Lotte Mart renewed Hanoi Store as K-food special

Lotte Mart renewed Hanoi Store as K-food special

South Korea's Lotte Mart said on Thursday it renewed its Hanoi Center store into a grocery specialty outlet, catering to the growing demand for Kore...

CJ CheilJedang hosts K-food competition in China

CJ CheilJedang hosts K-food competition in China

South Korea's CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Thursday that it organized the CJ Challenge Live Competition at the 2024 K-Food China Qingdao Intern...

Korean fashion platform Ably to raise $144 mn from Alibaba, others

Korean fashion platform Ably to raise $144 mn from Alibaba, others

Ably Corp., South Korea’s top online fashion platform operator, is set to raise 200 billion won ($144 million) from foreign investors such as ...

Amazon to back K-Beauty’s broader global reach

Amazon to back K-Beauty’s broader global reach

US e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com Inc. will offer South Korean cosmetics producers one-stop support to enable them to reach millions of customers ...

Fried chicken chain bhc adds two more stores in Thailand

Fried chicken chain bhc adds two more stores in Thailand

South Korean fried chicken chain bhc Chicken announced on Monday that it opened its fifth and sixth stores in Thailand.The number of stores has incr...

d’Alba maker Bmonument, Memebox, Easytem line up for Korean IPOs

d’Alba maker Bmonument, Memebox, Easytem line up for Korean IPOs

South Korea’s promising beauty and healthcare device startups are looking to go public on the domestic bourse to scale up after gaining popula...

K-Sure to support Korean firms' participation in Vietnam's gas project

K-Sure to support Korean firms' participation in Vietnam's gas project

Korea Trade Insurance Corp. (K-Sure) announced that it will leverage medium- and long-term financial support to assist domestic companies in partici...

S.Korean companies open K-food section at Amazon

S.Korean companies open K-food section at Amazon

South Korean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will showcase Korean food (K-food) on Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce platform, the Mi...

Frozen kimbap market emerges as new K-food battlefield

Frozen kimbap market emerges as new K-food battlefield

South Korean fishery processing and seafood major Sajo Daerim Corp. has forayed into the frozen kimbap market, becoming a new big player in the coun...

Korean food firms chase sizzling K-food demand with expansion

Korean food firms chase sizzling K-food demand with expansion

South Korean food companies are scrambling to ramp up factory output at home and abroad to meet the insatiable appetite for Korean flavors and aroma...

L'Oréal to nurture K-Beauty startups

L'Oréal to nurture K-Beauty startups

L'Oréal, the world's largest cosmetics group, announced on Wednesday that it is recruiting digital and innovative technology companies to p...

Q Capital named K-drama maker Chorokbaem's preferred bidder

Q Capital named K-drama maker Chorokbaem's preferred bidder

Seoul-based private equity firm Q Capital Partners seeks to buy a 39.3% stake with management rights in South Korean drama series producer Chorokbae...

S.Korean IT companies partner with K-pop girl groups

S.Korean IT companies partner with K-pop girl groups

South Korean game companies like Krafton Inc. and Nexon Korea Corp., and telecom firms such as SK Telecom Co., are collaborating with K-pop girl gro...

Korea’s Kakao Mobility unveils global ride-hailing app to court Uber

Korea’s Kakao Mobility unveils global ride-hailing app to court Uber

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s top ride-hailing service provider, on Tuesday introduced the release of its global app, taking on global g...

MBK puts Homeplus’ supermarket chain unit up for sale

MBK puts Homeplus’ supermarket chain unit up for sale

MBK Partners, the North Asia-focused private equity firm, has put the supermarket chain unit of South Korea’s hypermarket operator Homeplus up...

Lotte Chilsung Krush beer enters Mongolian market

Lotte Chilsung Krush beer enters Mongolian market

South Korea's Lotte Chilsung Beverage announced on Friday that its beer brand Krush entered the Mongolian market. The company sponsored Davaida...

Kakao Mobility, Archer to collaborate for K-UAM commercialization

Kakao Mobility, Archer to collaborate for K-UAM commercialization

South Korea's Kakao Mobility Corp. announced on Friday that it signed an agreement with Archer Aviation, the US-based urban air mobility (UAM) aircr...

KOTRA opens K-Tech Camp in Paris

KOTRA opens K-Tech Camp in Paris

The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) announced on Thursday that it established the Paris K-Tech Camp in Paris, France on May 23.KOTRA...

Kim Jong Un’s Balloon Barrage: Bags of Excrement Fly Into the South

Kim Jong Un’s Balloon Barrage: Bags of Excrement Fly Into the South

SEOUL—An unusual sight drifted into South Korean skies on Wednesday: Large white balloons carrying plastic bags of North Korean trash. Some co...

Qoo10 launches K-Avenue for S.Korean products

Qoo10 launches K-Avenue for S.Korean products

Southeast Asia-based e-commerce platform Qoo10 Pte. announced on Tuesday that it launched K-Avenue, a sales channel for Korean products, on the newl...

S.Korea's monthly ramen export surpasses $100 mn

S.Korea's monthly ramen export surpasses $100 mn

The monthly export value of South Korea's ramen exceeded $100 million for the first time. According to the Korea Customs Service's trade statistics...

Samyang tops Korean ramen makers by market cap, beating Nongshim

Samyang tops Korean ramen makers by market cap, beating Nongshim

South Korean food maker Samyang Foods Co., globally renowned for its Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen, saw its stock hit a record high on Friday after it de...

Lotte Wellfood, Studio Dragon to collaborate on K-contents

Lotte Wellfood, Studio Dragon to collaborate on K-contents

South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with K-drama producer Studio Dragon to col...

NewJeans' Ditto hits 600 mn streams on Spotify

NewJeans' Ditto hits 600 mn streams on Spotify

Ditto by K-pop girl group NewJeans has surpassed 600 million streams on Spotify.Spotify, the world's largest music streaming platform, announced on ...

CJ CheilJedang profit beats forecasts on overseas business

CJ CheilJedang profit beats forecasts on overseas business

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. on Tuesday reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on healthy overseas businesses and cost cut...

Ottogi, KTO partner to attract foreign tourists

Ottogi, KTO partner to attract foreign tourists

The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding with domestic food company Ottogi to attract f...

CJ's Bibigo Gimbap enters Australian Woolworths stores

CJ's Bibigo Gimbap enters Australian Woolworths stores

South Korea's food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Sunday that it released its Bibigo frozen Gimbap products at Woolworths, Australia's numb...

LIG Nex1 participates in Malaysia's DSA 2024

LIG Nex1 participates in Malaysia's DSA 2024

South Korea's major defense system developer LIG Nex1 Co. announced on Tuesday that it's participating in the Defence Services Asia (DSA) 2024 exhib...

Korea’s booming medical tourism: Skin care, plastic surgery in demand

Korea’s booming medical tourism: Skin care, plastic surgery in demand

The number of foreign patients visiting South Korea for medical tourism hit a record high last year, driven by those who traveled to Korea for skin ...

HYBE conflict vs NewJeans label set to escalate into legal battle

HYBE conflict vs NewJeans label set to escalate into legal battle

HYBE Co., the company behind boy band BTS, has reported Min Hee-jin, the chief of popular girl group NewJeans’ label ADOR, to police for inves...

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