NHN unveils new corporate identity

NHN unveils new corporate identity

South Korea's NHN Corp. unveiled a new corporate identity (CI) on Thursday in celebration of its anniversary and announced that it would be uniforml...

Kumho Tire holds Latin American dealer convention

Kumho Tire holds Latin American dealer convention

South Korea's Kumho Tire Co. announced on Friday that it held the Kumho Dealer Convention event from July 20 to 22 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, inviting ab...

Hanwha Group to expand stock compensation to team chiefs

Hanwha Group to expand stock compensation to team chiefs

South Korea’s No. 7 conglomerate Hanwha Group will expand its restricted stock units (RSUs) to encourage employee interest in the company&rsqu...

Rebellions, Igloo partner for AI-based security

Rebellions, Igloo partner for AI-based security

South Korea’s fabless AI chip startup Rebellions Inc. announced on Tuesday that it partnered with AI-based security operations and analysis pl...

POSCO seeks restructuring for $1.9 bn injection in battery materials

POSCO seeks restructuring for $1.9 bn injection in battery materials

POSCO Holdings Inc. aims to raise its corporate value through an ambitious scheme that entails securing 2.6 trillion won ($1.9 billion) through rest...

Samsung, SK Hynix lead value increase in Korea NPS' local shares in Q2

Samsung, SK Hynix lead value increase in Korea NPS' local shares in Q2

The second-quarter rally of Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. shares drove a value increase in the domestic stock asset held by South Korea&...

KTO holds Visit Korea Alliance exhibition for foreigners

KTO holds Visit Korea Alliance exhibition for foreigners

The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) announced on Monday that it will hold a VK Alliance Products and Services Special Exhibition for foreigners thr...

Korea's LG Uplus aims for $1.4 bn in B2B AI sales by 2028

Korea's LG Uplus aims for $1.4 bn in B2B AI sales by 2028

South Korea’s leading mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp., which is set to unveil its first artificial intelligence chip by the end of this year, ai...

KB Securities downgrades LIG Nex1's investment opinion

KB Securities downgrades LIG Nex1's investment opinion

KB Securities Co. on Tuesday raised the target price for LIG Nex1 Co. from 195,000 won ($140.4) to 200,000 won amidst a recent significant rise in...

AhnLab launches integrated cloud service corporation

AhnLab launches integrated cloud service corporation

South Korea's AhnLab Inc. announced on Monday that it launched an integrated corporation named AhnLabCloudMate to oversee its cloud operation and ...

S.Korea’s inflation holds below 3% for 3rd straight month

S.Korea’s inflation holds below 3% for 3rd straight month

South Korea’s headline inflation stayed in the 2% range for the third straight month in June after its slowest rate of increase in 11 months, ...

Korean banks to cut corporate loans for profitability

Korean banks to cut corporate loans for profitability

South Korea’s Hana Bank is set to reduce new corporate loans despite rising demand to improve profitability and soundness after having increas...

Lotte Group's heir apparent joins Japan holding firm's board

Lotte Group's heir apparent joins Japan holding firm's board

Shin Yoo-yeol, the heir apparent to Lotte Group, has been elected to the board of directors of its Japanese holding company, which serves as a link ...

Kolmar Holdings to cancel $14.4 mn worth of its shares

Kolmar Holdings to cancel $14.4 mn worth of its shares

South Korea's Kolmar Holdings Co. , Kolmar Group's holding company, announced on Wednesday that it will implement a value-up program to enhance corp...

Hanwha Life Financial Services gets A+ credit rating

Hanwha Life Financial Services gets A+ credit rating

South Korea's Hanwha Life Financial Services said on Tuesday it received an A+ (Stable) credit rating from Korea Ratings, becoming the first domes...

Affirma Capital seeks to sell entire stake in both SeAH FS, S&G Holdings

Affirma Capital seeks to sell entire stake in both SeAH FS, S&G Holdings

Affirma Capital, a Singapore-based buyout private equity firm, is seeking to sell its entire stake in both South Korean steel tube maker SeAH FS and...

SK Networks to split off SpeedMate, trade division

SK Networks to split off SpeedMate, trade division

South Korea's SK Networks Co. plans to split off its auto management division SpeedMate and its trading unit.The board of directors approved the pla...

SK Ecoplant's Wayble Decarbon gets GIS certification

SK Ecoplant's Wayble Decarbon gets GIS certification

South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co. announced on Friday that its corporate carbon management platform Wayble Decarbon has obtained the country's first gre...

KB Securities sees wealth management assets surpass $43.6 bn

KB Securities sees wealth management assets surpass $43.6 bn

South Korea's KB Securities announced on Wednesday that its wealth management assets surpassed 60 trillion won ($43.6 billion) this month.This is fi...

Kookmin to revive Indonesian banking arm through digitalization

Kookmin to revive Indonesian banking arm through digitalization

KB Bukopin, the Indonesian banking arm of South Korea’s Koomin Bank, extended its losing streak through the first quarter of this year, weighe...

France's Archimed seeks to delist aesthetic laser maker Jeisys

France's Archimed seeks to delist aesthetic laser maker Jeisys

French private equity firm Archimed SAS, managing around €7 billion ($7.5 billion) in assets as of end-May, plans to secure a controlling stake...

Monalisa, Ssangyong C&B sold to Indonesia's APP

Monalisa, Ssangyong C&B sold to Indonesia's APP

South Korea's hygiene products company Monalisa and Ssangyong C&B, known for its toilet paper brand Codi, will be sold to Indonesia's paper comp...

NPS to cut Korean stock allocation to 13% by 2029

NPS to cut Korean stock allocation to 13% by 2029

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), also the world’s third-largest pension fund, will gradually reduce the proportion of its l...

Nvidia beats Tesla to emerge as top foreign stock held by Koreans

Nvidia beats Tesla to emerge as top foreign stock held by Koreans

Nvidia Corp., the global top artificial intelligence chip leader, overtook Tesla Inc., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle maker, to b...

Samsung Electronics holds Latin America Tech Seminar

Samsung Electronics holds Latin America Tech Seminar

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it hosted the 2024 Latin America Tech Seminar in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 28 and 29.According to...

Celebrity-run food chain operator TheBorn Korea files for IPO review

Celebrity-run food chain operator TheBorn Korea files for IPO review

TheBorn Korea Inc., a leading South Korean food and beverage group operated by TV celebrity and chef Paik Jong-won, has filed for a preliminary revi...

SK Telecom to launch AI assistants for corporate clients

SK Telecom to launch AI assistants for corporate clients

SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, plans to introduce customized services to connect major large language models (LLMs) and cor...

LG CNS' marketing platform MOP surpasses 800 corporate customers

LG CNS' marketing platform MOP surpasses 800 corporate customers

South Korea’s LG CNS Co., a cloud computing services arm of LG Corp., announced on Thursday that its Marketing Optimization Platform (MOP), la...

HL Holdings wins exclusive AS parts deal from Stellantis

HL Holdings wins exclusive AS parts deal from Stellantis

HL Holdings Corp., the holding company of South Korea’s construction-to-auto parts conglomerate HL Group, will be the exclusive supplier of af...

SK seeks to sell 13.3% stake in Chinese food firm Joyvio

SK seeks to sell 13.3% stake in Chinese food firm Joyvio

SK Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s second-largest business group SK, is in talks with Joyvio Group to sell its entire 13.3% stake i...

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