LG Elec to bet on healthcare, mobility, metaverse in N.America

LG Elec to bet on healthcare, mobility, metaverse in N.America

LG Electronics Inc., the global top home appliance maker, will bet on the healthcare, mobility and metaverse sectors in North America through invest...

Korean firms at risk of credit rating downgrade on Legoland woes

Korean firms at risk of credit rating downgrade on Legoland woes

South Korean companies are at risk of credit rating downgrades as the fallout of a debt default by the domestic developer of a Legoland theme park r...

LG Energy Solution diversifies supply chains to respond to US IRA

LG Energy Solution diversifies supply chains to respond to US IRA

LG Energy Solution Ltd. has made a preemptive response to the Inflation Reduction Act of the US by securing the supply of lithium carbonate, a key m...

KEPCO to see record loss 2022 on slower power tariff hikes

KEPCO to see record loss 2022 on slower power tariff hikes

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), the state-run utility, is set to suffer a record operating loss this year with a shortfall mounting to the secon...

Korean construction firms boost Saudi Arabia presence with megaprojects

Korean construction firms boost Saudi Arabia presence with megaprojects

RIYADH – South Korean firms are accelerating their efforts to win construction projects from Saudi Arabia as the Middle East’s largest e...

Hyundai E&C unveils 1st designs for Korean-made UAM vertiports

Hyundai E&C unveils 1st designs for Korean-made UAM vertiports

South Korea's Hyundai Construction and Engineering (E&C) has unveiled for the first time its concept designs for the urban air mobility (UAM) in...

Korean brokerages' restructuring targets investment banking units

Korean brokerages' restructuring targets investment banking units

South Korea’s small- and mid-sized brokerage houses have begun their workforce reductions ahead of the end of the year. The brokerages are set...

Korean PE firms struggle with fundraising on illiquidity

Korean PE firms struggle with fundraising on illiquidity

South Korean private equity (PE) firms are having trouble fundraising as institutional investors' capital for new investment is drying up amid inter...

KT to invest $2 million in US voice biomarker developer

KT to invest $2 million in US voice biomarker developer

KT Corp., a South Korean telecommunications giant, plans to invest $2 million in Sonde Health Inc., a US voice biomarker developer, to enhance the c...

Intake bets on alternative meat, zero-calorie drinks for future of food tech

Intake bets on alternative meat, zero-calorie drinks for future of food tech

South Korean food tech startup Intake Corp. sells a wide range of meat alternatives, such as plant-based egg substitutes and vegan burger patties.&n...

Korean retail brand F&F’s Chinese sales seen above $800 million

Korean retail brand F&F’s Chinese sales seen above $800 million

South Korean outdoor clothing retailer F&F Co. is expected to post 1.1 trillion won ($807 million) in sales revenue in China this year, emerging...

Celltrion's Q3 earnings boosted by Remsima sales in Europe

Celltrion's Q3 earnings boosted by Remsima sales in Europe

South Korean biopharmaceutical giant Celltrion Inc. announced 654.6 billion won ($478.2 million) in revenue and 213.8 billion won in operating profi...

NCSOFT invests $15 million in blockchain company Mysten Labs

NCSOFT invests $15 million in blockchain company Mysten Labs

NCSOFT Corp., which announced early this year plans to install non-fungible token (NFT) technology in the global version of its online role-playing ...

Microsoft CEO Nadella to speak at developers' forum in Seoul

Microsoft CEO Nadella to speak at developers' forum in Seoul

Microsoft Korea said on Tuesday that it will host Microsoft Ignite Spotlight on Korea, an annual conference for developers and IT professionals, on ...

Korean life insurer eases bond market woes with buyback

Korean life insurer eases bond market woes with buyback

A South Korean small insurer will buy back dollar perpetual bonds as scheduled, reversing its earlier decision not to recall the notes, to ease conc...

Falling Korea current account surplus heightens economic woes

Falling Korea current account surplus heightens economic woes

South Korea’s current account surplus has shrunk on falling exports, adding to concerns over a slowdown in Asia’s fourth-largest economy...

Samsung’s new NAND boasts industry’s highest storage capacity

Samsung’s new NAND boasts industry’s highest storage capacity

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has begun mass producing its latest NAND chip, which features the industry&rsqu...

Samsung to only use Qualcomm’s AP for Galaxy S23 series

Samsung to only use Qualcomm’s AP for Galaxy S23 series

Samsung Electronics Co. is poised to release the Galaxy S23 series smartphones in mid-February, those familiar with the development told The Korea E...

Shinhan Future's Lab opens startup accelerator in Japan

Shinhan Future's Lab opens startup accelerator in Japan

South Korea's Shinhan Financial Group said on Monday it held a ceremony Friday to launch Shinhan Future's Lab Japan in Tokyo.The business accelerati...

SK Nexilis bolsters ties with Polish, Korean cities for sustainable growth

SK Nexilis bolsters ties with Polish, Korean cities for sustainable growth

South Korean copper foil producer SK Nexilis Co. on Nov. 7 signed an MOU with the authorities of two cities — Jeongeup, Korea, and Stalowa Wol...

S.Korean lunar orbiter sends 'Dynamite' BTS video to Earth

S.Korean lunar orbiter sends 'Dynamite' BTS video to Earth

South Korea's unmanned space vehicle Danuri has sent texts and images from space to Earth, the Ministry of Science and ICT announced Monday. Da...

Lotte Mart bulks up in SE Asia to make up for China failure

Lotte Mart bulks up in SE Asia to make up for China failure

Indonesia was the destination for Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin’s first overseas business trip in August, after being granted a special p...

Kakao's Q3 profit drops 12% on games, data center construction

Kakao's Q3 profit drops 12% on games, data center construction

South Korea’s mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. announced its third-quarter earnings on Nov. 3, including quarterly operating profit of 150.3 ...

Doosan Enerbility to supply offshore wind substructures to Orsted

Doosan Enerbility to supply offshore wind substructures to Orsted

South Korea’s leading power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. said on Thursday that its Vietnamese subsidiary has signed an agreement to pro...

Hyundai Heavy to invest $30 million in TerraPower for SMR business

Hyundai Heavy to invest $30 million in TerraPower for SMR business

South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Group said on Friday it has signed a deal to invest $30 million in TerraPower, a US nuclear power ventu...

Korea's premium pet food market sees rapid growth

Korea's premium pet food market sees rapid growth

Korea's pet food market is getting more sophisticated, with brands appearing whose products are even more expensive than food for humans despite hav...

TPG to sell off Korean luxury tile firm Nox's parent for $421 mn

TPG to sell off Korean luxury tile firm Nox's parent for $421 mn

US alternative investment manager TPG Inc. is poised to sell a 65% stake in South Korea’s Moleem Corp., the parent of global leading luxury vi...

SK Chair Chey advises startups to address social issues for viability

SK Chair Chey advises startups to address social issues for viability

In an event that marked the 10-year anniversary of startup accelerator SparkLabs, South Korean business magnate Chey Tae-won said now is the time fo...

Korean Air soars with best quarterly results in its history

Korean Air soars with best quarterly results in its history

Korean Air is flying high after breaking its quarterly record for the second time this year thanks to growing profits from passenger flights as well...

Korean LED maker marks 100th victory in global patent wars

Korean LED maker marks 100th victory in global patent wars

Seoul Semiconductor Co., the world’s second-largest light-emitting diode (LED) display maker, won a patent lawsuit in Germany, setting a recor...

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