HL Mando listed in S&P Sustainability Yearbook 2023

HL Mando listed in S&P Sustainability Yearbook 2023

HL Mando Corp., an electric vehicle and self-driving system developing unit of South Korea’s HL Group, announced on Tuesday that it has been i...

S.Korean boiler firms expand exports

S.Korean boiler firms expand exports

Despite a global economic slowdown, South Korea's overseas exports of boilers and water heaters increased 4.9% year over year by $478.3 million in 2...

BTS agency HYBE logs record sales backed by albums, concerts

BTS agency HYBE logs record sales backed by albums, concerts

HYBE Co., the agency behind K-pop sensation BTS, last year logged the highest-ever annual revenue for a South Korean entertainment company, backed b...

Doosan Enerbility expands metal 3D printing into shipbuilding

Doosan Enerbility expands metal 3D printing into shipbuilding

South Korea’s Doosan Enerbility Co. said on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Pelagus 3D, a Singapore-based p...

POSCO International to build motor core plants in Poland, Mexico

POSCO International to build motor core plants in Poland, Mexico

POSCO International Corp., the energy and trading unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Monday it will build new trac...

Kolon Industries upgrades aramid smart factory system

Kolon Industries upgrades aramid smart factory system

Kolon Industries Inc. has upgraded its smart factory system to ensure its doubled production capacity of super fiber aromatic polyamide fibers (aram...

Hyundai Everdigm enters NA construction machinery market

Hyundai Everdigm enters NA construction machinery market

South Korea’s Hyundai Everdigm Corp. announced on Monday that it has signed a dealership agreement with the US-based heavy equipment special...

Caring raises $30 million in Series B funding

Caring raises $30 million in Series B funding

Caring Co., a South Korean startup offering senior care services, succeeded in raising 40 billion won ($30 million) in a series B funding round, e...

Paris Baguette opens first store in Hawaii

Paris Baguette opens first store in Hawaii

Paris Baguette, the bakery franchise owned by South Korea's SPC Group, announced on Monday that it opened its first store in Hawaii, the US. The s...

Kia Niro surpasses 1 million global sales

Kia Niro surpasses 1 million global sales

Kia Corp.'s Niro, a compact crossover SUV hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) model, has surpassed the 1 million global sales milestone since its first...

Hanwha expected to sign $751 mn howitzer deal with Romania

Hanwha expected to sign $751 mn howitzer deal with Romania

Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s major aerospace and defense system developer, is set to sign a 1 trillion won ($751 million) contract to s...

Hyundai E&C likely to win Bulgaria’s nuclear project

Hyundai E&C likely to win Bulgaria’s nuclear project

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) was picked as the preferred bidder for Bulgaria's new nuclear react...

S.Korea’s foreign currency deposits fall as dollar’s strength seen limited

S.Korea’s foreign currency deposits fall as dollar’s strength seen limited

South Korea’s foreign currency deposits fell for the first time in four months in January as the dollar’s further gains versus the won f...

AIMMO’s global push gains speed with US foray

AIMMO’s global push gains speed with US foray

South Korean AI-powered data solution-providing startup AIMMO Inc. is expediting its global push with an aggressive advance into the US market, wher...

LG Innotek establishes $108 mn win-win growth fund

LG Innotek establishes $108 mn win-win growth fund

South Korea's LG Innotek announced on Friday that it held the 2024 Win-win Growth Partnership Day on the previous day.LG Innotek signed the 2024 Fai...

E-Mart to open first Korean supermarket chain in Laos

E-Mart to open first Korean supermarket chain in Laos

E-Mart Inc. said on Friday it will become the first South Korean supermarket company to open a chain store in Laos in its push to expand into Southe...

Hanwha Ocean wins $257 mn for two VLCCs

Hanwha Ocean wins $257 mn for two VLCCs

South Korea's Hanwha Ocean Co. announced on Friday that it has won an order for two very large crude carriers (VLCCs) from a shipowner in Oceania, t...

Defy convention with long-run plans to upvalue Korean stocks

Defy convention with long-run plans to upvalue Korean stocks

The South Korean stock market has been on an upward swing in recent weeks, with many partly attributing it to President Yoon Suk Yeol’s pledge...

Tobacco maker KT&G names its COO as final CEO candidate

Tobacco maker KT&G names its COO as final CEO candidate

South Korea’s KT&G Corp., the world’s leading tobacco maker, appointed its Chief Operating Officer Bang Kyung-man as the final candi...

HD Hyundai Marine bags order to upgrade Chevron LNG tankers

HD Hyundai Marine bags order to upgrade Chevron LNG tankers

HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co., a ship maintenance, retrofitting and digital solution provider under HD Hyundai Co., has won an order from Chevron C...

Korea announces 1st local firm to issue multiple voting shares

Korea announces 1st local firm to issue multiple voting shares

South Korea announced on Wednesday that Colosseum Corporation Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered logistics services provider, has become the f...

LG Energy expedites LFP battery supply chain expansion

LG Energy expedites LFP battery supply chain expansion

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, has secured enough lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode ma...

Korean bakeries with French names outsmart French peers

Korean bakeries with French names outsmart French peers

Paris Baguette and Tous les Jours, South Korea's two largest bakery brands, have been consolidating their positions in the saturated domestic market...

Hyundai Engineering wins Asia Design Prize 2024

Hyundai Engineering wins Asia Design Prize 2024

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Co. announced on Wednesday that it won the Asia Design Prize 2024, an international design competition in Asia...

HD Hyundai, Babcock to co-develop submarine for export

HD Hyundai, Babcock to co-develop submarine for export

South Korea's HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. announced on Wednesday that it will collaborate with the UK-based renowned defense company Babcock Int...

Samsung Bioepis to supply Hadlima to US government

Samsung Bioepis to supply Hadlima to US government

South Korea’s Samsung Bioepis and the US-based Organon, the local partner company of Samsung group's biopharmaceutical research and developmen...

Hyundai Motor Group in test run of dedicated EV plant in Korea

Hyundai Motor Group in test run of dedicated EV plant in Korea

Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s No. 3 automaker, started a test operation of the first dedicated electric vehicle factory in South Korea to a...

SK Telecom invests in Lambda to foray into AI cloud market

SK Telecom invests in Lambda to foray into AI cloud market

SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said on Wednesday it has invested in Lambda, a graphics processing unit (GPU) cloud prov...

Norway’s prime office value drop hits Korean retail investors

Norway’s prime office value drop hits Korean retail investors

A South Korean real estate fund is set to post a 100% loss as the value of its sole asset, a prime office building wholly leased to Norway’s l...

Samsung, Arm reinforce alliance on future AI chips

Samsung, Arm reinforce alliance on future AI chips

Samsung Electronics Co. will offer Arm Inc.’s most advanced central processing unit (CPU) optimized on its latest gate-all-around (GAA) techno...

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