S.Korea's budget carriers seek expansion via more overseas flights

S.Korea's budget carriers seek expansion via more overseas flights

South Korea's budget carrier Jeju Air Co. on Thursday announced the resumption of flights connecting Incheon to the Vietnamese cities of Ho Chi Minh...

Samsung Biologics to invest $1.5 bn for 5th CDMO factory

Samsung Biologics to invest $1.5 bn for 5th CDMO factory

Samsung Biologics Co. is slated to inject 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) to build its fifth plant in South Korea. It will be a fast follow-up investm...

Korea EV cell makers unveil new products to expand market

Korea EV cell makers unveil new products to expand market

South Korea’s electric vehicle battery makers on Wednesday unveiled prototypes of new products, especially lithium iron phosphate (LFP) models...

ESG: Name of the game in investing, funding amid Korea’s green push

ESG: Name of the game in investing, funding amid Korea’s green push

With South Korea’s aggressive green push at both the government and corporate levels, money is flowing back to environmental, social and gover...

LB Investment draws record demand in IPO bookbuild

LB Investment draws record demand in IPO bookbuild

LB Investment Inc., formerly known as LG Group’s venture capital arm, has attracted the most orders ever for an initial public offering of a S...

Sales of state-sponsored Korean startups up 40% in 2022

Sales of state-sponsored Korean startups up 40% in 2022

South Korean startups sponsored by the government’s information and communication technology acceleration program, dubbed K-Global Project, sa...

S.Korea's Harim launches street food brand Melting Piece

S.Korea's Harim launches street food brand Melting Piece

South Korea's leading poultry processing firm, Harim Co., announced on Thursday the launch of its new street food brand, Melting Piece, in response ...

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

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...

S.Korea's SK Ecoengineering launches cogeneration platform

S.Korea's SK Ecoengineering launches cogeneration platform

SK Ecoengineering Co., a South Korean engineering company specializing in environmental and energy projects, said on Thursday that it has launched a...

S.Korea’s jobs in February grow at slowest pace in 2 years

S.Korea’s jobs in February grow at slowest pace in 2 years

South Korea’s jobs grew at the slowest pace in two years last month partly owing to a slowdown in the country’s manufacturing sector due...

S.Korea's individual investors buy bonds this year worth $5.3 billion

S.Korea's individual investors buy bonds this year worth $5.3 billion

Individual investors in South Korea this year have made net bond purchases, or the difference between the buying and selling amounts, worth over 7 t...

Naver D2SF invests in 3D avatar-based communication startup

Naver D2SF invests in 3D avatar-based communication startup

Naver's startup-nurturing organization, D2 Startup Factory (D2SF), announced on Wednesday its investment in Goodgang Labs, a company focused on de...

Korea Ginseng Corporation opens new R&D center in California

Korea Ginseng Corporation opens new R&D center in California

Korea Ginseng Corporation (KGC), a leading producer of Korean ginseng products, said on Wednesday that it has opened a new research and development ...

TravelWallet succeeds in attracting $15 mn Series C funding

TravelWallet succeeds in attracting $15 mn Series C funding

South Korea's TravelWallet, a global payment service provider, announced on Wednesday that it has raised 19.7 billion won ($15 million) in Series C ...

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

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 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...

South Korea eyes $261 billion chip cluster; Samsung takes lead

South Korea eyes $261 billion chip cluster; Samsung takes lead

South Korea said on Wednesday it will create the world’s largest semiconductor cluster near Seoul by attracting 340 trillion won ($261 billion...

South Korea says US Chips Act subsidies have too many requirements

South Korea says US Chips Act subsidies have too many requirements

SEOUL—The U.S. Chips Act is dangling billions of dollars in subsidies in front of the world’s biggest semiconductor manufactur...

LS Electric unveils innovative solutions at Korea, Japan energy exhibitions

LS Electric unveils innovative solutions at Korea, Japan energy exhibitions

LS Electric Co., Ltd., an industrial electric solutions company from South Korea, is set to showcase innovative solutions at smart energy exhibition...

Samsung SDS acquires Korea’s No. 1 procurement SCM company

Samsung SDS acquires Korea’s No. 1 procurement SCM company

Samsung SDS Co., the information technology service unit of South Korea's Samsung Group, has acquired a 33.39% stake in Emro Inc., Korea's top suppl...

S.Korea to host Asia's largest advertising festival for 1st time since 2007

S.Korea to host Asia's largest advertising festival for 1st time since 2007

Seoul in October will host Asia's largest advertising festival AdAsia. The organizers of this year's event aim to host more than just a conference a...

S.Korea's Prestige Biologics attracts $59 mn overseas investment

S.Korea's Prestige Biologics attracts $59 mn overseas investment

Prestige Biologics Co., a South Korean biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) company, announced on Tuesday th...

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

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...

Qoo10 to buy another Korean rival for unit’s Nasdaq listing

Qoo10 to buy another Korean rival for unit’s Nasdaq listing

Southeast Asia-based e-commerce platform Qoo10 Pte. Ltd. is poised to take over a smaller South Korean rival through a stock swap deal, in a bid to ...

Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee walks on tightrope in US, China investments

Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee walks on tightrope in US, China investments

BEIJING – Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee plans to attend the China Development Forum later this month for the first time as the South Korean ...

Boeing’s Korean supplier targets UAV market with guided weapons

Boeing’s Korean supplier targets UAV market with guided weapons

Boeing Co.’s leading South Korean contractor aims to develop unmanned aerial vehicles with guided weapons, given the rapidly growing military ...

S.Korean sovereign wealth fund KIC to set up Mumbai office

S.Korean sovereign wealth fund KIC to set up Mumbai office

Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has kicked off procedures to open a Mumbai-based office later this year, The Korea Economic...

S.Korea's hy to export eco-friendly refrigerated carts to Cambodia

S.Korea's hy to export eco-friendly refrigerated carts to Cambodia

hy Co., a South Korean distribution company, said on Tuesday that it will export its ride-on refrigerated electric carts “Cold & Cool&rdqu...

Samsung chief Lee vows bold investment to bolster chip R&D capabilities

Samsung chief Lee vows bold investment to bolster chip R&D capabilities

Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee pledged another bold investment in the world’s largest memory chipmaker’s next-generation se...

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

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...

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