Korea Zinc shares skyrocket after buybacks in tender offer

Korea Zinc shares skyrocket after buybacks in tender offer

Shares in Korea Zinc Inc. soared on Thursday, a day after completing its buybacks, driven by institutional investors covering shorts on the stock an...

Tesla in talks with SK Hynix for $725 mn eSSD order

Tesla in talks with SK Hynix for $725 mn eSSD order

Tesla Inc. is in talks with SK Hynix Inc. at the US electric vehicle giant’s request for a possible 1 trillion won ($725 million) order of ent...

Hyundai Motor logs highest-ever Q3 revenue; margin drops

Hyundai Motor logs highest-ever Q3 revenue; margin drops

Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday reported its worst quarterly profit margin for this year, despite delivering its highest-ever revenue for a third quar...

Hyundai Glovis introduces EV drill lance on car carriers

Hyundai Glovis introduces EV drill lance on car carriers

South Korea's Hyundai Glovis Co. said on Thursday that it will introduce a special fire suppression tool, the EV (Electric Vehicle) - Drill Lance, f...

Samsung SDS, Korea Air Force to cooperate on military logistics

Samsung SDS, Korea Air Force to cooperate on military logistics

South Korea's Samsung SDS Co. said on Tuesday it signed an agreement with the Korea Air Force Headquarters to cooperate on the digital transformatio...

Hyundai, SNU, POSTECH, KIST build joint robotics lab

Hyundai, SNU, POSTECH, KIST build joint robotics lab

Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday that it established a joint robotics research lab in collaboration with South Korea's top research institution...

Hyundai Motor Group wins Cars.com's 2025 Top Pick EV Awards

Hyundai Motor Group wins Cars.com's 2025 Top Pick EV Awards

Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday Hyundai Motor Co. ‘s IONIQ electric vehicles (EVs) and Kia Corp. ‘s EV9 have each been awarded 202...

Samsung unveils generative wallpaper of AI TVs

Samsung unveils generative wallpaper of AI TVs

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Wednesday the launch of its Generative Wallpaper feature for the 2024 Neo QLED and QLED models, powered by Tizen OS....

Hana Financial’s Hana The Next: New financial services tailored for seniors

Hana Financial’s Hana The Next: New financial services tailored for seniors

As South Korea’s baby boomers, the demographic cohort born between 1955 and 1963, are reaching retirement age, financial institutions are reac...

Superb AI, Cisco to strengthen AI network cooperation

Superb AI, Cisco to strengthen AI network cooperation

South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startup Superb AI said on Tuesday it was awarded Select Developer from the global network giant Cisco Syst...

Hanwha Asset taps US for Korean defense ETF listing

Hanwha Asset taps US for Korean defense ETF listing

Hanwha Asset Management Co., a financial service sibling of South Korea’s major defense and aerospace developer Hanwha Aerospace Co., is seeki...

Hyundai Motor debuts on Indian bourses in its 1st offshore IPO

Hyundai Motor debuts on Indian bourses in its 1st offshore IPO

MUMBAI -- Hyundai Motor Co.'s Indian unit debuted on India's stock market on Tuesday as the South Korean carmaker bets big on the South Asian countr...

Kakao to launch AI messenger service Kanana in H1 2025

Kakao to launch AI messenger service Kanana in H1 2025

South Korea’s platform giant Kakao Corp. will roll out Kanana, a conversational AI agent-integrated messenger app, in the first half of next y...

Hyundai E&C, South Australia sign renewable energy, infrastructure deal

Hyundai E&C, South Australia sign renewable energy, infrastructure deal

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. said on Tuesday it has signed a comprehensive deal on cooperation in the renewable en...

Heavy inheritance, gift taxes spur rich Koreans to emigrate to Singapore

Heavy inheritance, gift taxes spur rich Koreans to emigrate to Singapore

A South Korean co-CEO of a blockchain investment firm with hundreds of millions of dollars in assets moved to Singapore last year to avoid the North...

Hyundai AutoEver SW platform gets A-SPICE level 3 certification

Hyundai AutoEver SW platform gets A-SPICE level 3 certification

South Korea's Hyundai AutoEver Corp. said on Tuesday that its Mobilgene Classic 2.0 software platform has become the first in South Korea to receive...

S.Korean AI content platform Zeta surpasses 1 mn users

S.Korean AI content platform Zeta surpasses 1 mn users

South Korean generative artificial intelligence (AI) startup Scatter Lab said on Monday its interactive AI content platform Zeta has surpassed 1 mil...

Hyundai Motor Group six affiliates to strengthen carbon neutrality

Hyundai Motor Group six affiliates to strengthen carbon neutrality

Hyundai Motor Group said on Monday that six affiliates and Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for...

NCSoft to spin off AI, game divisions into four units

NCSoft to spin off AI, game divisions into four units

NCSoft Corp., a leading South Korean game developer and publisher, said on Monday it will spin off its artificial intelligence R&D and game deve...

Korea Investment Management to list Global AI-based ASIC ETF

Korea Investment Management to list Global AI-based ASIC ETF

Korea Investment Management Co. said on Monday it will list the ACE Global AI ASIC exchange-traded fund (ETF) on October 22. The ETF will focus on ...

Hyundai to produce Creta EV in India for January launch

Hyundai to produce Creta EV in India for January launch

Hyundai Motor Co. said on Sunday it will launch an electric model of the compact sport utility vehicle Creta in India this January — the first...

Naver Cloud launches AI meeting minutes service

Naver Cloud launches AI meeting minutes service

Naver Cloud, the cloud subsidiary of South Korean online giant Naver Corp., said on Friday the launch of Naver Works Clova Note, an AI-based enterpr...

POSCO International wins top award at 2024 Korea IR Awards

POSCO International wins top award at 2024 Korea IR Awards

South Korea's POSCO International Corp. won the top prize at the 2024 Korea IR Awards, organized by the Korea Investor Relations Service (KIRS), the...

Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics, Toyota team up for humanoid robots

Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics, Toyota team up for humanoid robots

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. and Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s No. 3 and No. 1 automakers, respectively, are teaming ...

South Korea’s next AI unicorns stand out at KPAS 2024

South Korea’s next AI unicorns stand out at KPAS 2024

South Korea’s major telecom company KT Corp. and the country’s leading financial newspaper The Korea Economic Daily have teamed up to sc...

HD Hyundai to show unmanned construction equipment tech

HD Hyundai to show unmanned construction equipment tech

South Korea's HD Hyundai XiteSolution said on Thursday that it plans to hold a demo show with remote control (RC) models of construction equipment...

Hanwha Securities completes acquisition of Ciptadana in Indonesia

Hanwha Securities completes acquisition of Ciptadana in Indonesia

South Korea's Hanwha Investment & Securities said on Thursday that it completed the acquisition of Indonesia's Ciptadana Sekuritas.Ciptadana Sek...

Hyundai, Kia production may be disrupted by subsidiary labor strike

Hyundai, Kia production may be disrupted by subsidiary labor strike

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s two largest carmakers, are likely to face disruptions in local production as their auto parts s...

HD Hyundai to build int'l standards for carbon emissions

HD Hyundai to build int'l standards for carbon emissions

South Korea's HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co. said on Wednesday that it signed a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Agreement with HD Hyundai Samho and the ...

LG Uplus to support AI startup creation

LG Uplus to support AI startup creation

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. said on Wednesday that it launched the startup support program Shift, which aims to discover and nurture startups, incl...

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