CJ CheilJedang serves up K-food for Qatar World Cup fans

CJ CheilJedang serves up K-food for Qatar World Cup fans

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. said on Tuesday it is operating a Korean food section within the Qatar World Cup’s fan zone, mana...

BOK may increase rate by only 25 bps this week as won rebounds

BOK may increase rate by only 25 bps this week as won rebounds

South Korea’s central bank is likely to raise interest rates by only 25 basis points this week as its won currency may have bottomed out, easi...

BTS Jin's solo debut album sells over 1 mn copies in 16 days

BTS Jin's solo debut album sells over 1 mn copies in 16 days

"The Astronaut," the first solo album of K-pop megaband BTS member Jin, has sold over 1 million copies in the 16 days since its launch.Released on O...

Promising K-startups to present B2B transition strategies at Geeks Show Up

Promising K-startups to present B2B transition strategies at Geeks Show Up

Come this Thursday, 10 select startups will duke it to prove their business-to-business (B2B) model has the best chance of success. The start...

Lotte Mart bulks up in SE Asia to make up for China failure

Lotte Mart bulks up in SE Asia to make up for China failure

Indonesia was the destination for Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin’s first overseas business trip in August, after being granted a special p...

Vietnamese MZers ensnared by K-beauty, K-fashion, K-everything

Vietnamese MZers ensnared by K-beauty, K-fashion, K-everything

HANOI – Vietnam’s young people are avid fans of Korean culture, collectively known as Hallyu. Trang, a 21-year-old college student, is o...

Korea must embrace diversity to sustain K-culture: Sam Richards

Korea must embrace diversity to sustain K-culture: Sam Richards

When Penn State University sociology professor Sam Richards introduced Korean pop culture into his lectures three years ago, he compared its power t...

CJ ENM’s TVing looks beyond Korea with Yonder, other K-drama series

CJ ENM’s TVing looks beyond Korea with Yonder, other K-drama series

South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co.’s over-the-top streaming platform TVing is taking its original sci-fi drama series Beyond the...

DRIMAES to produce cloud-based car control platform with Qualcomm

DRIMAES to produce cloud-based car control platform with Qualcomm

Daegu-based startup DRIMAES is poised to develop and mass produce a cloud-based vehicle control platform using San Diego-based semiconductor giant Q...

K-pop megaband BTS to serve military duty, agency says

K-pop megaband BTS to serve military duty, agency says

Members of K-pop boy band BTS will fulfill South Korea’s national military duty, starting with its oldest member Jin, their agency HYBE Co. an...

Poland poised to buy Hanwha’s multiple rocket launchers

Poland poised to buy Hanwha’s multiple rocket launchers

Poland is on the verge of buying additional artillery rocket systems developed by Hanwha Defense Co., following a string of weapons purchase agreeme...

Korean bio suffers as weak won lifts global clinical trial costs

Korean bio suffers as weak won lifts global clinical trial costs

South Korean biopharmaceutical firms are facing challenges in clinical trials overseas alongside the rising Korean won to the US dollar exchange rat...

K-pop giant SM up against Align Partner's shareholder activism

K-pop giant SM up against Align Partner's shareholder activism

South Korea’s Align Partners Capital Management is intensifying its shareholder activism against K-pop music label giant SM Entertainment Co.,...

Naver Cloud seeks win-win strategy with K-startups in overseas market

Naver Cloud seeks win-win strategy with K-startups in overseas market

NEW YORK – The chief executive officer of Naver Cloud Park Won-ki said that if South Korean startups using the company’s cloud services ...

Ramen wars: Nongshim caught out by rising Ottogi

Ramen wars: Nongshim caught out by rising Ottogi

Ottogi Co. is emerging as a formidable rival to Nongshim Co. in South Korea's instant noodle market, becoming the most popular ramen for the fifth w...

LG Display holds digital art exhibition in London

LG Display holds digital art exhibition in London

South Korea’s LG Display Co. is holding a digital art exhibition in London for works created on its organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels...

Kia’s EV6 GT: Faster than supercars Lamborghini, Porsche and Ferrari

Kia’s EV6 GT: Faster than supercars Lamborghini, Porsche and Ferrari

South Korea’s sports car enthusiasts now have one more supercar option to enjoy at an affordable price – one that is arguably as powerfu...

Hyundai E&C wins $158 mn order for port facility construction in Kuwait

Hyundai E&C wins $158 mn order for port facility construction in Kuwait

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. announced Tuesday it won a 220 billion won ($157 million) deal from Kuwait to add sev...

Internet lender K Bank gets green light for IPO

Internet lender K Bank gets green light for IPO

South Korea’s first internet-only lender K Bank on Tuesday received preliminary approval from the Korea Exchange to go public on the country&r...

SM mulls ending producer contract with founder Lee Soo-man's firm

SM mulls ending producer contract with founder Lee Soo-man's firm

SM Entertainment Co. announced Thursday it is considering terminating the production contract with Like Planning, wholly owned by its founder Lee So...

SK Telecom-led consortium to commercialize air taxis on Jeju Island

SK Telecom-led consortium to commercialize air taxis on Jeju Island

Come 2025, visitors to South Korea’s resort island of Jeju will be able to hail air taxis while there – thanks to special air routes ded...

POSCO partially restarts Pohang furnaces flooded by typhoon

POSCO partially restarts Pohang furnaces flooded by typhoon

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s largest steelmaker, has partially restarted its blast furnaces at its main plant in ...

DRX aims to be first Korean e-sports firm to go public with 2024 IPO

DRX aims to be first Korean e-sports firm to go public with 2024 IPO

South Korea’s e-sports company DRX is aiming to become the first e-sports firm to list on the secondary bourse Kosdaq with its planned 2024 IP...

LG Uplus' K-pop idol platform goes global via smart TVs

LG Uplus' K-pop idol platform goes global via smart TVs

Fans of K-pop idols such as boyband sensation BTS and girl group Blackpink will be able to enjoy their live performances through smart TVs at home a...

Polo shirts, classic sports fashion sees revival in Asia

Polo shirts, classic sports fashion sees revival in Asia

Ralph Lauren Corp., the world-renowned fashion firm that features timeless design and a classic sporty style with its trademark Polo brand, is seein...

K-pop, Toyota’s platform for marketing in the US

K-pop, Toyota’s platform for marketing in the US

LOS ANGELES -- Toyota Motor Corp., the top global automaker, showcased its sports cars – the GR86 and the GR Supra – at the Los Angeles ...

China's high entry barriers for Korean films, dramas

China's high entry barriers for Korean films, dramas

“Oh! My Gran” was the only South Korean movie to hit the big screen in China in the past year. It was also the first Korean film to be p...

Samsung Biologics, Samsung C&T extends investment in US biotech firms

Samsung Biologics, Samsung C&T extends investment in US biotech firms

The Life Science Fund, jointly launched by Samsung Biologics and Samsung C&T Corp., announced Wednesday it invested $15 million in US biotech fi...

K-chicken chain BB.Q foresees stores quadrupling in N.America

K-chicken chain BB.Q foresees stores quadrupling in N.America

Gourmands in North America will be able to enjoy South Korean fried chicken more conveniently as BB.Q Chicken, the country’s leading franchise...

K-bio firms embrace gene therapy CDMO as Samsung looks the other way

K-bio firms embrace gene therapy CDMO as Samsung looks the other way

South Korea’s major biopharmaceutical companies are rapidly embracing the cell and gene therapy business under a contract drug-making mechanis...

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