EVSIS completes new smart factory in Cheongju

EVSIS completes new smart factory in Cheongju

EVSIS, Lotte Data Communication Co. 's electric vehicle (EV) charging subsidiary, announced on Thursday that it held the completion ceremony for i...

Meta’s AI, XR push to gain speed with Korea’s support

Meta’s AI, XR push to gain speed with Korea’s support

South Korea is backing Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., in the Facebook operator’s artificial inte...

KTO, Orange Square to promote tourism for Japanese

KTO, Orange Square to promote tourism for Japanese

The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) and South Korea's Orange Square signed a business agreement on Thursday to encourage more spending by Japanese ...

Wanted Lab, Digital Hearts to support S.Korean, Japanese startups

Wanted Lab, Digital Hearts to support S.Korean, Japanese startups

South Korea’s human resources (HR) management tech company Wanted Lab Inc. announced on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understand...

Hana Micron to develop 2.5D packaging for Nvidia’s H100 AI chip: CEO

Hana Micron to develop 2.5D packaging for Nvidia’s H100 AI chip: CEO

With burgeoning demand for high-performance artificial intelligence chips, back-end process technology, which assembles various semiconductors and t...

S.Korea's Upstage to develop on-device AI Office

S.Korea's Upstage to develop on-device AI Office

South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage announced on Thursday that it will co-develop and commercialize On-device AI Office with ...

S.Korean ramyun exports increase by 40% in January

S.Korean ramyun exports increase by 40% in January

South Korea's ramyun(instant noodles) exports increased 39.4% year-over-year to $86 million in January, according to the Korea Customs Service. Th...

Celltrion ships initial supply of Zymfentra to US

Celltrion ships initial supply of Zymfentra to US

South Korea's Celltrion Inc. announced on Wednesday that it shipped the first supply of its subcutaneous injection type of the autoimmune disease tr...

Mubadala ties up with Korea’s Woori for global investments

Mubadala ties up with Korea’s Woori for global investments

Mubadala Investment Co., Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, has joined hands with Woori Financial Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest fi...

NPS logs record return rate in 2023 on stocks’ bull run

NPS logs record return rate in 2023 on stocks’ bull run

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, posted a 13.59% annualized return last year, makin...

S.Korea’s fertility rate hits new world-record low in 2023

S.Korea’s fertility rate hits new world-record low in 2023

Trapped in a downward spiral, South Korea saw the country’s total fertility rate hit a new record low of 0.72, also again the world’s lo...

DevSisters, Krafton sign Cookie Run India publishing deal

DevSisters, Krafton sign Cookie Run India publishing deal

South Korean game developer DevSisters Corp. announced on Wednesday that it has signed a publishing agreement in India for the mobile game "Cookie R...

Tous Les Jours exceeds 60 stores in Indonesia

Tous Les Jours exceeds 60 stores in Indonesia

CJ Foodville, the food subsidiary of South Korea's CJ Group, announced on Wednesday that its bakery chain brand Tous Les Jours has opened a new st...

S.Korea’s fashion brand Time to debut at Paris Fashion Week

S.Korea’s fashion brand Time to debut at Paris Fashion Week

Time, South Korea’s best-selling women’s fashion brand which is owned by Handsome Corp., will participate in Paris Fashion Week fall/w...

SK Enmove, UK’s Iceotope to develop coolant for SK Telecom’s data center

SK Enmove, UK’s Iceotope to develop coolant for SK Telecom’s data center

South Korea’s lube oil maker SK Enmove Co. has partnered with UK-based precision liquid cooling system specialist Iceotope Technologies Ltd. t...

Samsung targets gene therapy sector through US investments

Samsung targets gene therapy sector through US investments

Samsung Group is targeting the gene therapy business through investments in US biotechnology companies as the leading South Korean conglomerate is s...

Samsung holds DRAM supremacy with its market share at 7-year high

Samsung holds DRAM supremacy with its market share at 7-year high

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, saw its supremacy in the DRAM segment strengthen last year with its market shar...

Seoul City, Cyber Vally to support AI startups for overseas expansion

Seoul City, Cyber Vally to support AI startups for overseas expansion

Seoul City announced on Tuesday that it will collaborate with Cyber Valley GmbH, Europe's largest artificial intelligence (AI) research consortium, ...

Samsung doubles down in HBM race with largest memory

Samsung doubles down in HBM race with largest memory

Samsung Electronics Co. has developed the industry’s first 36-gigabyte (GB) 12-layer high-value, high-performance memory chip in a bid to rest...

While the World Was Looking Elsewhere, North Korea Became a Bigger Threat

While the World Was Looking Elsewhere, North Korea Became a Bigger Threat

SEOUL—In March 2022, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walked out of a massive hangar wearing a bomber jacket and dark sunglasses. He pointed to t...

KHNP, Centrus sign LOI for nuclear fuel supply

KHNP, Centrus sign LOI for nuclear fuel supply

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) announced on Monday that it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with the US-based Centrus Energy Corp. to...

Mohegan fuels casino, resort market rivalry in Korea

Mohegan fuels casino, resort market rivalry in Korea

Mohegan Inspire Entertainment Resort on Yeongjong Island, near South Korea’s gateway Incheon International Airport, is attracting throngs of v...

HL Mando listed in S&P Sustainability Yearbook 2023

HL Mando listed in S&P Sustainability Yearbook 2023

HL Mando Corp., an electric vehicle and self-driving system developing unit of South Korea’s HL Group, announced on Tuesday that it has been i...

Hanwha resumes $10 billion Bismayah new city project in Iraq

Hanwha resumes $10 billion Bismayah new city project in Iraq

South Korea’s Hanwha Corp. is resuming a $10 billion project to build a Bismayah new city in Iraq after a 16-month hiatus as stakeholders see ...

S.Korean boiler firms expand exports

S.Korean boiler firms expand exports

Despite a global economic slowdown, South Korea's overseas exports of boilers and water heaters increased 4.9% year over year by $478.3 million in 2...

Korea announces measures to upvalue local shares

Korea announces measures to upvalue local shares

The South Korean financial regulator announced basic guidelines under the so-called corporate value-up program on Monday, with measures to boost the...

Korea-led group wins Indonesia's power plant service deal

Korea-led group wins Indonesia's power plant service deal

A consortium led by South Korean companies has bagged 130 billion won ($98 million) worth of an offshore plant service order from Indonesia under a ...

S.Korea’s HD KSOE bags $1.1 bn order to build LNG carriers

S.Korea’s HD KSOE bags $1.1 bn order to build LNG carriers

South Korea’s top shipbuilder HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) said on Monday it has secured a $1.08 billion con...

Kolon Industries upgrades aramid smart factory system

Kolon Industries upgrades aramid smart factory system

Kolon Industries Inc. has upgraded its smart factory system to ensure its doubled production capacity of super fiber aromatic polyamide fibers (aram...

Hyundai Everdigm enters NA construction machinery market

Hyundai Everdigm enters NA construction machinery market

South Korea’s Hyundai Everdigm Corp. announced on Monday that it has signed a dealership agreement with the US-based heavy equipment special...

Organic food chain Chorocmaeul up for sale amid liquidity woes Samsung to unveil 1st triple-folding smartphone by year’s end to rival Huawei’s Mate X2 Tri-Fold IMM Credit closes $700 mn blind credit fund backed by NPS BOK chief warns household debt near tipping point, keeps rates steady Cohen & Steers names Andrew Shin to lead S.Korea institutional business