Korea's Hyundai E&C to build smart green city in Vietnam

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. is poised to become the first South Korean company to join Vietnam’s green smart city development p...

Washington, Seoul to hold formal talks on US EV tax credit act

WASHINGTON D.C. – South Korea and the United States have agreed to launch formal negotiations over ways to address the negative impacts of the...

LG Chem to build carbon nanotube Plant 4 for EV batteries

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s chemicals giant, is set to build the world’s largest single-line carbon nanotube (CNT) manufacturing plant i...

Hyundai asks US state of Georgia for more incentives

Hyundai Motor Co. discussed additional incentives on its planned electric vehicle plant in Georgia with the US state's government as the leading Sou...

Lotte Group to donate $10.4 mn to KAIST to build R&D, design centers

Lotte Corp. announced on Monday that it will donate 14 billion won ($10.4 million) to the prestigious Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Techno...

Hyundai narrows Level 3 self-driving tech gap with Tesla to one year

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has narrowed its technology gap in Level 3 self-driving vehicles with Tesla Inc. to one year, mo...

Hyundai, Ultra Safe Nuclear sign micro reactor procurement agreement

Hyundai Engineering Co., the plant engineering and construction arm of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Friday that it signed a framework agreement...

PlayTogether ranks 2nd in global metaverse game apps

Metaverse game platform PlayTogether, operated by South Korean game developer Haegin Co., ranked second in global metaverse app downloads during the...

Hyundai, Hanwha ink $5.8 bn defense deals with Poland

South Korea’s defense makers Hyundai Rotem Co. and Hanwha Defense signed formal contracts worth $5.8 billion to export battle tanks and self-p...

Hyundai’s Genesis ranks top in J.D. Power’s innovative tech study

Hyundai Motor Co.'s premium brand Genesis has been recognized by industry analysts for its excellence in innovative technology and consumer experi...

Shinhan Card ties up with FiscalNote for global data biz

Shinhan Card Co. has joined forces with US legal data and analytics company FiscalNote Holdings Inc. to expand its data business into the global mar...

Hyundai Elevator logs first quarterly loss since 1996

Hyundai Elevator Co., South Korea’s No. 1 elevator producer, swung to a quarterly operating loss for the first time since it was listed on the...

Hyundai’s Chung rolls up sleeves to counter US EV tax credit act

Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun is off to the US to meet government officials and business leaders as the recently passed Inflation Reduct...

Hyundai Motor Group to invest in fabless startup BOS Semiconductors 

Hyundai Motor Group announced on Wednesday that it will invest in Seongnam-based fabless startup BOS Semiconductors, which designs system-on-chip (S...

Lotte to support Korean SMEs via exhibitions in Berlin, New York

Lotte Group, South Korea’s fifth-largest conglomerate, is set to boost the global sales channels of some 200 Korean small and medium-sized ent...

Ediya to re-enter global café market with first branch in Guam

South Korea’s homegrown coffee chain Ediya Coffee is ready for re-entry into the global café market after the failure of its Chinese bu...

Hyundai IONIQ 6 logs record pre-orders in South Korea

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, announced on Tuesday that its first fully electric sedan IONIQ 6 is enjoying record pre-orders...

K-pop, Toyota’s platform for marketing in the US

LOS ANGELES -- Toyota Motor Corp., the top global automaker, showcased its sports cars – the GR86 and the GR Supra – at the Los Angeles ...

SK Ecoplant to supply fuel cells to China’s top data center operator GDS

South Korea’s SK Ecoplant Co. has forged a partnership with China’s top data center developer and operator GDS to jointly enter the Sout...

Growing sense of déjà vu of 2008 global financial crisis

Private equity firms have snapped up South Korean assets over the past two years, driving their valuations near historic highs in the liquidity-driv...

China's high entry barriers for Korean films, dramas

“Oh! My Gran” was the only South Korean movie to hit the big screen in China in the past year. It was also the first Korean film to be p...

Hyundai Motor, LG Energy secure $710 mn for battery JV in Indonesia

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. have secured $710 million from financial institutions overseas to ...

Hyundai IONIQ 5: Car and Driver’s EV of the Year

Hyundai Motor Co.'s all-electric IONIQ 5 crossover has won another industry accolade in the US, gathering momentum to expand its market share in the...

SK taps Korean PE for $1.5 bn after Carlyle's Lee quit

SK On Co. has turned to domestic private equity firms to raise up to 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) after talks with four big global funds have dried...

Hyundai Motor to redirect its TaaS, AI functions to self-driving arm 42dot 

Hyundai Motor Group will redirect the core functions of its Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS) division and AIRS Company to its recently acquired se...

Samsung Group CEOs drum up support for Busan Expo 2030

Samsung Group affiliates’ CEOs are working to bring the World Expo 2030 to Busan in South Korea using their overseas networks. Samsung Electro...

Remote work, small offices revive S.Korea's printer market

South Korea’s printer market has been recovering from a long slump as the rise of remote work and small or home offices has revived demand for...

Korean LED maker’s winning streak in global patent wars

Seoul Semiconductor Co., the world’s second-largest light-emitting diode (LED) display maker, has scored another win in patent litigation agai...

Boston emerges as Korean firms’ R&D hub for AI, batteries

Top South Korean conglomerates Samsung and Hyundai have selected Boston as the home of their first overseas research centers for batteries and artif...

Hyundai Motor Group rises to world’s third-largest automaker

South Korea’s largest automaker Hyundai Motor Group ranked third in global car sales in the first half, its highest-ever ranking in terms of v...