South Korean city seeks to build Asia's 1st MSG Sphere

South Korean city seeks to build Asia's 1st MSG Sphere

A city in the greater Seoul area is aiming to become the first in Asia to attract Madison Square Garden (MSG) Sphere, an iconic music and entertainm...

Big Bang deregulation poised to bolster S.Korean ST market

Big Bang deregulation poised to bolster S.Korean ST market

South Korea’s fractional investment market is gearing up for a grand opening after the government earlier this year unveiled security token of...

S.Korean companies rushing to launch exotic AI-based services

S.Korean companies rushing to launch exotic AI-based services

Lowered barriers in South Korea to the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) have fueled the growing popularity of unique AI services. The em...

Korean Air’s operating profit falls to $360 mn in Q2 2023

Korean Air’s operating profit falls to $360 mn in Q2 2023

Korean Air Lines Co.’s operating profit in the second quarter fell over 30% from the same period last year in line with market consensus.Consi...

GS25 becomes No. 1 convenience store chain in southern Vietnam

GS25 becomes No. 1 convenience store chain in southern Vietnam

South Korean convenience store chain GS25 announced on Thursday that it has become the top operator in southern Vietnam, surpassing rivals US' Circl...

S.Korean academics to verify truth of room-temperature superconductor

S.Korean academics to verify truth of room-temperature superconductor

The Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics has recently established a verification committee composed of experts in response to the ongo...

Baskin-Robbins stands out in melting Korean ice cream market

Baskin-Robbins stands out in melting Korean ice cream market

Global ice cream chain Baskin-Robbins, the top ice cream seller in South Korea, is solidifying its market position with localization despite the cou...

HD Hyundai to expand LNG tanker conversion biz with orders

HD Hyundai to expand LNG tanker conversion biz with orders

HD Hyundai Global Service, the ship retrofit subsidiary of the world’s second-largest shipbuilder HD Hyundai Co., is poised to bag orders to c...

KT Submarine to rename itself LS Marine Solution

KT Submarine to rename itself LS Marine Solution

South Korea’s undersea cable company KT Submarine Co. will change its name to LS Marine Solution following its integration into the LS Group. ...

APR’s fashion brand Nerdy opens two more stores in Vietnam

APR’s fashion brand Nerdy opens two more stores in Vietnam

South Korea's cosmetic and clothing company APR announced on Wednesday that its street style fashion brand Nerdy opened its third and fourth stores ...

Com2us launches RPG game ‘Heir of Light: Eclipse’ in Canada, Indonesia

Com2us launches RPG game ‘Heir of Light: Eclipse’ in Canada, Indonesia

Com2us Holdings Corp. announced on Wednesday that its new role-playing game (RPG), Heir to  Light: Eclipse, is now available on Google Play in ...

LabGenomics plans to buy 4 to 5 more CLIA labs in US by 2027

LabGenomics plans to buy 4 to 5 more CLIA labs in US by 2027

LabGenomics Co. will advance into the US diagnostics market with laboratories regulated by the country’s Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amend...

S.Korean carmakers post brisk sales on strong exports in July

S.Korean carmakers post brisk sales on strong exports in July

South Korea's car sector posted strong sales last month as favorable exports offset the sluggish domestic market.Industry sources on Tuesday said th...

S.Korean LLM by Upstage beats global benchmark ChatGPT

S.Korean LLM by Upstage beats global benchmark ChatGPT

The latest artificial intelligence model of South Korean AI startup Upstage scored higher than ChatGPT by global AI giant OpenAI in a world-recogniz...

Soju: Well-known Korean alcoholic beverage

Soju: Well-known Korean alcoholic beverage

The Korean alcoholic beverage that foreigners are most familiar with is Soju, according to the Korean Food Promotion Institution. The institution re...

Super-large screens account for one third of Samsung’s TV sales

Super-large screens account for one third of Samsung’s TV sales

Samsung Electronics Co. announced that one out of every three of its Neo QLED and QLED TVs sold in South Korea between January and July this year fe...

Naver Pay to enter Chinese payment market in 2023

Naver Pay to enter Chinese payment market in 2023

South Korea's Naver Financial announced plans on Tuesday to bring its simple payment service, Naver Pay, to the Chinese market by the end of this ye...

SK Shieldus appoints former Samsung SDS president as new CEO

SK Shieldus appoints former Samsung SDS president as new CEO

South Korean security company SK Shieldus announced on Tuesday that it has appointed Hong Won-pyo, former president of Samsung SDS, as its new CEO a...

Daesang's spicy rice cake project launches two products

Daesang's spicy rice cake project launches two products

With tteokbokki (spicy rice cake) drawing attention at home and abroad amid a South Korean food craze worldwide, domestic food company Daesang Corp....

IMM PE seeks to sell Korean contract drugmaker at $784 mn

IMM PE seeks to sell Korean contract drugmaker at $784 mn

IMM Private Equity has put a South Korean contract drugmaker on the market for up to 1 trillion won ($784 million) in a deal likely to attract major...

Fractional investing to gain traction in Korea with green light from FSC

Fractional investing to gain traction in Korea with green light from FSC

Come September, South Korean investors will be able to freely and safely buy and sell fractions of artwork and even live cows just as they do with t...

Seoul mulls ‘treble damages’ for illegal K-content websites

Seoul mulls ‘treble damages’ for illegal K-content websites

The South Korean government and the ruling People Power Party are considering tripling punitive damages to illegal distributors of Korean entertainm...

Gencurix joins US gov't Cancer Moonshot project

Gencurix joins US gov't Cancer Moonshot project

South Korean cancer molecular diagnostics company Gencurix Inc. announced on Monday that it joins US President Joe Biden's cancer-conquering project...

Hanmi Pharm to develop obesity drug customized for S.Korean

Hanmi Pharm to develop obesity drug customized for S.Korean

South Korea's Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. plans to develop the GLP-1 class "Epeglenatide," which it received as a technology return from Sanofi S.A., i...

Doosan secures $392 mn in cumulative PFC orders

Doosan secures $392 mn in cumulative PFC orders

South Korea's Doosan Corp. announced on Monday that it has accumulated 500 billion won ($392 million) in orders for its patterned flat cable (PFC), ...

Hyundai, Kia firm up ranking as world's 3rd; first-half profits improve

Hyundai, Kia firm up ranking as world's 3rd; first-half profits improve

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group solidified its position as the world’s third-largest carmaker with improved profit margi...

CJ CheilJedang divests Chinese subsidiary Jixiangju for $235 mn

CJ CheilJedang divests Chinese subsidiary Jixiangju for $235 mn

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Monday that it has completely sold its ownership stake in its Chinese food subsidiary, Jix...

S.Korea's HD Hyundai chairman: We can’t rely on bad profits

S.Korea's HD Hyundai chairman: We can’t rely on bad profits

Kwon Oh-gap, chairman and co-CEO of South Korea's HD Hyundai Co., has ordered his company not to rely on “bad profits” gained from tempo...

Doosan Bobcat logs strong earnings on N.America price hikes

Doosan Bobcat logs strong earnings on N.America price hikes

Doosan Bobcat Inc., the construction and agricultural machine manufacturer of South Korea’s Doosan Group, enjoyed strong earnings on still-sol...

Volvo tops S.Koreans’ favorite foreign car survey list for service

Volvo tops S.Koreans’ favorite foreign car survey list for service

Sweden's Volvo offers the best after-sales service among imported automobile dealers in South Korea, while locals drivers are disappointed by the cu...

Korea’s game studios rebrand as AI tech firms, with stints in fashion, robotics, media K-pop queens return: Blackpink, Twice power up YG, JYP Samsung to launch AI health coach beta in US by end-2025 South Korea moves to mandate treasury share cancellation South Korean airlines bank on China routes for profit recovery