Hyundai Elevator to compete in Indonesian smart city projects

Hyundai Elevator Co. said on Wednesday that it will join a South Korean government-led team to bid for smart city projects in Indonesia, where the c...

Lotte Fine Chemical, OCI Global join hands for clean ammonia business

Lotte Fine Chemical Co., a subsidiary of Lotte Chemical Corp., and Europe’s No.1 clean ammonia producer OCI N.V., or OCI Global, will collabor...

Hyundai Asan to sell $30.7 million worth of shares for capital restructuring

Hyundai Asan Co. under South Korean conglomerate Hyundai Group will raise 40 billion won ($30.7 million) in its seventh share sale since it was forc...

Samsung Electronics establishes new LSI chip research center in Japan

Samsung Electronics Co. has established a new semiconductor research center in Japan, combining two existing research and development institutes int...

S.Korean biotech NKMax’s unit aims for US IPO

NKMax Co., a South Korean cancer drug maker, is in talks with local and foreign investors in a bid to list its California-based unit NKGen Biotech I...

S.Korea's mattress maker Zinus posts record domestic sales in 2022

Zinus Inc., the mattress-making affiliate of South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Group, on Monday reported record-high domestic sales last year o...

Samsung suspends business with select software partner companies

Samsung Electronics Co. has recently “suspended transactions” with select software partner companies through regular auditing, with arou...

Apple Pay to launch in South Korea on March 21

Apple's mobile payment service, Apple Pay, is set to launch domestically in South Korea on March 21, according to industry sources on Monday.With th...

Governor of Louisiana visits Kumho Tire HQ in Seoul

South Korea's leading tire manufacturer Kumho Tire Co., Inc. announced on Monday that Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards visited its headquarters i...

S.Korea's Krafton, Naver to set up JV for metaverse services in H1

Krafton Inc., a leading game developer in South Korea, is slated to establish a joint venture with Naver Z Corp., a metaverse unit of the country&rs...

Hyundai to boost India presence via takeover of GM plant

Hyundai Motor Co., the leading South Korean carmaker, is set to expand its presence in India with a takeover of General Motors Co.’s plant in ...

Hahn & Co. puts SK Shipping’s tanker business up for sale

South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Co. is seeking to sell SK Shipping Co.’s tanker division, a business widely seen as the breadwinne...

Kakao, HYBE shares rally on reconciliation but SM shares tank

Investors welcomed the end of a fierce month-long battle between HYBE Co. and Kakao Corp. over control of South Korea’s K-pop pioneer SM Enter...

Hankook Tire halts fire-hit Korean plant, threatens a fifth of global capacity

South Korea’s top tire maker Hankook Tire & Technology Co. shut down a local production complex on Sunday due to a fire, stoking concerns ...

SK Chemicals, Yonwoo to develop eco-friendly cosmetic containers

South Korean chemical company SK Chemicals and Yonwoo Co., a subsidiary of Kolmar Korea, which is a leading domestic cosmetic container manufacturer...

LG Chem mulls shuttering in-vitro diagnostics business

LG Chem Ltd. is considering an exit from the in-vitro diagnostics market to focus more on novel drug development as it lagged its smaller local riva...

Samsung SDS to offer customized cloud services

Samsung SDS Co. is ready to offer easy-to-use, customized cloud storage services to help its clients' digital transformation, its Chief Executive Hw...

Hyundai L&C targets China’s interior materials market

Hyundai L&C, a South Korean building materials company under the Hyundai Department Store Group, said on Sunday that it has entered the Chinese ...

Korean convention sector enjoys increase in events post-pandemic

Coex Convention & Exhibition Center, the largest event complex in Seoul, was crowded on Friday for a smart factory and plant automation fair.&ld...

Hyundai E&C consortium breaks ground on $7 bn S-Oil Shaheen project

A South Korean consortium led by Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. has embarked on building 9.26 trillion won ($7 billion) petrochemical fa...

HD Hyundai units to showcase unmanned equipment at US expo

Hyundai Construction Equipment Co. and Hyundai Doosan Infracore Co., construction machinery subsidiaries of HD Hyundai Co., said on Friday they woul...

Korea's Smilegate to launch PC-mobile cross-play game globally

Smilegate, a South Korean game developer and publisher, said on Friday that it will launch its new cross-play game "Wonderers: Eternal World" global...

ISS supports Shinhan Financial Group chairman nominee

Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) is supporting the appointment of Shinhan Financial Group chairman nominee Jin Ok-Dong as...

System on chips: Samsung’s new high-stakes foundry business

Samsung Electronics Co. is setting its sights on system on chips (SoCs) to continue to drive growth in its foundry business amid a protracted slowdo...

HD Hyundai opens free in-house daycare center for up to 300 children

HD Hyundai Co., the owner of South Korea’s biggest shipbuilding group, opened an in-house daycare center at its new headquarters building in K...

Hyundai Motor spins off 4 in-house startups in mobility, AI, data

Hyundai Motor Group has spun off four new in-house startups, including MOBINN with autonomous driving technology and APLAYS with AI-powered music cu...

Korea's Innocean wins eight awards at Spikes Asia advertising festival

South Korea-based global marketing communications company Innocean said on Thursday that it received eight awards at the 2023 Spikes Asia, a prestig...

Korea’s Shinsegae to bolster convenience store business

South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae Group is set to boost its business in the rapidly growing convenience store sector as its supermarket cha...

Lunit to supply AI image analysis solutions to Singapore

South Korea's Lunit Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) medical company, announced on Wednesday that it has secured a contract to provide Lunit In...

S.Korea pledges steps to attract more foreign investment

South Korea will boost foreign investment in the country through increased incentives and deregulation, Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister C...