Korea’s exports at 22-month high in May on chips, cars

Korea’s exports at 22-month high in May on chips, cars

South Korea’s exports hit a 22-month high in May, led by strong shipments of semiconductors and automobiles abroad, adding to hopes that overs...

NPS to cut Korean stock allocation to 13% by 2029

NPS to cut Korean stock allocation to 13% by 2029

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), also the world’s third-largest pension fund, will gradually reduce the proportion of its l...

Deloitte Korea taps new CFO, consulting head in reshuffle

Deloitte Korea taps new CFO, consulting head in reshuffle

Deloitte Korea, which operates accounting firm Deloitte Anjin LLC and consulting service provider Deloitte Consulting LLC, announced a reshuffle wit...

South Korea to build 3 nuclear plants, 1 SMR under new energy policy

South Korea to build 3 nuclear plants, 1 SMR under new energy policy

South Korea plans to build as many as three new nuclear power plants by 2038 and put into operation at least one small modular reactor (SMR) by 2035...

Korea’s April factory output rebounds amid weak consumption

Korea’s April factory output rebounds amid weak consumption

South Korea’s factory production rebounded in April on healthy manufacturing while domestic consumption and capital expenditures dipped, indic...

NPS logs 5.8% return in Q1 led by US tech stock rally

NPS logs 5.8% return in Q1 led by US tech stock rally

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, posted a 5.82% investment return for the first quarter ...

Hyundai E&C to build Korea's 1st electrolysis-based hydrogen plant

Hyundai E&C to build Korea's 1st electrolysis-based hydrogen plant

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) has broken ground on South Korea’s first hydrogen production plant using water el...

Ferrari unveils 12Cilindri in S.Korea, 1st time in Asia

Ferrari unveils 12Cilindri in S.Korea, 1st time in Asia

INCHEON -- Italian sports car maker Ferrari S.p.A. on Thursday unveiled the 12Cilindri with a V12 petrol engine in South Korea for the first time in...

Kyobo Life gets AAA IFS rating for 18 consecutive years

Kyobo Life gets AAA IFS rating for 18 consecutive years

South Korea's Kyobo Life Insurance Co. announced on Thursday that it received the highest rating of AAA for insurer financial strength (IFS) from th...

Celebrity-run food chain operator TheBorn Korea files for IPO review

Celebrity-run food chain operator TheBorn Korea files for IPO review

TheBorn Korea Inc., a leading South Korean food and beverage group operated by TV celebrity and chef Paik Jong-won, has filed for a preliminary revi...

Kim Jong Un’s Balloon Barrage: Bags of Excrement Fly Into the South

Kim Jong Un’s Balloon Barrage: Bags of Excrement Fly Into the South

SEOUL—An unusual sight drifted into South Korean skies on Wednesday: Large white balloons carrying plastic bags of North Korean trash. Some co...

Korea's bad loan managers seek liquidity via bond sales

Korea's bad loan managers seek liquidity via bond sales

South Korean non-performing loan (NPL) managers are increasing fundraising through corporate debt issuance given an outbreak of bad loans amid highe...

S.Korea, UAE sign economic partnership, reaffirm $30 bn investment

S.Korea, UAE sign economic partnership, reaffirm $30 bn investment

South Korea and the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday signed a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) to facilitate bilateral trade aft...

Korea’s HD Hyundai Electric wins $60 mn transformer deal in UK

Korea’s HD Hyundai Electric wins $60 mn transformer deal in UK

South Korea’s electric equipment maker HD Hyundai Electric Co. said on Wednesday it has won a power transformer supply deal worth 47.1 million...

SK shieldus, Yokogawa Electric Korea partner on security business

SK shieldus, Yokogawa Electric Korea partner on security business

SK shieldus, the unmanned security subsidiary of SK Group, announced on Wednesday it has signed a business agreement with Yokogawa Electric Korea Co...

Korea's golf apparel market shrinks as golf boom fizzles

Korea's golf apparel market shrinks as golf boom fizzles

The heyday of South Korea’s golf apparel market seems to be over with the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Millennials and Generation Z, who had ...

Korea Inc.’s AI executives double with LG Group leading the pack

Korea Inc.’s AI executives double with LG Group leading the pack

The number of executive-level artificial intelligence (AI) specialists at South Korea’s 30 largest conglomerates has more than doubled in the ...

Korea’s Shinsegae building unit to raise $478 mn to cut debts

Korea’s Shinsegae building unit to raise $478 mn to cut debts

South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group’s building unit, suffering amid difficulties in the local real estate project financing sector, is s...

South Korea steps on accelerator for record 2024 car exports

South Korea steps on accelerator for record 2024 car exports

ASAN, South Chungcheong Province – At Hyundai Motor Co.'s manufacturing plant in Asan, over 60 km south of Seoul, thousands of robots were bus...

Korea intensifies rules on CB conversion price adjustment

Korea intensifies rules on CB conversion price adjustment

South Korea will strengthen regulations on the conversion prices of convertible bonds (CBs) to protect stakeholders from excessive share dilution, t...

HS Ad unveils LG Uplus ad created by 100% AI

HS Ad unveils LG Uplus ad created by 100% AI

South Korea's HS Ad Inc., an advertising agency affiliated with LG Group, announced on Monday that it launched LG Uplus Corp. 's brand advertising...

Kolon Global inks Korea’s 1st private wind power supply deal

Kolon Global inks Korea’s 1st private wind power supply deal

Kolon Global Corp., the leading South Korean wind farm developer, signed the country’s first private wind power supply deal with local compani...

Seaweed, dubbed ‘Korea’s black semiconductor,’ powers its economy

Seaweed, dubbed ‘Korea’s black semiconductor,’ powers its economy

Dried seaweed, widely used to make kimbap, or seaweed-wrapped rice rolls, is often referred to as the “black semiconductor” in South Kor...

Handok gets Biocon's obesity drug exclusive distribution in S.Korea

Handok gets Biocon's obesity drug exclusive distribution in S.Korea

South Korean pharmaceutical company Handok Inc. announced on Friday that it signed an exclusive domestic sales and distribution agreement with India...

US cosmetics brand Bath & Body Works enters S.Korea

US cosmetics brand Bath & Body Works enters S.Korea

The US-based cosmetics brand Bath & Body Works, renowned for its diverse lineup of over 250 fragrances, enters the South Korean market. Shi...

Kia premieres EV3 to boost global electrification push

Kia premieres EV3 to boost global electrification push

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, on Thursday premiered the EV3, its low-cost electric sport utility vehicle (SUV), to reboot...

World’s No.1 magnet wire maker SPSX mulls Korean IPO

World’s No.1 magnet wire maker SPSX mulls Korean IPO

Superior Essex Inc. (SPSX), the world’s top magnet wire provider under South Korea’s LS Group, is mulling an initial public offering in ...

South Korea pledges $19 billion support package to revitalize chip sector

South Korea pledges $19 billion support package to revitalize chip sector

South Korea, home to the world’s two largest memory chipmakers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., has unveiled a record 26 trillion wo...

POSCO Future M completes carbon footprint verification

POSCO Future M completes carbon footprint verification

POSCO Future M Co., South Korea’s anode materials producer, has completed the international standard verification for the carbon footprint of ...

Korea Eximbank provides $1 bn in PF for Saudi Amiral project

Korea Eximbank provides $1 bn in PF for Saudi Amiral project

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) announced on Thursday that it will provide $1 billion in project financing for the Amiral petrochemical f...

S.Korea's stablecoin frenzy fuels stock rally despite regulatory uncertainty SK Hynix joins Samsung in 200 trillion won market cap club Samsung on hiring spree to bolster US foundry sales LS Electric poised to join Nvidia's supply chain via Vertiv deal Is chip winter over? Doomsayers gone as Korea’s DRAM exports surge