SK Materials joins forces with ExxonMobil in blue ammonia sector
South Korea's SK Materials will enter the blue ammonia market in partnership with global energy giant ExxonMobil.SK Materials on Wednesday said it s...
KT’s global digital push deepens with Singtel partnership
KT Corp. has joined hands with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) to export its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, as wel...
S.Korea sees first decline in household loans in 20 years
Household loans in South Korea last year fell from 2021 for the first time in 20 years because of high interest rates, but credit card debt hit a re...
S.Korea's Hanwha Asset Management staff protest personnel reshuffle
Internal conflict is growing at South Korea's Hanwha Asset Management over the company's de facto restructuring of its fund management in the wake o...
POSCO decides to build electric furnace at Gwangyang Works
South Korea’s leading steelmaker POSCO on Tuesday said it will begin its transition to a low-carbon production system by building an electric ...
BOK sees interest rate as tight amid continued drop in exports
South Korea’s central bank said on Tuesday it regards the current interest rate as tight, suggesting the monetary authority may hold the polic...
Samsung eyes wider foundry client base with Ambarella deal
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Tuesday it will manufacture automotive chips for US chip designer Ambar...
LG Uplus to provide infotainment service for Toyota's RAV4 PHEV
South Korean mobile telecom carrier LG Uplus Corp. has announced on Tuesday its plans to install its integrated infotainment (IVI) platform, the Upl...
S.Korea's HMM establishes system for recycling waste ropes
South Korea's HMM Co. announced on Tuesday that it had signed a business agreement with Foresys, a company specializing in marine waste management. ...
Korea's Hansol Technics enjoys profit on chip equipment unit
Hansol Technics Co., a South Korean company that makes modules for liquid crystal display (LCD) and solar panels, boosted earnings last year thanks ...
S.Korea's Samsung C&T wins 2023 Asia Design Prize
On Monday, Samsung C&T Corp.'s construction division announced that Dongrae Raemian iPark in Busan, South Korea, a project in which it participa...
Samsung Electronics, Naver partner to create simple payment service
Samsung Electronics Co. and South Korea's Naver Financial have formed a simple payment service alliance in which users of Samsung Pay can make simpl...
Korea's NPS, KTCU likely to invest in CVC's ninth buyout fund
South Korea’s key institutional investors are highly likely to invest via European private equity giant CVC Capital Partners’ ninth buyo...
Samsung ‘demanding customer’ for ASML as orders rise
VELDHOVEN, Netherlands – South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. is a “demanding customer” for the Netherlands-based ASML Hold...
Stock inflows to Korea slow on weak currency, valuation
A weaker South Korean currency and worries about valuation have deterred foreign investors’ appetite for local shares, casting expectations of...
Blind revamps job matching service to rival LinkedIn
Teamblind Inc., the developer of South Korea’s homegrown anonymous professional community app Blind, will reach out to a broader job-seeking p...
Lexus, Volvo: Koreans' top picks among foreign brands in after-sales service
Lexus, the premium brand of Japanese carmaker Toyota Corp., offers the best after-sales service among imported cars in South Korea, followed by Swed...
Korea's Musicow to lead fractional IP ownership globally
Musicow Inc., South Korea’s first music copyright trading platform, is set to gain momentum as fractional ownership in copyright claims has be...
Korea United Pharm signs contract to supply medicines to Saudi Arabia
Korea United Pharm. Inc. announced on Monday that it signed a contract to supply nine types of medicines, including 11 anticancer drugs, to Saudi ph...
LG Uplus, Ecorbit to build smart safety solution at waste disposal site
LG Uplus Corp., a South Korean mobile telecom service carrier, announced on Monday that it is deploying a smart safety solution at waste disposal co...
Koreans’ voracious appetite for pork belly extends to Canadian pork market
As South Korea prepares for Samgyeopsal Day, or Pork Belly Day, on March 3, the country has further upped pork imports from Canada – this afte...
LG Electronics unveils new OLED TV at Frieze LA
LG Electronics Inc. said on Sunday that it would launch its 2023 model LG OLED Evo TV globally next month, after showcasing it at Frieze LA, one of ...
LG Uplus to participate in Drone Show Korea
On Sunday, South Korean mobile telecom carrier LG Uplus Corp. announced that it would host a joint exhibition hall with Kakao Mobility, GS Engineeri...
Three provincial airports in S.Korea offer direct flights to Mongolia
South Korea is expanding its number of flight connections with Mongolia.The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Sunday said it agreed ...
Korea’s first ChatGPT-authored, AI-proofread book due this week
ChatGPT has been around for nearly three months and is causing untold chaos across industries and academia.Now, the artificial intelligence chatbot,...
S.Korean won near 2-month low as US data fans Fed hike views
The South Korean won skidded to a near two-month low on Friday as hotter-than-forecast US inflation data added to expectations that the Federal Rese...
S.Korea confirms economic slowdown, recession concerns loom
The South Korean finance ministry on Friday confirmed that the country’s economy has slowed, mired in stubbornly high inflation and sluggish e...
Korea's Hanwha Q Cells halts litigation against Chinese module maker
Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar power unit of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, has signed a contract to transfer technology licenses to Chinese s...
Korea's Cha Bio Group to expand overseas real estate business
Cha Bio Group, consisting of Cha Biotech and Cha Vaccine Research Institute as its subsidiaries, has announced its expansion into the real estate in...
S.Korea's KT CS reports record sales in 2022
On Friday, KT Corp.'s customer service unit, KT CS, announced that its sales revenue for the previous year reached a record high of 591.6 billion wo...
