Yanolja Cloud to develop real estate platform with SK Discovery

Yanolja Cloud to develop real estate platform with SK Discovery

South Korea's Yanolja Cloud, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, announced on Tuesday its partnership with SK Discovery Co. to build a proptech ...

H2O Hospitality rebrands itself as it eyes Middle East expansion

H2O Hospitality rebrands itself as it eyes Middle East expansion

H2O Hospitality, a hospitality tech company that provides digital solutions for the hotel and tourism industry, said on Tuesday that it has rebrande...

POSCO Engineering & Construction renames itself POSCO E&C

POSCO Engineering & Construction renames itself POSCO E&C

POSCO Engineering & Construction, the builder affiliate of South Korea's POSCO Group, has changed its name to "POSCO E&C" to mark the first ...

Kumho Petrochem wins BB rating from MSCI's ESG ratings

Kumho Petrochem wins BB rating from MSCI's ESG ratings

Kumho Petrochemical Co. announced on Wednesday that it had received a "BB rating" in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) evaluation by Mo...

Hanwha Techwin changes name to Hanwha Vision

Hanwha Techwin changes name to Hanwha Vision

South Korea’s Hanwha Techwin on Wednesday changed its name to Hanwha Vision and unveiled its new corporate image. On the reason for the n...

Kakao Impact, KAIST team up for social change through technology

Kakao Impact, KAIST team up for social change through technology

Kakao Impact, a corporate foundation of Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile platform company, said on Tuesday it has agreed to work with the...

Iljin Materials to change its name to Lotte Energy Materials

Iljin Materials to change its name to Lotte Energy Materials

Lotte Chemical Corp., a South Korean petrochemical giant, will rename Iljin Materials Co., the country’s second-largest copper foil maker, as ...

POSCO Chemical changes name to POSCO Future M

POSCO Chemical changes name to POSCO Future M

POSCO Chemical, a chemical subsidiary of the POSCO Group, announced on Friday that it had approved an agenda to change its company name to "POSCO Fu...

Samsung, LG ditch BOE in likely Apple deal for iPad Pro OLED panels

Samsung, LG ditch BOE in likely Apple deal for iPad Pro OLED panels

Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co. will likely win orders from Apple Inc. to build organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for the US tech ...

Will CATL’s bargain sales hurt Korean EV battery makers?

Will CATL’s bargain sales hurt Korean EV battery makers?

China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL), the leading global electric vehicle battery manufacturer, has started a price war in the w...

Hyundai Motor unveils new Creta at Indonesia motor show

Hyundai Motor unveils new Creta at Indonesia motor show

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s largest automaker, introduced a new version of its Creta compact SUV at the Indonesia International Motor Sho...

POSCO affiliates mull name changes to represent green push

POSCO affiliates mull name changes to represent green push

South Korean steel giant POSCO Group is considering changing the name of some of its affiliates in a move to rebrand them as sustainable materials a...

Hyundai Motor units mull dropping 'Hyundai' from company names

Hyundai Motor units mull dropping 'Hyundai' from company names

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group is considering dropping the word “Hyundai” from the names of its subsidiaries such as auto parts...

SK Ecoplant changes North American corporation name

SK Ecoplant changes North American corporation name

SK Ecoplant Co., a construction company of S.Korea's SK Group, said on Monday that it would change the name of its North American corporation BETEK,...

S.Korea's science minister calls small modular reactors 'game changers'

S.Korea's science minister calls small modular reactors 'game changers'

Minister of Science and ICT Lee Jong-ho on Thursday pledged full support for the development of small modular reactors (SMRs), which he called a "ga...

Kim&Chang sets to enter Indonesia's legal market

Kim&Chang sets to enter Indonesia's legal market

Kim & Chang, South Korea's leading law firm, is poised to expand into Indonesia, joining the race among major legal firms seeking a foothold in ...

S.Korea's MGRV attracts $10mn Series B bridge investment

S.Korea's MGRV attracts $10mn Series B bridge investment

MGRV Community & Space, a South Korean startup that operates co-living facilities under the brand "Mangrove," announced on Wednesday it has attr...

Samsung Display enjoys record profit on Apple iPhone 14

Samsung Display enjoys record profit on Apple iPhone 14

Samsung Display Co., South Korea’s top display maker, said its profit soared by a third to a record high as it supplied high-end products to A...

BOK mulls business, financial stability this year while focusing on inflation

BOK mulls business, financial stability this year while focusing on inflation

The Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Chang-yong on Wednesday said, "We will focus on inflation this year but also closely consider tradeoffs to preserve ...

S.Korea's SKC Solmics changes name to SK Enpulse

S.Korea's SKC Solmics changes name to SK Enpulse

South Korea's SKC Solmics, a wholly owned fine ceramics subsidiary of SKC, on Sunday said it changed its name to SK Enpulse.With 100% investment fro...

Kyobo Life chief says data can overcome uncertain future

Kyobo Life chief says data can overcome uncertain future

Shin Chang-jae, chairman and CEO of South Korea's Kyobo Life Insurance, has urged the overcoming of the economic crisis based on leadership of VUCA,...

Hyundai is not a carmaker but a tech firm: Chairman Chung

Hyundai is not a carmaker but a tech firm: Chairman Chung

Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun has vowed to turn the South Korean automotive giant into a state-of-the-art tech company to lead the pack ...

SKC's film business units change their names, start anew

SKC's film business units change their names, start anew

SKC Future Materials and SKC Hi-Tech & Marketing, which had newly been established through the spin-off of SKC's industrial materials division (...

Daesang F&B changes company name to Daesang Dives

Daesang F&B changes company name to Daesang Dives

A South Korean food and beverage company Daesang F&B changed its name to Daesang Dives, the company said on Monday.Daesang Dives is a combinatio...

S.Korea's Alteogen signs $145 million tech export deal with Swiss company

S.Korea's Alteogen signs $145 million tech export deal with Swiss company

South Korea's bio company Alteogen Inc. on Friday said it signed its fourth technology export contract since its 2018 development of the human recom...

Samsung Elec to release new Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 laptop

Samsung Elec to release new Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 laptop

South Korea's electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co. will release its latest premium laptop model, Galaxy Book2 Pro 360, on Jan. 16, the company ...

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group changes its name to HD Hyundai

Hyundai Heavy Industries Group changes its name to HD Hyundai

HD Hyundai held a 50th-anniversary vision declaration ceremony at its Global R&D Center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, on Monday where it annou...

Korea to retain more skilled foreign workers with visa status upgrade

Korea to retain more skilled foreign workers with visa status upgrade

South Korea plans to more than double the number of skilled foreign workers next year as the country is struggling with a declining workforce at its...

Truston Asset looks to help run Taekwang with 5.8% stake

Truston Asset looks to help run Taekwang with 5.8% stake

South Korea's Truston Asset Management has changed the purpose of its stock investment in the chemical and textile company Taekwang Industrial Co. f...

Sea Change

Sea Change

sea change (idiom): a complete transformation, a radical change of direction in attitude, goals . . . (Grammarist) In my 53 years in the inve...

S.Korea’s pension fund NPS posts much weaker returns amid US tariff concerns S.Korea names budget veteran as finance minister to prop up economy KKR in control feud over Korea’s top solar power plant Hanwha Systems to compete with LIG Nex1 for Korean version of Iron Dome NH, KB Securities, Kookmin Bank, Kim & Chang lead capital markets in H1