Japan Mobility Show 2023

South Korea's NongHyup Financial Group, or NH Financial Group, has acquired a stake in a solar power plant in Japan from Korea Electric Power Corp. ...

Following in the footsteps of its bigger rival Krafton Inc., South Korean mobile game developer Netmarble Neo has kicked off its initial public offe...

South Korea-based diagnostic kit maker Seegene Inc. has developed a mobile diagnostic and testing lab that offers a one-stop solution for COVID-19 t...

South Korea-based mobile financial platform Toss is en route to becoming the country's first fintech decacorn, or a company valued at over $10 billi...

A self-driving car needs to pass all sorts of tests before setting off for the open road. It needs to experience different types of roads, terrain f...

Hyundai Motor Co. said on Monday it is shifting its business focus toward smart mobility from brick-and-mortar carmaking following its acquisition l...

Hyundai Motor Co.’s upcoming Santa Cruz pickup is challenging US truck giant Ford Motor Co.'s Maverick even before the South Korean automaker&...

Coupang Corp. has executed changes in leadership roles to focus more on overseas ventures. The company has entered Japan and Singapore this year. So...

South Korea’s second-largest automaker Kia Corp. has forged a partnership with Uber Technologies Inc. to supply electric vehicles in Europe fo...

Kakao Corp. is now the third most valuable company in Korea, after Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc.Kakao’s market cap on June 15 surp...

The telecom companies in South Korea, one after another, are taking bold steps outside their traditional turf of mobile business.  They are eng...

The global webtoon battleground between South Korea's leading platforms Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp. has expanded into Southeast Asia with each compa...

The National Pension Service has committed $100 million to a TPG consortium that recently raised $116.8 million to invest in Kakao Mobility Co., Sou...

South Korea’s Hanwha Systems Co. is set for a successful rights offering as the defense and air mobility unit of Hanwha Group has garnered str...

The Korea Development Bank (KDB) has decided to invest 80 billion won ($72 million) in the fintech startup Toss via a rights offering. This marks th...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday launched a low-end 5G smartphone in overseas markets amid intensified price competition initiated by Chinese mobil...

About eight years ago on Oct. 5, 2013, Song Byung-joon, the then-chief executive of South Korean mobile game developer Gamevil Inc., visited the off...

Samsung Electronics Co., which is losing share of the global foundry market, has come under increased pressure from its bigger rival Taiwan Semicond...

SoftBank Group founder and CEO Masayoshi Son’s salary more than halved last year, according to the group’s regulatory filing on May 28.T...

South Korea's Hana Alternative Asset Management Co. has beat 16 Japanese bidders to acquire a logistics center in the port of Osaka, Japan for ¥...

On May 12th ValueAct Partner, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer G. Mason Morfit appeared at the ASK Global Conference 2021 hosted by The Korea Econo...

South Korea’s first internet-only bank, K Bank, will be raising 1.2 trillion won ($1.05 billion) from existing and new investors for business ...

Kakao Corp.’s Japanese unit is set to secure 600 billion won ($530 million) from South Korea-based private equity firm Anchor Equity Partners....

Hyundai Motor Group will pilot an urban mobility service for pets in Seoul, using a specially designed Ray EV model by Kia Corp. The group said on A...

South Korea-based Dholic Commerce is an online retail platform that sells Korean fashion items and cosmetics to the Japanese market. The startup is ...

Hyundai Motor Co. on Monday unveiled an electric version of its premium brand Genesis at the opening of Auto Shanghai 2021 as the top South Korean c...

South Korea’s telecom and mobile network market leader SK Telecom Co., which announced last week its strategic long-term shift towards non-tel...

South Korea’s leading steelmaker POSCO will build the country’s first lithium extraction factory in Gwangyang, 300 km south of Seoul, al...

South Korea’s largest mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. will split into two separate entities. SK Telecom said on Apr. 14 that it will create a ne...

Kakao Corp.’s Japanese unit, which operates Japan’s largest webtoon platform Piccoma, is in talks to attract as much as 500 billion won ...