E-Mart24 opens first store in Cambodia
South Korea's convenience store chain E-Mart24 Inc. announced on Sunday that it opened its first store in Boeung Keng Kang, a bustling district of P...
LG Innotek eyes $1.4 bn in automotive sensor sales by 2030
LG Innotek Co., South Korea’s leading mobile camera module maker, is upping the ante to lead the automotive sensing market with high-performan...
Lotte Home Shopping to enter health functional food market
South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Monday that it plans to establish a joint venture, The Edition Health, with H.Pio, a specialized heal...
Hyundai Glovis enters LNG transport business with Woodside Scarlet Ibis
Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, is entering the liquefied natural gas transportation business wit...
d’Alba maker Bmonument, Memebox, Easytem line up for Korean IPOs
South Korea’s promising beauty and healthcare device startups are looking to go public on the domestic bourse to scale up after gaining popula...
QCells wins 2GW solar panel deal for US community solar farms
Hanwha Q Cell Co., better known as QCells in overseas markets, has signed a solar panel supply and partnership agreement for energy storage system (...
Yogiyo to begin autonomous robot delivery tests in August
Yogiyo, South Korea’s second-largest food delivery app, announced on Friday that it will begin outdoor autonomous robot delivery tests in Song...
K-Sure to support Korean firms' participation in Vietnam's gas project
Korea Trade Insurance Corp. (K-Sure) announced that it will leverage medium- and long-term financial support to assist domestic companies in partici...
Ediya Coffee expands to Malaysia following Guam
South Korea's homegrown coffee chain Ediya Coffee announced on Friday that it has signed a master franchise agreement in Malaysia, marking the begin...
South Korea-Japan air travelers soar to 10 mn in first five months
The number of air passengers traveling between South Korea and Japan has surpassed 10 million in the first five months of this year, setting a new r...
Mom's Touch adds two new restaurants in Mongolia
South Korean homegrown burger and chicken brand Mom's Touch & Co. announced on Friday that it has recently opened its sixth and seventh stores i...
EcoPro BM in talks to produce sodium-ion battery cathodes
MUNICH, Germany – EcoPro BM Co., a South Korean cathode material producer, is in close discussion with a domestic carmaker to produce cathode ...
Affinity to buy Korea's No. 2 car leasing firm for $591 mn
Affinity Equity Partners will buy a 100% stake in South Korea’s second-largest car leasing company SK Rent-a-Car Co. for 820 billion won ($591...
SK asks KDB for further funding before drastic restructuring
SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest business group in terms of total assets, has asked the country’s state-run Korea Development Bank...
Doosan Enerbility to introduce carbon reduction tech at Thai power plant
South Korea's Doosan Enerbility Co. plans to introduce carbon reduction technologies, including ammonia co-firing and carbon capture, utilization an...
Macquarie eyes its 1st Korean data center valued around $722 mn
Macquarie Group’s South Korean infrastructure investment arm is set to buy its first domestic data center, valued at up to 1 trillion won ($72...
Hanwha Aerospace closes in on Romania’s howitzer deal
Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s major aerospace and defense system developer, is highly expected to bag a $920 million contract to supply ...
Korean soju maker HiteJinro aims high with its first Vietnam plant
HANOI – Thai Binh, a port city about 120 km southeast of the Vietnamese capital, has long been associated, in people’s minds, with the i...
LG Elec, ChargePoint to collaborate for EV charging
LG Electronics Inc. announced on Wednesday that it had recently signed a business agreement with the No. 1 electric vehicle (EV) charging operator (...
CJ CheilJedang makes alternative flour with wheat bran
South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. has engaged in an upcycling business by utilizing wheat bran, previously discarded as a milling byprodu...
LG CNS gets AWS Generative AI Competency
LG CNS Co., a cloud computing services arm of South Korea's LG Corp., announced on Wednesday that it achieved the AWS Generative AI Competency from ...
Korea’s food prices highest among OECD nations; utility bills at bottom
South Korea’s food prices were found to be the highest among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries last y...
Value in the middle market: Smaller size means greater potential
Middle market direct lending can mean different things to different lenders and investors. Many, if not most, would agree that companies with over $...
Noul, CDC to start Malaria diagnosis project in Kenya
South Korea's Noul Co., an in-vitro diagnostics maker and artificial intelligence (AI)-based blood and cancer diagnostic platforms company, said o...
Uniqconn raises $7 mn in Series A round
South Korea's system semiconductor startup Uniqconn announced on Tuesday that it attracted 10 billion won ($7.24 million) in Series A roundThe fun...
SK Networks to split off SpeedMate, trade division
South Korea's SK Networks Co. plans to split off its auto management division SpeedMate and its trading unit.The board of directors approved the pla...
Tcha Partners mulls largest-ever sale of Korean bus operators
Seoul-based private equity firm Tcha Partners Asset Management Co., which owns 17 domestic quasi-public bus operators via four funds that closed at ...
Hanjin expands European logistics bases
South Korea's Hanjin Transportation, a logistics unit of Hanjin Group, announced on Monday that it will expand its European bases, including establi...
S.Korean companies open K-food section at Amazon
South Korean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will showcase Korean food (K-food) on Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce platform, the Mi...
PwC's Korean member taps new chiefs, creates finance unit
Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a South Korean member firm of PwC International Ltd., has appointed new chiefs of its key units and created a fi...
