SK expands sustainable food biz with $7.5 mn US investment

SK expands sustainable food biz with $7.5 mn US investment

SK Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, has expanded its sustainable food business by investing in a US-bas...

Hanwha Q CELLS to join EU project for cutting-edge solar batteries

Hanwha Q CELLS to join EU project for cutting-edge solar batteries

Hanwha Q CELLS Co. on Thursday said it will join an R&D project for next-generation solar cells that has received 15 million euros (around 20 bi...

Korea Zinc exchanges treasury shares with LG Chem, Hanwha Corp.

Korea Zinc exchanges treasury shares with LG Chem, Hanwha Corp.

Korea Zinc Co. will exchange part of its treasury shares with those of LG Chem Ltd. and Hanwha Corp. in a move seen to strengthen the secondary batt...

Korea's KDB to sell off its life insurer for fifth time

Korea's KDB to sell off its life insurer for fifth time

South Korea’s state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) is poised to accelerate the selling off of its affiliate KDB Life Insurance Co. next week...

Lotte to replace construction unit CEO due to liquidity crisis

Lotte to replace construction unit CEO due to liquidity crisis

Lotte Group will replace the head of its construction unit, hit by a liquidity crisis stemming from project financing, to ease investor concerns ove...

Eugene Group, Stonebridge Capital mull logistics firm Mesh acquisition

Eugene Group, Stonebridge Capital mull logistics firm Mesh acquisition

South Korean conglomerate Eugene Group, one of the largest construction materials suppliers in the country, is planning to acquire local logistics c...

Hyundai Glovis joins hands with Lion Group to move into Malaysian logistics market (edited)

Hyundai Glovis joins hands with Lion Group to move into Malaysian logistics market (edited)

Hyundai Glovis will enter the Southeast Asian logistics market in partnership with a large Malaysian company. The company, Hyundai Motor Group's log...

Hyundai Glovis, Malaysia’s Lion Group to enter ASEAN logistics market

 Hyundai Glovis, Malaysia’s Lion Group to enter ASEAN logistics market

Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, said on Wednesday it has signed an initial agreement with Malaysi...

CJ CheilJedang rebrands porridge line as Hetbahn Soft Meal

CJ CheilJedang rebrands porridge line as Hetbahn Soft Meal

CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced Wednesday it has changed the name of its line of porridge products from Bibigo Jook to Hetbahn Soft Meal. CJ Het...

S.Korea's Iljin Group halts sale of its display maker

S.Korea's Iljin Group halts sale of its display maker

South Korea’s Iljin Display Co. has suspended procedures of selling its 43.19% stake with management rights, the junior bourse Kosdaq-listed d...

Saudi crown prince to meet Korean business leaders in Seoul

Saudi crown prince to meet Korean business leaders in Seoul

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is known to be planning meetings with leaders of major South Korean conglomerates, including S...

LG Uplus, Hyundai Motor Group in connected car service deal

LG Uplus, Hyundai Motor Group in connected car service deal

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, will supply exclusive wireless communications services to Hyundai Motor Group for ...

Korea's Walkerhill Hotels and Resorts posts 1st surplus in 11 quarters

Korea's Walkerhill Hotels and Resorts posts 1st surplus in 11 quarters

South Korea's Walkerhill Hotels and Resorts, run by SK Networks, has returned to the black after two years and nine months thanks to growth in the n...

CJ CheilJedang to strengthen R&D for bio and healthcare businesses

CJ CheilJedang to strengthen R&D for bio and healthcare businesses

CJ Corp. announced it will strengthen its research and development (R&D) efforts in the bio and healthcare sectors. CJ CheilJedang Corp. ...

Hanwha E&C to expand offshore wind power business

Hanwha E&C to expand offshore wind power business

South Korea's Hanwha Engineering and Construction (E&C) on Tuesday concluded a business agreement on joint development of offshore wind power in...

Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Group’s cash cow, set for record 2022 earnings

Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Group’s cash cow, set for record 2022 earnings

Doosan Bobcat, the construction and agricultural machine making affiliate of South Korea’s Doosan Group, is poised to join the “one tril...

SK Biopharmaceuticals to make CES debut in January

SK Biopharmaceuticals to make CES debut in January

SK Biopharmaceuticals will take part in CES 2023, the world's largest trade show for IT and electronics held in Las Vegas, to unveil its medical dev...

Korea's Meritz Group likely to sell off its asset management arm

Korea's Meritz Group likely to sell off its asset management arm

South Korea’s Meritz Financial Group Inc. is poised to sell off its subsidiary Meritz Asset Management Co., The Korea Economic Daily understoo...

What is a smart city? Hyundai Motor Group has a few ideas

What is a smart city? Hyundai Motor Group has a few ideas

Hyundai Motor Group on Monday released the results of its research project for smart cities in an online exhibition.In collaboration with the firm H...

Jay Y. Lee inaugurated as chairman of Samsung Electronics

Jay Y. Lee inaugurated as chairman of Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co.'s leader Jay Y. Lee was promoted as the company's chairman on Oct. 27.Samsung Electronics' board of directors approved the a...

CJ Group reshuffles CEOs with woman at helm of Olive Young

CJ Group reshuffles CEOs with woman at helm of Olive Young

South Korea’s CJ Group carried out a CEO and executive reshuffle on Oct. 24 around two months earlier than previous year-end promotions to imp...

Carlyle, GS Group to buy Korean dental scanner maker

Carlyle, GS Group to buy Korean dental scanner maker

US private equity giant The Carlyle Group and South Korean energy-to-retail conglomerate GS Group will acquire Medit Corp., the world’s third-...

Goldman taps TPG Korea's Lee as Seoul office PE head

Goldman taps TPG Korea's Lee as Seoul office PE head

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is set to hire Lee Seung-june, managing director at US investment firm TPG's Seoul office, as Goldman Sachs' private equity...

Korea eyes $20 bn in weapons exports as Hanwha inks $6 bn Polish deal

Korea eyes $20 bn in weapons exports as Hanwha inks $6 bn Polish deal

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...

Poland poised to buy Hanwha’s multiple rocket launchers

Poland poised to buy Hanwha’s multiple rocket launchers

Poland is on the verge of buying additional artillery rocket systems developed by Hanwha Defense Co., following a string of weapons purchase agreeme...

Lab-grown fish, smart pillow: LG’s choices for future

Lab-grown fish, smart pillow: LG’s choices for future

Startups making lab-cultured seafood, smart pillows and others showcased their innovative products at an exhibition hosted by LG Group, South Korea&...

Hansol Group, KAIST to launch new tech, AI research center

Hansol Group, KAIST to launch new tech, AI research center

South Korea’s Hansol Group and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have agreed to establish a research center to de...

Hanwha Group needs to stay innovative to succeed, CEO says

Hanwha Group needs to stay innovative to succeed, CEO says

South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group needs to look ahead and prepare for the next century, its Chairman and CEO Kim Se...

Hanwha E&C abandons Bismayah project in Iraq; $581 mn loss expected

Hanwha E&C abandons Bismayah project in Iraq; $581 mn loss expected

South Korean builder Hanwha Engineering & Construction Co. has aborted a $10 billion project to build a Bismayah new city in Iraq after failing ...

KT rebrands Olleh TV as Genie TV to transform into media portal

KT rebrands Olleh TV as Genie TV to transform into media portal

South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp. is rebranding its IPTV service Olleh TV as Genie TV as part of its efforts to transform into a media port...

S.Korean game developer Krafton acquires Japan’s ADK for $517 million S.Korea's stablecoin frenzy fuels stock rally despite regulatory uncertainty SK Hynix joins Samsung in 200 trillion won market cap club Samsung on hiring spree to bolster US foundry sales LS Electric poised to join Nvidia's supply chain via Vertiv deal