Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis set for February IPO

Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis set for February IPO

South Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. aims to raise up to $166 million through a listing next month, becoming the country’s first...

SK Energy teams up with state-run power supplier for EV charging station

SK Energy teams up with state-run power supplier for EV charging station

SK Energy, a major South Korean oil refiner, teamed up with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) to install electric vehicle (EV) and hydrogen...

Kookmin Card acquires Cambodian leasing firm at $5.2 mn

Kookmin Card acquires Cambodian leasing firm at $5.2 mn

KB Kookmin Card, a credit card unit of KB Financial Group, and its Cambodian local subsidiary KB Daehan Specialized Bank, acquired the Southeast Asi...

S.Korea to extend trading hours of local forex market

S.Korea to extend trading hours of local forex market

South Korea will extend the trading hours for the local foreign exchange market to attract overseas investors and improve the trading system so that...

S.Korea’s battery material exports double to $10 bn

S.Korea’s battery material exports double to $10 bn

South Korea’s battery material exports more than doubled to exceed overseas sales of electric vehicle cells last year, helping the country&rsq...

LG Innotek eyes top spot in FC-BGA substrate market

LG Innotek eyes top spot in FC-BGA substrate market

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. will boost the production of its flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) packages, or high-density package substrates,...

Samsung’s new 5 nm high-performance SSD faster, uses less power

Samsung’s new 5 nm high-performance SSD faster, uses less power

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Thursday it is ready to produce in large quantities PM9C1a, its latest ...

Samsung, SK Hynix to benefit from Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPU

Samsung, SK Hynix to benefit from Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPU

The much-awaited launch of Intel Corp.’s latest processors dubbed Sapphire Rapids is a boon for leading memory chipmakers such as Samsung Elec...

Samsung Biologics receives Terra Carta Seal

Samsung Biologics receives Terra Carta Seal

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Wednesday it was awarded the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Ter...

Celltrion Healthcare lands biosimilar deal in Brazil for 2nd straight year

Celltrion Healthcare lands biosimilar deal in Brazil for 2nd straight year

South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. on Tuesday said that for the second straight year, it landed an order for infliximab, an antibody used to tre...

Hyundai, Kia post record sales in India; to build IONIQ 5 locally

Hyundai, Kia post record sales in India; to build IONIQ 5 locally

South Korea’s two leading automakers – Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. – are solidifying their presence in India, a fast-growing A...

POSCO to enter palm oil refining market in Indonesia

POSCO to enter palm oil refining market in Indonesia

POSCO International Co., a trading arm of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Co., will build a palm oil refining plant in Indonesia to foray into...

Korea’s secondhand car market cools amid elevated interest rates

Korea’s secondhand car market cools amid elevated interest rates

South Korea’s secondhand car market is cooling rapidly as both dealers and buyers are reeling from elevated interest rates, which also bode il...

S-1 calls AI video solutions core of this year's AI security market

S-1 calls AI video solutions core of this year's AI security market

Access management of facial recognition needs the most improvement this year and artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions such as intelligent cl...

Ford in talks with LG Energy for Turkey EV battery plant

Ford in talks with LG Energy for Turkey EV battery plant

Ford Motor Co. is in talks with LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, to build a cell factory in...

Korean activist fund KCGI buys Meritz Asset Management

Korean activist fund KCGI buys Meritz Asset Management

A consortium led by Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI), a local activist fund, said on Jan. 9 it signed a share purchase agreement l...

Korea's SK On scraps $3.2 bn Turkey EV battery factory plan

Korea's SK On scraps $3.2 bn Turkey EV battery factory plan

SK On Co., the world’s No. 5 electric vehicle battery maker, dropped a plan to build a 4 trillion won ($3.2 billion) plant in Turkey as higher...

Mirae Asset buys logistics center in India for $17 mn

 Mirae Asset buys logistics center in India for $17 mn

Mirae Asset Global Managements Co. said on Friday that it has invested 21 billion won ($17 million) in a large logistics center in Mumbai to become ...

Samsung’s Q4 profit tumbles; cuts 2023 chip profit forecast by half

Samsung’s Q4 profit tumbles; cuts 2023 chip profit forecast by half

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, posted its worst quarterly operating profit in eight years on F...

Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market

Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. kept their fifth place in sales in the US market for the second consecutive year. Despite production setbacks due to...

Hyundai's Nexo keeps 1st place in hydrogen car market beating Toyota

Hyundai's Nexo keeps 1st place in hydrogen car market beating Toyota

Hyundai Motor Co.'s hydrogen fuel cell car model Nexo far surpassed Toyota in the world's market share. According to SNE Research, a market research...

S.Korea’s IPO market sours as Kurly postpones listing

S.Korea’s IPO market sours as Kurly postpones listing

South Korea’s initial public offering market has soured as gourmet food delivery platform Kurly Inc. delayed its listing amid deteriorating in...

Novarex, Riman sign agreement to jointly develop health-functional food

Novarex, Riman sign agreement to jointly develop health-functional food

South Korea's health functional foods company Novarex and cosmetics company Riiman Korea met to promote the health-functional foods business togethe...

Korea's coffee brand Ediya to open 1st overseas branch in Guam

Korea's coffee brand Ediya to open 1st overseas branch in Guam

Ediya Coffee, South Korea's home-grown low-priced coffee brand, will open a branch in Guam in the first half of this year to seek growth through exp...

S.Korea fines Tesla $2.2 mn for alleged false advertising

S.Korea fines Tesla $2.2 mn for alleged false advertising

South Korea’s antitrust body has decided to impose a fine of 2.9 billion won ($2.2 million) on Tesla Inc., the world’s top electric vehi...

SK Networks completes acquisition of local EV charging platform operator

SK Networks completes acquisition of local EV charging platform operator

SK Networks Co., a South Korean general trading firm, said on Jan. 3 it has completed the acquisition of SS Charger Co., a leading electric car char...

Hyundai, Kia aim to outpace industry growth in 2023

Hyundai, Kia aim to outpace industry growth in 2023

The Hyundai Motor Group is aiming to boost sales by 10% this year from 2022, above an estimated single-digit growth in the global automotive market....

LG Uplus succeeds in linking open RAN standard equipment

LG Uplus succeeds in linking open RAN standard equipment

LG Uplus Corp. said on Tuesday that it has succeeded in linking open distributed unit (O-DU) and open RAN (radio access network) radio unit (O-RU) b...

KT, E-mart warm up S.Korea's corporate bond market

KT, E-mart warm up S.Korea's corporate bond market

South Korea's KT Corp. and E-mart Inc. are the frontrunners in the new year's corporate bond demand forecasts, attracting attention on if they can b...

POSCO Int’l completes merger with energy affiliate

POSCO Int’l completes merger with energy affiliate

South Korea’s POSCO International Co. completed a merger with its affiliate POSCO Energy Co. on Jan. 1, which the trading company said would f...

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