Korean e-commerce platforms struggle to draw new capital

Korean e-commerce platforms struggle to draw new capital

South Korean online marketplace operators are struggling to attract investors amid deteriorating profitability and the financial turmoil facing dome...

Hyundai E&C unveils new Hillstate brand video

Hyundai E&C unveils new Hillstate brand video

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) announced on Friday the release of a new Hillstate brand film titled "Wha...

SGC E&C secures $92 mn chemical plant project in Malaysia

SGC E&C secures $92 mn chemical plant project in Malaysia

South Korea's SGC eTEC E&C Co. announced on Monday that it secured an additional chemical plant construction project in Malaysia worth 127.3 bil...

F&F to expand Discovery brand across Asia

F&F to expand Discovery brand across Asia

F&F Co., a South Korean clothing company, said on Monday it signed an exclusive deal with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to bring the outdoor bran...

E-Mart’s No Brand success story: A Korean snack chain goes global

E-Mart’s No Brand success story: A Korean snack chain goes global

When South Korean convenience store operator E-Mart Inc. launched its low-budget house label No Brand in 2015, few thought it would last long.Under ...

Kumho Tire holds Latin American dealer convention

Kumho Tire holds Latin American dealer convention

South Korea's Kumho Tire Co. announced on Friday that it held the Kumho Dealer Convention event from July 20 to 22 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, inviting ab...

Qoo10’s Korean units delay seller payments amid expansions

Qoo10’s Korean units delay seller payments amid expansions

Southeast Asia-based e-commerce platform Qoo10 Pte.’s units in South Korea delayed seller payments as industry sources said the online shoppin...

Hyundai eyes Japan’s commercial EV market in e-bus deal with Iwasaki

Hyundai eyes Japan’s commercial EV market in e-bus deal with Iwasaki

South Korean top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Tuesday it is supplying its all-electric Elec City Town buses to Iwasaki Group, effectively ent...

SK Innovation to be Asia’s top energy company through merger

SK Innovation to be Asia’s top energy company through merger

SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s largest energy company, is set to become the industry leader in Asia through a merger with an affiliate while...

SK Ecoplant to merge tech unit for group restructuring

SK Ecoplant to merge tech unit for group restructuring

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company, is set to merge a profit-making technology subsidiary of the ...

POSCO E&C, KAERI to collaborate on HTGR techs

POSCO E&C, KAERI to collaborate on HTGR techs

South Korea's POSCO E&C said on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI...

Affinity-backed SSG.COM offers 1st voluntary redundancies

Affinity-backed SSG.COM offers 1st voluntary redundancies

Money-losing SSG.COM, once the most popular online shopping mall in South Korea, is asking some of its employees to volunteer to leave the company f...

Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis to buy e-commerce 11Street

Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis to buy e-commerce 11Street

South Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. is poised to acquire the country’s leading e-commerce operator 11Street Co. to ramp up its ...

Shopee to ramp up Korean goods sales in Vietnam, Thailand

Shopee to ramp up Korean goods sales in Vietnam, Thailand

Shopee Pte. Ltd., an e-commerce operator, plans to quadruple sales of South Korean products in Vietnam and Thailand by 2025 aiming to expand its glo...

Amazon to back K-Beauty’s broader global reach

Amazon to back K-Beauty’s broader global reach

US e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com Inc. will offer South Korean cosmetics producers one-stop support to enable them to reach millions of customers ...

E-Mart24 opens first store in Cambodia

E-Mart24 opens first store in Cambodia

South Korea's convenience store chain E-Mart24 Inc. announced on Sunday that it opened its first store in Boeung Keng Kang, a bustling district of P...

Hyundai E&C to build S.Korea's first nuclear-linked hydrogen plant

Hyundai E&C to build S.Korea's first nuclear-linked hydrogen plant

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) will lead a consortium to build the nation's first hydrogen production fa...

SK Innovation looks to merge with SK E&S for organic growth

SK Innovation looks to merge with SK E&S for organic growth

SK Innovation Co., the parent of South Korea’s largest oil refiner SK Energy Co. and battery maker SK On Co., is looking to merge with energy ...

Shinsegae hires Alibaba Korea head to lead online mall Gmarket

Shinsegae hires Alibaba Korea head to lead online mall Gmarket

Shinsegae Group, South Korea’s retail giant, on Wednesday launched sweeping top-level management overhauls for Gmarket Inc. and SSG.COM. to ti...

Coupang fined $102 mn for alleged search algorithm manipulation

Coupang fined $102 mn for alleged search algorithm manipulation

Coupang Inc., South Korea’s largest e-commerce platform, was fined 140 billion won ($102 million) on Thursday for allegedly manipulating searc...

Affluent Gen Xers lead e-commerce shopping in South Korea

Affluent Gen Xers lead e-commerce shopping in South Korea

Affluent Generation Xers, also pioneers in the digital landscape who navigated the early days of personal computing and witnessed the advent of the ...

Hyundai E&C, KAERI partner to commercialize next-gen reactors

Hyundai E&C, KAERI partner to commercialize next-gen reactors

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) announced on Wednesday that it signed a public-private partnership agreement for the so...

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...

Samsung Electronics holds Latin America Tech Seminar

Samsung Electronics holds Latin America Tech Seminar

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it hosted the 2024 Latin America Tech Seminar in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 28 and 29.According to...

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...

Qoo10 launches K-Avenue for S.Korean products

Qoo10 launches K-Avenue for S.Korean products

Southeast Asia-based e-commerce platform Qoo10 Pte. announced on Tuesday that it launched K-Avenue, a sales channel for Korean products, on the newl...

Korea’s LX Pantos, China’s Sinotrans agree to launch logistics JV

Korea’s LX Pantos, China’s Sinotrans agree to launch logistics JV

LX Pantos Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s LX Group, said on Thursday it will launch a multimodal transport joint venture with Sinotra...

E-Land Retail to enter convenience store market

E-Land Retail to enter convenience store market

South Korea's E-Land Retail, the operator of Kim's Club, NC Department Store, and New Core Outlet operator, plans to enter the convenience store mar...

SK E&S builds world’s largest hydrogen liquefaction plant

SK E&S builds world’s largest hydrogen liquefaction plant

SK E&S Co., a South Korean liquefied natural gas importer, has built the world’s largest hydrogen liquefaction plant in Incheon, west of S...

Naver D2SF invests in image generation AI startup

Naver D2SF invests in image generation AI startup

South Korea's top online portal Naver Corp. announced on Wednesday that its startup nurturing organization D2SF (D2 Startup Factory) invested in the...

S.Korea’s leading ERP player Douzone Bizon up for sale; EQT Partners in talks MSCI maintains S.Korea’s emerging-market status; level playing field required GEPS taps former KB Asset chief risk officer as new CIO Affinity Equity nets $220 mn from block sale of Shinhan Financial F&F’s bid for TaylorMade complicates Centroid's exit