Ilhwa to export McCOL to South Africa

Ilhwa to export McCOL to South Africa

South Korea’s Ilhwa Co. on Friday that its flagship barley carbonated beverage McCOL will be exported to the Republic of South Africa. Th...

Shinhan Card Kazakhstan arm attracts $24 mn investment

Shinhan Card Kazakhstan arm attracts $24 mn investment

Shinhan Finance, a subsidiary of South Korea's Shinhan Card in Kazakhstan, has attracted a 31 billion won ($24 million) investment from local car de...

Korea's leading used-car platform Encar drops IPO plan

Korea's leading used-car platform Encar drops IPO plan

Encarsales.com Ltd., a South Korean used-car trading platform, will withdraw its initial public offering plan as early as this week due to deteriora...

Hyundai Exter, IONIQ 5 win India’s influential car awards

Hyundai Exter, IONIQ 5 win India’s influential car awards

Hyundai Motor Co. has won major auto industry prizes in India that are expected to help the leading South Korean automaker expand its presence in th...

Grandeur regains Korean sedan crown after two-year hiatus

Grandeur regains Korean sedan crown after two-year hiatus

Hyundai Motor Co.'s Grandeur mid-to-large-sized sedan is poised to reclaim its crown as the best-selling Korean car in the domestic passenger car se...

Anushka Sen, global celebs to ring in New Year in Seoul

Anushka Sen, global celebs to ring in New Year in Seoul

Thousands of global celebrity infuencers, including Indian TV actress and model Anushka Sen, are set to ring in the New Year at a content festival i...

Hyundai Motor’s themes at CES 2024: Hydrogen, software

Hyundai Motor’s themes at CES 2024: Hydrogen, software

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. is set to present its blueprint for a hydrogen energy ecosystem and software under the theme of ...

Boryung, HK inno.N to co-market Kanarb, K-CAB

Boryung, HK inno.N to co-market Kanarb, K-CAB

South Korea’s pharmaceutical companies Boryung Corp. and HK inno.N announced on Wednesday that they will start co-marketing for their respec...

Hyundai to sell Russian car plants at about $100 for exit

Hyundai to sell Russian car plants at about $100 for exit

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top carmaker, has decided to sell its plants in Russia for only about $100 to a local company although it has...

Elantra, Tucson selected among safest cars by IIHS

Elantra, Tucson selected among safest cars by IIHS

Hyundai Motor Co.'s passenger car Avante (name in the US: Elantra) and compact sport utility vehicle (SUV) Tucson earned the Top Safety Pick Plus ...

SUVs: Name of the game in 2023 South Korean auto market

SUVs: Name of the game in 2023 South Korean auto market

Back in the 1970s, when simply having a car was a status symbol in South Korea, a four-door passenger sedan was the car of choice. And Hyundai Motor...

NCSOFT, Obigo to jointly develop car AI services

NCSOFT, Obigo to jointly develop car AI services

South Korea's major game developer and publisher NCSOFT Corp. announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the domest...

Hyundai-invested SES to provide Li-Metal battery B samples, eyes UAM

Hyundai-invested SES to provide Li-Metal battery B samples, eyes UAM

SES AI Corp., a high-performance battery maker backed by several global automakers such as GM and Hyundai Motor Co., has moved one step closer to co...

HK inno.N reveals differentiated clinical results for K-CAB

HK inno.N reveals differentiated clinical results for K-CAB

South Korean bio-health company HK inno.N has been expanding its market by steadily announcing differentiated clinical results for its gastroesophag...

Hyundai, Kia’s car exports to top 2 mn units for 1st time in 7 years

Hyundai, Kia’s car exports to top 2 mn units for 1st time in 7 years

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s two largest automakers, are set to export more than 2 million cars in 2023 for the first time i...

New 2024 E-Class soon to arrive in Korea, land of Mercedes-Benz

New 2024 E-Class soon to arrive in Korea, land of Mercedes-Benz

As with the launch of every new E-Class, the flagship model of luxury German car brand Mercedes-Benz, the phrase “evolution, not revolution&rd...

Home&Shopping opens exclusive section in Vietnam K-Market

Home&Shopping opens exclusive section in Vietnam K-Market

South Korea's Home&Shopping announced on Friday that it opened its exclusive section in the K-Market in Vietnam. The company aims to support the...

Kia EV9 selected safest car in Europe

Kia EV9 selected safest car in Europe

Kia EV9, the flagship large all-electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) of South Korea’s No. 2 automaker Kia Corp., received five stars in the Eu...

E-Mart opens 3rd store in Vietnam, spurs K-food marketing

E-Mart opens 3rd store in Vietnam, spurs K-food marketing

South Korea’s E-Mart Inc. will open its new hypermarket in Ho Chi Minh City on Dec. 7, accelerating sales of its private label No Brand produc...

POSCO International wins green car parts orders from US, Europe

POSCO International wins green car parts orders from US, Europe

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., is accelerating i...

Daesang launches K-style chicken dipping sauces

Daesang launches K-style chicken dipping sauces

South Korea’s Daesang Corp. announced on Tuesday that its global food brand O’food launched two new chicken dipping sauces Swicy (sweet ...

The Hyundai Seoul, a must-visit for young foreigners

The Hyundai Seoul, a must-visit for young foreigners

The Hyundai Seoul, the largest department store in the South Korean capital, topped the 1 trillion won mark in annual sales at the fastest pace in t...

IONIQ 5, Sportage named safest cars by IIHS

IONIQ 5, Sportage named safest cars by IIHS

Hyundai Motor Co. 's crossover electric vehicle (EV) sport-utility vehicle (SUV) IONIQ 5 and Kia Corp. 's best-selling SUV Sportage earned a Top S...

Hyundai IONIQ 5 N named 2023 Car of the Year by TopGear

 Hyundai IONIQ 5 N named 2023 Car of the Year by TopGear

South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group announced on Thursday that Hyundai Motor Co.'s IONIQ 5 N electric vehicle has been named Car of the Year and Kia C...

CJ CheilJedang introduces K-Food in EzyMart across Australia

CJ CheilJedang introduces K-Food in EzyMart across Australia

South Korean food company CJ CheilJedang Corp. on Thursday announced its foray into Australia's convenience store sector by introducing its popular ...

Foreign visitors to S.Korea on course to top 10 mn milestone

Foreign visitors to S.Korea on course to top 10 mn milestone

The number of foreign visitors to South Korea spiked 158.3% to 1.23 million in October from the month previous, the Korea Tourism Organization said ...

KOTRA to support K-startups in European expansion

KOTRA to support K-startups in European expansion

The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) announced on Wednesday the establishment of a South Korean pavilion at the upcoming SLUSH 2023, ...

Hanjin to strengthen logistics for K-fashion brands

Hanjin to strengthen logistics for K-fashion brands

South Korea's Hanjin Transportation, a logistics unit of Hanjin Group, announced on Tuesday that it plans to strengthen Swoop, a logistics service o...

Car sales may sputter in 2024 amid EV policy risk: Research

Car sales may sputter in 2024 amid EV policy risk: Research

The global automobile market is on track to recover to pre-pandemic levels this year and is expected to grow at a moderate pace amid a prolonged eco...

Cosmax targets Thailand with K-beauty cosmetic formulations

Cosmax targets Thailand with K-beauty cosmetic formulations

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's largest cosmetics manufacturer that specializes in original design manufacturing (ODM), announced on Monday that it is ac...

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