Gas maker Air Products Korea put on sale for around $3.6 bn

US industrial gas maker Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has put its South Korean unit up for sale for an estimated 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion), in...

PE firms seek to buy Korean explosives maker for $218 mn

A private equity consortium seeks to buy a 100% stake in Koryo Nobel Explosives Co., South Korea’s No. 2 industrial explosives manufacturer, f...

Dongkuk buys Aju Steel to create No.1 color coated steel maker

Dongkuk Coated Metal Co. (Dongkuk CM), the cold-rolled steel unit of South Korea's Dongkuk Holdings Co., has agreed to buy Aju Steel Co. specializin...

Lotte Wellfood eyes merger with trading arm; firms indecisives

South Korea’s Lotte Corp. is considering a merger of its confectionery unit Lotte Wellfood Co. and agricultural product trading arm Lotte Inte...

South Korean beauty device makers bulk up through M&As

South Korean beauty device manufacturers are aggressively pursuing mergers and acquisitions both at home and abroad to expand their scale, diversify...

LG Display to sell its last LCD plant to CSOT for $1.5 bn

South Korea’s LG Display Co. plans to sell its liquid crystal display (LCD) panel plant in Guangzhou, China, to TCL China Star Optoelectronics...

Samsung’s new chip leader calls for restoring competitiveness  

It is urgent to restore Samsung Electronics Co.'s competitiveness in the semiconductor business, the chip division’s new head said in his firs...

LG Chem emerges as global No. 4 chemicals maker: C&EN

South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. has emerged as the world’s fourth chemicals producer, the second Asian company to be among the five largest a...

Samsung set to ship HBM3E chips in H2 after strong H1

Samsung Electronics Co. expects it will be ready to ship its fifth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, or HBM3E, in the second half, demon...

Samsung SDI’s Q2 profit drops on sluggish European EV sales

Samsung SDI Co., the world’s sixth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, saw its second-quarter operating profit plunge from the year-earlie...

SGC E&C secures $92 mn chemical plant project in Malaysia

South Korea's SGC eTEC E&C Co. announced on Monday that it secured an additional chemical plant construction project in Malaysia worth 127.3 bil...

Korean soju makers likely to log strong quarterly profit

HiteJinro Co., South Korea’s leading soju maker, will likely post its best-ever quarterly profit in the second quarter as the clear distilled ...

S.Korea relinquishes control to China in smaller OLED market

LG Display Co. and Samsung Display Co. lost ground to their Chinese rivals in the global small and mid-sized organic light-emitting diode (OLED) pan...

SK Chemicals, Kooksoondang to develop CR-PET container

South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. and South Korean traditional rice-based wine brewery Kooksoondang Co. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on T...

Rebound in large OLED TV demand bodes well for LG Display, Samsung

In the flat panel market, South Korea’s two display makers – LG Display Co. and Samsung Display Co. – have been bleeding for years...

Lotte leader Shin Dong-bin stresses pivot to AI-centered innovation

Shin Dong-bin, chairman of South Korea’s retail, food and chemicals conglomerate Lotte, on Friday urged affiliate executives to ramp up effort...

Korean cosmetics makers see record Q2 profits led by exports

South Korean cosmetics original development and design manufacturers (ODMs) such as Cosmax Inc., Kolmar Korea Co. and Cosmecca Korea Co. are estimat...

Hyosung to sell its specialty gas unit for $943 mn to Korean PEs

South Korea’s Hyosung Group is poised to sell a 100% stake in its specialty and industrial gas unit to a consortium led by IMM Private Equity ...

Lotte to halve basic chemicals in portfolio for profitability

South Korea’s No. 2 petrochemicals manufacturer Lotte Chemical Corp. is set to more than halve its basic chemicals business by 2030 in its por...

Hanmi Semiconductor eyes $1.5 billion sales in 2026

Hanmi Semiconductor Co., South Korea’s leading chip packaging equipment manufacturer, has revised upwards its annual sales target for this yea...

Samsung SDI to ink $726 mn ESS deal with NextEra Energy

Samsung SDI Co., the world’s sixth-largest electric vehicle cell maker, is set to provide batteries for energy storage systems (ESS) to NextEr...

Time to revive innovator spirit: LG Energy Solution CEO

South Korea’s top battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd., also the world’s No. 3, must accelerate innovation and prop up fundamentals to ...

LG Energy signs multi-billion-dollar LFP battery deal with Renault

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker, has clinched a multi-billion-dollar deal to supply LFP batteries for low-en...

Hyundai Mobis combines electrification, module divisions

Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s sixth-largest auto parts maker, said on Friday it has merged its electrification and module divisions to stream...

Lotte Chemical's rating outlook cut on worsening financials

South Korea’s No. 2 petrochemicals maker Lotte Chemical Corp. has taken a hit from a lowered credit-rating outlook of the company and its majo...

SK Hynix develops SSD for AI PCs to be mass-produced this year

South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. introduced a solid-state drive (SSD) for on-device artificial intelligence PCs for mass production this year, to e...

SK Bioscience to buy German vaccine maker IDT Biologika for $244 mn

South Korea’s vaccine developer SK Bioscience Co. will acquire a controlling stake in the world’s top 10 vaccine firm IDT Biologika GmbH...

Amazon to back K-Beauty’s broader global reach

US e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com Inc. will offer South Korean cosmetics producers one-stop support to enable them to reach millions of customers ...

SK On signs MOU to secure US-sourced lithium from ExxonMobil

SK On Co. has inked an MOU with ExxonMobil Corp. to buy lithium extracted by the US oil giant from a salt well in the US state of Arkansas. The deal...

EV battery maker LG Energy eyes $2 bn global bond sale

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s third-largest electric vehicle battery maker, is poised to raise $2 billion in global bonds by the end of...