End of the Whopper, Burger King's belated April Fool’s prank?

Burger King on Monday announced a plan to stop selling its iconic Whopper hamburger in South Korea this month after 40 years, provoking an outcry am...

LG Chem, Ansan City to team up for waste vinyl recycling

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. has decided to recycle waste vinyl generated in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, into plastic raw materials. The company announc...

Fed rate cuts will be faster than market consensus: TCW

Investors tend to rush to fixed-income markets when recession risk rises. South Korean investors are no exception – retail investors have been...

POSCO Future M named Fortune Asia Future 30

South Korea’s POSCO Future M Co. has been named Asia Future 30 by the US economic media Fortune on Mar. 27, according to the company on Thursd...

CJ Olive Young beats Amorepacific to become K-beauty king

CJ Olive Young Corp., South Korea’s top beauty store chain, took the throne in the domestic cosmetics market last year, beating industry giant...

Seoul City, Cyber Vally to support AI startups for overseas expansion

Seoul City announced on Tuesday that it will collaborate with Cyber Valley GmbH, Europe's largest artificial intelligence (AI) research consortium, ...

Hanwha resumes $10 billion Bismayah new city project in Iraq

South Korea’s Hanwha Corp. is resuming a $10 billion project to build a Bismayah new city in Iraq after a 16-month hiatus as stakeholders see ...

Taihan Cable wins order for UHV power grid in Egypt

South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. announced on Thursday that it has won a project for a 500-kilovolt (kV) UHV power grid project commiss...

State intervention in HSCEI-tied ELS sale debacle could backfire: scholars

South Korea’s economics scholars oppose government-led countermeasures, including compensation packages, to handle mounting retail investor lo...

Warren Buffett’s IMC to invest $98 million in Daegu for chip materials plant

DAEGU – The IMC Group, owned by Warrant Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., will invest 130 billion won ($98 million) to build a semicond...

Seoul aims to turn Yongsan IBD into world’s largest 'vertical' city

The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to turn an abandoned train maintenance depot in the central district of Yongsan into the world’s large...

Tata Daewoo triumphs in global market with 40% export surge

South Korea's Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company (TDCV) achieved remarkable success last year by exporting 40% of its total sales, despite the g...

Digital healthcare, robot, AI chip startups among VCs’ 2024 top picks

Startups that specialize in digital healthcare, robots and artificial intelligence chips are among South Korea-based venture capital firms’ to...

Hyundai Motor’s themes at CES 2024: Hydrogen, software

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. is set to present its blueprint for a hydrogen energy ecosystem and software under the theme of ...

POSCO Future M included in DJSI Asia Pacific Index

South Korea’s battery materials maker POSCO Future M Co. announced on Tuesday that it was listed on Dow Jones Sustainability Asia/Pacific In...

UAE, Korea’s Naver Z join hands for virtual reality tech

South Korea’s Naver Z Corp., the operator of virtual world platform Zepeto, said Monday it will join forces with the United Arab Emirates&rsqu...

Korea’s Growth Champions 2024 by Statista, Korea Economic Daily

Statista, the world’s leading data and intelligence company, has teamed up with The Korea Economic Daily to identify South Korea’s faste...

Korea’s Growth Champions 2024 list by Statista, Korea Economic Daily

List of Korea’s Growth Champions 2024 Rank Company Absolute Growth Rate Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) Revenue 2019 Revenu...

Naver, PIF-backed JV join hands for Saudi Arabia’s smart cities

South Korean online portal giant Naver Corp. is planning to accelerate Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation in partnership with a tech firm b...

Seoul to add new aerial lifts to Namsan by 2025

Visitors to Seoul, the capital of South Korea, are expected to enjoy faster and easier exploration of the city’s famous Namsan Mountain in 202...

SK’s Chey proposes South Korea-Japan economic bloc akin to EU

WASHINGTON, D.C. – South Korea and its closest neighbor Japan need to form an economic coalition, similar to the European Union (EU), to meet ...

CJ OliveNetworks to enter smart city business with Team Naver

South Korean digital service company CJ OliveNetworks announced on Thursday that it has signed a mutual cooperation agreement at Naver Corp.'s headq...

HD Hyundai wins $72 mn power equipment order in Saudi

HD Hyundai Electric Co., the electrical equipment and energy solution company under South Korea’s shipbuilding giant HD Hyundai Co., has won a...

S.Korea turns more upbeat about economic recovery

South Korea is more hopeful about a gradual recovery in the economy, driven largely by revived global demand for its mainstay export semiconductors,...

Hyundai’s Chung: 1st Korean awarded top UK Order from King Charles

Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun has been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for promoting economic and cultural co...

SK, Hyundai Motor's US JV, named Georgia's Deal of Year

South Korea’s battery maker SK On and Hyundai Motor Group's joint battery project in Georgia, the US, was awarded the "Deal of the Year 2023 i...

Samsung joins Swedish smartcity net zero home project

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Friday it will provide its Net Zero Home solutions for the upcoming Brobyholm Smartcity near Stockholm, Swede...

LG CNS to join New York digital transformation project

South Korea's information technology service provider LG CNS announced on Friday it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a digital tra...

POSCO to build 2nd N.EX.T Hub research institute in Seongnam city

POSCO Group, which owns South Korea’s largest steelmaker, plans to build a second research institute near Seoul to support the conglomerate&rs...

KT to develop smart city in Indonesia's new capital

South Korea's KT Corp. plans to apply smart city technologies such as quantum communication and cybersecurity to Nusantra, the new administrative ca...