KT, E-mart warm up S.Korea's corporate bond market

South Korea's KT Corp. and E-mart Inc. are the frontrunners in the new year's corporate bond demand forecasts, attracting attention on if they can b...

POSCO Int’l completes merger with energy affiliate

South Korea’s POSCO International Co. completed a merger with its affiliate POSCO Energy Co. on Jan. 1, which the trading company said would f...

Document tool company Business Canvas secures Series A2 round

Business Canvas, a South Korean SaaS (software as a service) startup that services the global document tool "Typed," announced on Tuesday that it ha...

KFTC acts on Amazon's large share of S.Korea's cloud market

Amazon controls around 70% of South Korea's cloud market, followed by Microsoft in second and Google and Naver Corp. fighting for third place.The Ko...

LG Group's received orders for auto parts close to $393 billion

South Korea’s electronics-to-battery conglomerate LG Group expects its received orders for auto components to reach over 500 trillion won ($...

Kosdaq listings number 129, highest since 2002 IT bubble

Depression in equity markets in the wake of global rate hikes this year has not prevented Korean companies from rushing into Kosdaq, South Korea's m...

HL Mando to show off car electrification system at CES 2023

HL Mando ( Mando Corp. ) and self-driving technology company HL Klemove said Wednesday that they would participate in CES 2023, the world's largest ...

Net assets of S.Korea's ETF rise to $63.1 billion despite stock woes

Despite South Korea's weak stock market this year, the exchange-traded fund (ETF) sector, which marked its 20th anniversary, maintained a clear grow...

Hyundai's Tucson named BBC Top Gear's Best Family Car

Hyundai Motor Co. said on Friday that its Tucson SUV has been selected as the "best family car" by the British motoring TV show Top Gear.In the rece...

Korean think tank urges focus on 'yold' demographic in clothing market

South Korea's Samsung Fashion Institute on Thursday announced "Dive In" as the keyword for next year's trends in the fashion industry, meaning that ...

US non-agency mortgage-backed securities to shine in 2023: TCW

Amid the tightening of the Federal Reserve, among the most impacted asset classes were agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), issued by US governm...

LG Uplus enters Korea’s EV charging service market with VoltUp app

LG Uplus Corp., a South Korean mobile carrier, is entering the domestic electric vehicle charging service market by launching a service platform, Vo...

Korean LG CNS to expand digital marketing biz with DX tech

South Korea’s LG CNS Co., the information technology service arm of LG Group, is geared up to expand the digital marketing business for growth...

Foreign airlines gnaw at Korean LCCs on international flight routes

South Korea’s budget airlines are facing growing competition with foreign carriers on profitable international routes with the reopening of ai...

S.Korea's CMG Pharmaceutical opens animal medicine unit

CMG Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary of South Korea's CHA Biotech, on Monday announced the launch of an animal medicine unit and entry into the market f...

Hyundai Motor to supply 3,000 vehicles to Libya's disabled

Hyundai Motor Co. said on Sunday that it had signed an agreement to supply vehicles to Libya's disabled through the Social Solidarity Fund, an agenc...

S.Korea must use Indonesia, Thailand as EV output-export bases: report

The Korea Automotive Technology Institute says the domestic auto industry should more proactively use Asean-region members like Indonesia and Thaila...

S.Korean startup enters UK market for wireless charging of EVs

A South Korean startup will enter the British market for wireless charging facilities for electric vehicles (EV), as Korean firms speed up their adv...

Hyundai, Kia to rank third in Europe’s car market after 45 years

Just a couple of decades ago, vehicles built by Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. were dismissed as second-class cars of poor quality, with some car m...

Korean Air resumes regular staff recruitment for 1st time in 3 years

Korean Air Lines Co. for the first time in three years has resumed regular staff recruitment that was suspended by the COVID-19 pandemic.Airline ind...

S.Korean Airlines increase flights in anticipation of travel boom

South Korean airlines launched extensive marketing activities such as increasing international flights and giving free tickets in preparation for mo...

S.Korea's e-commerce platform Plugo secures $9 million in investment

South Korea's Plugo, a comprehensive e-commerce platform based in Singapore, has attracted $9 million in Series A investment, the Silicon Valley, Ca...

Korean PE firm Hahn & Co to sell used-car platform K Car

South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Co. is set to sell a majority stake in local used-car trading platform K Car Co. as its initial public o...

KCC's paint selected as World-Class Product for 14 consecutive years

South Korea's leading chemical and auto parts supplier KCC Corp. said on Thursday that its anti-rust and anti-fouling paints for ships and ceramics ...

Korean stocks with healthy earnings to shine in H2 2023

South Korea’s Mirae Asset Securities Co. expected local shares with strong earnings including growth stocks to rally in the second half of nex...

Korean startup Epikar succeeds in attracting series A investment

Epikar, a car retail digital conversion solution company, said on Thursday that it has succeeded in attracting Series A investment from a number of ...

Vuno's fundus-reading AI obtains medical device certification in Thailand

South Korea's medical device startup company Vuno announced on Thursday that its fundus reading artificial intelligence (AI) solution Vuno Med-Fundu...

LG Innotek to unveil parts for EVs, self-driving cars at CES 2023

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. said on Dec. 15 it will showcase its new products for electric and autonomous vehicle parts at the Consumer Elect...

TmaxSoft, Douzone Bizon form partnership for enterprise ICT market

South Korea's two leading software firms TmaxSoft and Douzon Bizon signed a strategic business agreement on Thursday to link Douzon's enterprise res...

LG Chem in $95.5 million drug out-licensing deal with China’s Innovent

LG Chem Life Sciences, the biopharmaceutical unit of LG Chem Ltd., and China’s biotech company Innovent Biologics have entered into a strategi...