Korea expects inflation to ease from Oct after 5-month high

Korea expects inflation to ease from Oct after 5-month high

South Korea predicted headline inflation to ease from October after hitting a five-month high last month, adding to expectations that the central ba...

Samsung Engineering partners with global firms for CCUS

Samsung Engineering partners with global firms for CCUS

South Korea's Samsung Engineering is ramping up its strategies in the carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) arena by securing partnerships...

Korea markets melt as Fed officials foresee longer-than-expected high rates

Korea markets melt as Fed officials foresee longer-than-expected high rates

South Korean financial markets lost ground on Wednesday with the 10-year government bond yield at a one-year high as US Federal Reserve policymakers...

Naver's Kream integrates with Japan's Soda

Naver's Kream integrates with Japan's Soda

Naver Corp.'s subsidiary Kream, the South Korean limited-edition goods trading platform has decided to merge its operations with Japan's Soda Inc., ...

Samsung Galaxy S23 FE: Affordable yet premium flagship smartphone

Samsung Galaxy S23 FE: Affordable yet premium flagship smartphone

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest smartphone maker by volume, on Wednesday unveiled the Galaxy S23 FE series – its latest fan...

SUVs, small pickups grab largest share of S.Korea's car market

SUVs, small pickups grab largest share of S.Korea's car market

Sport utility vehicles (SUV) and small pickup trucks in South Korea are occupying a larger share of the domestic automotive market.Industry sources ...

S.Korea industry production posts largest increase in 30 months

S.Korea industry production posts largest increase in 30 months

South Korea's Index of All Industry Production soared at its steepest pace in 30 months in August, driven by a resurgent semiconductor manufacturing...

Recreational cars grab largest share of S.Korea's automotive market

Recreational cars grab largest share of S.Korea's automotive market

Recreational vehicles (RVs) in South Korea like sport utility vehicles (SUV) and small pickups are occupying a larger share of the domestic automoti...

S.Korea's ModaModa partners with Poland's MBF Group

S.Korea's ModaModa partners with Poland's MBF Group

South Korean haircare brand ModaModa has partnered with Poland's MBF Group S.A. for distribution, signifying its entry into the expanding European b...

Samsung Electronics bags AI chiplet foundry order from Tenstorrent

Samsung Electronics bags AI chiplet foundry order from Tenstorrent

Canadian chip-designing unicorn Tenstorrent Inc. has become a new foundry customer of Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-biggest foun...

Samsung launches ultra-speed portable SSD T9

Samsung launches ultra-speed portable SSD T9

Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday launched its new T-series offering, the portable solid state drive (SSD) T9. The T9 showcases impressive s...

Samsung Chair Lee tours Middle East, ‘treasure trove’ of future growth

Samsung Chair Lee tours Middle East, ‘treasure trove’ of future growth

Jay Y. Lee, executive chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., has made his second visit in 10 months to the operations of South Korea’s most powe...

Samsung to launch cloud gaming service for Galaxy users

Samsung to launch cloud gaming service for Galaxy users

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, is set to unveil a cloud gaming service for mobile devices as it seeks new profit s...

Samsung, Japan's KDDI co-work for 5G network slicing tech

Samsung, Japan's KDDI co-work for 5G network slicing tech

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Wednesday that it has signed a business agreement with Japanese mobile communications company KDDI to jointly d...

Celltrion Pharm gets GMP certification from Japan

Celltrion Pharm gets GMP certification from Japan

Celltrion Pharm Inc. announced on Wednesday that its pre-filled syringe (PFS) production facility in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province has obtain...

Foreign visitors to S.Korea more than triple on-year in August

Foreign visitors to S.Korea more than triple on-year in August

The number of foreign tourists visiting South Korea has exceeded 1 million for two consecutive months since the outbreak of COVID-19.According to th...

Korea’s SKC to invest up to $70 mn in US smart glass firm Halio

Korea’s SKC to invest up to $70 mn in US smart glass firm Halio

SKC Ltd., a South Korean chemicals maker, is set to invest as much as $70 million in Halio Inc., a US smart glass technology company, to expand the ...

Samsung SDI to invest $2 bn to build 2nd US battery plant with Stellantis

Samsung SDI to invest $2 bn to build 2nd US battery plant with Stellantis

Samsung SDI Co. will inject $1.98 billion to build a second battery manufacturing plant in the US jointly with Netherlands-based automaker Stellanti...

Samsung Eng. wins $19.5 mn Saudi petrochemical plant design contract

Samsung Eng. wins $19.5 mn Saudi petrochemical plant design contract

South Korea's Samsung Engineering has secured a front end engineering design (FEED) project for a PDH·PP·UTOS Plant in Saudi Arabia, m...

Samsung set to keep supremacy in low power DRAM with game changer

Samsung set to keep supremacy in low power DRAM with game changer

South Korea’s No. 1 memory chip maker Samsung Electronics Co., also the world’s top player, is set to further break away from the pack w...

HMM to open fastest shipping route from S.Korea to Indonesia

HMM to open fastest shipping route from S.Korea to Indonesia

South Korea's HMM Co. on Tuesday said it will open a direct route connecting Busan with the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Surabaya.The revamped I...

Samsung Elec looks to Google, Apple alumni for future growth

Samsung Elec looks to Google, Apple alumni for future growth

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chip and smartphone maker, has tapped more alumni from US Big Tech companies such as Google, A...

Shinsegae Int’l to be exclusive distributor of D&G Beauty in S.Korea

Shinsegae Int’l to be exclusive distributor of D&G Beauty in S.Korea

South Korea's Shinsegae International said on Tuesday that it has signed an exclusive distribution contract with the Italian cosmetic brand Dolce &a...

Naver integrates points program with Samsung Pay

Naver integrates points program with Samsung Pay

The online money and points of South Korea's Naver Pay, an affiliate of the country's largest web portal Naver Corp., can now be used at offline sto...

Samsung C&T invests $11 mn in construction robot venture

Samsung C&T invests $11 mn in construction robot venture

South Korean construction and engineering company Samsung C&T Corp. has invested 15 billion won ($11.2 million) in the construction robot startu...

S.Korea's travel agencies fight for survival with customized products

S.Korea's travel agencies fight for survival with customized products

South Korea’s major travel agencies, feeling threatened by the rise of online travel agencies on the tourism market, are using their strengths...

Korean Air may give up Asiana’s cargo business, 4 routes for EU approval

Korean Air may give up Asiana’s cargo business, 4 routes for EU approval

Korean Air Lines Co. may give up the cargo business of Asiana Airlines Inc. and four of its lucrative routes in Europe in an all-in bet as the marri...

Net-zero by 2050 will hit S.Korea’s economic growth: BOK

Net-zero by 2050 will hit S.Korea’s economic growth: BOK

The net zero emission target by 2050 is forecast to lower South Korea’s economic growth rate by an average of 0.6 percentage point per year ...

S.Korea to extend forex trading hours from Oct. 4 to lure foreign dealers

S.Korea to extend forex trading hours from Oct. 4 to lure foreign dealers

South Korea will extend the operating hours of the domestic foreign exchange market from next month, allowing foreign currency dealers to directly p...

Com2uS XPLA listed on S.Korea's crypto exchange Gopax

Com2uS XPLA listed on S.Korea's crypto exchange Gopax

South Korea's Com2uS Holdings Corp. announced on Monday that the cryptocurrency called XPLA used in the Com2uS Group's blockchain mainnet of the s...

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