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TOKYO – South Korea’s minimum wage per hour is poised to exceed Japan’s for the first time as early as this October.A subcommittee...

South Korea’s POSCO Group and Indonesia’s state-run Krakatau Steel plan to jointly invest $3.5 billion in building a blast furnace and a...

SK Geo Centric, an SK Innovation Co. subsidiary focused on the eco-friendly chemical business, joined hands with Paris-based Veolia Environnement S....

SK Chemicals Co. plans to build plastic recycling plants in China in partnership with a Chinese eco-friendly materials supplier as its parent SK Gro...

Ildong Pharmaceutical Co., a South Korean drugmaker, considers seeking approval for a COVID-19 anti-viral pill from the country as Japan postponed g...

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s steel giant, reported a lower profit in the second quarter on rising raw material pr...

POSCO International Co., a South Korean trading company, has embarked on a merger with its affiliate POSCO Energy Co. as their parent group is seeki...

DigitalBridge Group Inc., a US digital infrastructure investment firm, announced on July 19 it has appointed South Korean Tae E. Ahn as managing d...

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Wednesday it is supplying its all-electric IONIQ 5 crossover to Japan’s taxi servi...

Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is kickstarting efforts to attract foreign visitors with new tour programs and a promotional video featuring the ...

Supernal LLC, the urban air mobility affiliate of South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co., has unveiled the cabin concept of its flying ...

South Korea’s KB Asset Management Co. is set to list its Balhae Infrastructure Fund (Balhae) on the country’s main bourse Kospi in the s...

South Korea’s five technologies on 5G mobile networks, cloud computing and cryptography have been preliminarily chosen as global standards, a ...

South Korea’s shared micromobility startup The Swing Co. is making inroads in Japan, becoming the first domestic service provider in the secto...

South Korean budget airlines are seeing a slow recovery in international flights as key routes such as China and Japan have yet to normalize while t...

KB Investment Co., a venture capital arm of KB Financial Group, is seeking to raise more than 200 billion won ($150 million) in its second global fu...

Mirae Asset Securities Co. is poised to invest $100 million in US spacecraft and satellite communication corporation SpaceX. The South Korean f...

South Korean conglomerate LS Group is seeking business opportunities in the materials and parts sectors led by the fast-growing battery, electric ve...

Blackpink, the female K-pop idol group, will hold an in-game concert, the first such event by Korean pop artists, in collaboration with Krafton Inc....

Unlike the West or China, which showed vastly different reactions, most South Koreans had a more complicated initial response to the news of forme...

South Korea’s two largest convenience store chains GS25 and CU are branching out into Malaysia in search of new growth markets.GS Retail Co., ...

South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group will be buying a landmark office building in a central business district of Seoul for aroun...

Shares of major K-pop label YG Entertainment Inc. finished Wednesday's trade 6% higher at 48,950 won ($37.52) a share, on news of Blackpink’s ...

President Biden met with the heads of Japan and South Korea—the first such gathering between the three countries’ leaders in nearly five...

LG Energy Solution Ltd., one of the world’s leading battery makers, has agreed to supply its cylindrical batteries to Isuzu Motors Ltd., Japan...

A consortium led by the chemicals-to-steel conglomerate KG Group has been named the new owner of South Korea’s troubled sport utility vehicle ...

South Korea’s leading shipping companies are being used as funding sources for their parent groups’ business expansion or making up for ...

South Korea's top waste management company SK Ecoplant Co., a unit of conglomerate SK Inc., is slated to complete talks to invest 130 billion won ($...

South Korea’s petrochemical companies will build power plants for the first time in their history to meet their rising energy needs on a stabl...

South Korea plans to rebuild the nuclear power plant industry hard hit by the previous government’s nuclear energy phasing-out policy by placi...