Taekwang’s first loss in a decade dampens outlook
Taekwang Industrial Co., a South Korean petrochemical and textile company, reported its first quarterly loss in 10 years amid weakness in its key bu...
Korean e-scooter platforms diversify to survive
South Korean shared electric scooter platforms are taking over their smaller rivals or entering new markets as beefed-up safety guidelines on two-wh...
Hyundai Motor Group rises to world’s third-largest automaker
South Korea’s largest automaker Hyundai Motor Group ranked third in global car sales in the first half, its highest-ever ranking in terms of v...
K-chicken chain BB.Q foresees stores quadrupling in N.America
Gourmands in North America will be able to enjoy South Korean fried chicken more conveniently as BB.Q Chicken, the country’s leading franchise...
NCSOFT delays key game launches, darkening H2 outlook
NCSOFT Corp., South Korea’s leading games developer, postponed the releases of key games that could attract new users, clouding its business o...
Experts criticize Seoul's quantum computer development efforts
The United States: 4158. South Korea: 50These figures refer to the number of qubits in a quantum computer that each country seeks to develop by 2026...
MZers become key consumers of ergonomic office chairs, Sidiz says
Ergonomic office chairs are drawing heightened interest from millennials and Generation Zers in South Korea, according to the country’s leadin...
Kurly enters Singapore grocery market, targeting SE Asia
South Korea’s Kurly Inc., the operator of grocery delivery service Market Kurly, made inroads into Singapore with an aim to expand its busines...
NXP expands cooperation with Korean security startups
NXP Semiconductors NV, a global leading automotive chipmaker, is expanding partnerships with South Korean security startups to secure new semiconduc...
Oasys aims to be blockchain gateway for S.Korean game developers
Singapore-based Oasys has an ambitious goal to revolutionize the gaming industry by making blockchain games cheaper to develop and faster to play &n...
Hanwha Life to spur global real estate investment via US subsidiary
South Korea’s Hanwha Life Insurance Co. is set to kick off direct investment in overseas real estate via its subsidiary in the US, according t...
Korean shipbuilder KSOE wins $1.5 bn order for 7 LNG carriers
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE), the intermediate holding company of the world’s top shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Indust...
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...
