Samsung wins multi-year built-in kitchen suite orders from Clayton

Samsung wins multi-year built-in kitchen suite orders from Clayton

Samsung Electronics Co. is upping the ante to widen the lead in the US home appliance market with a long-term contract to provide its hyper-connecte...

Samsung Bioepis gets OK to sell Stelara biosimilar in Europe

Samsung Bioepis gets OK to sell Stelara biosimilar in Europe

South Korea's Samsung Bioepis has received approval from the European Commission to sell Pyzchiva, a biosimilar of the autoimmune disease Stelara.&n...

Alibaba eyes 1st investment in Korean e-commerce platform

Alibaba eyes 1st investment in Korean e-commerce platform

China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is likely to make its first investment in a South Korean online shopping platform as it aims to gain a competitiv...

Blackstone signs over $1 bn deal with MBK for 1st exit in Korea

Blackstone signs over $1 bn deal with MBK for 1st exit in Korea

Private equity giant Blackstone Inc. is set to mark its first exit from South Korea by selling a 71.25% stake in the holding firm of Geo-Young Corp....

Kakao Mobility to offer robot delivery service with LG

Kakao Mobility to offer robot delivery service with LG

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s most popular ride-hailing app operator, will offer indoor robot delivery service with self-driving robots ...

Hyundai Motor, Matrix Renewables in solar deal to power Georgia EV plant

Hyundai Motor, Matrix Renewables in solar deal to power Georgia EV plant

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group said on Monday it has signed a 15-year power purchase contract with a US solar energy generati...

Korean Air, WestJet codeshare Incheon~Calgary route

Korean Air, WestJet codeshare Incheon~Calgary route

Korean Air Lines Co. announced on Monday that it will expand codeshare operations with Canada's WestJet Airlines.Korean Air will sell flights operat...

HD Hyundai Infracore to participate in INTERMAT 2024

HD Hyundai Infracore to participate in INTERMAT 2024

South Korea's HD Hyundai Infracore Co. announced on Monday that it will participate in INTERMAT 2024 which will be held from April 24 to 27 at Parc ...

BMW to support Korean automotive startups at new R&D center

BMW to support Korean automotive startups at new R&D center

German luxury carmaker BMW Group is set to support South Korean automotive startups in their overseas expansion as it on Monday opened a new researc...

Korean theme parks recover to near pre-pandemic levels

Korean theme parks recover to near pre-pandemic levels

Everland and Lotte World, South Korea’s two largest theme parks, posted their highest-ever profits in 2023, recovering from the COVID-19 pande...

SoftBank-backed Korean flea market app sees overseas growth

SoftBank-backed Korean flea market app sees overseas growth

Danggeun Market Inc., South Korea’s largest online flea market service provider, enjoyed growth in other countries with its Karrot app briefly...

Lotte Dept. Store introduces AI translation service

Lotte Dept. Store introduces AI translation service

South Korea's Lotte Department Store announced on Monday that it introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) interpretation service for foreign touri...

Korea's LX opens Hungary terminal for Europe EV, battery logistics

Korea's LX opens Hungary terminal for Europe EV, battery logistics

LX Pantos, one of the top logistics firms in South Korea, has launched a railway terminal in Hungary for the electric vehicle and battery logistics ...

NPS loses $1.2 bn in local stocks in Q1 on weak battery shares

NPS loses $1.2 bn in local stocks in Q1 on weak battery shares

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world's third-largest pension fund, lost 1.66 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in domestic stock ...

Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Dior post weak profits in Korea post-pandemic

Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Dior post weak profits in Korea post-pandemic

Global luxury brands Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Dior saw worsening profitability of their South Korean operations last year after a few years of dece...

Polestar 4 electric SUV coupe to hit South Korean roads in June

Polestar 4 electric SUV coupe to hit South Korean roads in June

The Polestar 4 electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) coupe is set to make its debut in South Korea in June and targets deliveries from October, Swedi...

LG Elec sees AI air conditioner sales 30% increase in Q1

LG Elec sees AI air conditioner sales 30% increase in Q1

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday that the sales of air conditioner models equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) features in the Whisen l...

Taeyoung E&C lets chairmen go as part of restructuring

Taeyoung E&C lets chairmen go as part of restructuring

Belt-tightening Taeyoung Engineering & Construction Co. (Taeyoung E&C), the 16th-largest construction company in South Korea and undergoing ...

Samsung showcases The Freestyle Zone at camping festival

Samsung showcases The Freestyle Zone at camping festival

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Friday that it set up the experience zone for the portable screen The Freestyle Second Generation at the Go Out...

Korean catering firm Ourhome again engulfed in sibling feud

Korean catering firm Ourhome again engulfed in sibling feud

South Korea’s catering service provider Ourhome Ltd. faced another sibling dispute as its Chief Executive and Vice Chairwoman Koo Ji-eun faile...

Celltrion releases Remsima SC in Denmark

Celltrion releases Remsima SC in Denmark

South Korea's Celltrion Inc. announced on Thursday that it released its autoimmune disease treatment Remsima SC (infliximab) in Denmark. Remsima SC ...

In Korean food prices, everything’s up: Now it’s dried seaweed's turn

In Korean food prices, everything’s up: Now it’s dried seaweed's turn

First, it was groceries. Then came fried chicken and hamburgers. Now, it’s seasoned seaweed products, chocolate and ice creams.As in other cou...

MBK eyes stake in Korean software developer Tmaxsoft

MBK eyes stake in Korean software developer Tmaxsoft

North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners is eyeing shares of South Korean enterprise software developer Tmaxsoft Co. around two years aft...

Hyundai, Toray to team up to develop mobility materials

Hyundai, Toray to team up to develop mobility materials

Hyundai Motor Group said on Thursday it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Japan's Toray Industries Inc. to jointly develop carbon fi...

Korea’s vision AI startup Superb AI eyes IPO in H1, 2026

Korea’s vision AI startup Superb AI eyes IPO in H1, 2026

South Korea’s promising vision AI platform developer Superb AI Inc., which has recently added generative AI to its business portfolio, is seek...

Paris Baguette opens first store in Philippines

Paris Baguette opens first store in Philippines

SPC Group’s bakery franchise Paris Baguette announced on Thursday that it opened its first store in the Philippines. The Mall of Asia bra...

Foreign banks expand Korean operations amid China’s slowdown

Foreign banks expand Korean operations amid China’s slowdown

Major foreign banks have actively increased staff at their operations in South Korea to offset growing uncertainty in their business in China, grapp...

Kakao Entertainment, Billboard to collaborate for K-pop

Kakao Entertainment, Billboard to collaborate for K-pop

South Korea's Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of mobile platform giant Kakao Corp., partnered with the renowned US music magazine Billboard on W...

POSCO Holdings, KNOC to jointly secure lithium in Canada

POSCO Holdings, KNOC to jointly secure lithium in Canada

POSCO N.EX.T Hub, the venture platform of POSCO Holdings Inc., announced on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the K...

LG Uplus to ramp up AI investment by up to 40% in 2024

LG Uplus to ramp up AI investment by up to 40% in 2024

SILICON VALLEY – LG Uplus Corp., the third-largest mobile carrier in South Korea seeking to transform into a platform company, will expand its...

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