One Store secures $14.8 mn investment from Krafton

South Korean homegrown app store One Store Co. has attracted a 20-billion-won ($14.8-million) investment from Krafton Inc. The company's goal is to ...

Red ginseng proven to treat drug addiction: Research

It has been revealed that red ginseng significantly improves drug addiction and withdrawal symptoms caused by substance abuse. The research results ...

Johnson & Johnson more interested in Korean bio startups

Johnson & Johnson, a global pharmaceutical giant, showed more interest in South Korean bio startups with competitive innovation despite the rece...

SeeDevice named Semiconductor Review’s Company of the Year

SILICON VALLEY -- SeeDevice Inc., a fabless image sensor developer famous for its quantum-effect CMOS (QMOS) sensors capable of expanding vision bey...

China Appears to Have Repatriated North Koreans Despite International Pressure

SEOUL—China appeared to have repatriated a large number of North Koreans this week, despite international pressure given the harsh punishment ...

Hyundai’s Supernal, Kia showcase flying car, military drones at ADEX 2023

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group is showcasing the concept of its electric flying car and hydrogen-powered military drones unde...

SK to invest in S.Korean company for bio jet fuel materials

SK Group, South Korea’s energy-to-semiconductor conglomerate, is set to invest in a local renewable energy ingredient provider for stable proc...

SK Chemicals, Estée Lauder to co-work for eco-friendly packaging

South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. announced on Tuesday a partnership with Estée Lauder, the leading global cosmetics brand, to integrate circula...

100 new South Korean AI vanguards to be unveiled

One hundred new South Korean startups at the vanguard of development of innovative AI technology will be unveiled later this month, according to The...

Korean cars' gap vs. Japanese to narrow in UAE under CEPA

South Korean carmakers are expected to rapidly catch up to their Japanese rivals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after their home country and the ...

Korean Air to showcase UAVs at ADEX 2023

Korean Air Lines Co. will participate in the "Seoul Aerospace & Defense Exhibition 2023" (ADEX 2023) taking place at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam,...

Big 3 Korean shipmakers all likely to log quarterly profit

South Korea’s three major shipbuilders are all poised to log quarterly surpluses for the July-September period and stay in the black for years...

Korea’s battery trio aims to outsmart Chinese rivals in US

South Korea’s three major battery makers — LG Energy Solution Ltd., SK On Co. and Samsung SDI Co. — recently came under renewed pr...

HiteJinro to build first overseas soju plant in Vietnam

South Korea's leading soju maker HiteJinro Co. on Monday unveiled its plan to build a plant in Vietnam. HiteJinro Singapore confirmed a lease a...

LG Energy barely fends off CATL in global EV battery market

LG Energy Solution Ltd. retained the top position in the global electric vehicle battery market excluding China in the first eight months of this ye...

Kia holds first Global Distributors Convention in 5 years

South Korea's Kia Corp. held a global distributors convention for the first time in five years, sharing medium to long-term business strategies, inc...

Israel-Hamas war takes toll on S.Korean pilgrims

The war in Israel and Gaza, which has paralyzed some parts of the Middle East, is also set to put a complete stop to South Koreans’ tours of t...

KCC opens US refinish color center

South Korean chemical and auto parts maker KCC Corp. opened its first overseas refinish color center in the US. According to the company's anno...

CJ ENM expands global reach with entertainment IP exports

South Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM Co. is broadening its international reach, exporting its widely popular entertainment show intellectual prop...

Lotte Ventures hosts L-Camp in Tokyo for promising Korean startups

 TOKYO – Lotte Ventures Corp., the corporate venture capital (CVC) business unit of South Korea’s Lotte Group, on Thursday hosted L...

Five most common frustrations of Korean entrepreneurs

A South Korean company recently gave up on its plan to venture into the burgeoning robot market.Fair-trade regulations that prohibit the creation of...

Seesawing refining margins cloud Korean refiners’ earnings

The outlook on South Korean oil refiners' earnings in the fourth quarter has turned murky as oil refining margins are back on a downward trend ami...

S.Korean vaccine developer Quratis eyes Iraqi market

South Korean vaccine developer Quratis Inc. on Wednesday announced its signing of a term sheet on the direction and major transaction terms of coope...

Over 12,000 S.Korean SMEs enter Taiwan through Coupang

South Korea's e-commerce leader Coupang Inc. announced on Wednesday that more than 12,000 small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have entered Ta...

Korean startups join push to champion satellite data analytics market

Artificial intelligence is making big changes everywhere, even in space. Joining an AI-controlled space war, South Korean startups armed with AI tec...

CJ CheilJedang to sell off its Brazilian soybean crusher

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. said Tuesday it will sell its full ownership in Brazilian soybean crusher CJ Selecta S.A., or a 66% sta...

Samsung Elec to launch HBM4 in 2025 to win war in AI sector

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, aims to introduce sixth-generation top-performance High Bandwidth Memory4 (HBM4) DR...

KT&G faces another legal battle with Korean activist fund

Singapore-based private equity firm Flashlight Capital Partners Pte. said Monday that it has filed court injunctions against KT&G Corp., beginni...

POSCO fully recoups initial investment in Roy Hill mine

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO, has fully recovered its initial investment of 1.3 trillion won...

Vuno's brain imaging AI medical device secures FDA certification

South Korea's medical device startup Vuno announced on Tuesday that its AI-powered brain quantification device Vuno Med-DeepBrain has received the 5...