S.Korea’s Musinsa sees sales grow 54% in 2022 to $537 mn

S.Korea’s Musinsa sees sales grow 54% in 2022 to $537 mn

South Korea’s online fashion platform Musinsa saw sales last year surge over 50% to break the 700 billion won ($537.7 million) mark, though op...

S.Korea’s first-generation bio companies set up support fund for new ventures

S.Korea’s first-generation bio companies set up support fund for new ventures

South Korea's first-generation bio companies and Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) have created a bio investment fund to support ventures in the field ...

Samsung Electronics opens 3rd C-Lab Outside regional hub

Samsung Electronics opens 3rd C-Lab Outside regional hub

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday opened the third regional center of its C-Lab Outside, a corporate partnership program to nurture local startups...

S.Korean display companies look to expand business in India with Vedanta

S.Korean display companies look to expand business in India with Vedanta

South Korean display companies try to make breakthrough in new market by entering Indian market.The Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) announ...

Hyundai launches second-generation Kona EV, 417km on a single charge

Hyundai launches second-generation Kona EV, 417km on a single charge

Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Thursday that it launches the second-generation Kona EV, also known as the The All-New Kona Electric.The Kona Electri...

Tesla Korea’s profit, sales fall on new subsidy plans, lack of models

Tesla Korea’s profit, sales fall on new subsidy plans, lack of models

Tesla Inc.’s South Korean business has been worsening in recent months due to the lack of new models launched in the country amid Seoul’...

DRAM prices rebound on Samsung output cut; earlier recovery eyed

DRAM prices rebound on Samsung output cut; earlier recovery eyed

Memory chip prices are staging a rebound for the first time in more than a year following Samsung Electronics Co.'s near-term production cut, b...

LG Elec reinvents brand identity, aiming for youthful, dynamic image

LG Elec reinvents brand identity, aiming for youthful, dynamic image

South Korean tech giant LG Electronics Inc. is taking steps to reinvent its brand and enhance its youthful and dynamic image while actively communic...

Samsung installs massive MicroLED screen at luxury hotel in UAE

Samsung installs massive MicroLED screen at luxury hotel in UAE

Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday said it has supplied a large number of smart signage and TV screens to Atlantis the Royal, a luxury hotel and r...

Samsung Electronics launches latest stick vacuum cleaner via catwalk

Samsung Electronics launches latest stick vacuum cleaner via catwalk

Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday said it launched the unique publicity campaign "Jet Walk" stressing "an uber-powerful cleaning show the world has...

Hyundai E&C, Samsung C&T to jointly establish construction robot ecosystem

Hyundai E&C, Samsung C&T to jointly establish construction robot ecosystem

Hyundai Engineering & Construction and Samsung C&T Corp.'s construction unit andannounced on Tuesday that they have signed a strategic bus...

HD Hyundai Infracore targets Middle East and African markets with new brand Develon

HD Hyundai Infracore targets Middle East and African markets with new brand Develon

HD Hyundai Infracore (formerly Hyundai Doosan Infracore Co.), a South Korean construction equipment maker, has ventured into the Middle East and Afr...

Samsung Display poised to supply OLED panels to Ferrari

Samsung Display poised to supply OLED panels to Ferrari

Samsung Display Co. of South Korea is set to supply Ferrari S.p.A. with its automotive organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels, accelerating its ...

Korean game sector looks to cute girls to lure new users

Korean game sector looks to cute girls to lure new users

South Korea’s game makers rushed to launch games with cute girl characters to allure fans of Japanese animation as cartoons for the subculture...

LG CNS, Microsoft to jointly develop new ChatGPT-based services

LG CNS, Microsoft to jointly develop new ChatGPT-based services

South Korea’s largest cloud computing service provider LG CNS Co. announced on Tuesday that it will strengthen its strategic partnership with ...

KOGAS, JERA of Japan agree to jointly purchase LNG

KOGAS, JERA of Japan agree to jointly purchase LNG

South Korea's state-run Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS) has joined hands with JERA, a Japan-based global liquefied natural gas (LNG) corporation, in the wak...

S.Korean stocks at 8-month high as foreigners chase Samsung

S.Korean stocks at 8-month high as foreigners chase Samsung

South Korean stocks hit an eight-month high on Monday as foreign investors continued to chase Samsung Electronics Co., the country’s most valu...

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries launches new frigate Chungnam

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries launches new frigate Chungnam

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (formerly Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. ) held on Monday a launch ceremony for the new 3,600-ton-class frigate "Chung...

JW Pharma to use zebrafish in new drug development

JW Pharma to use zebrafish in new drug development

South Korean drug developer JW Pharmaceutical has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Zefit, a domestic non-clinical trial institu...

Samsung to transfer proprietary technologies to SMEs for free

Samsung to transfer proprietary technologies to SMEs for free

Samsung Electronics Co. has partnered with South Korean government to transfer patented technologies free of charge in an effort to support the grow...

S.Korean ramen's exports reach new heights amid K-content boom

S.Korean ramen's exports reach new heights amid K-content boom

Riding the wave of the K-content craze, South Korean ramen's overseas status is soaring. In the first quarter of this year, the ramen export value e...

LG tops in market cap gain, beating Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor

LG tops in market cap gain, beating Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor

The total market value of companies under South Korea’s fourth-largest business group LG increased the most in a year, beating out its bigger ...

Samsung's Neo QLED 8K wins critical acclaim in US, UK

Samsung's Neo QLED 8K wins critical acclaim in US, UK

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Sunday that its recently released the 2023 Neo QLED TV has received high praise from major professional media...

Samsung prepares for DRAM upturn with bold investment even after chip output cut

Samsung prepares for DRAM upturn with bold investment even after chip output cut

Samsung Electronics Co. has joined its peers in cutting memory chip production on its chip division’s anticipated first loss in more than a de...

LG Electronics eyes solid Q2 results after Q1 earnings surprise

LG Electronics eyes solid Q2 results after Q1 earnings surprise

LG Electronics Inc. is expected to report solid earnings for the second quarter after its first-quarter operating profit beat market expectations an...

S. Korean food company Ottogi opens new research center

S. Korean food company Ottogi opens new research center

South Korean food company Ottogi Co. has announced on Friday the opening of the food safety science research institute at its Ottogi Research Center...

SK, Samsung accelerate S.Korea’s CO2 capture biz growth

SK, Samsung accelerate S.Korea’s CO2 capture biz growth

Samsung and SK, South Korea’s two largest conglomerates, are speeding up the growth in the carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) busi...

Korea's InnoGrid to collaborate with Hyosung for cloud business

Korea's InnoGrid to collaborate with Hyosung for cloud business

InnoGrid Co., South Korea's cloud computing and digital transformation (DT) specialist, announced on Friday that it has signed an agreement with dat...

Samsung’s chip output cut: Boon for industry, price rebound

Samsung’s chip output cut: Boon for industry, price rebound

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Friday it is curtailing chip production after its semiconductor busines...

Samsung Galaxy S23 sales beat S22, enticing MZers

Samsung Galaxy S23 sales beat S22, enticing MZers

The Galaxy S23 series of Samsung Electronics Co. smartphones have beaten their predecessor Galaxy S22 smartphones in sales volume, less than two mon...

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