Korean financial markets tumble as Fed signals higher rates

Korean financial markets tumble as Fed signals higher rates

South Korean stocks, bonds and its currency tumbled on Thursday as the US Federal Reserve gave indications of another interest rate hike this year a...

B2B, home appliance giant LG's new money spinner

B2B, home appliance giant LG's new money spinner

A sense of crisis gripped South Korean home appliance giant LG Electronics Inc. two years ago when consumers tightened their purse strings on growin...

Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi: Litte Korea transplanted in Vietnam

Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi: Litte Korea transplanted in Vietnam

HANOI – On a late summer day in Vo Chi Cong, Tay Ho district, a colossal commercial complex was packed with people wanting to savor all things...

Samsung SDI gets top int'l grade for zero-waste landfills

Samsung SDI gets top int'l grade for zero-waste landfills

South Korea’s Samsung SDI Co. on Wednesday said all of its domestic business sites received the highest grade of Platinum in the Zero Waste to...

Naver’s 'Cue:' throws down the gauntlet to MS Bing Chat

Naver’s 'Cue:' throws down the gauntlet to MS Bing Chat

Naver Corp., South Korea’s dominant web portal operator, on Wednesday launched a beta service of its new generative artificial intelligence te...

LG CNS, IGIS to collaborate in new biz for digital transformation

LG CNS, IGIS to collaborate in new biz for digital transformation

South Korea's information and communications technology service provider LG CNS on Wednesday said it will cooperate with the Seoul-based IGIS Asset ...

Japanese steelmakers flood South Korea on back of weaker yen

Japanese steelmakers flood South Korea on back of weaker yen

Japanese steelmakers are expanding their market shares in South Korea, backed by the yen's drop against the Korean won to the lowest in eight years....

Hyundai Steel to pull out of stainless steel market

Hyundai Steel to pull out of stainless steel market

Hyundai Steel Co. has decided to close its stainless steel-making plant in Incheon, South Korea, pulling out of the market amid a flood of Chinese-m...

S.Korea's Cosmax wins halal award in Indonesia

S.Korea's Cosmax wins halal award in Indonesia

Cosmax Inc., a South Korean original development manufacturer (ODM) of global cosmetics that also does research and development in the field, has wo...

Kakao Pay’s tie-up with Alipay spurs growth in China

Kakao Pay’s tie-up with Alipay spurs growth in China

BEIJING – Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., is rapidly growing in China’s fintech...

Daesang opens Jongga kimchi pop-up store in London

Daesang opens Jongga kimchi pop-up store in London

South Korean food maker Daesang Corp. has launched a pop-up store for its kimchi brand called Jongga in London, UK, the company announced on Wednesd...

US court rules in favor of Korea's nuclear reactor exports

US court rules in favor of Korea's nuclear reactor exports

A US district court on Monday dismissed Westinghouse Electric Corp.’s lawsuit against South Korean state-run companies to block their nuclear ...

Samsung to launch Galaxy S23 FE as early as October

Samsung to launch Galaxy S23 FE as early as October

Samsung Electronics Co. is slated to release the Galaxy S23 Fan Edition (FE), a cheaper model than those in the high-end Galaxy S23 series, as early...

LG Energy raises $1 bn in bonds for EV battery production

LG Energy raises $1 bn in bonds for EV battery production

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery manufacturer, said on Tuesday it has raised $1 billion by selling its first global...

Korean B2B cloud computing firm BusinessOn up for sale

Korean B2B cloud computing firm BusinessOn up for sale

BusinessOn Communication Co., a leading cloud computing firm listed on the junior bourse Kosdaq, is open to a sale of its controlling stake for arou...

Koreans’ US dollar selling spree continues in anticipation of weaker USD

Koreans’ US dollar selling spree continues in anticipation of weaker USD

US dollar investors in South Korea have not backed down from their shorting position of the currency despite the strengthening dollar against the Ko...

Hyundai eyes Saudi EV plant as Korea bets on Middle East boom

Hyundai eyes Saudi EV plant as Korea bets on Middle East boom

Hyundai Motor Co. is set to build an electric vehicle assembly plant in Saudi Arabia as South Korean companies are increasingly tapping growth oppor...

Seoul Semiconductor secures key EV LED patents

Seoul Semiconductor secures key EV LED patents

Seoul Semiconductor Co., the world’s No. 3 light-emitting diode (LED) maker, has secured key patents for LEDs to be used in electric vehicles ...

Alipay’s Ant becomes No.2 shareholder of S. Korea’s Toss Payments

Alipay’s Ant becomes No.2 shareholder of S. Korea’s Toss Payments

Ant Group Co., the operator of China’s biggest mobile payment platform Alipay, has become the second-largest stakeholder of Toss Payments, the...

KAI's FA-50 participates in NATO Days 2023

KAI's FA-50 participates in NATO Days 2023

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), South Korea's sole military aircraft manufacturer, announced on Monday that its FA-50GF light fighter expor...

NHN Commerce to expand into Chinese market with Xinxuan

NHN Commerce to expand into Chinese market with Xinxuan

NHN Commerce, South Korea's major online company NHN Corp.'s online shopping platform, announced its strategic business agreement with China's leadi...

LG’s FAST drive to combat TV set market slowdown

LG’s FAST drive to combat TV set market slowdown

South Korea’s electronics giant LG Electronics Inc. is upending its TV business strategy by betting even bigger on software and content to off...

Hyundai promotes Busan’s bid for 2030 Expo in New York with art cars

Hyundai promotes Busan’s bid for 2030 Expo in New York with art cars

Hyundai Motor Group supports Busan’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo with IONIQ 5, IONIQ 6, and Genesis G80 covered with graffiti reading &l...

Hyundai Motor eyes purpose-built vehicle market entry

Hyundai Motor eyes purpose-built vehicle market entry

Hyundai Motor Co. has launched a task force team to study its foray into the purpose-built vehicle (PBV) market, in which its sister company Kia Cor...

NCSOFT to run Battle Crush’s CBT in October for H1 2024 launch  

NCSOFT to run Battle Crush’s CBT in October for H1 2024 launch  

NCSOFT Corp., a major South Korean game developer and publisher, is inviting game lovers to take part in the closed beta test (CBT) of its new actio...

Young Poong, AJ Networks to form battery recycling chain in Europe

Young Poong, AJ Networks to form battery recycling chain in Europe

South Korea’s non-ferrous metal company Young Poong Co. has teamed up with AJ Networks to establish a secondary batteries resource circulation...

Coupang to host business briefing on Taiwan market entry

Coupang to host business briefing on Taiwan market entry

South Korea's e-commerce leader Coupang Inc. announced on Friday that it plans to conduct a business briefing focused on aiding domestic small and m...

POSCO seeks partnership with CF Industries to produce blue ammonia

POSCO seeks partnership with CF Industries to produce blue ammonia

South Korea’s POSCO Holdings Inc. is seeking to produce blue ammonia in partnership with CF Industries Holdings Inc., the world’s larges...

Lotte Mart at Seoul Station redesigned to lure foreign shoppers

Lotte Mart at Seoul Station redesigned to lure foreign shoppers

South Korea’s Lotte Mart reopened its hypermarket at Seoul train station on Thursday following a four-month renovation to attract more foreign...

S.Korean travel guide featuring BTS published

S.Korean travel guide featuring BTS published

The Korea Economic Daily (KED) on Tuesday released The Purple Road, a tourist guide of South Korea highlighting places where the seven members of ...

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