Alternative investment forum ASK 2023 to begin Oct. 25 in Seoul

Alternative investment forum ASK 2023 to begin Oct. 25 in Seoul

Major institutional investors in South Korea and global asset managers will share their views on the world economy and asset allocation strategies a...

Curocell to localize blood cancer drug by 2025

Curocell to localize blood cancer drug by 2025

South Korean biotech company Curocell Inc. on Sunday said it will apply for approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in September next yea...

CJ CheilJedang to export K-Street Foods

CJ CheilJedang to export K-Street Foods

South Korean food company CJ CheilJedang Corp. ’s strategic product lineup K-Street Food will be launched in June next year on major global ma...

SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom to design LLM

SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom to design LLM

SK Telecom Co. on Sunday said it will develop a large language model (LLM) specifically for the communications sector with Deutsche Telekom of Germa...

S.Korean game developer Smilegate, angel of local startups

S.Korean game developer Smilegate, angel of local startups

Smilegate, South Korean developer of the world’s top first-person shooter game Crossfire, is raising investments in domestic startups despite ...

China’s graphite export curbs deal blow to Korean battery sector

China’s graphite export curbs deal blow to Korean battery sector

South Korean electric vehicle battery and battery component makers are fretting over the Chinese government’s impending restrictions on export...

Korea's HMM creditors convert $739 mn bonds into shares

Korea's HMM creditors convert $739 mn bonds into shares

Shares of HMM Co., South Korea’s No. 1 container line, are likely to fall as its main creditors exchanged perpetual convertible bonds (CBs) an...

Naver-invested Nota AI named global leader in AI optimization

Naver-invested Nota AI named global leader in AI optimization

South Korea’s Nota AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization model company with investment from Naver D2 Startup Factory (D2SF), an inv...

Samyang Foods launches TomYum Buldak Ramen in US

Samyang Foods launches TomYum Buldak Ramen in US

South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. announced on Friday it began to release the new export-exclusive product of Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen, or Buldak Rame...

Hyundai partners with University of London for African market strategy

Hyundai partners with University of London for African market strategy

Hyundai Motor Group announced on Friday its plan to establish two research centers in conjunction with the University of London (UoL) to delve int...

Koreans work longer hours than OECD average? Not in some sectors

Koreans work longer hours than OECD average? Not in some sectors

South Korea has had notoriously long working hours for decades.Long hours – alongside high levels of education and an increase of women in the...

Lotte Duty Free focuses energy on stores in Seoul

Lotte Duty Free focuses energy on stores in Seoul

South Korea’s Lotte Duty Free, which removed its stores from Incheon International Airport in late June, is channeling its energy toward boost...

MZers fuel Disney Store's boom in S.Korea's offline market

MZers fuel Disney Store's boom in S.Korea's offline market

The Disney Store has become one of the hottest spots within Hyundai Department Store branches since the department store operator has opened three o...

HD Hyundai Infracore to develop truck battery packs

HD Hyundai Infracore to develop truck battery packs

South Korea's HD Hyundai Infracore Co. plans to enter the electric commercial vehicle market through the development of truck batteries.The company ...

S.Korean VCs go global for breakthrough

S.Korean VCs go global for breakthrough

South Korean venture capitalists are actively discovering attractive investment assets overseas to find a breakthrough amid a prolonged local VC dro...

POSCO completes automotive steel plates plant in China

POSCO completes automotive steel plates plant in China

South Korea’s POSCO announced on Thursday it completed the new plant for automotive steel plates in Tangshan, Hebei province, China.As a joi...

Hyundai Motor muscles into online used car market

Hyundai Motor muscles into online used car market

Hyundai Motor Co. is slated to start selling certified used cars online from Oct. 24, three years after its announcement to enter the 30 trillion wo...

NJ certifies Taihan Cable as major power grid supplier

NJ certifies Taihan Cable as major power grid supplier

South Korean fiber optic cable manufacturer Taihan Cable & Solution Co. on Thursday said it has been certified as a major power grid supplier by...

Air Premia mulls $110 mn rights offer for more long-haul flights

Air Premia mulls $110 mn rights offer for more long-haul flights

South Korean low-cost carrier (LCC) Air Premia Inc. will make a decision on a rights offering worth up to 150 billion won ($110.4 million) at a boar...

S.Korean airlines see 12.87 mn int’l passengers in Q3 2023

S.Korean airlines see 12.87 mn int’l passengers in Q3 2023

South Korean airlines’ international passenger traffic in the third quarter reached 85% of that over the same period in 2019, the year befor...

Samsung Bioepis releases Soliris biosimilar in Europe

Samsung Bioepis releases Soliris biosimilar in Europe

Samsung Bioepis Co., a biopharmaceutical research and development unit under South Korea's Samsung Group, is rolling out its latest product Epysqli,...

Bank Woori Saudara to open 160th Indonesian branch

Bank Woori Saudara to open 160th Indonesian branch

South Korea's Woori Bank announced on Wednesday its Indonesian subsidiary Bank Woori Saudara is set to open a new outpost in Pekanbaru, Sumatra's Ri...

Daewoong Pharma's GER drug gets product OK from Mexico

Daewoong Pharma's GER drug gets product OK from Mexico

South Korea’s Daewoong Pharmaceutical on Wednesday said its gastroesophageal reflux (GER) disease drug Fexuclue (active ingredient fexuprazan ...

SK Hynix may block Kioxia-Western Digital merger

SK Hynix may block Kioxia-Western Digital merger

South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix Inc. is rumored to be frowning on the integration of Japan’s Kioxia Holdings Corp. with US-based Weste...

Late Samsung chairman Lee's New Management back in spotlight

Late Samsung chairman Lee's New Management back in spotlight

As the leader of Samsung Group for three decades, the late group Chairman Lee Kun-hee brought fundamental changes to the conglomerate under his &ldq...

Hyundai, Kia sign power chip supply, tech tie-up deal with Infineon

Hyundai, Kia sign power chip supply, tech tie-up deal with Infineon

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group has formed a strategic partnership with German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG to secure a ...

POSCO Int’l completes Mexico EV motor core plant for N.American market

POSCO Int’l completes Mexico EV motor core plant for N.American market

POSCO International Corp., the energy and trading unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., concluded construction on an electric...

Zuellig mulls acquiring S.Korea’s top drug distributor Geo-Young

Zuellig mulls acquiring S.Korea’s top drug distributor Geo-Young

Asia’s leading drug distributor Zuellig Pharma is considering the acquisition of Geo-Young Corp., the largest medicine wholesaler in South Kor...

Korean game sector shifts to consoles as mobile market falls

Korean game sector shifts to consoles as mobile market falls

South Korean game developers are rushing to introduce titles for consoles targeting die-hard players amid the shrinking mobile market.A survey of 10...

Allgot’s frozen kimbap to hit Costco shelves in US in H1, 2024

Allgot’s frozen kimbap to hit Costco shelves in US in H1, 2024

South Korean food company Allgot Co.’s frozen kimbap, which sold out immediately after landing in the US about two months ago, is on another r...

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