Kumho Tire eyes Poland, Serbia, Portugal for 1st European plant
Kumho Tire Co., South Korea’s No. 2 tire maker, is evaluating Poland, Serbia and Portugal as a potential site for its first plant in Europe as...
Orion behind original Choco Pie to invest $580 million in new plants
Orion Corp., a South Korean confectionery and snack manufacturer, will inject 830 billion won ($580 million) over three years to expand snack manufa...
Dongwon Industries to delist wholly owned Dongwon F&B
Dongwon Industries Co., the holding company of South Korea’s seafood-to-logistics Dongwon Group, will delist its canned tuna-manufacturing sub...
Ex-US Congressman Drew Ferguson to head Hyundai's Washington office
Hyundai Motor Group has appointed former Republican Congressman Drew Ferguson as head of its Washington office, a strategic move designed to bolster...
KT rolls out Thai-tailored large language model
South Korean telecom service provider KT Corp. has built a large language model (LLM) platform tailored for the Thai market in collaboration with Ja...
South Korean defense industry thriving on strong overseas demand
The South Korean defense industry's current heyday is expected to continue for a while as global demand for Korean-made weapons and combat systems h...
Koreans cut spending in March, except on health, education
South Korean consumers exhibited recessionary spending behavior in March, cutting expenditures across nearly all sectors, except healthcare and educ...
NPS pours $3.9 bn to buttress Korean stock market
South Korea’s National Pension Service, the country’s largest institutional investor, has come to the rescue of the domestic stock marke...
With domestic dockyards fully booked, Korean shipbuilders turn overseas
As order books swell amid green shipping mandates, LNG demand and military naval modernization, South Korean shipbuilders are extending their global...
Koreans cut spending in March, except on health, education
South Korean consumers exhibited recessionary spending behavior in March, cutting expenditures across nearly all sectors, except healthcare and educ...
Samsung Display picked as sole OLED screen supplier for foldable iPhone
Samsung Display Co., the display-making unit under Samsung Electronics Co., will exclusively supply organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for...
Naver mulls acquiring about a 10% stake in Kurly
Naver Corp. is considering taking over a stake in Kurly Inc. to become the largest shareholder in the South Korean dawn delivery service market pion...
Samsung, Google to unveil smart glasses next year in deeper AI alliance
Samsung Electronics Co. and Google LLC are strengthening their long-standing alliance as the artificial intelligence (AI) era redefines the balance ...
S.Korean shipbuilders rally as Trump hints at buying foreign ships
South Korean shipbuilding stocks soared on Friday on news that US President Donald Trump indicated that the world’s No. 1 economy may purchase...
KAIST launches Korean rapper G-Dragon’s music into space
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) has launched the music and iris image of G-Dragon, a Korean rapper and singer-songw...
POSCO eyes deeper steel, energy ties with global peers
POSCO Group, South Korea’s steelmaking giant, will further bolster its competitiveness in the global steel market and energy value chains thro...
Geopolitics rewrite investment playbook – and that’s an opportunity: KKR
In an era of escalating geopolitical uncertainty, the head of one of the world’s largest private equity firms sees opportunity – not ret...
HD Hyundai Heavy, HII team up for naval shipbuilding
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. (HD HHI) and US naval shipbuilding leader Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) have agreed to join hands to buil...
Kakao Entertainment scraps IPO, seeks new buyer
Kakao Corp., South Korea’s largest mobile platform, is looking to sell a majority stake in Kakao Entertainment Corp., dropping a plan to take ...
Samsung unveils upgraded AI-powered OLED TVs
Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday showcased its new lineup of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs with advanced artificial intelligence features...
South Korean stocks, currency dive amid deeper US tariff turmoil
The South Korean stock market logged its biggest daily loss of more than 5% in eight months on Monday, joining its Asian peers bruised by panic sell...
ABL Bio lands $2.8 billion license-out deal with GSK
ABL Bio Inc., a South Korean biotech company, will license out its proprietary blood-brain barrier shuttle platform, called the Grabody-B, to UK-bas...
K-beauty exports to China rebound after 4-month slump
South Korea’s beauty industry is showing signs of recovery in China, with exports rebounding after four months of decline.The turnaround follo...
Korean entertainment stocks advance, unfazed by US tariff concerns
South Korean entertainment and gaming stocks climbed on Friday, defying a broader market drop as investors sought refuge in sectors seen as immune t...
Korean financial firms face growing risks in overseas property investments
South Korea’s financial institutions are increasingly at risk of their overseas real estate investments turning sour, government data showed o...
S.Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol ousted; new presidential election coming
South Korea’s Constitutional Court permanently removed President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday, making him the country’s second pr...
Samsung, LG review strategies as Trump slaps Vietnam with steeper tariffs
South Korea’s two leading electronics makers – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. – are being forced to reassess thei...
MBK sees better exit landscape in 2025, bets on governance reform
MBK Partners sees a recovery in the exit environment in 2025 and seeks to capitalize on the opportunities emerging from corporate governance reform ...
LG’s global HVAC push takes off with new deal in Singapore
LG Electronics Inc. has landed a deal to supply its heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system to a fulfillment center in Singapore, a...
DB GlobalChip forays into mobile phone OLED driver chip market
DB GlobalChip Co., the chip design subsidiary of South Korea’s chip foundry company DB HiTek Co., has begun mass-producing organic light-emitt...
