CJ Olive Young opens Hongdae Town for K-beauty experience

CJ Olive Young opens Hongdae Town for K-beauty experience

CJ Olive Young Corp., South Korea’s top beauty store chain, announced on Thursday that it will open Olive Young Hongdae Town, a specialty stor...

Woori Financial opens DinnoLab Vietnam Center

Woori Financial opens DinnoLab Vietnam Center

South Korea's Woori Financial Group announced on Wednesday that it has opened the DinnoLab Vietnam Center in Hanoi.DinnoLab is a program by Woori ...

Aekyung AGE20's to enter US cosmetics market

Aekyung AGE20's to enter US cosmetics market

South Korea's Aekyung Industrial Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Silicon2, a global K-beauty distri...

Hyundai launches the ST1, its 1st electric work van with futuristic styling

Hyundai launches the ST1, its 1st electric work van with futuristic styling

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Wednesday it is launching the ST1, its first fully electric work van that can be retrofi...

Korea's Lotte Insurance put on market for around $1.5 bn

Korea's Lotte Insurance put on market for around $1.5 bn

Lotte Group’s non-life insurance affiliate Lotte Insurance Co., has been put up for sale at around 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion), according to...

Samsung Asset eyes expansion into US ETF market

Samsung Asset eyes expansion into US ETF market

NEW YORK – South Korea’s largest asset manager Samsung Asset Management Co. is leveraging its strategic partnership with a US investment...

Used goods platform Gugus shines in slowing luxury market

Used goods platform Gugus shines in slowing luxury market

Gugus, South Korea’s largest online retailer of secondhand luxury goods, posted double-digit growth in revenue and transactions in the first q...

S.Korea’s IBK, Japan’s Mizuho Bank agree on $218-million committed line

S.Korea’s IBK, Japan’s Mizuho Bank agree on $218-million committed line

South Korea’s state-run Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) has agreed on a 300 billion won ($218 million) committed credit line with Japanese lead...

HK inno.N to release K-CAB in MENA market

HK inno.N to release K-CAB in MENA market

South Korean bio-health company HK inno.N announced on Tuesday that it signed a contract with Saudi Arabian local pharmaceutical company Tabuk Pharm...

CJ CheilJedang's K-style rice gains popularity in N.America

CJ CheilJedang's K-style rice gains popularity in N.America

South Korea’s CJ CheilJedang Corp. said on Tuesday that its sales of the flagship brand Bibigo’s Cooked Sticky White Rice in North Ameri...

SoftBank-backed Korean flea market app sees overseas growth

SoftBank-backed Korean flea market app sees overseas growth

Danggeun Market Inc., South Korea’s largest online flea market service provider, enjoyed growth in other countries with its Karrot app briefly...

Korea's LX opens Hungary terminal for Europe EV, battery logistics

Korea's LX opens Hungary terminal for Europe EV, battery logistics

LX Pantos, one of the top logistics firms in South Korea, has launched a railway terminal in Hungary for the electric vehicle and battery logistics ...

Clio acquires two Japanese cosmetics distributors

Clio acquires two Japanese cosmetics distributors

South Korea's Clio Cosmetics Co. announced on Friday that it has acquired a 100% stake in Japanese cosmetics distributor Doowon and cosmetics import...

Pepero enters Thailand’s King Power Duty Free

Pepero enters Thailand’s King Power Duty Free

South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Friday that its thin chocolate-coated cookie sticks Pepero and no-sugar ice cream Zero entered King Po...

Kia to bring 1st hybrid variant of subcompact SUV Sonet to Japan, China

Kia to bring 1st hybrid variant of subcompact SUV Sonet to Japan, China

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, plans to aggressively expand its hybrid vehicle lineup to subcompact SUVs amid slower-than-...

Kakao Entertainment, Billboard to collaborate for K-pop

Kakao Entertainment, Billboard to collaborate for K-pop

South Korea's Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of mobile platform giant Kakao Corp., partnered with the renowned US music magazine Billboard on W...

LG to double global built-in appliance sales to $722 mn

LG to double global built-in appliance sales to $722 mn

MILAN, ITALY – LG Electronics Inc. eyes 1 trillion won ($722 million) in global built-in appliance sales in three years by winning the hearts ...

HD Hyundai, Scottish firms to cooperate on offshore wind power

HD Hyundai, Scottish firms to cooperate on offshore wind power

South Korea's HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. announced on Wednesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Scottish Enterprise and...

Hyundai Glovis to supply $29 mn logistics automation systems

Hyundai Glovis to supply $29 mn logistics automation systems

South Korea's Hyundai Glovis Co. announced on Wednesday that it signed a contract with Korea Superfreeze Inc. and EcoPro CnG to supply logistics aut...

Autech enters silver car market for seniors

Autech enters silver car market for seniors

South Korea's specialty vehicle company Autech Corporation announced on Tuesday that it plans to enter the silver car market for seniors. It al...

Korea’s Catchtable eyes offshore table reservation markets

Korea’s Catchtable eyes offshore table reservation markets

Wad Corp., the developer and operator of South Korea’s most popular restaurant reservation app Catchtable, is considering offering Catchtable ...

South Korea’s chip design firms go abroad to tap $426 billion market

South Korea’s chip design firms go abroad to tap $426 billion market

South Korea’s chip design companies are turning their sights overseas to tap into the 593 trillion won ($426 billion) system semiconductor mar...

Keppel REIT to sell Seoul-based prime office T Tower

Keppel REIT to sell Seoul-based prime office T Tower

Singapore’s Keppel REIT Management Ltd. is set to divest of its Seoul-based prime office building T Tower near Seoul Station.Real estate manag...

Tim Hortons opens sixth store in S.Korea

Tim Hortons opens sixth store in S.Korea

Canadian coffee brand Tim Hortons opened its sixth store in K-Twin Towers in Gwanghwamun, Seoul, South Korea, according to the company on Tuesday.&n...

SK D&D, Habyt to cooperate for residential business

SK D&D, Habyt to cooperate for residential business

SK D&D Co., a real estate unit of South Korea’s SK Group, announced on Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the...

Private markets open to more high-net-worth individuals: Hamilton Lane

Private markets open to more high-net-worth individuals: Hamilton Lane

The number of high-net-worth individuals allocating capital to private markets is increasing fast. These are wealthy individuals who own at least $1...

Lotte Home Shopping expands Japan tour packages

Lotte Home Shopping expands Japan tour packages

South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping said on Tuesday that it will expand its range of travel packages to Japan, including trips to Kyushu and Okinawa, ...

Samsung, LG look to Europe with AI-powered built-in kitchen appliances

Samsung, LG look to Europe with AI-powered built-in kitchen appliances

MILAN, ITALY – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are big names in the US home appliances market. The two South Korean electronic...

Korean kimchi makers spur production in US, Australia

Korean kimchi makers spur production in US, Australia

South Korean top food makers such as CJ CheilJedang Corp. and Daesang Corp. are expanding their kimchi factories overseas to meet growing demand for...

LG, Hyundai seek to deepen vehicle system partnership

LG, Hyundai seek to deepen vehicle system partnership

LG Group units, including LG Electronics Inc. and LG Innotek Co., are in talks with Hyundai Motor Group to expand collaboration on vehicle systems, ...

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