Samsung bets on H2 recovery with heavy spending after record chip losses

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday reported its worst quarterly loss for its semiconductor business, but echoed the widely held industry view that ...

Kolon Industries to move into secondary battery recycling market

Kolon Industries Inc., a South Korean chemical and textile manufacturing company, is entering the secondary battery recycling market. The company an...

POSCO Future M to supply LG Energy Solution $22.6 bn worth of cathodes

POSCO Future M Co. on Wednesday signed a long-term contract with LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES) to supply 30.26 trillion won ($22.6 billion) worth o...

SK Hynix expects second-half market recovery after record Q1 loss

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it expects the global semiconductor market to rebound in the sec...

S.Korean gov’t to export domestic tax service system abroad

South Korea's National Tax Service (NTS) is looking to export its world-renowned electronic tax administration system after successfully implementin...

CG Bio establishes US corporation to develop tissue products

South Korean bio-regenerative medical firm CG Bio has launched a new US corporation CG MedTech, to focus on the development and marketing of tissue ...

POSCO to supply steel to Samsung Electronics under long-term contract

POSCO Holdings Inc., the parent of South Korea’s top steelmaker, will supply steel to Samsung Electronics Co. under a long-term deal, which is...

Samsung, MS open Gaming Hubs in London, New York

Samsung Electronics Co. has partnered with Microsoft to launch gaming hubs in the heart of London and New York. The two companies have installed Sam...

LG Elec to strengthen its direct-to-consumer sales strategy

South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. is strengthening its direct-to-consumer (D2C) strategy and expanding its lineup of low- to mid-priced products to ...

LG Electronics to bolster B2B to transform into software company

LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s home appliance giant, will expedite its push to transform from a white goods manufacturer into a digital so...

EcoPro sets sights on Europe with $286 million cathode plant in Hungary

South Korea’s EcoPro Co., a leading battery materials maker, has begun construction of a 380 billion won ($286 million) cathode plant in Hunga...

LG Innotek wins top US invention award

South Korea’s LG Innotek announced on Monday that its ultra-thin magnetic components, Nexlim, has won a bronze award in the "Commercial Techno...

LG paves way for $82 bn OLED TV, panel sales milestone

South Korea’s LG Display Co. is regarded as a pioneer in the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) market after it developed the world’s f...

LG Elec gets open-source software security certification

South Korean electronics giant LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday that it has been recognized as a company that complies with the "Internationa...

Hyundai ties up with LG, SK for $5.3 bn US EV cell plants

Hyundai Motor Group, the leading South Korean automaker, has joined hands with LG Energy Solution Ltd. and its smaller rival SK On Co. to build elec...

Celltrion Healthcare enters top 10 in hospital prescriptions in Turkey

South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Healthcare Co. on Thursday said it ranked in the top 10 out of 400 companies last year on the Turki...

Samsung, LG show Korean War hero tribute videos on Times Square

A tribute video to honor Korean and U.S. veterans of the Korean War started screening on billboards in New York’s Times Square on Thursday. Th...

Asleep dreams big to help sleepless people worldwide find right treatment

Armed with artificial intelligence and big data technologies, Asleep hopes to find the best treatment for sleep-deprived people around the world wit...

Indonesia's Green Rebel enters S.Korean alternative meat market

Indonesia-based food tech startup, Green Rebel Foods, made public its official entry into the Korean plant-based protein food market. Bryan Toh, Glo...

Korean gov’t pledges additional $7.9 bn for startups amid fund squeeze

The South Korean government will spend an additional 10.5 trillion won ($7.9 billion) to shore up the country’s startups and venture capitalis...

SK On to attract $1.1 bn from BlackRock, MBK consortium

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest battery maker, is slated to attract 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) from a consortium of US private equit...

Sports tech startups poised to launch next Korean unicorn

UK Premier League Tottenham Hotspur star forward Son Heung-min and two-way US MLB icon Shohei Ohtani, a designated pitcher and hitter for the Los An...

SK Hynix unveils industry’s slimmest 12-layer, 24 GB HBM3 chip

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Thursday it has developed the world’s first 12-layer DRAM product wi...

S.Korea to raise R&D's share of defense budget to 10%

South Korea will develop a reconnaissance and interception system to respond to North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile threats from space by rais...

S.Korea’s hottest stock EcoPro may miss invitation from MSCI Korea in May

Cosmo Advanced Materials & Technology Co. and Hanwha Aerospace Co. are expected to join the MSCI Korea Index next month but South Korea’s ...

Korean battery players LG, Samsung, SK sweep US EV tax credits

It has long been talked about and finally confirmed: South Korean battery companies are well-placed to benefit from the strengthened requirements of...

Innocean to cooperate domestic EV charging company for marketing

Innocean, a Hyundai Motor Group-affiliated advertising agency, announced on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with EV...

Curexo, Kyocera to enter Japan’s artificial joint surgery robot market

South Korea's medical robot company Curexo partnered with Kyocera Corporation to enter the Japanese market for artificial joint surgery robots.Curex...

China, India: Korean investors’ next stock investment targets

The US stock market has long been the prime investment destination for South Korean investors, lured by the dynamics of the global top economy.With ...

LG Chairman to refine strategy for EV battery production

Koo Kwang-mo, chairman of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG, visited a cathode plant on Monday to review supply chains for the batt...