Samyang secures contract for supplying filler with Chinese company

Samyang secures contract for supplying filler with Chinese company

South Korea's Samyang Holdings announced on Thursday that it has signed a partnership agreement with Hangzhou Yxintent, a Chinese medical device a...

MBK Partners puts Korea’s largest golf course operator on market

MBK Partners puts Korea’s largest golf course operator on market

North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners has put Golfzon County Co., the biggest golf course operator in South Korea, on sale at an estim...

Naver’s search engine dominance under siege as Google, MS advance

Naver’s search engine dominance under siege as Google, MS advance

South Korea’s online portal Naver Corp., the undisputed search engine leader in the domestic market for decades, is under siege as global Big ...

Korean biodiesel firm Dansuk sets sights on battery recycling business

Korean biodiesel firm Dansuk sets sights on battery recycling business

KUNSAN, North Jeolla Province – Dansuk Industrial Co., a South Korean fine chemical company, has for decades produced polyvinyl chloride (PVC)...

CrystalGenomics to sell largest 20% stake to Invites Healthcare for $44 mn

 CrystalGenomics to sell largest 20% stake to Invites Healthcare for $44 mn

CrystalGenomics Inc., South Korea’s first-generation biopharma venture company, will sell new shares worth 58 billion won ($44 million) in a b...

Korea's two ride hailing apps to merge in H1, become top operator

Korea's two ride hailing apps to merge in H1, become top operator

South Korea’s ride hailing apps TADA and i.M are set to complete their merger as early as the first half of this year, aiming to become the co...

Samsung SDS bolsters Cello Square with tech upgrades, global push

 Samsung SDS bolsters Cello Square with tech upgrades, global push

Samsung SDS Co., the information technology service unit under Samsung Group, has upgraded its digital forwarding freight service platform to bring ...

Mirae Asset Securities acquires European ETF market maker GHCO

Mirae Asset Securities acquires European ETF market maker GHCO

Mirae Asset Securities UK, the UK corporation of South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities, announced on Monday that it has acquired GHCO, a market-makin...

LG Chem aims higher for battery materials with diverse portfolio

LG Chem aims higher for battery materials with diverse portfolio

South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. on Tuesday revised up its 2030 sales goal for battery materials by 45% after it delivered stronger-than-expected re...

Samsung Engineering, OMV sign agreement for modular project

Samsung Engineering, OMV sign agreement for modular project

South Korea's Samsung Engineering has partnered with global integrated energy company OMV for project collaboration. Samsung Engineering announced T...

LS Electric to unveil eco-friendly smart energy techs in Vietnam

LS Electric to unveil eco-friendly smart energy techs in Vietnam

South Korea's LS Electric Co. announced on Monday its participation in the highly anticipated "Electric Energy Show 2023" to be held in Hanoi, Vietn...

Jang Se-joo returns as Dongkuk chairman, launches holding firm

Jang Se-joo returns as Dongkuk chairman, launches holding firm

Jang Se-joo, former chairman of South Korea’s Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., has returned to the top post after an eight-year hiatus as the steelmake...

KEPCO vows to save $19 bn in 5 yrs; CEO offers to resign over swelling losses

KEPCO vows to save $19 bn in 5 yrs; CEO offers to resign over swelling losses

South Korea’s state-run utility monopoly Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) on Friday vowed to save nearly 26 trillion won ($19.5 billion) ove...

US eyes new rules for Samsung, SK to bring chip machines to China

US eyes new rules for Samsung, SK to bring chip machines to China

The US government is considering establishing new rules for South Korea’s chipmakers to import advanced equipment to China to upgrade their fa...

Mirae Asset Securities joins Singapore Exchange's trading membership

Mirae Asset Securities joins Singapore Exchange's trading membership

South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities has made history as the first Korean financial investment firm to join the Singapore Exchange's (SGX) trading...

S.Korean startups eye on Southeast Asia as promising market

S.Korean startups eye on Southeast Asia as promising market

SINGAPORE - Southeast Asia with a youth population constituting about one-third of the region’s total population and surging internet penetrat...

Samsung vetoes Broadcom's proposed measures to avoid Korean penalties

Samsung vetoes Broadcom's proposed measures to avoid Korean penalties

Samsung Electronics Co. and other South Korean tech companies opposed measures proposed by Broadcom Inc. to avoid penalties by the country’s a...

Merck to build biopharma raw material plant in Korea

Merck to build biopharma raw material plant in Korea

Global pharmaceutical company Merck is considering a plan to establish a biopharmaceutical raw material production facility in Daejeon.South Korean ...

S.Korea’s four firms to develop domestic tech for carbon capture

S.Korea’s four firms to develop domestic tech for carbon capture

South Korea's shipbuilding and shipping companies, including HMM Co., Samsung Heavy Industries, marine equipment manufacturer Panasia and the ship i...

Kakao Healthcare teams up with US digital, biohealth firms

Kakao Healthcare teams up with US digital, biohealth firms

Kakao Healthcare, a digital healthcare platform unit of South Korea's Kakao Group, has teamed up with US digital and health companies such as DexCom...

DevSisters starts pre-booking Cookie Run: Kingdom in China

DevSisters starts pre-booking Cookie Run: Kingdom in China

South Korean game developer DevSisters Corp. announced on Friday that its globally popular mobile game "Cookie Run: Kingdom" has opened pre-registra...

PwC’s S.Korean member to focus on SE Asia acquisition deals

PwC’s S.Korean member to focus on SE Asia acquisition deals

Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers, the South Korean member firm of global accounting industry leader PwC, aims to focus on overseas acquisition deals of ...

Korea's Kakao Pay to buy 51% of US financial firm Siebert

Korea's Kakao Pay to buy 51% of US financial firm Siebert

Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment and digital wallet service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., announced on Thursday it has signed an a...

S.Korea gov’t hosts sales event for domestic, US SMEs

S.Korea gov’t hosts sales event for domestic, US SMEs

South Korean small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) expanded their exchange and cooperation with US firms during President Yoon Suk yeol's state...

In South Korea, innovation is subject to regulatory approval

In South Korea, innovation is subject to regulatory approval

In a country like South Korea with few natural resources to run its economy, innovations or brilliant business ideas are crucial to its survival.It ...

POSCO Future M to inject $461 mn to bulk up cathode production

POSCO Future M to inject $461 mn to bulk up cathode production

POSCO Future M Co., a unit of South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Monday it has decided to invest 614.8 billion won ($460.5 millio...

LG Electronics to bolster B2B to transform into software company

LG Electronics to bolster B2B to transform into software company

LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s home appliance giant, will expedite its push to transform from a white goods manufacturer into a digital so...

Samsung Life buys 20% of French asset manager Meridiam

Samsung Life buys 20% of French asset manager Meridiam

Samsung Life Insurance, managing 223.1 trillion won ($167.5 billion) in assets, has acquired a 20% stake in Paris-based infrastructure investment fi...

Lotte Biologics invests in S.Korean bio-venture Pinotbio

Lotte Biologics invests in S.Korean bio-venture Pinotbio

South Korea’s Lotte Biologics Co. said on Friday that it has made an equity investment in Pinotbio, Inc. for the development of antibody-drug ...

Glenwood files $40 mn arbitration claim against Baring PEA

Glenwood files $40 mn arbitration claim against Baring PEA

Glenwood Private Equity has filed an arbitration claim of about 50 billion won ($40 million) against Baring Private Equity Asia (Baring PEA), after ...

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