POSCO CEO says split-off units will never be listed

POSCO CEO says split-off units will never be listed

POSCO Group Chairman and Chief Executive Choi Jeong-woo on Monday reaffirmed the group's determination not to list on the stock market the steelmaki...

POSCO approves holding company plan for eco-friendly business

POSCO approves holding company plan for eco-friendly business

South Korea’s POSCO Co. is set to split off the company to launch an investment holding firm, 21 years after its privatization. The move aims ...

POSCO International signs parts supply deal with US EV startup Rivian

POSCO International signs parts supply deal with US EV startup Rivian

POSCO International Corp., the trading unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO, said on Thursday it has signed a $6 million contract to supply...

POSCO Chemical, GM to launch new battery material JV in US

POSCO Chemical, GM to launch new battery material JV in US

South Korea’s POSCO Chemical Co. said on Thursday it is forming a new joint venture with US top automaker General Motors Co. to produce cathod...

POSCO mulls holding company structure to raise enterprise value

POSCO mulls holding company structure to raise enterprise value

South Korea's largest steelmaker POSCO is considering splitting up the company to launch an investment holding firm as part of efforts to enhan...

Hyundai offers first peek of redesigned premium Genesis sedan G90

Hyundai offers first peek of redesigned premium Genesis sedan G90

Hyundai Motor Co. on Tuesday unveiled exterior images of the new G90, a full model change version of the flagship sedan under its standalone premium...

Doosan aims to raise $1.3 bn in rights offering

Doosan aims to raise $1.3 bn in rights offering

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., South Korean conglomerate Doosan Group’s subsidiary, agreed to raise 1.5 trillion won ($1.3 ...

KoreaCenter acquires Danawa, paving way for MBK’s bolt-on deal

KoreaCenter acquires Danawa, paving way for MBK’s bolt-on deal

KoreaCenter Co. has been named the new owner of Danawa Co., one of South Korea’s first-generation e-commerce platforms – a move that is ...

Homegrown VCs turn to Korean American startups in search of unicorns

Homegrown VCs turn to Korean American startups in search of unicorns

Korean venture capital firms are ramping up their investments in Korean American-owned startups in the United States, mostly in Silicon Valley.The aim...

Korea’s Toss operator invests $5 mn in US startup fintech platform Republic

Korea’s Toss operator invests $5 mn in US startup fintech platform Republic

Viva Republica Inc., a leading South Korean fintech unicorn and operator of mobile financial super app Toss, is investing $5 million in Republic, a ...

POSCO to quadruple steel sheet production for eco-friendly cars

POSCO to quadruple steel sheet production for eco-friendly cars

South Korean steelmaking giant POSCO Co. is slated to quadruple its production of non-grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, a key material in the...

Medical 3D tech startup Anymedi eyes 2022 Kosdaq IPO

Medical 3D tech startup Anymedi eyes 2022 Kosdaq IPO

Anymedi Solution Co., South Korea's medical metaverse startup, has applied for a preliminary review of its initial public offering on the junior Kos...

Genesis House New York: An oasis in Manhattan

Genesis House New York: An oasis in Manhattan

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, is opening Genesis House New York, a sophisticated showroom, in the trendy Meatpacking Distric...

POSCO Chem's rise from brickworks to EV materials leader

POSCO Chem's rise from brickworks to EV materials leader

POHANG, South Korea - When POSCO Chemical Co., better known as a refractory brick manufacturer until the early 1990s, announced its entry into the a...

Data Republic creates AI-based crypto investment solution

Data Republic creates AI-based crypto investment solution

South Korean startup Data Republic is pioneering a smart way of investing for global cryptocurrency investors. Founded in 2018, the company has ra...

Netflix to strengthen partnerships with ISPs through network technology

Netflix to strengthen partnerships with ISPs through network technology

Netflix Inc. has confirmed it will focus on partnerships with South Korean internet service providers (ISPs) through its in-house distribution netwo...

POSCO International, Petronas sign PSC for Malaysian gas development

POSCO International, Petronas sign PSC for Malaysian gas development

POSCO International Co., the trading unit of South Korean steelmaker POSCO, has signed a production sharing contract (PSC) for the development of an...

Samsung Heavy raises $1.1 bn in rights issue as planned

Samsung Heavy raises $1.1 bn in rights issue as planned

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. last week raised 1.3 trillion won ($1.1 billion) in a rights issue to existing shareholders as planned, a...

POSCO Chem to supply materials to Morrow Batteries

POSCO Chem to supply materials to Morrow Batteries

South Korea’s POSCO Chemical Co. agreed to provide materials to Morrow Batteries, a Norwegian electric vehicle battery maker, in a move to tap...

Korea’s slated IPOs fail to attract investors

Korea’s slated IPOs fail to attract investors

Investor confidence has waned in South Korea in line with stock market instability. Stock prices of some newly listed companies have failed to mee...

POSCO reaps rewards from Australia’s Roy Hill investment

POSCO reaps rewards from Australia’s Roy Hill investment

POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker by output, has reaped the rewards of a $1.1 billion investment it made in Australia’s Roy Hi...

Tesla’s shift to LFP cells to shake global battery industry

Tesla’s shift to LFP cells to shake global battery industry

Tesla Inc.’s shift to less expensive batteries for its electric vehicles is expected to shake the global battery industry.The world’s to...

POSCO Chem Q3 profit surges as battery materials lift sales to fresh high

POSCO Chem Q3 profit surges as battery materials lift sales to fresh high

South Korea’s POSCO Chemical Co. enjoyed a surge in operating profit in the third quarter as higher sales of battery materials ramped up reven...

POSCO International seeks to buy Australian gas producer Senex

POSCO International seeks to buy Australian gas producer Senex

POSCO International Co. is seeking to acquire Australian coal seam gas producer Senex Energy Ltd., as the trading unit of South Korean steelmaker PO...

POSCO emerges from pandemic blues with record third-quarter profit

POSCO emerges from pandemic blues with record third-quarter profit

South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO is returning even stronger from the pandemic-caused economic slowdown, with an all-time high quarterly ...

Luxury reseller EndAnd offers one-of-a-kind authentication service

Luxury reseller EndAnd offers one-of-a-kind authentication service

One of the biggest concerns in purchasing a secondhand luxury item is being uncertain if the item is real or fake. And South Korea-based luxury resa...

Japan's Murata redefines customers in game-changing era

Japan's Murata redefines customers in game-changing era

KYOTO, Japan - Murata Manufacturing Co., the world's No. 1 producer of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) and other electronic components, will e...

Korean LCCs rush to stock market for fund on travel recovery hopes

Korean LCCs rush to stock market for fund on travel recovery hopes

Cash-strapped South Korean budget airlines are rushing to raise money in the local stock market on growing hopes for a travel recovery as government...

POSCO to transfer hydrogen steel tech to industry peers for shared growth

POSCO to transfer hydrogen steel tech to industry peers for shared growth

The Hydrogen Iron & Steel Making (HyIS) Forum led by the steelmaker POSCO officially opened Oct. 6 in Seoul with more than 1,200 industry partic...

SK, POSCO in heated race for next-generation silicon battery materials

SK, POSCO in heated race for next-generation silicon battery materials

South Korea’s two big conglomerates, SK and POSCO, are setting their sights on silicon anode, a next-generation material for lithium-ion batte...

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