Can Samsung Electronics ever catch up to foundry leader TSMC?

For years, Samsung Electronics Co. has been touted as the backbone of the South Korean economy, Asia’s fourth-largest, under the government&rs...

Why Samsung is so far behind Apple

In October 2012, US tech giant Apple Inc. fired Dominique Oh, the head of its South Korean unit. This was due to Apple's sluggish sales in the home ...

Samsung Electronics shares rebound as foreigners turn net buyers

Shares of Samsung Electronics Co., the largest stock on South Korea’s main bourse, rose strongly on Friday, snapping a five-day losing streak,...

Samsung Asset to list blockchain ETF on Hong Kong Exchange

Samsung Asset Management Co. is slated to list a blockchain exchange-traded fund on the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX) in the first half of this year, th...

Samsung’s stock underlines cloudy outlook despite record Q1

Shares of Samsung Electronics Co. fell to a fresh 52-week low on Thursday despite posting record sales for the third consecutive quarter as investor...

SeAH to supply steel pipes for LNG export base in Qatar via Samsung

  SeAH Steel Corp., the largest steel pipe manufacturer in South Korea, signed a contract on April 25 to offer Samsung C&T Corp. its stain...

LG Electronics establishes hiring-guaranteed AI department at Yonsei

LG Electronics Inc. is poised to set up a new department at Seoul-based Yonsei University to train aspiring artificial intelligence engineers. ...

Jay Y. Lee absence raises risks for Samsung chip biz

Samsung Electronics Co. is losing its hegemony in the global semiconductor market as a sustained leadership vacuum has kept the world’s top me...

Samsung Heavy sells undelivered drillships to PEF

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. has sold its four undelivered drillships to a domestic private equity fund for a combined 1.04 trillion w...

Samsung to supply chip substrate for Apple’s next-gen M2 processor

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. will supply its semiconductor package substrate to Apple Inc. for the US tech giant’s next-generation M2 process...

Korea’s Yoon govt to raise nuclear power to 34% of energy source

South Korea’s incoming government plans to extend the service life of eight more nuclear power plants than originally planned as President-ele...

LG Household acquires The Crème Shop for US expansion

LG Household & Health Care Ltd. has acquired a controlling stake in The Crème Shop Inc. as it seeks to expand its presence in the US beau...

Samsung Elec's ex-M&A head to extend clout in Samsung Group

Ahn Joonghyun, who led Samsung Electronics Co.'s high-profile M&A deals for nearly nine years, was promoted to a president-level position to hea...

CJ, Samsung to launch $600 million e-commerce logistics fund

CJ Logistics and an affiliate of Samsung Life Insurance have joined forces to launch a real estate investment fund worth 740 billion won ($600 milli...

Kolon Life inks technology transfer deal with Juniper Biologics

South Korea’s pharmaceutical company Kolon Life Science Inc. signed a technology export deal worth up to 723.4 billion won ($589.1 million) wi...

Samsung Biologics to raise $2.6 bn in rights issue

Samsung Biologics Co., a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) and a biotech division under the Samsung Group, is set ...

Samsung Group hires governance expert for unprecedented reorganization

Samsung Electronics Co. has hired a 20-year governance veteran for its much-awaited corporate governance restructuring, according to those familia...

Samsung Heavy set for 2023 turnaround after eight years of losses

Samsung Heavy Industries Co., one of South Korea's Big Three shipbuilders, was once on the list of assets its parent Samsung Group wanted to sell to...

Samsung sees record first-quarter sales; business outlook murky

Samsung Electronics Co. likely posted record revenue in the first quarter, driven by brisk sales of memory chips and smartphones. Its shares, howeve...

Kakao Piccoma acquires Japan’s cryptocurrency exchange SEBC

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile messenger app operator, has acquired a controlling stake in Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC), a Japanese c...

Samsung Asset Mgmt. buys 20% stake in US ETF sponsor Amplify

South Korea’s Samsung Asset Management Co. invested in a US exchange-traded fund sponsor to expand its global presence in the market.Samsung s...

Samsung to work with Western Digital on next-gen storage technology 

Samsung Electronics Co. and Western Digital Technologies Inc. announced Wednesday the two parties signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to coll...

SK Hynix considers joint acquisition of UK chip designer Arm

South Korea's SK Hynix Inc. is considering forming a consortium with other strategic investors to buy Arm Ltd., a British semiconductor design compa...

Samsung’s Life Science Fund invests in US biotech Jaguar Gene Therapy

Samsung Group’s 150 billion won ($124 million) Life Science Fund launched last year has chosen a leading US gene therapy development company a...

NongHyup Life to issue $493 mn in subordinated bonds

NongHyup Life Insurance Co. of South Korea is slated to issue 10-year-maturity subordinated bonds worth 600 billion won ($492.6 million) on March 31...

Naver subsidiary splurges on metaverse, resell platform acquisitions

Snow Corp., a subsidiary of South Korea’s tech behemoth Naver Corp., has either already invested, or is slated to invest, in 11 companies so f...

Rising global TV prices: A boon and risk for Samsung, LG

Global TV prices rose by a third last year and are expected to continue their uptrend this year, which could be a boon for the world’s two lar...

Hanwha Solutions wins France's solar farm project

Q Cells, a renewable energy division of South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp., has clinched a large-scale solar energy project in France, acceleratin...

LG Household to lower reliance on Chinese market as shares slump

LG Household & Health Care Ltd. was one of the most coveted shares on the Korean bouse in the past couple of years as the company basked in the ...

Samsung launches LTE-only Galaxy A23 to target low-end market

Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday launched the 4G LTE Galaxy A23 smartphone, a cheaper version of its flagship Galaxy A series models, targeting the...