South Korea-Japan air travelers soar to 10 mn in first five months

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

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

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 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 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

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 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 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

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 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

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 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

 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Korean IT firms prefer engineers with business capabilities

Korean IT firms prefer engineers with business capabilities

More South Korean information technology companies are seeking engineers with business capabilities as artificial intelligence is expected to take o...

HD Hyundai Oilbank to export SAF to Japan

HD Hyundai Oilbank to export SAF to Japan

HD Hyundai Oilbank Co., South Korea’s refiner backed by Saudi Aramco, said on Sunday that it will export sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Ja...

South Korean webtoon makers in quandary after pandemic

South Korean webtoon makers in quandary after pandemic

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic a few years back, social distancing was the rule of life. People stayed at home, with many of them killing ti...

Asiana's cargo unit to be sold for $362 mn to Air Incheon

Asiana's cargo unit to be sold for $362 mn to Air Incheon

South Korean flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co. has tapped Air Incheon, a local airline dedicated to cargo business, as the preferred bidder to acqui...

Innocean produces Hyundai Motor ad using GenAI

Innocean produces Hyundai Motor ad using GenAI

Innocean Worldwide Inc., the global marketing communications arm of Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday that it launched three new digital campaigns...

Korean food firms chase sizzling K-food demand with expansion

Korean food firms chase sizzling K-food demand with expansion

South Korean food companies are scrambling to ramp up factory output at home and abroad to meet the insatiable appetite for Korean flavors and aroma...

Hyundai, Hanwha in uphill battle vs Japan for A$11 billion frigate deal

Hyundai, Hanwha in uphill battle vs Japan for A$11 billion frigate deal

South Korea’s two warship builders are striving to win an A$11 billion (US$7.3 billion) deal from Australia to build 11 advanced frigates &nda...

Japan golf courses, Korean investors’ new target assets

Japan golf courses, Korean investors’ new target assets

South Korean investors are eyeing Japan’s golf resorts to buy amid the weak yen, rising demand for golf courses in Japan, and relatively low p...

Asia's largest startup fair NextRise 2024 held in Seoul

Asia's largest startup fair NextRise 2024 held in Seoul

The Korea International Trade Association and Korea Development Bank announced on Thursday that the Asia's largest startup fair "NextRise 2024 Seoul...

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