Korean lifestyle brand Andar takes on Xexymix in athleisure market

South Korea's activewear maker Andar posted record quarterly sales of 61.6 billion won ($47 million), moving one step closer to retaking the market ...

Insatiable Hyundai Motor aspires to lead India with SUVs, EVs

Hyundai Motor Group must become “the first mover” in India, which has emerged as the next fierce battlefield for global car makers after...

Kakao Healthcare signs agreement with Novo Nordisk for digital service

Kakao Healthcare Corp., a digital healthcare platform unit of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced that it has signed on Tuesday a business agreemen...

Kia launches exclusive care service for EV9

South Korea's Kia Corp. announced on Tuesday that it will begin exclusive EV9 care services. The company will offer after-sale services throughout t...

SSG.Com announces global first launch of Piaget's new watch

SSG.COM, the e-commerce platform of South Korean retail heavyweight Shinsegae Inc., revealed on Tuesday its exclusive introduction of Swiss luxury b...

Korean swimwear Barrel posts profit in post-pandemic surfing boom

South Korea’s leading swimwear maker Barrel is stepping up its profitability after losses during COVID-19 as its new owner has saved costs thr...

Orion teams up with Dutch Mill to tap Vietnamese dairy market

South Korea's Orion Corp. announced on Tuesday its strategic collaboration with Thailand's dairy behemoth, Dutch Mill Co., marking its ambitious ent...

Korean boiler makers set sights on Central, South America

South Korea’s major boiler manufacturers are stepping up overseas expansion to diversify beyond the saturated domestic market, setting their s...

KDB girds up for Korean Air-Asiana deal collapse with Plan B

The state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) is looking for alternative options to sell Asiana Airlines Inc. to prepare against a possible collapse of...

Smilegate to host CFS Summer Championship 2023 in Vietnam

Smilegate Entertainment, a South Korean game developer and publisher, announced on Monday that it will host the "CFS Summer Championship 2023" in co...

Ourhome strikes catering deal with Vietnam's FPT Education

A prominent South Korean food service provider Ourhome Ltd. disclosed on Monday that it has penned a memorandum of understanding with FPT Education,...

Affinity's CJ Lee to become 3rd Korean executive to leave

Affinity Equity Partners’ founding member and Managing Partner Lee Chul-joo (CJ Lee) will resign from the Asia’s leading buyout manager,...

S.Korean transformers invade US market on surging demand

South Korea’s heavy electrical equipment makers are expanding their presence in the US, the world’s second-largest electricity consumer,...

Air travel from Korea roars back to everywhere, except China

Flight routes between South Korea and China, once Korean flag carriers’ most lucrative, have become their white elephant as passengers on the ...

S.Korean cosmetics overtake French as top imports in Japan

South Korean cosmetics topped the Japanese import market for the first time in 2022, surpassing French brands, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported Thursd...

Naver posts record Q2 operating profit on e-commerce, content

South Korea’s top online portal Naver Corp. on Friday posted record operating profit in the second quarter, driven by robust sales growth in i...

South Korean city seeks to build Asia's 1st MSG Sphere

A city in the greater Seoul area is aiming to become the first in Asia to attract Madison Square Garden (MSG) Sphere, an iconic music and entertainm...

Big Bang deregulation poised to bolster S.Korean ST market

South Korea’s fractional investment market is gearing up for a grand opening after the government earlier this year unveiled security token of...

S.Korean companies rushing to launch exotic AI-based services

Lowered barriers in South Korea to the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) have fueled the growing popularity of unique AI services. The em...

Korean Air’s operating profit falls to $360 mn in Q2 2023

Korean Air Lines Co.’s operating profit in the second quarter fell over 30% from the same period last year in line with market consensus.Consi...

S.Korean academics to verify truth of room-temperature superconductor

The Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics has recently established a verification committee composed of experts in response to the ongo...

Baskin-Robbins stands out in melting Korean ice cream market

Global ice cream chain Baskin-Robbins, the top ice cream seller in South Korea, is solidifying its market position with localization despite the cou...

Kia America’s new normal: Record car sales month after month

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, has been dismissed as the weaker sibling or smaller sister firm of Hyundai Motor Co., the c...

APR’s fashion brand Nerdy opens two more stores in Vietnam

South Korea's cosmetic and clothing company APR announced on Wednesday that its street style fashion brand Nerdy opened its third and fourth stores ...

Com2us launches RPG game ‘Heir of Light: Eclipse’ in Canada, Indonesia

Com2us Holdings Corp. announced on Wednesday that its new role-playing game (RPG), Heir to  Light: Eclipse, is now available on Google Play in ...

LabGenomics plans to buy 4 to 5 more CLIA labs in US by 2027

LabGenomics Co. will advance into the US diagnostics market with laboratories regulated by the country’s Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amend...

S.Korean carmakers post brisk sales on strong exports in July

South Korea's car sector posted strong sales last month as favorable exports offset the sluggish domestic market.Industry sources on Tuesday said th...

S.Korean LLM by Upstage beats global benchmark ChatGPT

The latest artificial intelligence model of South Korean AI startup Upstage scored higher than ChatGPT by global AI giant OpenAI in a world-recogniz...

Soju: Well-known Korean alcoholic beverage

The Korean alcoholic beverage that foreigners are most familiar with is Soju, according to the Korean Food Promotion Institution. The institution re...

Super-large screens account for one third of Samsung’s TV sales

Samsung Electronics Co. announced that one out of every three of its Neo QLED and QLED TVs sold in South Korea between January and July this year fe...