South Korea groans under snowballing national liabilities

South Korea groans under snowballing national liabilities

South Korea’s liabilities ballooned last year following heavy fiscal spending related to the COVID-19 pandemic to buttress growth in Asia...

Robot dog Spot joins in S.Korea’s World Expo bid efforts

Robot dog Spot joins in S.Korea’s World Expo bid efforts

Spot, a dog-like robot developed by South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor-owned Boston Dynamics Inc., has joined in the country’s bi...

LG Group Chairman names AI, bio, clean tech as new growth engines

LG Group Chairman names AI, bio, clean tech as new growth engines

LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo has pledged to continue investing in future-oriented businesses and human resources despite the global economic slowd...

S.Korea to cut COVID-19 quarantine from seven days to five in May

S.Korea to cut COVID-19 quarantine from seven days to five in May

South Korea’s mandatory quarantine for confirmed COVID-19 patients from May will be cut from seven days to five, as the country is expected to...

Clearstream acquires QFI status from S.Korea's National Tax Service

Clearstream acquires QFI status from S.Korea's National Tax Service

Korea Securities Depository announced on Wednesday that Clearstream, the operator of the International Central Securities Depository (ICSD), had obt...

LG Energy to build $5.6 billion battery complex in Arizona

LG Energy to build $5.6 billion battery complex in Arizona

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker, said on Friday it is investing 7.2 trillion won ($5.6 billion) to build a b...

Korea Western Power lands nation's first solar power order in Oman

Korea Western Power lands nation's first solar power order in Oman

Korea Western Power Co. (KOWEPO) has won its country's first project in solar power generation in Oman.The company on Tuesday announced its successf...

S.Korean biotech GI Innovation's IPO draws tepid market interest

S.Korean biotech GI Innovation's IPO draws tepid market interest

South Korean biotech GI Innovation Inc. is slated to debut on the local public market at less than half of its pre-IPO investment value, facing luke...

Hyundai Motor, Kia to research EV energy with three universities

Hyundai Motor, Kia to research EV energy with three universities

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. will form a research ecosystem for sustainable electric vehicle (EV) energy with Seoul National University, Chung-An...

S.Korea’s jobs in February grow at slowest pace in 2 years

S.Korea’s jobs in February grow at slowest pace in 2 years

South Korea’s jobs grew at the slowest pace in two years last month partly owing to a slowdown in the country’s manufacturing sector due...

LG ups ante to counter Samsung's OLED TV return; expects profit in Q1

LG ups ante to counter Samsung's OLED TV return; expects profit in Q1

LG Electronics Inc. has released its highest-ever number of new organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV models in a bid to maintain its supremacy in ...

Hyundai Eng. completes Lemba-Imbu water purification plant in DR Congo

Hyundai Eng. completes Lemba-Imbu water purification plant in DR Congo

Hyundai Engineering, a South Korean construction contractor, held a completion ceremony for the "Lemba-Imbu water purification plant phase 1 project...

Korea clears environmental hurdle for new Jeju airport

Korea clears environmental hurdle for new Jeju airport

South Korea’s environment ministry conditionally approved the construction of a new airport on Jeju Island with a 6.7 trillion won ($5.2 billi...

HYBE barely ups SM stake in tender offer amid tensions with Kakao

HYBE barely ups SM stake in tender offer amid tensions with Kakao

HYBE Co. has raised its stake in the K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co. by merely 0.98% in a tender offer, after just one institution and minority i...

S.Korea ranks fifth in global auto output for third straight year

S.Korea ranks fifth in global auto output for third straight year

South Korea’s auto production last year ranked fifth worldwide for the third year in a row.A report on world automotive output from the Korea ...

S.Korea’s LG Uplus, Dell to develop open RAN platform tech

S.Korea’s LG Uplus, Dell to develop open RAN platform tech

South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. and global IT giant Dell Technologies are set to jointly develop an open radio acces...

DB Insurance acquires Vietnam's 10th largest insurer VNI

DB Insurance acquires Vietnam's 10th largest insurer VNI

DB Insurance has acquired Vietnam National Aviation Insurance (VNI), Vietnam's 10th-largest property and casualty(P&C) insurance company. With a...

S.Korean firms with focus on emerging Asia to shine

S.Korean firms with focus on emerging Asia to shine

South Korean companies with a large proportion of sales to emerging Asia are expected to shine in the stock market this year as their revenue from t...

AmCham pledges to make S.Korea Asia's top biz hub

AmCham pledges to make S.Korea Asia's top biz hub

The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in South Korea on Thursday said it seeks to make the nation Asia's top business hub on the 70th anniversar...

S.Korea hits historic low fertility rate in 2022, adding to economic woes

S.Korea hits historic low fertility rate in 2022, adding to economic woes

South Korea saw its fertility rate, which has been already the world’s lowest in the past few years, hit its historic low of 0.78 last year, a...

Hyundai Heavy to develop core technology for seawater electrolysis system

Hyundai Heavy to develop core technology for seawater electrolysis system

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. signed a business agreement for jointly developing seawater electrolysis system core technology at the Korea Institute ...

CJ Logistics opens office in Poland to beef up European business

CJ Logistics opens office in Poland to beef up European business

CJ Logistics said on Tuesday that it has opened an office in Wroclaw, Poland’s largest industrial city located in the southwest, as part of th...

S.Korean won near 2-month low as US data fans Fed hike views

S.Korean won near 2-month low as US data fans Fed hike views

The South Korean won skidded to a near two-month low on Friday as hotter-than-forecast US inflation data added to expectations that the Federal Rese...

S.Korea confirms economic slowdown, recession concerns loom

S.Korea confirms economic slowdown, recession concerns loom

The South Korean finance ministry on Friday confirmed that the country’s economy has slowed, mired in stubbornly high inflation and sluggish e...

Zigbang signs agreement with Saudi's National Housing Company

Zigbang signs agreement with Saudi's National Housing Company

On Monday, South Korean proptech company Zigbang announced a partnership with Saudi Arabia's National Housing Company with the goal of digitalizing ...

LG provides electronics service training to Cambodian youths

LG provides electronics service training to Cambodian youths

LG Electronics Inc. said on Sunday that it is offering technology training to help talented Cambodian youths become more self-reliant.For four days ...

HMM’s operating profit to fall 80% in 2023 on easing freight rates

HMM’s operating profit to fall 80% in 2023 on easing freight rates

South Korea’s sea flag carrier HMM Co. is expected to suffer an over-80% plunge in operating profit this year due to a downward spiral in cont...

KAL introduces self-service bag drop for domestic flights

KAL introduces self-service bag drop for domestic flights

South Korea's flagship carrier Korean Air Lines Co. is the first airline in the country to adopt self-service bag drop on domestic flights.The compa...

S.Korea's Woowa Brothers launches professional service robot affiliate

S.Korea's Woowa Brothers launches professional service robot affiliate

Woowa Brothers, the parent company of South Korea's food delivery app Baedal Minjok, on Wednesday spun off its professional service robot unit into ...

S.Korea's fisheries ministry to transfer tech on Napoleon fish to SE Asia

S.Korea's fisheries ministry to transfer tech on Napoleon fish to SE Asia

South Korea's Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries will transfer technology to Indonesia on farming the tropical Napoleon fish and reduce sea pollution ...

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