Law&Company vows to go global with AI legal assistant

Law&Company vows to go global with AI legal assistant

Law&Company Co., the operator of South Korea’s largest legal advice app LawTalk, will venture into the US legal tech market in five years ...

POSCO International completes Korea’s first non-state-run LNG terminal

POSCO International completes Korea’s first non-state-run LNG terminal

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Tuesday i...

Hyundai Motor Group, Oxford Univ. establish Foresight Center

Hyundai Motor Group, Oxford Univ. establish Foresight Center

Hyundai Motor Group announced on Tuesday that it partnered with the University of Oxford and established the Oxford-Hyundai Motor Group Foresight Ce...

Korea’s GS Entec to invest $217 mn in wind power business

Korea’s GS Entec to invest $217 mn in wind power business

South Korea’s GS Entec Corp. is set to invest 300 billion won ($216.8 million) in facilities to manufacture wind power equipment as it shifts ...

Korea’s edtech startups defend against global giants with AI

Korea’s edtech startups defend against global giants with AI

South Korea’s major online adult education platforms improved their earnings powered by classes on artificial intelligence, defying concerns o...

FG Korea to open Five Guys stores in Japan

FG Korea to open Five Guys stores in Japan

FG Korea, the operator of the American handcrafted hamburger brand Five Guys in South Korea, will open its stores in Japan in the second half of nex...

Korea’s POBA to invest $109 mn in Koramco’s office REIT

Korea’s POBA to invest $109 mn in Koramco’s office REIT

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA) is set to commit 150 billion won ($108.5 million) in preferred stocks for offices in...

KTO holds Visit Korea Alliance exhibition for foreigners

KTO holds Visit Korea Alliance exhibition for foreigners

The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) announced on Monday that it will hold a VK Alliance Products and Services Special Exhibition for foreigners thr...

Foreign net buying of S.Korean stocks hits all-time high

Foreign net buying of S.Korean stocks hits all-time high

Offshore investors net purchased nearly 23 trillion won ($16.7 billion) worth of South Korea-listed stocks in the first half of this year. The buyin...

GM Korea supplier Erae cs eyes revival by unit sales

GM Korea supplier Erae cs eyes revival by unit sales

A controlling stake in Erae AMS Co., formerly Delphi Automotive Systems’ South Korean affiliate, is on sale with eight potential bidders eyein...

S. Korea may join offshore wind alliance to take on China

S. Korea may join offshore wind alliance to take on China

South Korea is considering teaming up with a global body formed to cope with China’s rapid expansion in the world’s wind power industry ...

Samsung Asset's KODEX ETF surpasses $43 bn in net assets

Samsung Asset's KODEX ETF surpasses $43 bn in net assets

South Korea's Samsung Asset Management announced on Monday that the net assets of its KODEX exchange-traded fund (ETF) have surpassed 60 trillion ...

NPS-backed new prime office building in Seoul struggles with poor demand

NPS-backed new prime office building in Seoul struggles with poor demand

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is seeing little demand for a Seoul-based new prim...

Affinity-backed SSG.COM offers 1st voluntary redundancies

Affinity-backed SSG.COM offers 1st voluntary redundancies

Money-losing SSG.COM, once the most popular online shopping mall in South Korea, is asking some of its employees to volunteer to leave the company f...

S.Korea's Vegan J. enters Amazon USA

S.Korea's Vegan J. enters Amazon USA

South Korean eco-friendly cosmetic brand Vegan J. announced on Friday that it sells its products on Amazon, the largest e-commerce platform in the U...

S.Korea promotes export of $3.8 bn railcars to Morocco

S.Korea promotes export of $3.8 bn railcars to Morocco

The South Korean government is promoting exporting Korean-style railway cars (K-rail), including high-speed trains worth $3.8 billion, to Morocco.Th...

Hanmi Semiconductor eyes $1.5 billion sales in 2026

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...

Cosmax mulls building cosmetics factory in Latin America

Cosmax mulls building cosmetics factory in Latin America

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's biggest cosmetics original development and design manufacturer (ODM), is considering building a new offshore plant in Lat...

SK Square to ramp up chip investment with new CEO

SK Square to ramp up chip investment with new CEO

South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group said on Thursday that its investment arm SK Square Co., led by new CEO Han Myung-jin, will ramp ...

Time to revive innovator spirit: LG Energy Solution CEO

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 Elec selected as Volkswagen's top supplier

LG Elec selected as Volkswagen's top supplier

LG Electronics Inc. was named the top supplier by Germany's Volkswagen Group. According to industry sources on Thursday, LG Electronics received the...

Doosan Tesna to invest $160 mn in chip testing plant in Korea

Doosan Tesna to invest $160 mn in chip testing plant in Korea

South Korea’s Doosan Tesna Inc. will build a semiconductor testing factory in the country with an investment of 220.6 billion won ($159.7 mill...

Kyobo Life, Japan’s SBI to team up on security token, digital finance

Kyobo Life, Japan’s SBI to team up on security token, digital finance

South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Group and Japan’s SBI Group have entered into a strategic business partnership agreement to expand th...

Korea’s No. 1 flea market app Karrot expands services across Canada

Korea’s No. 1 flea market app Karrot expands services across Canada

Danggeun Market Inc., South Korea’s largest online flea market service provider, is expanding its online used-goods marketplace app Karrot acr...

Korea slaps Credit Suisse with largest ever short-sale penalty

Korea slaps Credit Suisse with largest ever short-sale penalty

South Korea's financial regulator said on Wednesday it has officially imposed Credit Suisse Group AG and its affiliate a combined 27.2 billion won...

Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis to buy e-commerce 11Street

Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis to buy e-commerce 11Street

South Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. is poised to acquire the country’s leading e-commerce operator 11Street Co. to ramp up its ...

Jollibee to acquire Korea’s Compose Coffee in $340 mn deal

Jollibee to acquire Korea’s Compose Coffee in $340 mn deal

Jollibee Foods Corp., the Philippines’ largest fast-food chain, is set to take over a majority stake in Compose Coffee Co., South Korea’...

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...

Korea's LG Uplus aims for $1.4 bn in B2B AI sales by 2028

Korea's LG Uplus aims for $1.4 bn in B2B AI sales by 2028

South Korea’s leading mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp., which is set to unveil its first artificial intelligence chip by the end of this year, ai...

Korea Eximbank to provide $150 mn PF to Australia

Korea Eximbank to provide $150 mn PF to Australia

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) announced on Tuesday that it will provide $150 million in project financing (PF) for developing a rare ea...

S.Korea’s leading ERP player Douzone Bizon up for sale; EQT Partners in talks MSCI maintains S.Korea’s emerging-market status; level playing field required GEPS taps former KB Asset chief risk officer as new CIO Affinity Equity nets $220 mn from block sale of Shinhan Financial F&F’s bid for TaylorMade complicates Centroid's exit