Defense, healthcare lure global funds in dull market

Defense, healthcare lure global funds in dull market

Defense, healthcare and semiconductor materials companies have been the main investment targets of global funds such as Fidelity and Morgan Stanley ...

Samsung vetoes Broadcom's proposed measures to avoid Korean penalties

Samsung vetoes Broadcom's proposed measures to avoid Korean penalties

Samsung Electronics Co. and other South Korean tech companies opposed measures proposed by Broadcom Inc. to avoid penalties by the country’s a...

S.Korea’s Suprema wins order from Saudi Arabia's Neom city project

S.Korea’s Suprema wins order from Saudi Arabia's Neom city project

South Korea’s Suprema Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI)-based security company, on Wednesday said it won a large-scale project in Neom, a ...

KAI, bastion of South Korea’s fast-growing defense industry

KAI, bastion of South Korea’s fast-growing defense industry

SACHEON, South Gyeongsang Province – On a hot spring day in April, the roar of combat aircraft engines fills the air. It’s a normal day ...

Korea’s Hanatour sees 1st profit in over 3 yrs on high-end service

Korea’s Hanatour sees 1st profit in over 3 yrs on high-end service

Hanatour Service Inc., South Korea’s top travel agency, enjoyed its first quarterly profit in more than three years as it focused on high-end ...

S.Korea, US advised to cooperate in advanced nuclear power plant

S.Korea, US advised to cooperate in advanced nuclear power plant

Amid declining exports of nuclear power plants from major countries like South Korea and the US, Russia and China have captured about 80% of the glo...

SK Biopharmaceuticals gets marketing approval for epilepsy drug in Israel

SK Biopharmaceuticals gets marketing approval for epilepsy drug in Israel

South Korea’s SK Biopharmaceuticals said on Wednesday that the Israeli Ministry of Health has approved the company's new drug application (NDA...

Korean Air showcases special aircraft livery featuring Blackpink

Korean Air showcases special aircraft livery featuring Blackpink

Korean Air Lines Co. held a 2030 Busan Expo Korean Air Special Aircraft Unveiling Event at the aircraft hangar at Incheon International Airport on W...

Hyosung’s sibling feud continues with second son in court on trial

Hyosung’s sibling feud continues with second son in court on trial

It all began in July 2014 when Cho Hyun-joon, currently the Hyosung Group chairman, was sued by his younger brother Cho Hyun-moon on charges of embe...

HD KSOE declares carbon neutrality in first for S.Korea's shipbuilders

HD KSOE declares carbon neutrality in first for S.Korea's shipbuilders

South Korea's HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE), the shipbuilding holding company of HD Hyundai Co., is the first in domest...

Vietnamese tourists top in card spending in Korea in 2022

Vietnamese tourists top in card spending in Korea in 2022

Vietnamese tourists splurged the most among foreign visitors to South Korea last year, filling the void left by Chinese travelers shunning Korea sin...

Merck to build biopharma raw material plant in Korea

Merck to build biopharma raw material plant in Korea

Global pharmaceutical company Merck is considering a plan to establish a biopharmaceutical raw material production facility in Daejeon.South Korean ...

Hyundai, Kia’s brisk April sales bode well for stellar Q2

Hyundai, Kia’s brisk April sales bode well for stellar Q2

The second-quarter earnings outlook for South Korea’s biggest automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and its sister company Kia Corp. looks rosy as eased...

Hyundai Motor unveils XCIENT fuel cell tractor in N.America

Hyundai Motor unveils XCIENT fuel cell tractor in N.America

Hyundai Motor Co. showcased the mass-production model of its XCIENT Fuel Cell Tractor, a 37.2-ton 6x4 truck specifically designed for long-distance ...

POSCO Holdings to produce nickel in Indonesia

POSCO Holdings to produce nickel in Indonesia

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of the world’s sixth-largest steel maker, will directly produce nickel, a key material for sec...

Celltrion applies for Phase 3 clinical trials in Europe for biosimilar

Celltrion applies for Phase 3 clinical trials in Europe for biosimilar

South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. is speeding up global clinical trials of its biosimilar of the multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment Ocrevus (active ...

CJ CheilJedang launches Cuisine.K project

 CJ CheilJedang launches Cuisine.K project

South Korea's largest food company CJ CheilJedang Corp., announced on Tuesday the launch of "Cuisine.K," a project aimed at discovering and nurturin...

Meritz emerges fast to take on South Korea’s big financial companies

Meritz emerges fast to take on South Korea’s big financial companies

Back in the early 2000s, Meritz was an obscure, lesser-known insurance-related company in South Korea’s financial arena.Part of Hanjin Group, ...

Simple, retro: Korean game sector’s new target for growth

Simple, retro: Korean game sector’s new target for growth

Once-popular games for feature phones in the 2000s are seeing a revival in South Korea on the growing demand for simple and easy titles for smartpho...

SK E&S to supply renewable electricity to BASF

SK E&S to supply renewable electricity to BASF

South Korea’s SK E&S Co. will supply electricity generated from renewable energy to global chemical company BASF. SK E&S announced on...

POSCO to spend $900 mn to expand lithium, cathode output in Korea

POSCO to spend $900 mn to expand lithium, cathode output in Korea

South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Group is expected to spend 1.2 trillion won ($900 million) in total to add cathode manufacturing and lithium r...

Asleep forms partnership with National Sleep Foundation of US

Asleep forms partnership with National Sleep Foundation of US

South Korea's sleep technology startup Asleep, which was part of an economic delegation accompanying President Yoon Suk Yeol's recent state visit to...

Kia to take pre-orders for electric SUV EV9

Kia to take pre-orders for electric SUV EV9

Kia Corp. announced on Wednesday that it will begin taking pre-orders for the "Kia EV9." The EV9 is Kia's second dedicated electric vehicle based on...

NuScale in talks to build SMR plant in S.Korea: NuScale CEO

NuScale in talks to build SMR plant in S.Korea: NuScale CEO

NuScale Power Corp., the world’s leading small modular reactor (SMR) developer, may land in South Korea sooner than its rivals with its unriva...

S.Korea’s Doosan to supply robots to Rockwell Automation

S.Korea’s Doosan to supply robots to Rockwell Automation

South Korea’s plant and machinery powerhouse Doosan Group has joined hands with North America’s top industrial automation solution provi...

Samsung foundry backlogs top $74.6 bn for logic chip biz goal

Samsung foundry backlogs top $74.6 bn for logic chip biz goal

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s No. 2 foundry player, has secured contract semiconductor manufacturing order backlogs of more than 100 tr...

Hyundai Mobis to lead mobility platform innovation: CEO Cho

Hyundai Mobis to lead mobility platform innovation: CEO Cho

Hyundai Mobis Co. will take another leap forward to become a mobility platform provider for future mobility technologies and bolster its new growth ...

Will Night Crows be Korean game developer WeMade’s savior?

Will Night Crows be Korean game developer WeMade’s savior?

WeMade Co. on Thursday officially launched Night Crows, a new massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), in South Korea as the major do...

S.Korea, US agree on simplified EV charger export procedure

S.Korea, US agree on simplified EV charger export procedure

South Korean companies looking to export electric vehicle chargers to the United States can now receive local certification more conveniently within...

S.Korea’s four firms to develop domestic tech for carbon capture

S.Korea’s four firms to develop domestic tech for carbon capture

South Korea's shipbuilding and shipping companies, including HMM Co., Samsung Heavy Industries, marine equipment manufacturer Panasia and the ship i...

S.Korea names budget veteran as finance minister to prop up economy KKR in control feud over Korea’s top solar power plant Hanwha Systems to compete with LIG Nex1 for Korean version of Iron Dome NH, KB Securities, Kookmin Bank, Kim & Chang lead capital markets in H1 From G-Dragon to Ibuki: Dongmyo emerges as global fashion hotspot