LG U+ and Korea Fanuc to devise smart factory solutions for SMEs

Korean telecom giant LG Uplus Corp. on Tuesday said it will develop a smart factory solution for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) jointly with th...

First joint law office with overseas firm to open in Korea

The first South Korea-overseas joint law firm is set to start operations in Seoul.The joint firm of Korean law firm Hwahyun and UK’s Ashurst h...

Korea’s top delivery app operator Woowa launches food delivery robot

The self-driving robot Dilly Tower of Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of Korea’s top food delivery app Baedal Minjok, commonly known as Bae...

KEPCO raises $368 mn via bond issuance on heated demand

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) saw on Nov. 27 around 1.7 trillion won ($1.3 billion) worth of investor bids for its bond issuance targeting 400 ...

Korea’s e-commerce giant Coupang to invest in logistics automation

Coupang Inc. is poised to invest in the automation transformation of its logistics system, according to industry insiders. Headquartered in Seo...

UK grants de facto approval of Korean Air's Asiana takeover

The UK's top watchdog for market competition on Monday accepted corrective measures submitted by Korean Air Lines Co. on its proposed takeover of As...

S.Korean President Yoon to lead national space policy

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is set to lead the National Space Council, the country’s top control tower for space development, in a bi...

Korea to reform market rules to boost foreign investment

South Korea will reform financial market regulations to attract more foreign investments and to achieve MSCI Inc.’s developed market status fo...

SK picglobal builds DPG-only production facility 

SK picglobal, a joint venture between SKC's chemical division and a subsidiary of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) named PIC, have built a pla...

Kia sells 15 million units in Korea over past 60 years

Kia Corp. has sold its 15 million units on the domestic market since releasing its first vehicle six decades ago in 1962.The company on Monday said ...

Young Poong Precision emerges as key to Korea Zinc control; shares surge

Shares of Young Poong Precision Corp. are flying high as the company is emerging as the key to the control of Korea Zinc Co., which in turn is the c...

Gaming firm NCSOFT wins S.Korea’s largest AI R&D competition

South Korean game developer NCSOFT Corp. announced on Friday that it won first place at this year’s Artificial Intelligence Grand Challenge, h...

S.Korea to cut coal's share of energy usage to under 20% by 2030

The draft of the Korean government's 10th Basic Plan for Electricity Supply and Demand contains a clause on reducing coal generation's share of nati...

SK On, EcoPro, China’s GEM to build battery materials plant in Indonesia

SK On Co., a South Korean electric vehicle (EV) battery maker, has joined forces with two energy materials companies to build a nickel intermediate ...

Carlyle promotes two Koreans to partner, MD

The Carlyle Group Inc. announced on Tuesday 32 new partners and 39 new managing directors, effective Jan. 1 of 2023, including two Koreans, Sean (So...

Korea to revise dividend policy to ease ‘Korea discount’ concerns

South Korea plans to revise its stock dividend policy as part of a broader financial market reform to help attract foreign investors and obtain MSCI...

Corporate confidence in South Korea hits 23-month low

Business sentiment among South Korea's companies has fallen to its lowest level in 23 months, as worsening business conditions mainly in the non-man...

Korea Zinc exchanges treasury shares with LG Chem, Hanwha Corp.

Korea Zinc Co. will exchange part of its treasury shares with those of LG Chem Ltd. and Hanwha Corp. in a move seen to strengthen the secondary batt...

‘The Rebel and the Kingdom’ Review: Rebel With a Righteous Cause

On Feb. 22, 2019, a man calling himself Matthew Chao knocked on the door of the North Korean embassy in Madrid, with a gift for the embassy’s ...

Korean universities lag international peers in nurturing entrepreneurs

The prestigious Seoul National University was the only university in South Korea to rank among the top 100 universities in terms of producing futu...

Tesla’s Musk names Korea among top candidate sites for Gigafactory

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday that South Korea is among its top candidates to build in Asia another Gigafactory, the US ele...

Korea's SK Inc. revs up power semiconductor value chains via M&As

SK Inc., the investment arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group, is ramping up its value chain of third-generation semicondu...

South Korea's total fertility rate falls under 0.8 in 3rd quarter

South Korea's birth rate in the third quarter this year set another all-time low of under 0.8, and the national population consequently declined f...

Samsung SDS records record-high share of overseas sales of 71%

The overseas sales of South Korea's Samsung SDS comprises 71% of overall revenue, the highest rate since the company launched its business process o...

OECD cuts Korea's economic growth forecast for next year to 1.8%

The Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD) has cut its forecast for South Korea's economic growth next year to 1.8%, down fro...

Korea's KDB to sell off its life insurer for fifth time

South Korea’s state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) is poised to accelerate the selling off of its affiliate KDB Life Insurance Co. next week...

Finance ministry stresses need to reduce maximum corporate tax rate

A total of 103 companies, a mere 0.01% of the total number of corporations in South Korea, are paying more than 40% of the country’s total cor...

One out of six married women in South Korea opts out of workforce: NSO

One out of six married women in South Korea has opted out of the workforce, to take on most of the childrearing burden in the family. Around 1....

South Korea aims to build world’s 6th inland base in the Antarctic 

The South Korean government announced on Monday that it will build the world’s sixth inland base in the Antarctic by 2030. The Ministry o...

GM Korea to shut one production line to focus on small cars

General Motors Co. plans to shut down a production line in South Korea as the US automaking giant aims to focus on manufacturing small cars in the c...