LS Eco Energy to supply UHV cables to Singapore's EMA

LS Eco Energy to supply UHV cables to Singapore's EMA

South Korea's LS Eco Energy Ltd. announced on Tuesday that its Vietnamese production subsidiary, LS-VINA, will supply 12 billion won ($8.99 million)...

S.Korea’s GNI per capita rebounds in 2023 as won stabilizes

S.Korea’s GNI per capita rebounds in 2023 as won stabilizes

South Korea’s gross national income (GNI) per capita rebounded last year as the won currency stabilized amid signs of a recovery in exports fr...

Tesla, Korea's EcoPro presumed to enter battery materials deal

 Tesla, Korea's EcoPro presumed to enter battery materials deal

Tesla Inc., the world’s No. 2 electric vehicle maker, is believed to have agreed to procure battery ingredients from South Korea’s EcoPr...

Hana Bank issues Hana Certification in 16 languages

Hana Bank issues Hana Certification in 16 languages

South Korea's Hana Bank announced on Monday that it launched the Hana Certificate service in 16 languages. The service is available through the...

Hyundai Mobis applies 1,200 future mobility patents in 2023

Hyundai Mobis applies 1,200 future mobility patents in 2023

Hyundai Mobis has strengthened its competitiveness in future mobility by filing numerous patents in the electric and autonomous driving fields.The c...

LG Display to raise $971 mn in rights offering for OLED business

LG Display to raise $971 mn in rights offering for OLED business

LG Display Co., the world’s leading manufacturer of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels, said on Monday it will raise 1.29 trillion won...

Palliser Capital backs proxy fight with Samsung C&T

Palliser Capital backs proxy fight with Samsung C&T

Palliser Capital, a London-based hedge fund, said on Sunday it will vote in favor of other activist shareholders’ proposals for Samsung C&...

Kumho Tire forges tech licensing agreement with Saudi's Blatco

Kumho Tire forges tech licensing agreement with Saudi's Blatco

Kumho Tire Co. announced on Monday that it signed a technology export contract with Saudi Arabia's Black Arrow Tire Co. (Blatco).Under the deal, Kum...

S.Koreans watch YouTube over 40 hours a month

S.Koreans watch YouTube over 40 hours a month

South Koreans spend more than 40 hours per month on YouTube, according to the study on Monday.Wiseapp·Retail·Goods, the domestic appli...

Lotte, Neubility to develop autonomous security robots

Lotte, Neubility to develop autonomous security robots

South Korea's Lotte Data Communication Co. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a domestic autonomous robot service company Neubility on ...

No end in sight to Audi’s downfall in South Korea

No end in sight to Audi’s downfall in South Korea

Audi AG, once considered one of the top three German premium auto brands in South Korea, seems to have lost its charm among Korean consumers. Its sh...

Korean manufacturers on edge over US visa quotas

Korean manufacturers on edge over US visa quotas

A South Korean automotive parts maker, which made its inroads into the US in the mid-2010s, sharply expanded its production facilities in Alabama la...

POSCO Future M to import natural graphite from Africa

POSCO Future M to import natural graphite from Africa

South Korea’s only anode materials producer POSCO Future M Co. will import a maximum 60,000 tons of natural graphite products from Balama Grap...

NPS to invest up to $8.2 bn in undervalued Korean stocks

NPS to invest up to $8.2 bn in undervalued Korean stocks

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is expected to invest up to 11 trillion won ($8.2 ...

Homegrown coffee chains emerge as strongest players in Korea

Homegrown coffee chains emerge as strongest players in Korea

Competition in South Korea’s coffee market is intensifying with the rise of fast-growing local brands such as Mega Coffee and Compose Coffee, ...

Meta’s AI, XR push to gain speed with Korea’s support

Meta’s AI, XR push to gain speed with Korea’s support

South Korea is backing Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., in the Facebook operator’s artificial inte...

KTO, Orange Square to promote tourism for Japanese

KTO, Orange Square to promote tourism for Japanese

The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) and South Korea's Orange Square signed a business agreement on Thursday to encourage more spending by Japanese ...

KT teams up with Amazon to bolster B2B generative AI

KT teams up with Amazon to bolster B2B generative AI

BARCELONA -- KT Corp., South Korea’s leading telecom services provider, said on Thursday it has signed a strategic partnership with Amazon Web...

Hana Micron to develop 2.5D packaging for Nvidia’s H100 AI chip: CEO

Hana Micron to develop 2.5D packaging for Nvidia’s H100 AI chip: CEO

With burgeoning demand for high-performance artificial intelligence chips, back-end process technology, which assembles various semiconductors and t...

S.Korea's Upstage to develop on-device AI Office

S.Korea's Upstage to develop on-device AI Office

South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage announced on Thursday that it will co-develop and commercialize On-device AI Office with ...

Celltrion ships initial supply of Zymfentra to US

Celltrion ships initial supply of Zymfentra to US

South Korea's Celltrion Inc. announced on Wednesday that it shipped the first supply of its subcutaneous injection type of the autoimmune disease tr...

Mubadala ties up with Korea’s Woori for global investments

Mubadala ties up with Korea’s Woori for global investments

Mubadala Investment Co., Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, has joined hands with Woori Financial Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest fi...

S.Korea’s fertility rate hits new world-record low in 2023

S.Korea’s fertility rate hits new world-record low in 2023

Trapped in a downward spiral, South Korea saw the country’s total fertility rate hit a new record low of 0.72, also again the world’s lo...

DevSisters, Krafton sign Cookie Run India publishing deal

DevSisters, Krafton sign Cookie Run India publishing deal

South Korean game developer DevSisters Corp. announced on Wednesday that it has signed a publishing agreement in India for the mobile game "Cookie R...

S.Korea’s fashion brand Time to debut at Paris Fashion Week

S.Korea’s fashion brand Time to debut at Paris Fashion Week

Time, South Korea’s best-selling women’s fashion brand which is owned by Handsome Corp., will participate in Paris Fashion Week fall/w...

Hana Bank, Fount to co-work for robo-advisor service

Hana Bank, Fount to co-work for robo-advisor service

South Korea's Hana Bank announced on Tuesday that it has signed a business agreement with robo-advisor company Fount Investment Co. to launch a reti...

While the World Was Looking Elsewhere, North Korea Became a Bigger Threat

While the World Was Looking Elsewhere, North Korea Became a Bigger Threat

SEOUL—In March 2022, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walked out of a massive hangar wearing a bomber jacket and dark sunglasses. He pointed to t...

KHNP, Centrus sign LOI for nuclear fuel supply

KHNP, Centrus sign LOI for nuclear fuel supply

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) announced on Monday that it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with the US-based Centrus Energy Corp. to...

Mohegan fuels casino, resort market rivalry in Korea

Mohegan fuels casino, resort market rivalry in Korea

Mohegan Inspire Entertainment Resort on Yeongjong Island, near South Korea’s gateway Incheon International Airport, is attracting throngs of v...

HL Mando listed in S&P Sustainability Yearbook 2023

HL Mando listed in S&P Sustainability Yearbook 2023

HL Mando Corp., an electric vehicle and self-driving system developing unit of South Korea’s HL Group, announced on Tuesday that it has been i...

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