BOK chief warns household debt near tipping point, keeps rates steady

BOK chief warns household debt near tipping point, keeps rates steady

Rhee Chang-yong, governor of the Bank of Korea (BOK), warned on Thursday that mounting household debt is now undermining both private consumption an...

South Korea’s forex reserves dip to nearly 5-year low in February

South Korea’s forex reserves dip to nearly 5-year low in February

South Korea’s foreign exchange reserves diminished to the lowest level in nearly five years last month, largely due to the expanded forex swap...

Lotte Biologics eyes first ADC CDMO order in 2025

Lotte Biologics eyes first ADC CDMO order in 2025

SAN FRANCISCO -- Lotte Biologics Co., the drug consignment development and production unit of South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group, will seek to wi...

LG Display unveils industry’s brightest OLED panel for AI TVs

LG Display unveils industry’s brightest OLED panel for AI TVs

LG Display Co., the world’s top organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel maker, on Thursday unveiled a fourth-generation screen optimized for...

Diary of a Dead North Korean Soldier Reveals Grisly Battlefield Tactics

Diary of a Dead North Korean Soldier Reveals Grisly Battlefield Tactics

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NPS initiates strategic currency hedging to unleash up to $48.2 billion

NPS initiates strategic currency hedging to unleash up to $48.2 billion

The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s state-run pension fund and the country’s largest institutional investor, is set to beg...

Hyundai Rotem delivers driverless metro cars to Taiwan

Hyundai Rotem delivers driverless metro cars to Taiwan

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean rolling stock and defense equipment maker, said on Friday it held a ceremony to mark the arrival of the first ba...

South Korea to ease foreign exchange regulations, expand FX swap line

South Korea to ease foreign exchange regulations, expand FX swap line

South Korea’s foreign authorities said on Friday they will ease foreign exchange regulations to allow more dollars into the domestic financial...

SK Hynix develops high-capacity SSD for AI data center

SK Hynix develops high-capacity SSD for AI data center

SK Hynix Inc. unveiled on Wednesday its high-capacity solid-state drive (SSD) product PS1012 U.2, designed for AI data centers with 61 terabyte (TB)...

Shilla Duty Free opens Guerlain Ultimate Boutique at Incheon Airport

Shilla Duty Free opens Guerlain Ultimate Boutique at Incheon Airport

South Korea's Shilla Duty Free Shop announced on Tuesday it opened the Guerlain Ultimate Boutique, the first flagship store in a global airport, at ...

Hyundai E&C wins $725 mn Saudi Arabia HVDC line order

Hyundai E&C wins $725 mn Saudi Arabia HVDC line order

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) said on Tuesday it has bagged a $725 million order to build a power transmission line i...

GS Group, Notion to team up on AI capabilities

GS Group, Notion to team up on AI capabilities

South Korea's GS Group signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Notion, the US-based popular collaboration software company to enhance its ...

SK Broadband to launch nationwide dedicated line service in S.Korea

SK Broadband to launch nationwide dedicated line service in S.Korea

South Korea's SK Broadband said on Thursday that it will establish a nationwide network using Internet Protocol-Multi Protocol Label Switching (IP-M...

SK On to cut jobs for first time amid sustained EV weakness

SK On to cut jobs for first time amid sustained EV weakness

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, plans to cut its workforce with the company’s first voluntary retir...

Aespa to release its new album ‘Whiplash’ in October

Aespa to release its new album ‘Whiplash’ in October

K-pop girl group aespa is aiming to follow up its hit song “Supernova” with a string of hits with its new album “Whiplash."Managem...

Korea's SK Energy to start commercial operations of SAF production line

Korea's SK Energy to start commercial operations of SAF production line

SK Energy Co., South Korea’s largest oil refiner, is set to start commercial operations of a production line for sustainable aviation fuel (SA...

HMM to spend $17.5 bn by 2030 to double cargo capacity

HMM to spend $17.5 bn by 2030 to double cargo capacity

HMM Co., South Korea’s largest ocean carrier, said on Tuesday it will spend 23.5 trillion won ($17.5 billion) by 2030 to nearly double its car...

Gloves off for Samsung, LG in high-end OLED display fight

Gloves off for Samsung, LG in high-end OLED display fight

Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co., the global leading organic light-emitting diode panel makers, are fiercely competing in the professional OLE...

LS Eco Energy supplies 2,000 km of overhead power lines to Vietnam

 LS Eco Energy supplies 2,000 km of overhead power lines to Vietnam

South Korea's LS Eco Energy Ltd. said on Friday that its Vietnamese unit LS-VINA has completed a supply of around 2,000 kilometers of overhead power...

LG Energy’s Q2 profit hurt by EV slowdown, expects Q4 improvement

LG Energy’s Q2 profit hurt by EV slowdown, expects Q4 improvement

LG Energy Solution Ltd., one of the world’s top three battery makers, on Monday posted a smaller quarterly profit, hurt by sluggish global ele...

Samsung SDI to ink $726 mn ESS deal with NextEra Energy

Samsung SDI to ink $726 mn ESS deal with NextEra Energy

Samsung SDI Co., the world’s sixth-largest electric vehicle cell maker, is set to provide batteries for energy storage systems (ESS) to NextEr...

d’Alba maker Bmonument, Memebox, Easytem line up for Korean IPOs

d’Alba maker Bmonument, Memebox, Easytem line up for Korean IPOs

South Korea’s promising beauty and healthcare device startups are looking to go public on the domestic bourse to scale up after gaining popula...

SK asks KDB for further funding before drastic restructuring

SK asks KDB for further funding before drastic restructuring

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest business group in terms of total assets, has asked the country’s state-run Korea Development Bank...

Hyundai Motor debuts 2025 Avante with improved cluster space use

Hyundai Motor debuts 2025 Avante with improved cluster space use

Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Thursday that it has launched the updated model of the compact sedan, 2025 Avante, and has begun full-scale sales.Sin...

Line Yahoo to sever tech ties with Naver by year-end: LY CEO

Line Yahoo to sever tech ties with Naver by year-end: LY CEO

TOKYO – Japan’s LY Corp., the operator of the country’s top mobile messenger app Line, plans to sever technological and system tie...

Kia launches 2024 model year of Morning

Kia launches 2024 model year of Morning

Kia Corp. announced on Monday that it launched its flagship compact car Morning's model year the 2024 Morning. The 2024 Morning featured the ne...

Line Games to launch The Play of Genesis in Taiwan, Hong Kong

Line Games to launch The Play of Genesis in Taiwan, Hong Kong

South Korea's Line Games Corp. announced on Friday that it signed a publishing agreement with Vietnam's tech giant VNG for the mobile game The Play ...

Samsung gets new tech certification for air purifier filter

Samsung gets new tech certification for air purifier filter

Samsung Electronics Co.'s air purifier filter technology obtained the New Excellent Technology (NeT) certification from the Korea Agency for Technol...

Ex-Porsche engineer Harrer to lead Hyundai’s high-performance push

Ex-Porsche engineer Harrer to lead Hyundai’s high-performance push

Hyundai Motor Group is upping the ante to lead in the luxury and high-performance car market and speed up electrification by tapping a high-profile ...

LY vows to keep Line Plus as Naver-SoftBank breakup drags on

LY vows to keep Line Plus as Naver-SoftBank breakup drags on

Japan’s LY Corp., the operator of the country’s top mobile messenger app Line, said on Wednesday it will keep its South Korean affiliate...

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