Riiid inks deal with ALC to expand its AI-based TOEIC platform in Japan

Riiid inks deal with ALC to expand its AI-based TOEIC platform in Japan

South Korean AI-powered edtech firm, Riiid, announced on Thursday it has partnered with ALC, a premier brand in the Japanese language education indu...

South Korean game developers expand business with IPs

South Korean game developers expand business with IPs

South Korean game developers are expanding their business portfolios through their intellectual property to boost profits with a goal to create glob...

S.Korean chips’ heavy reliance on China, US poses risk to national economy

S.Korean chips’ heavy reliance on China, US poses risk to national economy

South Korea’s semiconductor industry is more vulnerable to economic and industrial shifts in its key export markets than those of its rivals T...

S.Korean's interest in Japan travel surpasses pre-No Japan levels

S.Korean's interest in Japan travel surpasses pre-No Japan levels

A survey result indicates an increased interest in travel to Japan compared to pre-No Japan boycott levels, while interest in travel to China has pl...

S.Korea’s popular MMORPGs go abroad for profitability

S.Korea’s popular MMORPGs go abroad for profitability

South Korean game developers target overseas markets for their locally hit massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) to increase pro...

Innocean joins top 10 brand marketing agencies in India

Innocean joins top 10 brand marketing agencies in India

Innocean, a Hyundai Motor Group-affiliated advertising agency, announced on Wednesday that its Indian corporation has joined top 10 of local brand m...

Fifty Fifty longest K-pop girl group to stay on Billboard Hot 100

Fifty Fifty longest K-pop girl group to stay on Billboard Hot 100

Fifty Fifty has stayed on the US Billboard Hot 100 for nine consecutive weeks, setting a new record for the longest stay by a K-pop girl group.Accor...

Jeju Air CEO sees Korea-Indonesia routes as blue ocean

Jeju Air CEO sees Korea-Indonesia routes as blue ocean

South Korea’s largest low-cost carrier (LCC) Jeju Air Co. will make the most of the post-pandemic recovery in travel demand by exploring South...

S.Korea's UAM group to develop tourism transportation on southern coast

S.Korea's UAM group to develop tourism transportation on southern coast

Urban air transportation (UAM) in South Korea will open a tourism road on the country's southern coast, which is dubbed "the nation's Mediterranean ...

UAE to find $2 bn investment opportunities in S.Korea

UAE to find $2 bn investment opportunities in S.Korea

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is reviewing $2 billion worth of investment project in South Korea, such energy and information communications techno...

Hyundai completes Nürburgring 24 Hours for 8th consecutive year

Hyundai completes Nürburgring 24 Hours for 8th consecutive year

South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Monday that its Elantra N TCR (known domestically as Avante N TCR) and i30 Fastback N Cup Car triumphed...

Fifty Fifty sets new record for K-pop girl group with Spotify listeners

Fifty Fifty sets new record for K-pop girl group with Spotify listeners

K-pop rookie Fifty Fifty has surpassed 34.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify, the world's largest music streaming site, its agency Attrakt said ...

MLB apparel by Korea's F&F finds favor in China

MLB apparel by Korea's F&F finds favor in China

F&F Co., a South Korean outdoor fashion retailer, has notched a success selling US Major League Baseball (MLB) apparel in China. This comes desp...

S.Korea's Osteonic starts sports medicine exports to Japan

S.Korea's Osteonic starts sports medicine exports to Japan

South Korea's surgical and medical instruments maker Osteonic Co. on Thursday announced the start of exports of its Kinex sports medicine products t...

S.Korea’s popular donut brand Knotted to enter US market

S.Korea’s popular donut brand Knotted to enter US market

South Korean lifestyle hospitality startup Good Food For Good (GFFG) announced on Wednesday a strategic plan called "New GFFG 2.0." The plan aims to...

Hyundai Motor holds Brand Day in Tokyo

Hyundai Motor holds Brand Day in Tokyo

Hyundai Motor Co., in celebration of the first anniversary of its reentry into the Japanese market, is introducing a locally tailored "assurance pro...

Amorepacific launches customized makeup brand Tonework

Amorepacific launches customized makeup brand Tonework

South Korea’s cosmetics giant Amorepacific Corp. will officially launch its customized makeup brand "Tonework" on Tuesday.Tonework precisely...

CJ’s K-culture event draws record-high numbers in Japan

CJ’s K-culture event draws record-high numbers in Japan

CHIBA, JAPAN – A global K-pop concert hosted by CJ ENM Co., a South Korean entertainment powerhouse, heated up the venue in Japan with an audi...

LG Elec’s home appliance selected as most reliable brand in US

LG Elec’s home appliance selected as most reliable brand in US

South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. has been named the most reliable appliance brand by American consumers.According to Consumer Reports, a leading ...

Hansae: Hidden Korean champion in global OEM apparel market

Hansae: Hidden Korean champion in global OEM apparel market

Hansae is an unfamiliar name to many South Koreans for sure.But among original equipment manufacturing (OEM) companies in the apparel industry, Hans...

CJ CheilJedang plans to globalize Korean street food

CJ CheilJedang plans to globalize Korean street food

South Korea's food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. is set to launch a range of Korean street food as new products, aiming for global expansion. The compa...

Samsung to invest $221 mn to build R&D chip line in Japan: Nikkei

Samsung to invest $221 mn to build R&D chip line in Japan: Nikkei

Samsung Electronics Co. will build a prototype chip production facility in Japan for 30 billion yen ($221 million) to develop next-generation back-e...

YG’s new girl group lifts stock price to decade high

YG’s new girl group lifts stock price to decade high

YG Entertainment Inc., the K-pop label behind global sensation Blackpink, saw its stock hitting the highest point in more than 10 years as a new gro...

K-Bio Lab Hub, Japan's iPark to jointly support bio startups

K-Bio Lab Hub, Japan's iPark to jointly support bio startups

South Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced on Friday that it has reached the previous day an agreement with Japan's iPark Institute duri...

S.Korea advised to slash corporate inheritance tax to 30%

S.Korea advised to slash corporate inheritance tax to 30%

South Korean entrepreneurs are imposed heavy inheritance taxes of up to 60% to hand down wealth to their children, the highest level among Organizat...

KGC promotes S.Korean top red ginseng brand CheongKwanJang in China

KGC promotes S.Korean top red ginseng brand CheongKwanJang in China

Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC), wholly owned by South Korean tobacco giant KT&G Corp. , announced on Thursday its participation in the "2023 TFWA Wor...

S.Korea's brokerages lower stock target prices for Shinsegae Int'l

S.Korea's brokerages lower stock target prices for Shinsegae Int'l

South Korea's securities companies on Thursday lowered their target stock prices for retailer Shinsegae International given its sluggish first-quart...

CJ Olive Young targets Japanese sun care products market

CJ Olive Young targets Japanese sun care products market

Round A'round, South Korea's top beauty chain CJ Olive Young's own cosmetic brand, announced on Thursday that its popular sun care item "Greentea Ci...

FKI, Keidanren launch fund for Korea-Japan partnerships

FKI, Keidanren launch fund for Korea-Japan partnerships

TOKYO – Major business lobby groups of South Korea and Japan have created a partnership fund of 200 million yen ($1.5 million) to accelerate i...

K-beef targets global halal market through exports to Malaysia

K-beef targets global halal market through exports to Malaysia

Korean beef is making its entry into the global halal food market, starting with Malaysia. South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affa...

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