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Finance ministry stresses need to reduce maximum corporate tax rate

Finance ministry stresses need to reduce maximum corporate tax rate

A total of 103 companies, a mere 0.01% of the total number of corporations in South Korea, are paying more than 40% of the country’s total cor...

KDB reaches out to Hyundai, POSCO, CJ, LX on HMM stake sale

KDB reaches out to Hyundai, POSCO, CJ, LX on HMM stake sale

State-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) has contacted major conglomerates including Hyundai Motor Group about the sale of its stake in HMM Co., the c...

South Korea aims to build world’s 6th inland base in the Antarctic 

South Korea aims to build world’s 6th inland base in the Antarctic 

The South Korean government announced on Monday that it will build the world’s sixth inland base in the Antarctic by 2030. The Ministry o...

Lotte to replace construction unit CEO due to liquidity crisis

Lotte to replace construction unit CEO due to liquidity crisis

Lotte Group will replace the head of its construction unit, hit by a liquidity crisis stemming from project financing, to ease investor concerns ove...

S. Korea's Kia 1st among UK car dealers for brand satisfaction

S. Korea's Kia 1st among UK car dealers for brand satisfaction

Kia Corp. has seen record-high auto sales in the UK thanks to having the highest brand satisfaction among British dealers.Industry sources on Monday...

Vertu, Motorola, Xiaomi eye Korean smartphone market as LG exits

Vertu, Motorola, Xiaomi eye Korean smartphone market as LG exits

South Korea’s smartphone market is notoriously hard for foreign mobile phone makers to crack. So hard that some people call it the “grav...

Number of tourists to S.Korea, Japan surge on eased visa restrictions

Number of tourists to S.Korea, Japan surge on eased visa restrictions

As restrictions to traveling across national borders loosen, the number of international travelers to both South Korea and Japan have been on the ri...

Celltrion wins trial against Regeneron for US patent lawsuit over biosimilar

Celltrion wins trial against Regeneron for US patent lawsuit over biosimilar

South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. announced Friday that it won its first trial against New York-based biotech giant Regeneron Ph...

Hyundai’s Genesis G90 named MotorTrend’s 2023 Car of the Year

Hyundai’s Genesis G90 named MotorTrend’s 2023 Car of the Year

Hyundai Motor Co.'s G90, a flagship sedan under the South Korean automaker’s premium sub-brand Genesis, has been named the 2023 Car of the Yea...

Korea LIG Nex1 to enjoy record earnings on missile exports

Korea LIG Nex1 to enjoy record earnings on missile exports

LIG Nex1 Co., a leading South Korean defense company, is expected to see record earnings this year on strong missile exports, helping its shares sur...

South Korea's economic bodies urge revision of US Inflation Reduction Act

South Korea's economic bodies urge revision of US Inflation Reduction Act

Six leading economic organizations in South Korea have sent a joint letter to the US government and Congress requesting revision of the US Inflation...

Saudi prince’s Seoul trip brings $30 billion in business deals

Saudi prince’s Seoul trip brings $30 billion in business deals

Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia, flew into Seoul on Thursday and clinched $30 billion in bilateral deals wi...

South Korea's DL E&C wins 1st petrochemical plant order in US

South Korea's DL E&C wins 1st petrochemical plant order in US

South Korean construction company DL E&C has landed its first contract to build a petrochemical plant in the US.The company on Thursday said it ...

Samyang transitions to white biotech with S.Korea’s first isosorbide plant

Samyang transitions to white biotech with S.Korea’s first isosorbide plant

Samyang Group, a diversified conglomerate, has long focused on the chemicals and foodstuffs sectors. While adding to its existing chemicals bus...

S. Korea's T'way Air to resume Incheon-Chiang Mai route

S. Korea's T'way Air to resume Incheon-Chiang Mai route

South Korea's budget carrier T'way Air on Wednesday said it will resume from Nov. 28 its flight linking Incheon and Chiang Mai, Thailand, with seven...

Hyundai Glovis, Malaysia’s Lion Group to enter ASEAN logistics market

 Hyundai Glovis, Malaysia’s Lion Group to enter ASEAN logistics market

Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, said on Wednesday it has signed an initial agreement with Malaysi...

Korea, US to work on Busan-Seattle green cargo shipping corridor

Korea, US to work on Busan-Seattle green cargo shipping corridor

South Korea and the US are looking to create a green cargo shipping corridor linking the port of Busan with the ports of Seattle and Tacoma as part ...

S.Korea's Iljin Group halts sale of its display maker

S.Korea's Iljin Group halts sale of its display maker

South Korea’s Iljin Display Co. has suspended procedures of selling its 43.19% stake with management rights, the junior bourse Kosdaq-listed d...

Fast-shrinking chip lead time clouds semiconductor industry’s future

Fast-shrinking chip lead time clouds semiconductor industry’s future

The global semiconductor industry has been plagued by a chip shortage for a couple of years with automakers and other manufacturers struggling to se...

Miniforce producer aims to become Asia's top children's platform with IPO

Miniforce producer aims to become Asia's top children's platform with IPO

The South Korean producer of famous animated series such as Miniforce aims to become Asia’s top children's platform by way of an initial publi...

UK regulator flags concerns over Korean Air-Asiana merger

UK regulator flags concerns over Korean Air-Asiana merger

The British antitrust watchdog raised concerns over the impact on competition of the proposed merger between South Korea’s two largest carrier...

Yanolja to expand overseas business with global partner

Yanolja to expand overseas business with global partner

South Korea's tourism platform Yanolja is expanding its overseas air and travel operations.Yanolja Cloud, an artificial intelligence-based software ...

Why the global economy needs BOK’s Rhee to stand firm

Why the global economy needs BOK’s Rhee to stand firm

Rhee Chang-yong could be excused for never wanting to hear the word 'Legoland' again.The Bank of Korea governor spent the first six months of his tenu...

S-Oil to OK $6 billion Shaheen project as Saudi prince heads to Seoul

S-Oil to OK $6 billion Shaheen project as Saudi prince heads to Seoul

S-Oil Corp., the South Korean unit of Saudi Arabian Oil Co., will approve the much-touted 8 trillion won ($6 billion) Shaheen project to expand its ...

Korean firms at risk of credit rating downgrade on Legoland woes

Korean firms at risk of credit rating downgrade on Legoland woes

South Korean companies are at risk of credit rating downgrades as the fallout of a debt default by the domestic developer of a Legoland theme park r...

Chipmaker Netsol unveils first STT-MRAM in South Korea

Chipmaker Netsol unveils first STT-MRAM in South Korea

South Korea’s fabless memory semiconductor design house Netsol announced on Friday that it developed the country’s first STT-MRAM, a nex...

HMM’s shares undervalued despite $12.5 billion in cashable assets

HMM’s shares undervalued despite $12.5 billion in cashable assets

South Korea’s largest container line HMM Co. has seen its shares trapped in a boxed range for a protracted period despite its spectacular earn...

KEPCO to see record loss 2022 on slower power tariff hikes

KEPCO to see record loss 2022 on slower power tariff hikes

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), the state-run utility, is set to suffer a record operating loss this year with a shortfall mounting to the secon...

Doosan Enerbility signs $1.2 billion deal to build nuclear plant in Egypt

Doosan Enerbility signs $1.2 billion deal to build nuclear plant in Egypt

South Korea's major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. said on Thursday it has clinched a 1.6 trillion won ($1.2 billion) deal to become a co...

Korean retail brand F&F’s Chinese sales seen above $800 million

Korean retail brand F&F’s Chinese sales seen above $800 million

South Korean outdoor clothing retailer F&F Co. is expected to post 1.1 trillion won ($807 million) in sales revenue in China this year, emerging...

Is chip winter over? Doomsayers gone as Korea’s DRAM exports surge S.Korea to have 1st civilian defense minister in decades, tap career technocrats Fubon Bank expands Korea presence into banking Hana Asset launches ultra-low-fee Nasdaq 100 ETF Even barcodes copied: Counterfeits invasion threatens K-brands

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