Samsung to collaborate with world's leading solar company

Samsung to collaborate with world's leading solar company

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Tuesday that it is partnering with SolarEdge Technologies, the world's leading solar smart inverter company, to...

Foreign buying of Korean stocks, bonds at record high, boosting won

Foreign buying of Korean stocks, bonds at record high, boosting won

Foreigners bought a record $11.43 billion in South Korean stocks and bonds in May, boosting the value of the won versus the dollar amid the greenbac...

Samsung Elec joins global 4-day workweek push for work-life balance

 Samsung Elec joins global 4-day workweek push for work-life balance

Samsung Electronics Co. is joining the global four-day workweek move, albeit only partially, under its chief Jay Y. Lee’s leadership that emph...

Display makers LG, Samsung gear up for OLED gaming monitor boom

Display makers LG, Samsung gear up for OLED gaming monitor boom

South Korea’s two largest panel makers – LG Display Co. and Samsun Display Co. – are bracing for a gaming monitor boom as gamers w...

BTS 10th anniversary stamps available at Korea Post from June 13

BTS 10th anniversary stamps available at Korea Post from June 13

South Korea's state-run postal service agency Korea Post announced on Monday that BTS commemorative stamps will be available at post offices from Ju...

LG Group to launch global strategy center in July

LG Group to launch global strategy center in July

LG Group will reportedly launch next month a global strategy center to analyze business trends abroad and devise responses.Industry sources on Sunda...

S.Korea's game companies wage all-out offensive to recruit AI talent

S.Korea's game companies wage all-out offensive to recruit AI talent

The race in South Korea to secure artificial intelligence (AI) know-how in the video game industry, the hottest trend in the field, is intensifying ...

Hyundai ramps up ties with Samsung, SK, LG for EVs, self-driving cars

Hyundai ramps up ties with Samsung, SK, LG for EVs, self-driving cars

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. is strengthening its tech alliance with its local partners such as Samsung, LG and SK to stay ah...

Korea’s cathode supplier L&F aims to make it big with anodes: CEO

Korea’s cathode supplier L&F aims to make it big with anodes: CEO

DAEGU – L&F Co., a former LCD backlight unit maker, has long been a stranger even to locals in Daegu, a provincial city 165 km away from S...

Korea’s current account swings to deficit, four-month figures worsen

Korea’s current account swings to deficit, four-month figures worsen

South Korea ran a current account deficit in April, swinging from the previous month’s surplus, as Asia’s fourth-largest economy continu...

OpenAI’s Sam Altman seeks help from Korean startups, chipmakers

OpenAI’s Sam Altman seeks help from Korean startups, chipmakers

Sam Altman, chief executive of Microsoft-backed OpenAI and ChatGPT creator, said on Friday that he hopes to collaborate with South Korean developers...

Crutches can't slow SK Chair Chey’s zeal for 2030 Expo in Busan

Crutches can't slow SK Chair Chey’s zeal for 2030 Expo in Busan

The largest business chambers of South Korea and Japan have agreed to cooperate on Korea’s bid to host World Expo 2030 in Busan and to deepen ...

S.Korea not ready for developed market status: MSCI

S.Korea not ready for developed market status: MSCI

MSCI Inc. regards the South Korean stock market as not ready for its developed market status despite a series of reforms, dampening the country&rsqu...

LG Uplus to use UAM to slash EMS transportation time

LG Uplus to use UAM to slash EMS transportation time

South Korea's internet service provider LG Uplus Corp. on Thursday said it signed an agreement with the municipal government of Jinju, South Gyeongs...

LG Energy to expand EV battery care with 7 imported car dealers

LG Energy to expand EV battery care with 7 imported car dealers

South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. has teamed up with seven imported car dealers in the country to expand the company's electric vehicle (EV) b...

S.Korea to discuss bilateral currency swap with Japan

S.Korea to discuss bilateral currency swap with Japan

South Korea plans to discuss with Japan the re-establishment of their bilateral currency swap line, said its finance minister on Thursday, as the di...

US emerges key to Korea’s nuclear power plants exports to Saudi Arabia

US emerges key to Korea’s nuclear power plants exports to Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, which is seeking to build two 1.4 gigawatts (GW) nuclear power plants, is demanding that the US allow uranium enrichment, according to...

S.Korea’s Handsome releases brand book with Assouline

S.Korea’s Handsome releases brand book with Assouline

South Korean fashion company Handsome Corp., a division of Hyundai Department Store Group, said on Thursday that it has partnered with Assouline, on...

Polestar 3 to light up roads with headlamps of LG’s ZKW

Polestar 3 to light up roads with headlamps of LG’s ZKW

The Polestar 3, an all-electric mid-sized sport utility vehicle, will be equipped with high-definition light-emitting diode (HD LED) headlights deve...

S.Korea's Jeju Dream Tower Casino exceeds $7.6 mn in net monthly sales

S.Korea's Jeju Dream Tower Casino exceeds $7.6 mn in net monthly sales

Jeju Dream Tower Casino, located on South Korea's top tourist island of Jeju and run by Lotte Tour Development Co., broke the 10 billion won ($7.6 m...

Craft brewery startups poised to revolutionize brew scene in South Korea

Craft brewery startups poised to revolutionize brew scene in South Korea

Craft beers and highballs from emerging breweries and distilleries are poised to disturb the South Korean alcoholic beverage market dominated by gia...

Samsung Biologics, Pfizer sign $411.3 mn agreement for long-term CDMO

Samsung Biologics, Pfizer sign $411.3 mn agreement for long-term CDMO

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s No. 1 contract drugmaker, announced a groundbreaking strategic partnership with Pfizer on Thursday, marking...

S.Korea to ease regulations for foreign investor in domestic market

S.Korea to ease regulations for foreign investor in domestic market

South Korea is set to raise the annual cap for individuals' overseas fund transfers without prior notice from $50,000 to $100,000, thereby easing th...

Glonet: A case of Korea's logistics David vs Japan’s shipping Goliath

Glonet: A case of Korea's logistics David vs Japan’s shipping Goliath

TOKYO – Glonet Co. is a novice logistics company hardly known in Japan’s time-honored shipping industry.The small South Korean shipping ...

S.Korea to design proven type reactor of nuclear fusion power

S.Korea to design proven type reactor of nuclear fusion power

South Korean government has initiated the design phase for a nuclear fusion power proven type reactor, taking a significant step toward harnessing n...

Affinity Equity Partners’ Korea head Sam Lee resigns

Affinity Equity Partners’ Korea head Sam Lee resigns

Affinity Equity Partners’ Seoul office head Sam Lee has left the global investment firm, sources familiar with the matter told The Korea Econo...

LG Electronics eyes premium market in Saudi Arabia, India

LG Electronics eyes premium market in Saudi Arabia, India

LG Electronics Inc. will seek out new business opportunities as a premium brand in Saudi Arabia for the oil-rich kingdom’s $500 billion Neom m...

LS Cable, Hanwha to build S.Korea’s largest offshore wind farm

LS Cable, Hanwha to build S.Korea’s largest offshore wind farm

South Korea's LS Cable & System announced on Wednesday that it has been selected as the priority negotiator for the supply of submarine cables f...

LG, FuriosaAI to jointly develop next-generation AI chip

LG, FuriosaAI to jointly develop next-generation AI chip

LG AI Research Institute announced on Wednesday its strategic alliance with FuriosaAI, South Korea’s fabless chip designer. The partnership ...

LG Energy, Novonix join hands for US EV battery material

LG Energy, Novonix join hands for US EV battery material

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s third-largest electric vehicle battery maker, has teamed up with Novonix Ltd., an Australian cell ingredi...

S.Korean game developer Krafton acquires Japan’s ADK for $517 million S.Korea's stablecoin frenzy fuels stock rally despite regulatory uncertainty SK Hynix joins Samsung in 200 trillion won market cap club Samsung on hiring spree to bolster US foundry sales LS Electric poised to join Nvidia's supply chain via Vertiv deal