Routinery readies for new chapter with 2.0
Born in South Korea but blowing up abroad, the Routinery app is designed to make small changes in users' daily routines to make a big difference in ...
Won to soften past 1,400, BOK rate cut likely in Oct: poll
The Korean won is forecast to continue its downward spiral and soften past the 1,400 threshold against the greenback this year, while the Bank of Ko...
Don’t dwell on Korea discount; light up visibility on global stage
To the world, South Korea is well known as home to the world’s top two memory chipmakers, Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., but it is...
Hanwha Aerospace to export $938mn K9 howitzer to Romania
Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s major aerospace and defense system developer, signed a 1.3 trillion won ($938 million) contract to supply ...
Korea’s taxi app i.M ties up with MK Group to land in Japan
South Korea’s premium ride-hailing app i.M joined hands with Japan’s taxi operator MK Group to allow each platform's customers to use bo...
Law&Company vows to go global with AI legal assistant
Law&Company Co., the operator of South Korea’s largest legal advice app LawTalk, will venture into the US legal tech market in five years ...
POSCO International completes Korea’s first non-state-run LNG terminal
POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Tuesday i...
S.Korean travelers splurge in Japan on softer yen
South Korean travelers spent a total of 431.4 billion won ($312 million) through debit and credit cards in Japan in the first half of this year, twi...
Lunit eyes developing markets with AI cancer diagnostics
Lunit Inc., a South Korean cancer diagnostics AI company, will accelerate its inroads into developing markets grappling with inadequate cancer diagn...
GC Biopharma exports Alyglo to US
South Korea’s major pharmaceutical company GC Biopharma Corp. announced on Monday that it shipped the initial volume of Alygro, its immunoglob...
Kospi on upward run; individual investors turn bearish
South Korean individual investors are strongly betting on a drop in domestic share prices, in contrast to foreign investors’ aggressive buying...
Lotte Mall writes success story in Hanoi with Koreanization
Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi, a mega commercial complex in Vietnam, has hit a sales milestone of 200 billion won ($145 million) less than one year sin...
Foreign net buying of S.Korean stocks hits all-time high
Offshore investors net purchased nearly 23 trillion won ($16.7 billion) worth of South Korea-listed stocks in the first half of this year. The buyin...
SK Innovation gets MSCI ESG's leader rating
South Korean oil refiner SK Innovation Co. secured an AA rating in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assessment by Morgan Stanley Capi...
Korean won hits 15-year low in Q2 amid FX, economic uncertainty
The South Korean currency fell to its lowest level against the US dollar in 15 years in the second quarter amid growing uncertainties surrounding gl...
Hyundai Motor car sales hit record in India for 1st half
Hyundai Motor Co. delivered its record-high number of cars in India during the first six months of this year but lost share in the fiercely competit...
Young rich Koreans: Financially literate, self-directing
Young South Korean millionaires want to take more control of their investments and bet on sectors they know, not relying passively on private banker...
Hanmi Semiconductor eyes $1.5 billion sales in 2026
Hanmi Semiconductor Co., South Korea’s leading chip packaging equipment manufacturer, has revised upwards its annual sales target for this yea...
Samsung SDI to ink $726 mn ESS deal with NextEra Energy
Samsung SDI Co., the world’s sixth-largest electric vehicle cell maker, is set to provide batteries for energy storage systems (ESS) to NextEr...
Lotte Mart renewed Hanoi Store as K-food special
South Korea's Lotte Mart said on Thursday it renewed its Hanoi Center store into a grocery specialty outlet, catering to the growing demand for Kore...
Korean IPO boom sets record; bubbles burst post debut
South Korea’s initial public offerings in the first half of this year were oversubscribed 1,610 times, the highest-ever rate for a half-year p...
Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis to buy e-commerce 11Street
South Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. is poised to acquire the country’s leading e-commerce operator 11Street Co. to ramp up its ...
PhyxUp closes in on pre-seed round with US advance
PhyxUp Health Inc., an early stage South Korean digital healthcare startup, will soon close a pre-seed funding round, said its founder and chief, wh...
AmCham launches young professionals program
The American Chamber of Commerce in Korea (AmCham) announced on Wednesday the official launch of its Young Professionals Program (YPP), aimed at nur...
DN Solutions to build plant, R&D center in India
DN Solutions, the world's third-largest and South Korea's top machine tool manufacturer, said on Tuesday that it will establish a new plant and rese...
This Song Is Catchy and Going Viral. It’s Also North Korean Propaganda.
SEOUL—Jordan Daniels, a 31-year-old pianist and software engineer in California, posted a cover of a catchy new tune on TikTok. One asp...
Hyundai accelerates EV push in Indonesia with Kona EV
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Hyundai Motor Co. has built its brand image as a high-end carmaker in Indonesia and controls the country's electric vehic...
Korean fashion platform Ably to raise $144 mn from Alibaba, others
Ably Corp., South Korea’s top online fashion platform operator, is set to raise 200 billion won ($144 million) from foreign investors such as ...
South Korean brokerages woo super-rich to make them even richer
South Korea’s baby boomers, the demographic cohort born between 1955 and 1963, have largely built their wealth through hard work, savings and ...
Korea Eximbank to provide $150 mn PF to Australia
The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) announced on Tuesday that it will provide $150 million in project financing (PF) for developing a rare ea...
