Samsung C&T consortium wins $1.6 bn Turkish highway project

Samsung C&T consortium wins $1.6 bn Turkish highway project

A consortium of Samsung C&T Corp., South Korean state-run firms and a Turkish builder won a $1.6 billion project to build and run a highway in t...

Kakao Mobility, Samsung C&T to co-work on robot, parking solutions

Kakao Mobility, Samsung C&T to co-work on robot, parking solutions

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app operator, announced on Friday that it signed a business agreement with Samsung C&...

CJ Logistics transports KAI’s T-50TH to Thailand

CJ Logistics transports KAI’s T-50TH to Thailand

South Korea's CJ Logistics transported two T-50TH fighter jets, manufactured by Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), to Thailand, the company sa...

Seoul rejects Elliott’s $20 mn claim against Samsung C&T

Seoul rejects Elliott’s $20 mn claim against Samsung C&T

Elliott Investment Management Corp. has lost a case against Samsung C&T Corp. in seeking 26.7 billion won ($20.2 million) compensation in connec...

S.Korea’s T’way Air to introduce A330-900 Neo aircraft

S.Korea’s T’way Air to introduce A330-900 Neo aircraft

T'way Air Co. announced on Thursday that it will gradually introduce five new Airbus A330-900 Neo aircraft starting next year.T’way recently s...

LG's transparent OLED TV named best product in US

LG's transparent OLED TV named best product in US

LG Electronics Inc.'s transparent OLED TV, the LG Signature OLED T, received the Best Designer Display award at the CEDIA Expo 2024, held in Denver,...

KT&G to sell Korean office tower to Pebblestone for $90 mn

KT&G to sell Korean office tower to Pebblestone for $90 mn

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, is set to sell an office tower in South Korea to a local asset manager for an estimat...

Stock-rich KCC's shareholdings exceed its market cap

Stock-rich KCC's shareholdings exceed its market cap

KCC Corp., a paint and glass maker but better known as a white knight for South Korean conglomerates, holds more than 4 trillion won ($3 billion) wo...

KAI, TAI ink deal to boost T-50TH support

KAI, TAI ink deal to boost T-50TH support

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Thai Aviation Industries (TAI), Thailand's state-owned aircraf...

LG Uplus to support smart city transformation in Hwasun

LG Uplus to support smart city transformation in Hwasun

South Korea’s LG Uplus Corp. announced on Wednesday that it will support the smart city transformation of Hwasun-gun in South Jeolla Province,...

Tous les Jours to enter Singapore market

Tous les Jours to enter Singapore market

CJ Foodville, the food service subsidiary of South Korea's CJ Group and the operator of the bakery chain brand Tous les Jours, announced on Monday t...

Carlyle, Keppel, IMM stay in final race for Ecorbit

Carlyle, Keppel, IMM stay in final race for Ecorbit

Carlyle Group, a union of Hong Kong-based Keppel Corp. and Gaw Capital Partners and a consortium of IMM Investment and IMM Private Equity are the th...

Jeju Air seeks M&A, igniting race for top place in Korea's LCC market

Jeju Air seeks M&A, igniting race for top place in Korea's LCC market

Jeju Air Co., a leading South Korean low-cost carrier (LCC), will likely seek the acquisition and merger of a rival small airline operator amid inte...

NH to buy Donuimun D Tower for $650 mn

NH to buy Donuimun D Tower for $650 mn

South Korea’s NongHyup Financial Group Inc. (NH Financial) is poised to acquire landmark office building Donuimun D Tower for about 900 billio...

Samsung C&T to participate in basic design of Romania SMR

Samsung C&T to participate in basic design of Romania SMR

Samsung C&T Corp., the construction and trading unit of South Korea’s Samsung Group, will participate in the basic design of the Romanian ...

Samsung likely to buy The Asset office tower for more than $724 mn

Samsung likely to buy The Asset office tower for more than $724 mn

Samsung Group is poised to acquire the Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co. headquarters building in Seoul for more than 1 trillion won ($724.4 m...

Samsung to invest $52 mn in US biotech VC Flagship Pioneering

Samsung to invest $52 mn in US biotech VC Flagship Pioneering

Samsung C&T Corp., its bio units Samsung Biologics Co. and Samsung Bioepis Co. and Samsung Venture Investment Corp. have committed a combined 72...

Don’t dwell on Korea discount; light up visibility on global stage

Don’t dwell on Korea discount; light up visibility on global stage

To the world, South Korea is well known as home to the world’s top two memory chipmakers, Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., but it is...

Korea’s top resort operator Sono buys T'way stake for $76 mn

Korea’s top resort operator Sono buys T'way stake for $76 mn

South Korea’s top resort operator Sono International Co. has bought a stake in T'way Air Co., a local low-cost carrier (LCC), for 105.6 billio...

NongHyup likely to join $654 mn bid for Seoul D Tower office building

NongHyup likely to join $654 mn bid for Seoul D Tower office building

South Korea’s NongHyup Financial Group Inc. (NH Financial) is likely to join the race for the purchase of Donuimun D Tower, a landmark office ...

Carlyle, Keppel, Gaw Capital, IMM vying for Ecorbit

Carlyle, Keppel, Gaw Capital, IMM vying for Ecorbit

Carlyle Group, Temasek-backed Keppel Corp., Gaw Capital Partners, and a consortium of IMM Investment and IMM Private Equity have been selected as fi...

Korea’s KT, Microsoft form strategic alliance on AI, cloud sectors

Korea’s KT, Microsoft form strategic alliance on AI, cloud sectors

South Korea’s leading telecommunications service provider KT Corp. has formed a strategic alliance with US tech giant Microsoft Corp. to colla...

Hanwha buys S’pore Dyna-Mac’s stake for $73.8 mn from Keppel

Hanwha buys S’pore Dyna-Mac’s stake for $73.8 mn from Keppel

South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group bought a stake in Dyna-Mac Holdings Ltd., a Singaporean floating facility designe...

Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino triples revenue

Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino triples revenue

Jeju Dream Tower Casino, located on South Korea's top tourist island of Jeju and run by Lotte Tour Development Co., surpassed $6 million in cumula...

LG Elec sees AI air conditioner sales 30% increase in Q1

LG Elec sees AI air conditioner sales 30% increase in Q1

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday that the sales of air conditioner models equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) features in the Whisen l...

S.Korean gov’t selects six overseas cities for K-City Network

S.Korean gov’t selects six overseas cities for K-City Network

The South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on Wednesday that it selected six cities including Indonesia's Jakarta, Vi...

Keppel REIT to sell Seoul-based prime office T Tower

Keppel REIT to sell Seoul-based prime office T Tower

Singapore’s Keppel REIT Management Ltd. is set to divest of its Seoul-based prime office building T Tower near Seoul Station.Real estate manag...

Samsung C&T to build Korea’s first $103 mn hydrogen tank for power plant

Samsung C&T to build Korea’s first $103 mn hydrogen tank for power plant

Samsung C&T Corp., the construction and trading unit of South Korea’s Samsung Group, has clinched a 140 billion won ($103 million) deal to...

LG Electronics named Energy Star Partner of 2024

LG Electronics named Energy Star Partner of 2024

LG Electronics Inc. has been named 2024 Energy Star Partner of the Year and Sustained Excellence by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a...

Shinhan to build landmark office tower for non-banking units

Shinhan to build landmark office tower for non-banking units

Shinhan Financial Group Co., South Korea's second-largest financial group, plans to build a new high-rise office tower in Seoul’s central busi...

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