LG Uplus to grow EV charging JV to be among Korea’s top 3

LG Uplus to grow EV charging JV to be among Korea’s top 3

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, aims to develop its electric vehicle charging joint venture with Kakao Mobility Co...

Bullet maker Poongsan chief Ryu’s new role: Korea’s top business lobbyist

Bullet maker Poongsan chief Ryu’s new role: Korea’s top business lobbyist

  Jin Roy Ryu, chairman of South Korea’s leading copper smelter and defense equipment maker Poongsan Corp., has been chosen to lead the ...

LG 1st in South Korea’s ESG rankings for 2nd year

LG 1st in South Korea’s ESG rankings for 2nd year

LG Corp., the holding company of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group, ranked No. 1 in the country’s environmental, social...

Toray Advanced Materials reviews film line expansion in S.Korea

Toray Advanced Materials reviews film line expansion in S.Korea

Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. (TAK) is reviewing its film line expansion in South Korea as part of its 300 billion won ($229 million) capital ...

S.Korean transformers invade US market on surging demand

S.Korean transformers invade US market on surging demand

South Korea’s heavy electrical equipment makers are expanding their presence in the US, the world’s second-largest electricity consumer,...

Hyundai, Kia to showcase new cars at Indonesia’s GIIAS auto show

Hyundai, Kia to showcase new cars at Indonesia’s GIIAS auto show

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. will participate in Indonesia’s largest auto show next week as the South Korean sister firms ramp up their off...

Hyundai, legendary chip architect Jim Keller to make chips for future cars

Hyundai, legendary chip architect Jim Keller to make chips for future cars

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group said on Thursday it has partnered with legendary chip architect Jim Keller to jointly develop ...

HD Hyundai Infracore opens online excavator store

HD Hyundai Infracore opens online excavator store

South Korea's HD Hyundai Infracore Co. announced on Thursday that it has opened the first "Develon Online Store," an excavator online mall in the co...

K-pop girl group NewJeans tops US Billboard 200

K-pop girl group NewJeans tops US Billboard 200

South Korean K-pop girl group NewJeans topped the US Billboard 200 chart with their second mini-album "Get Up," since its debut a year ago. Acc...

Global EV, battery sectors in war for talent acquisition

Global EV, battery sectors in war for talent acquisition

Global electric vehicle and battery makers are fiercely competing to secure talent with high salaries and various incentives as their workforces a...

Kia America’s new normal: Record car sales month after month

Kia America’s new normal: Record car sales month after month

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, has been dismissed as the weaker sibling or smaller sister firm of Hyundai Motor Co., the c...

HD Hyundai to expand LNG tanker conversion biz with orders

HD Hyundai to expand LNG tanker conversion biz with orders

HD Hyundai Global Service, the ship retrofit subsidiary of the world’s second-largest shipbuilder HD Hyundai Co., is poised to bag orders to c...

KT Submarine to rename itself LS Marine Solution

KT Submarine to rename itself LS Marine Solution

South Korea’s undersea cable company KT Submarine Co. will change its name to LS Marine Solution following its integration into the LS Group. ...

Hyundai Mobis mass produces glove compartment for EVs

Hyundai Mobis mass produces glove compartment for EVs

South Korea's Hyundai Mobis has developed an innovative glove compartment optimized for electric vehicles (EV) for use in the large sport utility EV...

SK C&C begins to construct S.Korea's first ATS

SK C&C begins to construct S.Korea's first ATS

SK C&C, an information and communications technology affiliate of South Korea’s SK Group announced on Wednesday it has started constructio...

Samsung’s Bespoke Jet AI sweeps global acclaim

Samsung’s Bespoke Jet AI sweeps global acclaim

Bespoke Jet AI, the cordless stick vacuum cleaner of Samsung Electronics Co., continues to receive international recognition for its superior techno...

K-pop group aespa to premiere ‘Better Things’ single in LA

K-pop group aespa to premiere ‘Better Things’ single in LA

K-pop girl group aespa will hold a concert "aespa LIVE TOUR 2023 - SYNK: HYPER LINE" at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, US, on August 13, their...

Hyundai E&C bags $145 mn order to build HVDC line in Saudi Arabia

Hyundai E&C bags $145 mn order to build HVDC line in Saudi Arabia

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. has won a $145 million deal in Saudi Arabia, boding well for the leading South Korean builder’s bus...

SKC, Toyota Tsusho tie up for N.America battery materials

SKC, Toyota Tsusho tie up for N.America battery materials

SKC Ltd., a South Korean chemicals maker, has joined hands with the trading unit of Japanese top automaker Toyota Group for the electric vehicle bat...

Hyundai, Kia firm up ranking as world's 3rd; first-half profits improve

Hyundai, Kia firm up ranking as world's 3rd; first-half profits improve

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group solidified its position as the world’s third-largest carmaker with improved profit margi...

S.Korea's HD Hyundai chairman: We can’t rely on bad profits

S.Korea's HD Hyundai chairman: We can’t rely on bad profits

Kwon Oh-gap, chairman and co-CEO of South Korea's HD Hyundai Co., has ordered his company not to rely on “bad profits” gained from tempo...

Doosan Bobcat logs strong earnings on N.America price hikes

Doosan Bobcat logs strong earnings on N.America price hikes

Doosan Bobcat Inc., the construction and agricultural machine manufacturer of South Korea’s Doosan Group, enjoyed strong earnings on still-sol...

Hyundai, Kia deploy CO2 emission monitor system for cooperative firms

Hyundai, Kia deploy CO2 emission monitor system for cooperative firms

South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. revealed on Friday their AI-integrated, blockchain-enabled Supplier CO2 Emission Monitoring System (SC...

Hanwha Group puts savings bank on market, a clear succession path

Hanwha Group puts savings bank on market, a clear succession path

Hanwha Group, South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate, has put its non-core financial unit Hanwha Savings Bank up for sale, in a move ...

KT, LG Elec, Hyundai Elevator join robot-elevator project

KT, LG Elec, Hyundai Elevator join robot-elevator project

A robot freely gets on and off an elevator and moves around a building, doing everything from coffee to parcel delivery and route guidance.This is t...

S.Korea’s aid service Boram Group enters companion animal market

S.Korea’s aid service Boram Group enters companion animal market

South Korea’s Boram Group, whose main affiliate is an aid company, has entered the companion animal market.  Affiliates Boram Sangjo and ...

Hyundai Motor eyes EV charger alliance in US to take on Tesla

Hyundai Motor eyes EV charger alliance in US to take on Tesla

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. are planning to join BMW, General Motors, Honda Motor, Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis to collectiv...

Hyundai partners with 5 universities for carbon neutrality center

Hyundai partners with 5 universities for carbon neutrality center

In a bid to accelerate the development of carbon-neutral technologies, Hyundai Motor Group has joined forces with prominent domestic universities.Th...

HD Hyundai XiteSolution to surpport Ukraine's reconstruction

HD Hyundai XiteSolution to surpport Ukraine's reconstruction

HD Hyundai Co. announced on Thursday that Dmytro Ponomarenko, the Ukrainian Ambassador to South Korea, and his delegation visited the Pangyo HD Hyun...

Hyundai Steel extends profit streak in Q2 on brisk auto steel sales

Hyundai Steel extends profit streak in Q2 on brisk auto steel sales

Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea’s second-largest steelmaker, plans to ramp up automotive and eco-friendly steel production after posting an ope...

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