Lotte showcases metaverse shopping pavilion at CES 2023

Sitting on a chair, people with head-mounted displays enter a virtual world where they can choose their preferred avatars.Through these avatars, the...

LG Elec sweeps 1st place in Best Washers chosen by US consumers

LG Electronics Inc. swept this year's top spot in all major categories of best washing machines evaluated by Consumer Reports, a leading US consum...

Korea's SK On scraps $3.2 bn Turkey EV battery factory plan

SK On Co., the world’s No. 5 electric vehicle battery maker, dropped a plan to build a 4 trillion won ($3.2 billion) plant in Turkey as higher...

Samsung to launch its first robot to assist with elderly care

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest memory chip and smartphone maker, is set to launch its first robot later this year to care for the elde...

Hyundai's Genesis beats rival Infiniti in US car sales

Genesis, Hyundai Motor Group's premium sub-brand, sold more car units in the US last year than its Japanese rival Infiniti.Genesis sold a record-hig...

PE firm VIG Partners takes over Korean low-cost carrier Eastar

South Korean private equity firm VIG Partners has acquired a 100% stake in low-cost carrier (LCC) Eastar Jet Co., the asset manager said on Jan. 6. ...

Com2uS to release host of new games this year

Com2uS Corps. will release a variety of new game titles this year with the goal of reaching 100 billion won ($78.6 million) in global sales for each...

Fly Gangwon fails to pay salaries again due to financial woes

Fly Gangwon, a low-cost carrier based at Yangyang International Airport in Gangwon Province, South Korea, is in serious financial trouble. As its fi...

Air Busan launches new Busan-Clark flight

Air Busan Co. began operating its first new flight route this year between Busan and Clark, the Philippines, and started a new leap forward in earne...

Korean government to finance $625 million for K-content in 2023

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol emphasized on Thursday the importance of K-content, saying content will become the most important industry to s...

MyRealTrip launches overseas lodging booking service

Travel app MyRealTrip said Wednesday that it is launching an overseas hotel booking service that allows users to search, book, and pay for more than...

LG unveils self-driving auto parts, brighter OLED panels

LG Group’s two units have showcased new automotive and display products, which would expand their presence in the autonomous driving and premi...

S.Korea's Smilegate RPG named in 3 categories of Steam game awards

South Korea's video game developer Smilegate RPG (Role-playing Games) on Thursday said its leading massively multiplayer online role-playing game (M...

KEXIM bank issues $3.5 billion in foreign currency bonds

The Export-Import Bank of Korea on Thursday said it issued a record-high $3.5 billion in global bonds to investors worldwide.The government-run bank...

LG Elec to increase partnerships for business expansion

LAS VEGAS -- LG Electronics Inc., the world’s top home appliance maker, is seeking more partnerships with global leading companies and increas...

Diverging lithium, nickel prices unnerve Korean battery makers

The prices of lithium and nickel, key minerals for electric vehicle batteries, have been diverging since late last year, which is set to further wid...

Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. kept their fifth place in sales in the US market for the second consecutive year. Despite production setbacks due to...

Caliverse, KT Alpha join hands to add K-pop to metaverse

Caliverse, a subsidiary of Lotte Data Communication, said on Thursday that it has signed an agreement to expand the range of immersive metaverse con...

Aekyung Industrial acquires green certification for eco-friendly detergent

Aekyung Industrial said on Thursday that it has obtained green technology certification from the Korea Technology Finance Corporation for its eco-fr...

Korean law firm creates startup investment association

The Law Office of Choi & Lee, a small-sized law firm, became Korea's first law firm to invest in startups. In one of the most difficult times wh...

Hyundai Motor Group to make debuts of innovative startups at CES

Hyundai Motor Group's open innovation platform Zero1ne will showcase innovative technologies from ten South Korean startups at CES 2023, the world's...

WeMade signs partnership with Chinese digital asset exchange

WeMade said on Wednesday that it would sign a non-fungible token (NFT) partnership with Zhongchuanyuezhong Cultural Development Co. which operates a...

Hyundai, BYD, Polestar adopt Nvidia’s cloud gaming service

Nvidia Corp., a US technology company, said on Tuesday that its cloud-based gaming service GeForce NOW was adopted for cars produced by the Hyundai ...

Samsung Heavy certified for CMSR power barge design

South Korea's main shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries said on Wednesday that it has completed the conceptual design for the compact molten salt re...

Korean startups win 4 out of 23 Best of Innovations at CES 2023

LAS VEGAS – South Korean startups have won four out of the 23 Best of Innovation awards from Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which host...

Redbrick, Microsoft to cooperate on university campuses in metaverse

Redbrick, the developer and operator of metaverse platforms of South Korea, signed a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft Korea to cooperate o...

K-defense sector to reach annual export of $16 bn for two consecutive years

The South Korean defense market is forecast to sign export contracts worth more than 20 trillion won (15.7 billion) combined this year on the back o...

LG Elec, Magna expand partnership into self-driving tech

LAS VEGAS – LG Electronics Inc., the world’s top home appliance producer, expanded its partnership with Canadian car parts maker Magna I...

Korean LCCs cancel China-bound flights due to COVID-19

Toughened COVID-19 testing requirements on Chinese travelers will likely dent hopes for South Korea's low-cost airlines to recover from three years ...

Com2verse attracts investment of $9.4 million from strategic partners

Com2verse, Com2uS Corp.'s metaverse subsidiary said on Tuesday that it has secured a strategic investment of 4 billion won ($3.1 million) each from ...