake in Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) Co. for 2 trillion won ($1.4 billio...

Court clears way for Hahn & Co.'s Namyang Dairy deal

Court clears way for Hahn & Co.'s Namyang Dairy deal

Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. has won a legal battle against South Korea’s Namyang Dairy Products Co.’s owner family, w...

Hyundai Heavy to adopt Palantir's big data platform

Hyundai Heavy to adopt Palantir's big data platform

South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Group said on Wednesday that it has signed a contract with Palantir Technologies Inc., a US data analyt...

NCSOFT publishes three AI academic papers at INTERSPEECH 2022 

NCSOFT publishes three AI academic papers at INTERSPEECH 2022 

South Korea’s gaming giant NCSOFT Corp. will present three academic papers at INTERSPEECH 2022, the world’s largest and most comprehensi...

Samsung family’s shareholdings shrink by $8 bn in one year

Samsung family’s shareholdings shrink by $8 bn in one year

Samsung Group’s four heirs to the late Chairman Lee Kun-hee have seen their group company shareholdings shrink by a combined 11 trillion won (...

Hanjin KAL loses one-third of value as management issues fade

Hanjin KAL loses one-third of value as management issues fade

Shares in South Korea’s Hanjin KAL Co. have wiped out one-third of its value in the past two weeks after one of its major shareholders, once a...

Nexon late founder’s family inherits all his shares

Nexon late founder’s family inherits all his shares

The wife and two daughters of Nexon’s late founder Kim Jung-ju have inherited all his shares in the game developer’s holding company NXC...

Meet Wall St. thought leaders at Hankyung conference in NYC

Meet Wall St. thought leaders at Hankyung conference in NYC

The Korea Economic Daily (KED) is hosting a global financial conference for Korean investors in the heart of New York City in October, where top Wal...

Hyundai Motor, KT in $540 million share swap deal for future mobility

Hyundai Motor, KT in $540 million share swap deal for future mobility

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and telecom giant KT Corp. have agreed to expand their future mobility partnership through a 750 billion won...

KKR, Anchor Equity tipped to exit from TMON in 7 yrs

KKR, Anchor Equity tipped to exit from TMON in 7 yrs

KKR & Co. and Anchor Equity Partners have tentatively agreed to sell their majority stake in South Korea’s e-commerce player TMON Inc. to ...

Kurly, Golfzon get preliminary nod for 2022 IPOs

Kurly, Golfzon get preliminary nod for 2022 IPOs

Gourmet food delivery platform Kurly and Golfzon County have won preliminary approval for their initial public offerings set for this year.The Korea...

Kakao ends talks with MBK to sell mobility app stake

Kakao ends talks with MBK to sell mobility app stake

South Korea's Kakao Corp. has terminated talks with MBK Partners to sell a stake in Kakao Mobility Corp., the country’s No. 1 taxi-hailing app...

Taekwang’s first loss in a decade dampens outlook

Taekwang’s first loss in a decade dampens outlook

Taekwang Industrial Co., a South Korean petrochemical and textile company, reported its first quarterly loss in 10 years amid weakness in its key bu...

POSCO Int'l to absorb energy unit to move up E&P value chain

POSCO Int'l to absorb energy unit to move up E&P value chain

POSCO International Corp., the trading unit of Korean steel giant POSCO, will merge with its unlisted affiliate POSCO Energy Co. to reinforce its en...

Mobility platform Socar slashes price to push ahead with IPO

Mobility platform Socar slashes price to push ahead with IPO

South Korea’s first mobility unicorn Socar Inc. has cut its IPO price by 18% to push ahead with its stock market debut, according to industry ...

It's time for individual investors to bet on stocks: Carlyle's David Rubenstein

It's time for individual investors to bet on stocks: Carlyle's David Rubenstein

  A lot of stock investors have jumped into the bullish market in recent years. But global inflation and recession appear as threats to invest...

Korean snack shares surge, Beijing halts baked goods imports from Taiwan

Korean snack shares surge, Beijing halts baked goods imports from Taiwan

Shares of South Korean confectionery and packaged snack makers skyrocketed after the Chinese government announced its decision to temporarily halt t...

SK Nexilis to unveil ultra-high strength EV battery copper foil

SK Nexilis to unveil ultra-high strength EV battery copper foil

SK Nexilis Co., a unit of South Korean chemical materials maker SKC Ltd., has developed technology to mass produce ultra-high strength copper foil, ...

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...

Hyundai Doosan Infracore declares 1st cash dividend in 14 years

Hyundai Doosan Infracore declares 1st cash dividend in 14 years

Hyundai Doosan Infracore Co., a South Korean construction equipment company, will pay dividends to its shareholders for the first time in 14 years.A...

S.Korean defense stocks boosted by $7.6 bn deal with Poland

S.Korean defense stocks boosted by $7.6 bn deal with Poland

South Korean defense stocks got a boost from a 10 trillion-won ($7.6 billion) export deal with Poland announced last week. Korea Aerospa...

Korean smartphone parts makers' stocks rebound in July

Korean smartphone parts makers' stocks rebound in July

South Korea’s smartphone parts makers' shares are showing signs of a rebound following a steady decline since early this year. China’s s...

POSCO Holdings Q2 profit down on higher raw material costs

POSCO Holdings Q2 profit down on higher raw material costs

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s steel giant, reported a lower profit in the second quarter on rising raw material pr...

SK Square makes its first exit seeking new target firms

SK Square makes its first exit seeking new target firms

South Korean investment firm SK Square Co. has sold all of its shares in Korean biotech NanoEntek Inc., a 28.4% stake, for 58 billion won ($44.3 mil...

Korea’s Cosmax to shut Ohio plant to cut losses; shares up

Korea’s Cosmax to shut Ohio plant to cut losses; shares up

Cosmax Inc., a major South Korean original design manufacturer (ODM) for L'Oréal and other global cosmetics giants, plans to shut its loss-ma...

Korea’s HMM to invest $11 bn in ships, eco-friendly fuels

Korea’s HMM to invest $11 bn in ships, eco-friendly fuels

South Korea’s largest container line HMM Co. is set to spend 15 trillion won ($11.4 billion) by 2026 to diversify business amid the volatility...

The case for improved Seoul-Tokyo relations

The case for improved Seoul-Tokyo relations

Unlike the West or China, which showed vastly different reactions, most South Koreans had a more complicated initial response to the news of forme...

Naver executives’ treasury share sale may signal business slowdown

Naver executives’ treasury share sale may signal business slowdown

Executives at South Korea’s platform giant Naver Corp. are selling their shares in the company, an indication that the company’s busines...

YG's share price surges 6.3% on news of Blackpink’s album release, concert 

YG's share price surges 6.3% on news of Blackpink’s album release, concert 

Shares of major K-pop label YG Entertainment Inc. finished Wednesday's trade 6% higher at 48,950 won ($37.52) a share, on news of Blackpink’s ...

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