Korea Inc. rushes to cut debt as interest rates surge

South Korean companies scrambled for lowering debts and borrowing costs with new financial and business strategies as interest rates on corporate lo...

Hong Kong-based Crypto.com acquires South Korean exchange OK-BIT

Hong Kong-based Crypto.com announced Monday it finalized the acquisition of a 100% stake in South Korea’s cryptocurrency exchange operator OK-...

S.Korean refiners foresee dismal H2 on falling margins

Refiners in South Korea are expected to report weak earnings in the third quarter after record profits in the previous three months as margins decli...

Korea Ginseng Corp. intensifies marketing efforts in the UAE

South Korea’s Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC) said on Tuesday it recently hosted its second annual conference for large retail pharmacy chains in th...

Carlyle CEO Lee’s sudden exit puts the PE’s Korea strategy in spotlight

The sudden resignation of The Carlyle Group Inc. Chief Executive Kewsong Lee has not just surprised the global investment community but raised quest...

Hyundai Motor between rock and a hard place over Russia operations

South Korea’s automotive juggernaut Hyundai Motor Co., which has invested heavily in Russia over the last several years, is stuck between a ro...

Investor sentiment on Korean IPOs remains chilly in H2

Investors are staying away from South Korea’s initial public offering markets as sentiment remains sour on global interest rate hikes, the sus...

LG Elec. revives tablet business to target Korean edtech market 

LG Electronics Inc. is going all in on South Korea’s distance learning market. For the first time in three years, the electronics giant h...

Contactless healthcare app aims to become S.Korean unicorn

South Korea’s contactless healthcare service app Allacare, launched last year, adheres to its business ethics: direct delivery of prescribed d...

South Korean firms bullish on hiring developers from India, SE Asia 

Travel startup Storicity Inc. tried for a year to find a developer in South Korea – to no avail.But when it expanded its search abroad through...

Brookfield likely to beat KKR for $800 mn Korean gas facility

Brookfield Asset Management has entered talks with South Korea's SK Materials Airplus Inc. to buy the latter's industrial gas facility, after its pr...

Korea's Vestas launches second $231 mn European warehouse fund

South Korea’s Vestas Investment Management Co. has created a 300 billion won ($231.2 million) blind pool fund for Europe-based logistics cente...

LG Elec. launches 'online playground' for Gram laptop users

In a bid to bolster its fan base, LG Electronics Inc. has launched an online community dedicated to users of its LG Gram laptops. The digital s...

Hanwha Solutions, OCI to benefit from US push for solar energy

Hanwha Solutions Corp. and OCI Co., South Korea’s two leading solar power-related companies, are poised to gain a tailwind from the US governm...

LG Energy to power all its global operations with renewable energy by 2025

LG Energy Solution Ltd., South Korea’s top battery maker, plans to power all its global production sites with only renewable energy by 2025 to...

SK Telecom launches NFT marketplace open beta service

South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. launched an open beta service of its non-fungible tokens (NFTs) marketplace TopPort as the com...

Korean snack shares surge, Beijing halts baked goods imports from Taiwan

Shares of South Korean confectionery and packaged snack makers skyrocketed after the Chinese government announced its decision to temporarily halt t...

Kakao Games posts record-high operating profit in Q2

Kakao Games Corp., the game publishing unit of South Korean web service giant Kakao Corp., said on Wednesday it achieved record-high operating profi...

SK Hynix unveils world's first 238-layer NAND; Samsung SSD 20 times faster

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, are set to overtake their rivals in the industry’s...

Six major Korean firms tie up with Petronas for carbon biz

South Korea’s six biggest companies joined hands with Malaysia’s state energy firm Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) for the carbon c...

Chinese game Genshin Impact's summer fest draws large crowds in Seoul

Shanghai-based game developer and publisher miHoYo Co. on Wednesday wrapped up its well-attended week-long Genshin 2022 Summer Festival in Seoul.&nb...

Popular app operators in South Korea race to create super apps

App operators in South Korea are in stiff competition to create super apps – as clear winners have emerged in different business sectors.The d...

Korea inflation hits highest point since 1998 crisis, BOK to hike rates

South Korea’s inflation accelerated further last month to its highest point since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, adding to expectations t...

Hyundai Motor Co. to ship 27 hydrogen Xcient trucks to 7 firms in Germany

Hyundai Motor Co. is poised to ship 27 of its Xcient Fuel Cell hydrogen trucks to seven German companies by the year’s end, following a simila...

Solar cells & modules, Hyundai Heavy’s hidden growth fuel

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, the world’s top shipbuilder, secured another future growth engine from its solar cells and modules business on...

Korean EV, battery makers to benefit from US inflation bill

South Korea’s electric vehicle and battery makers are expected to benefit from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the US bill designed to br...

APR Corp. generates $199 mn in revenue with advanced tech, branding

APR Corp. is a South Korean startup less than a decade old, which develops and manufactures skin care products and athleisure clothing. While t...

Samsung Elec. plans unmanned factories on manpower shortage

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, is seeking unmanned factories in a move that other major South Korean manufacturers...

Korea’s Big Three shipbuilders in red despite growing order backlog

South Korea’s three major shipbuilders remain in the red despite hefty new ship orders so far this year, led by high-priced vessels such as li...

Hyundai Motor to buy Korean self-driving startup 42dot

South Korea’s top carmaker Hyundai Motor Group is set to purchase autonomous driving startup 42dot, intensifying the automaker’s competi...