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South Korea’s major display panel maker LG Display Co. is estimated to have sold more than 20 million units of organic light-emitting diode (O...

Kyobo Life Insurance Co. on Tuesday applied for a preliminary review of its public listing with the Korea Exchange, three years after it canceled th...

Rechargeable battery shares in Korea are continuing their slide, hit by global supply shortages. In addition to the companies that produce completed b...

At the end of last year, executives of Kumho Petrochemical Co. were in a heated debate on whether or not to expand the capacity of nitrile butadiene...

Dunamu Inc., the operator of Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, has announced that its accumulated third-quarter net profit came i...

Meta fashion, a combination of fashion, metaverse, and NFT, is becoming a global trend. The MZ generation, as those in their 20s and 30s are ca...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday changed the name of its mobile communications business to MX, short for mobile experience, in line with its pursui...

There appear to be two diverging roads for South Korea's top duty free operators Lotte and Shilla: expanding outside China, or going deeper inside t...

Samsung Electronics Co., in a surprise move, has merged its mobile and consumer electronics businesses into a single unit, and replaced chief execut...

Koo Ja-eun, chairman of South Korea’s LS Mtron Co., a machinery and components maker, will lead the country’s 14th-largest conglomerate ...

Teton Capital Partners, a US-based activist fund, has taken legal action to block IMM Private Equity from exercising its management rights over Hans...

CJ ENM Co., the producer of the Oscar-winning "Parasite", was the only South Korean company among a few entertainment powerhouses and investment fir...

Financial shares related to the metaverse and non-fungible tokens, which have been on a surge in recent weeks, are seeing a correction. With forei...

Naver Corp. has chosen Choi Soo-yeon, 40, to lead the top online platform in South Korea, in the 22-year-old company's most dramatic top management ...

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. announced on Nov. 15 that its operating profit and net profit for the first three quarters came in at 312.4 bil...

Korean Air Lines Co. (KAL) surprised the market on Friday by posting its highest third-quarter operating profit in five years, boosted by strong dem...

HMM Co., South Korea’s largest container line, posted fresh record sales and profits in the third quarter, boosted by higher freight rates and...

Success of Korean films on OTT platforms South Korea posted a surplus in its intellectual property rights trade balance in the first half of 2021. ...

Kakao Pay Corp. ’s stock tumbled after a strong debut on the South Korean main stock market as investors booked profits, keeping an eye on if ...

SK E&S Co. is in talks with a number of private equity firms and financial investors to sell energy storage systems (ESS) and solar energy devel...

Samsung Electronics Co.’s third-quarter earnings report on Thursday was almost perfect but for one thing. The world’s top memory maker s...

South Korea’s largest container liner HMM Co. suffered a tumble in its stock prices despite the rosy outlook on the global shipping industry a...

Hyundai Motor Co. South Korea’s top automaker, turned to an operating profit in the third quarter on strong sales of the premium Genesis model...

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...

Coldplay is deep enough into its career that each new album comes packaged with a story. It’s no longer sufficient to issue a new collection o...

South Korean Simone Acc. Collection Ltd., the world’s No. 1 handbag maker, plans to spend 30-40% of net profit for dividends after a listing n...

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

LG Electronics Inc. said on Tuesday it expects its third-quarter operating profit to plunge as heavy costs for General Motors Co.’s recall of ...

Kumho Asiana Group’s management assured net profits for 30 years to Gate Gourmet when the South Korean conglomerate signed a deal for Asiana A...

South Korea’s private sector debt jumped near $100 billion in the April-June period, a record high of quarterly growth, amid an overheating pr...