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Coupang Play to livestream 2024 Masters Tournament

Coupang Play to livestream 2024 Masters Tournament

Coupang Play, a video streaming service provided by South Korea's largest e-commerce company Coupang Inc., will broadcast the first major golf tourn...

Middle East, land of dreams for South Korean IT firms

Middle East, land of dreams for South Korean IT firms

South Korea’s information technology and game companies are rushing to the Middle East to seek global growth drivers as the oil-rich countries...

South Korean drone startups rush to join military drone race

South Korean drone startups rush to join military drone race

South Korean drone-developing startups are rushing to join the race to develop military drones to meet growing demand for drones fit for combat oper...

Coupang's PB SMEs in S.Korea triple in five years

Coupang's PB SMEs in S.Korea triple in five years

Coupang Inc., South Korea's leading e-commerce platform, announced on Sunday that the number of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) manufacturer...

Goldman Sachs names Choi Seoul office chief

Goldman Sachs names Choi Seoul office chief

Global investment bank Goldman Sachs said on Monday that it has named managing director Choi Jae-joon as the new chief of its Seoul office.Choi lead...

Aekyung AGE20's to launch cushion foundation in Japan

Aekyung AGE20's to launch cushion foundation in Japan

AGE20's, South Korean cosmetic company Aekyung Industrial Co. 's flagship cosmetic brand, announced that it held a new cushion foundation for a Japa...

Korean companies’ 2024 facility investment doubles to $39.4 billion

Korean companies’ 2024 facility investment doubles to $39.4 billion

South Korea’s major companies invest heavily in facilities to seek new growth engines and drive up their corporate value amid tough business c...

Korean firms' bond sales hit record in Q1 amid rate cut signal

Korean firms' bond sales hit record in Q1 amid rate cut signal

Corporate bond issuance in South Korea hit a record in the first quarter of this year amid growing expectations of the Federal Reserve’s rate ...

AliExpress, Temu threaten Coupang’s lead in S.Korea

AliExpress, Temu threaten Coupang’s lead in S.Korea

Coupang Inc. is the only South Korea-native e-commerce platform with more monthly active users than China's e-commerce giants AliExpress and Temu in...

Korean big tech firms join Korea’s AI strategy council

Korean big tech firms join Korea’s AI strategy council

The South Korean government has launched an artificial intelligence strategy council, jointly with domestic big tech firms such as Naver Corp. and K...

SK Hynix to build advanced packaging plant in Indiana for $3.9 bn

SK Hynix to build advanced packaging plant in Indiana for $3.9 bn

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s leading high bandwidth memory (HBM) chip producer, will plow in $3.87 billion to build advanced packaging and resea...

Korea reclaims crown from China as world’s top shipbuilder

Korea reclaims crown from China as world’s top shipbuilder

South Korea reclaimed the crown from the Chinese as the world’s largest shipbuilder after three years last quarter, sweeping global orders for...

Sandy Floor gets seed round from Kakao Ventures

Sandy Floor gets seed round from Kakao Ventures

South Korea’s casual multiplayer game developer Sandy Floor Games announced on Wednesday that it got a seed round investment from Kakao Ventur...

Blight of failing e-commerce startups in South Korea

Blight of failing e-commerce startups in South Korea

Linkshops, once touted as a future unicorn candidate in South Korea, declared bankruptcy last month even after garnering 15.4 billion won ($11.4 mil...

Samsung, GS win $7.2 bn gas plant project in Saudi

Samsung, GS win $7.2 bn gas plant project in Saudi

South Korea’s Samsung Engineering (new name: Samsung E&A) and GS Engineering & Construction Corp. (GS E&C) won a $7.2 billion co...

Hollys Coffee goes to Japan as Korean franchises turn gaze abroad

Hollys Coffee goes to Japan as Korean franchises turn gaze abroad

Hollys Coffee, a unit of South Korea’s KG Group, is opening its first overseas outlet in Osaka, Japan, riding on the popularity of Korean cult...

Breezm lands in US with plan to open 100 stores in 5 years

Breezm lands in US with plan to open 100 stores in 5 years

Breezm, a South Korean startup making customized eyeglasses with artificial intelligence and 3D technologies, has opened its first offshore store in...

KOTRA holds drone roadshow in Kazakhstan

KOTRA holds drone roadshow in Kazakhstan

Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) announced on Tuesday that the Korea-Kazakhstan Drone Roadshow opened in Astana, the capital of Kazak...

Hanwha, 1st Korean insurer to earn dividends from overseas unit

Hanwha, 1st Korean insurer to earn dividends from overseas unit

Hanwha Life Insurance Co. is set to earn dividends from its Vietnamese subsidiary, reporting a cumulative profit after 15 years, becoming South Kore...

Money pours in for technology to reshape Korean restaurants

Money pours in for technology to reshape Korean restaurants

Investors are betting big on food service technology startups in South Korea as the adoption of self-service systems in the country’s food and...

Hyundai Globis wins long-term LNGC charter in Qatar

Hyundai Globis wins long-term LNGC charter in Qatar

South Korea's Hyundai Glovis Co. announced on Monday that it has won a long-term charter for four liquefied natural gas carriers (LNGC) from QatarEn...

Hyundai Department launches Korean brands' global platform

Hyundai Department launches Korean brands' global platform

Hyundai Department Store Co., South Korea’s major retail conglomerate, has launched “The Hyundai Global” platform dedicated to pro...

Samsung returns to top, to up ante against troubled Apple

Samsung returns to top, to up ante against troubled Apple

Samsung Electronics Co. snatched the crown from its archrival Apple Inc. as the top global smartphone seller last month thanks to brisk sales of its...

Foreign buying of Korean stocks hit record high in Q1

Foreign buying of Korean stocks hit record high in Q1

Foreign investors gobbled up a record 15.8 trillion won ($11.7 billion) worth of stocks listed in South Korea during the first three months of this ...

Avalve to export $1.5 mn smart farm solution to Vietnam

Avalve to export $1.5 mn smart farm solution to Vietnam

South Korea's smart farm startup Avalve announced on Friday that it signed a total of $1.5 million in memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with Vietn...

Shinhan Securities leads M&A of Trench Group

Shinhan Securities leads M&A of Trench Group

South Korea's Shinhan Securities announced on Friday that it participated as the lead underwriter in the merger and acquisition deal of Trench Group...

NH Investment gets APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules

NH Investment gets APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules

South Korea's NH Investment & Securities announced Friday that it obtained the global personal information protection certification APEC Cross-B...

Taihan Cable wins $81 mn power network replacement order in US

Taihan Cable wins $81 mn power network replacement order in US

South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. announced on Friday that it secured a project of 110 billion won ($81.5 million) to replace aging po...

Korea yet to join global bond index for capital inflows

Korea yet to join global bond index for capital inflows

South Korea has so far failed to be included on a global major bond index, denting hopes for capital inflows into Asia’s fourth-largest econom...

POSCO Future M named Fortune Asia Future 30

POSCO Future M named Fortune Asia Future 30

South Korea’s POSCO Future M Co. has been named Asia Future 30 by the US economic media Fortune on Mar. 27, according to the company on Thursd...

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