LG Elec to spend over $4 bn on capex in 2023, biggest in a decade

LG Electronics Inc. has decided to go bold to widen the technology gap with its rivals, with its biggest capital expenditure in a decade of more tha...

S.Korea's Naver gets global compliance certification

South Korea’s top search portal Naver Corp. said on Friday that it had received a global certification for its compliance management system fr...

HD Hyundai forms S.Korea's first integrated carbon footprint team in shipbuilding

South Korea's HD Hyundai Co. has teamed up with domestic shipbuilders and classification societies to form the first integrated "carbon footprint" t...

Hyundai Motor, Kia to research EV energy with three universities

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. will form a research ecosystem for sustainable electric vehicle (EV) energy with Seoul National University, Chung-An...

ISS, Glass Lewis urge shareholders to veto activist fund's requests on JB

Proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. are urging shareholders of JB Financial Group Co., a South Ko...

Hyundai Dept. Store Duty Free to launch metaverse duty-free shop

South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Duty Free announced on Thursday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with OlimPlanet for ...

EQT sees huge potential in security services for S.Korean SMEs

The digital security market is rapidly growing in South Korea, one of the world’s fastest-aging countries and amid its soaring labor costs.&nb...

S.Korea’s NPS taps investment strategy head as NY office chief

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is slated to undergo a management reshuffle for the first time since Chief Investment Officer Seo...

Hyundai Rotem's unmanned electric trains exported to Malaysia start running

South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem has started running all of the unmanned electric trains it has exported to Malaysia.The company on Thursday said 4...

Hyundai Const. Equipment unveils new BI, slogan at CONEXPO 2023

Hyundai Construction Equipment Co., a construction equipment subsidiary of HD Hyundai Co., announced on Thursday the release of its new brand identi...

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...

Kolon Industries showcases hydrogen fuel cell materials at Tokyo Expo

Kolon Industries Inc., a Korean manufacturer of chemical and textile products, said on Wednesday that it was exhibiting its hydrogen fuel cell parts...

Global macro investing to revive for more volatile age: M&G

The value of investments will fluctuate, which will cause prices to fall as well as rise and investors may not get back the original amount they inv...

Kia unveils flagship EV9 design; world premiere in March

Kia Corp. on Wednesday showcased its large flagship electric sport utility vehicle EV9 as the No. 2 South Korean carmaker is extending its EV lineup...

Hyundai, other Korean steelmakers slim down Chinese units

Hyundai Steel Co. has decided to sell its Beijing arm, worth 400 billion won ($310 million) in asset value, hit by declining sales of its affiliates...

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...

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...

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.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...

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...