IMM PE invites potential buyers for Genuone worth $752 mn

IMM PE invites potential buyers for Genuone worth $752 mn

South Korea’s top-tier contract drugmaker Genuone Sciences Inc. with an estimated value of up to 1 trillion won ($752 million) is smooth saili...

S.Korea to receive $1 bn in unpaid bills from Uzbek gas project

S.Korea to receive $1 bn in unpaid bills from Uzbek gas project

South Korean firms are poised to receive $1 billion in unpaid bill that has accumulated since 2017 from Uzbekistan’s Surgil gas project as the...

S.Korea's Lotte Group helps SMEs penetrate Indonesian market

S.Korea's Lotte Group helps SMEs penetrate Indonesian market

South Korea's Lotte Group through Friday is holding the event Korea Expo in Jakarta in the Indonesian capital with the Korea Trade-Investment Promot...

Kia, Lotte Global Logistics to develop logistics-specific PBV

Kia, Lotte Global Logistics to develop logistics-specific PBV

South Korea's Kia Corp. announced on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Lotte Global Logistics at its headquarters in Y...

Duty-free shops in Jeju welcome return of Chinese cruise tourism

Duty-free shops in Jeju welcome return of Chinese cruise tourism

For the first time since Beijing lifted restrictions on group tourism to South Korea, Chinese cruise tourists have flocked to Jeju Island's duty-fre...

NewJeans selected as global ambassador for Pepero

NewJeans selected as global ambassador for Pepero

Lotte Wellfood announced on Friday that it has appointed K-pop girl group NewJeans as the global ambassador for its iconic snack brand, Pepero. Know...

Lotte’s intra-group merger, business integration fare well

Lotte’s intra-group merger, business integration fare well

Lotte Mart and Lotte Super are leading Lotte Group’s efforts to streamline the overlapping businesses of its units. Their second-quarter resul...

Young Poong, Lotte Global Logistics to form battery recycling supply chain

Young Poong, Lotte Global Logistics to form battery recycling supply chain

South Korea’s non-ferrous metal company Young Poong Co. has teamed up with Lotte Global Logistics Co. to form a supply chain system for recycl...

Lotte Chemical sells off debt-ridden JV to China's Sanjiang

Lotte Chemical sells off debt-ridden JV to China's Sanjiang

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. has divested all shares it owns in Chinese joint venture Lotte Sanjiang Chemical Co., according to people f...

Lotte Hotels & Resorts to launch premium kimchi product

Lotte Hotels & Resorts to launch premium kimchi product

Lotte Hotels & Resorts, a leading South Korean hospitality company, announced on Thursday its intention to penetrate the domestic kimchi market,...

Lotte Chemical posts fifth straight quarterly operating loss in Q2

Lotte Chemical posts fifth straight quarterly operating loss in Q2

 South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. has posted an operating loss for a fifth straight quarter due to sluggish petrochemical demand.The co...

Lotte Energy ups elecfoil factory capacity in Spain to 30,000 tons  

Lotte Energy ups elecfoil factory capacity in Spain to 30,000 tons  

Lotte Energy Materials Corp., formerly Iljin Materials Co., will build a smart factory in Catalonia, Spain to produce 30,000 tons of high-end copper...

S.Korea's Lotte Department Store launches 'K-Beauty' tour service

S.Korea's Lotte Department Store launches 'K-Beauty' tour service

South Korea's Lotte Department Store on Monday announced the launch of a "K-Beauty tour" service for foreign tourists.The company will first give fr...

Virtual human Lucy to sell Galaxy Z in live commerce

Virtual human Lucy to sell Galaxy Z  in live commerce

Lotte Home Shopping's virtual human Lucy expands her activities by selling The Galaxy Z Flip 5 and "Z Fold 5" on live commerce, following her attend...

Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino hits record revenue in July

Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino hits record revenue in July

South Korea’s Lotte Tour Development's Jeju-based casino saw record revenue in July thanks to an increased number of foreign tourists to the c...

IMM PE seeks to sell Korean contract drugmaker at $784 mn

IMM PE seeks to sell Korean contract drugmaker at $784 mn

IMM Private Equity has put a South Korean contract drugmaker on the market for up to 1 trillion won ($784 million) in a deal likely to attract major...

Lotte to open Vietnam's largest shopping mall in Hanoi

Lotte to open Vietnam's largest shopping mall in Hanoi

Lotte Shopping Co., the retail arm of South Korea's fifth-largest conglomerate Lotte Group, announced plans on Thursday to inaugurate its extensive ...

Lotte's virtual human Lucy to debut in Thailand

Lotte's virtual human Lucy to debut in Thailand

South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping unveiled a plan on Wednesday to introduce its virtual influencer, Lucy, to Southeast Asia's burgeoning live commer...

Lotte Group's Shin stresses unlearning as key to innovation

Lotte Group's Shin stresses unlearning as key to innovation

Disregarding existing ways and being open to new opportunities are challenging in South Korea’s large conglomerates, where a strict corporate ...

Lotte Chemical, DL Energy team up to produce renewable energy

Lotte Chemical, DL Energy team up to produce renewable energy

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. and DL Energy have joined forces to spread carbon neutrality and environmental, social and governance (ESG)...

EcoPro, Hanwha Ocean, JYP among top MSCI inclusion candidates

EcoPro, Hanwha Ocean, JYP among top MSCI inclusion candidates

EcoPro Co., Hanwha Ocean Co., JYP Entertainment Corp. and Kumyang Co. are the top candidates for inclusion in the MSCI Korea Index when the global s...

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...

Lotte Department Store opens Louis Vuitton’s Take Over pop-up store

Lotte Department Store opens Louis Vuitton’s Take Over pop-up store

South Korea's Lotte Department Store announced on Friday that it operates a Louis Vuitton pop-up store in The Crown, located on the basement first...

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...

Lotte Energy Materials aspires to become copper foil leader: CEO

Lotte Energy Materials aspires to become copper foil leader: CEO

South Korea’s Lotte Energy Materials Corp. said on Tuesday that growing demand for reasonably priced electric vehicles will expand the market ...

Lotte Rental drops plan to enter Korea’s secondhand car sales market

Lotte Rental drops plan to enter Korea’s secondhand car sales market

Lotte Rental Co., South Korea’s largest car rental firm, has dropped its plan to enter the domestic used car sales market. Instead, it will st...

Lotte Rental CEO becomes first owner of Kia EV9

Lotte Rental CEO becomes first owner of Kia EV9

The first owner of Kia Corp.'s EV9 large electric sports utility vehicle (SUV) is Mr. Choi Jin-hwan, President and CEO of Lotte Rental, South Korea'...

Lotte considering opening In-N-Out Burger stores in S.Korea

Lotte considering opening In-N-Out Burger stores in S.Korea

One of US' leading burger brands, In-N-Out, is considering entering the South Korean market. After recently opening a pop-up store in Seoul, the bur...

Lotte affiliates’ credit ratings downgraded all at once

Lotte affiliates’ credit ratings downgraded all at once

The ratings of Lotte's subsidiaries have been downgraded en masse. Lotte Chemical Corp., the group's cash cow, was cut to AA from AA+.NICE Investors...

Shopping without passport at S.Korea’s Lotte Duty Free

Shopping without passport at S.Korea’s Lotte Duty Free

With a smartphone, you can now shop at duty-free shops in Seoul without a passport.Lotte Duty Free announced on Tuesday that it has introduced the i...

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