Koreans maintain designer love with used items, 'quiet luxury'

Koreans maintain designer love with used items, 'quiet luxury'

South Koreans are maintaining their love for premium fashion items with purchases of used luxury items and "quiet luxury" goods amid a slowdown in A...

E1 to invest $75 mn in Canadian blue ammonia project

E1 to invest $75 mn in Canadian blue ammonia project

South Korea’s major liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distributor E1 Corp. said on Tuesday its plans of investing 10 million Canadian dollars (US ...

Hyundai Santa Fe’s full makeover yields boxier look

Hyundai Santa Fe’s full makeover yields boxier look

Hyundai Motor Co. on Tuesday premiered a new look for its steady-selling SUV Santa Fe. The complete transformation — its first in five years &...

Samsung Heavy in $3.1 bn methanol-powered ship deal with Evergreen

Samsung Heavy in $3.1 bn methanol-powered ship deal with Evergreen

Samsung Heavy Industries Co., a leading South Korean shipbuilder, has won a 3.96 trillion won ($3.13 billion) deal to build 16 methanol-powered cont...

Korea Zinc likely to supply copper foil to LG Energy for EV batteries

Korea Zinc likely to supply copper foil to LG Energy for EV batteries

Korea Zinc Co., the world’s largest zinc and lead smelter, will likely start supplying copper foil, a key battery component, to LG Energy Solu...

LG Energy Solution to expands BaaS with Mintech

LG Energy Solution to expands BaaS with Mintech

South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. partners with Mintech Co., a battery diagnostic solution provider, to expand its Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) b...

Lotte Materials invests in French silicon cathode materials startup

Lotte Materials invests in French silicon cathode materials startup

Lotte Energy Materials Corp., formerly Iljin Materials and now a copper foil manufacturing subsidiary of South Korea's Lotte Chemical Corp., on Sund...

KT to cooperate with Mongolian gov't on DX techs

KT to cooperate with Mongolian gov't on DX techs

South Korea's telecom service provider KT Corp. disclosed on Monday its plans to collaborate with the Mongolian government to usher in a digital tra...

Doosan Enerbility, Johnson Matthey to develop ammonia cracking tech

Doosan Enerbility, Johnson Matthey to develop ammonia cracking tech

South Korea’s power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. announced on Monday that it signed an R&D agreement with the UK-based chemical com...

BOK chief says aging without assets key challenge to S.Koreans

BOK chief says aging without assets key challenge to S.Koreans

JEJU -- South Korea’s central bank chief on Friday warned of the growing risk of aging without assets in Asia’s fourth-largest economy a...

Nexon’s Dave the Diver rises to global top game in 2 weeks after launch

Nexon’s Dave the Diver rises to global top game in 2 weeks after launch

Nexon Co. is poised to change the South Korean game scene with its new adventure PC role-playing game that has grabbed gamers around the world immed...

Korea Investment 1st Korean broker to sell samurai bonds

Korea Investment 1st Korean broker to sell samurai bonds

Korea Investment & Securities Co. on Friday became the first South Korean brokerage company to sell samurai bonds, raising 20 billion yen ($145 ...

LG AI Research launches patent screening AI

LG AI Research launches patent screening AI

South Korea's think tank LG AI Research has teamed up with the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) to develop the world's first patent screen...

Naver supports startups using HyperCLOVA X

Naver supports startups using HyperCLOVA X

Naver Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Naver Corp., announced that it conducts the project "Naver AI Rush 2023" from Friday until the end of the ...

Kia vows to take 10% of Indian market after 1 million car output

Kia vows to take 10% of Indian market after 1 million car output

In celebration of producing 1 million cars from its Indian plant, Kia Corp. has vowed to command 10% of the Indian car market with more diverse mode...

Hyundai Motor premieres first high-performance EV IONIQ 5 N

Hyundai Motor premieres first high-performance EV IONIQ 5 N

The IONIQ 5 N – Hyundai Motor Co.'s first all-electric high-performance car under its N brand – made its world premiere on Thursday, wit...

Lotte Duty Free opens store at Australia's Melbourne Airport

Lotte Duty Free opens store at Australia's Melbourne Airport

South Korea's Lotte Duty Free announced on Thursday that it is opening a new store at Melbourne Airport in Australia and entering full-scale opera...

Everon attracts $39 mn thanks to hot VC demand for EV charging

Everon attracts $39 mn thanks to hot VC demand for EV charging

Everon, one of South Korea’s top three electric vehicle charging infrastructure and management service providers, raised 50 billion won ($39 m...

American patent trolls target S.Korean companies

American patent trolls target S.Korean companies

Over 80% of American companies that sued South Korean companies for patent infringement last year were non-practicing entities (NPE), or “pate...

Naver Webtoon starts fortunetelling, personality test services

Naver Webtoon starts fortunetelling, personality test services

South Korea's Naver Webtoon has launched a service combining its content with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a US test of personality type,...

Go bolder with regulatory reform to foster unicorns in Korea: KERI

Go bolder with regulatory reform to foster unicorns in Korea: KERI

Regulatory reform is still slow in South Korea, obstructing innovation in technologies and industries, and the government must take bolder action to...

Samsung C&T invests $7.5 mn in Canadian low-carbon concrete firm

Samsung C&T invests $7.5 mn in Canadian low-carbon concrete firm

South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. announced on Wednesday that it has decided to invest $7.5 million (9.8 billion won) in CarbonCure Technologies I...

SK Telecom, Hana Financial Group jointly nurture AI startups

SK Telecom, Hana Financial Group jointly nurture AI startups

SK Telecom Co. and Hana Financial Group are strengthening their collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). They are jointly fosteri...

NPS commits $163 mn to Macquarie's sixth Korean buyout fund

NPS commits $163 mn to Macquarie's sixth Korean buyout fund

Macquarie Asset Management is aiming to close its sixth buyout fund in South Korea at a maximum of 1 trillion won ($775.6 million) by the first ha...

Shrinking youth jobs cast shadow over S.Korea’s labor market

Shrinking youth jobs cast shadow over S.Korea’s  labor market

Employment in South Korea extended its growth streak in June but its gains slowed for the third straight month, with youth jobs declining for eight ...

SM Entertainment founder invests in Chinese drone maker

SM Entertainment founder invests in Chinese drone maker

Lee Soo-man, founder and former executive producer of South Korea's SM Entertainment Co., has reportedly made a huge investment in the Chinese self-...

Hanwha Solutions, SK D&D team up for hydrogen fuel cell, solar power

Hanwha Solutions, SK D&D team up for hydrogen fuel cell, solar power

South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp. and SK D&D have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly pursue hydrogen fuel cell...

Kia scouts ex-Stellantis executive Pierre-Martin Bos as PBV director

Kia scouts ex-Stellantis executive Pierre-Martin Bos as PBV director

Kia Corp. has brought a former Stellantis N.V.’s commercial vehicle specialist on board for its purpose-built vehicle (PBV) business in Europe...

SK Hynix eyes wastewater facilities sale for $770 mn

SK Hynix eyes wastewater facilities sale for $770 mn

SK Hynix Inc. is in talks with its affiliate SK REIT Co. to sell the wastewater treatment facilities within its semiconductor campus in Icheon, Gyeo...

NHN Commerce acquires Italian luxury brands retailer Ikonic

NHN Commerce acquires Italian luxury brands retailer Ikonic

NHN Commerce, South Korea's major online company NHN Corp.'s shopping platform, announced on Tuesday its acquisition of a 77.8% stake in Ikonic Srl,...

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