KITA hosts K-Product Trade Show & G-Fair in Tokyo

KITA hosts K-Product Trade Show & G-Fair in Tokyo

The Korea International Trade Association (KITA) announced on Wednesday the opening of the "2023 K-Product Trade Show & G-Fair in Tokyo" at the ...

LS Electric targets Southeast Asian microgrid market

LS Electric targets Southeast Asian microgrid market

South Korea's LS Electric Co. will join hands with Thailand's second-largest company Siam Cement Group (SCG) to target the Southeast Asian market fo...

S.Korea's leading low-cost carrier Jeju Air posts record-high Q1 results

S.Korea's leading low-cost carrier Jeju Air posts record-high Q1 results

South Korea's leading low-cost carrier (LCC) Jeju Air Co. posted record-high performance in the first quarter. Industry analysts say domestic LCCs w...

S.Korea’s chronic disease: Decline in youth employment

S.Korea’s chronic disease: Decline in youth employment

The number of young workers in South Korea fell for a sixth straight month in April to its lowest point in more than two years, deepening concerns t...

Canada's leading coffee brand Tim Hortons to enter S.Korea

Canada's leading coffee brand Tim Hortons to enter S.Korea

Canada's No. 1 coffee chain Tim Hortons unveiled plans on Wednesday to enter South Korea, announcing its intention to open its first flagship store ...

Hanwha Q Cells holds No.1 position in US solar module market

Hanwha Q Cells holds No.1 position in US solar module market

Hanwha Q Cells Co., a unit of South Korea’s chemicals-to-construction conglomerate Hanwha Group, secured the top position in the US resid...

S.Korea to see 240K drop in number of manufacturing workers by 2032

S.Korea to see 240K drop in number of manufacturing workers by 2032

The number of workers in South Korea's manufacturing sector is expected to drop by 240,000 over the next 10 years, a report says, caused by the decl...

Samsung’s H2 new tablet launch to close gap on market leader iPad

Samsung’s H2 new tablet launch to close gap on market leader iPad

Samsung Electronics Co., the second-largest player in the global tablet market, is aiming to narrow the gap with industry leader Apple Inc. with its...

Hyundai Motor, Kia to receive 25% tax credit for EV plant spending

Hyundai Motor, Kia to receive 25% tax credit for EV plant spending

ULSAN, South Gyeongsang Province – South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. is poised to receive a 25% tax credit for its planned investment in a...

Intense competition in S.Korea's LCC sector fuels zero-won tickets

Intense competition in S.Korea's LCC sector fuels zero-won tickets

South Korea's low-cost carriers (LCCs) since last month have waged an intense competition with the recovery of the overseas travel market. They boos...

S.Korea’s beauty brand Laneige enters UK, Middle East market

S.Korea’s beauty brand Laneige enters UK, Middle East market

Amorepacific Corp.'s cosmetic brand Laneige announced on Tuesday that it is accelerating its global business expansion by entering the UK and Middle...

S.Korea's game companies wage intense war in MMORPG sector

S.Korea's game companies wage intense war in MMORPG sector

South Korea's massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), a mainstream genre in domestic games, is showing signs of an increasingly he...

Kyobo Life in final talks to buy Kakao Pay Insurance

Kyobo Life in final talks to buy Kakao Pay Insurance

South Korea’s third-largest life insurer Kyobo Life Insurance Co. is in the final stages of talks to buy Kakao Pay Insurance Corp., an online ...

Money moves from US, China to India for higher returns

Money moves from US, China to India for higher returns

For investors looking for higher returns in emerging markets, India is undoubtedly a market darling.The Asian country, widely expected to become the...

Hankook Tire takes on market for high-end sports cars

Hankook Tire takes on market for high-end sports cars

South Korea's Hankook Tire & Technology is reinforcing its partnerships with makers of high-performance sports cars based on a systematic develo...

Leeum's enduring charm to foreign VIPs

Leeum's enduring charm to foreign VIPs

On a shiny Monday morning, the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art nestled on the slope of Mt. Namsan in a quiet Hannam neighborhood in Seoul was flanked b...

Seoul eyes opening doors to domestic helpers from Southeast Asia

Seoul eyes opening doors to domestic helpers from Southeast Asia

Seoul is slated to welcome domestic helpers from Southeast Asia later this year to ease the burden of childcare and address issues surrounding Korea...

S.Korea to launch 10 global innovation special zones by 2027

S.Korea to launch 10 global innovation special zones by 2027

South Korean government plans to create ten global innovation special zones by 2027, implementing a negative regulation system for the first time in...

Korean app market One Store to raise $151 mn for Kiwoom's exit

Korean app market One Store to raise $151 mn for Kiwoom's exit

One Store Co., a South Korean homegrown app store, is slated to attract more than 200 billion won ($151.3 million) as its 100 billion won loan, whic...

Naver Webtoon targets entertainment business in Japan

Naver Webtoon targets entertainment business in Japan

Naver Webtoon Ltd., the world’s top digital comics provider, is targeting the entertainment sector in Japan as it aims to expand its intellect...

S.Korean startups eye on Southeast Asia as promising market

S.Korean startups eye on Southeast Asia as promising market

SINGAPORE - Southeast Asia with a youth population constituting about one-third of the region’s total population and surging internet penetrat...

S.Korea's Bertis releases two academic findings at AOHUPO conference

S.Korea's Bertis releases two academic findings at AOHUPO conference

Bertis, South Korean company specializing in the development of proteomics-based precision medicine technology, announced on Monday that it presente...

S.Korean green bonds draw strong demand amid ESG fever

S.Korean green bonds draw strong demand amid ESG fever

South Korean green bonds eligible for government support enjoyed robust demand despite lower yields, as investors upgraded environmental, social, ...

S.Korea's Air Premia, T'way compete for golden routes to Europe

S.Korea's Air Premia, T'way compete for golden routes to Europe

South Korea's low-cost carriers (LCC) Air Premia and T'way Air Co. are competing to secure "golden routes" to Europe that Korean Air must give up to...

FDA suspends COVID-19 diagnostic kit of S.Korea’s SD Biosensor

FDA suspends COVID-19 diagnostic kit of S.Korea’s SD Biosensor

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that consumers discard select models of Pilot COVID-19 self-diagnostic test kits sold on t...

Hyundai’s quantum leap: how it shines through in crisis

Hyundai’s quantum leap: how it shines through in crisis

Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Corp. are slated to log a combined 150 million units of car sales this month. The carmakers of Hyundai Motor...

Hanyang, Linde to inject $800 mn for hydrogen cluster in Korea

Hanyang, Linde to inject $800 mn for hydrogen cluster in Korea

Hanyang Corporation Ltd., a South Korean construction firm, will join forces with German industrial gases and engineering company Linde AG to create...

NuScale to build Korea’s first SMR in Uljin, home to native Korean reactors

NuScale to build Korea’s first SMR in Uljin, home to native Korean reactors

NuScale Power Corp. is expected to build its first small modular reactor (SMR) plant in South Korea in Uljin, already home to Korean native nuclear ...

Alternative investment forum ASK 2023 to kick off May 17 in Seoul

Alternative investment forum ASK 2023 to kick off May 17 in Seoul

South Korean institutional investors, including the world’s third-largest pension fund National Pension Service (NPS), and global asset manage...

S.Korea's Upstage to add AI chatbot AskUp to Japanese messaging app Line

S.Korea's Upstage to add AI chatbot AskUp to Japanese messaging app Line

South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) tech company Upstage on Friday said it will install its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot AskUp on the...

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