LG, Samsung vie for HVAC lead with green technology

 LG, Samsung vie for HVAC lead with green technology

South Korea’s long-time technology archrivals LG Electronics Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. are upping the ante in the race to lead the grow...

Virtual human Lucy to sell Galaxy Z in live commerce

Virtual human Lucy to sell Galaxy Z  in live commerce

Lotte Home Shopping's virtual human Lucy expands her activities by selling The Galaxy Z Flip 5 and "Z Fold 5" on live commerce, following her attend...

With long-gone heyday, Capro clings to stake sale for survival

With long-gone heyday, Capro clings to stake sale for survival

Once everyone’s darling but now an ugly duckling, Capro Co., South Korea’s sole maker of caprolactam, a nylon raw material, is despera...

Tesla supplier L&F’s earnings disappoint; shares down

Tesla supplier L&F’s earnings disappoint; shares down

L&F Co., global electric vehicle leader Tesla Inc.’s battery materials supplier, missed quarterly earnings estimates on sluggish product p...

Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino hits record revenue in July

Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino hits record revenue in July

South Korea’s Lotte Tour Development's Jeju-based casino saw record revenue in July thanks to an increased number of foreign tourists to the c...

Morgan Stanley subsidiary takes 5% stake in JYP Entertainment stock

Morgan Stanley subsidiary takes 5% stake in JYP Entertainment stock

A Morgan Stanley-affiliated asset manager has bought more JYP Entertainment shares, raising its stake to more than 5 percent.Asset management firm M...

Korea's SM buys shipping line HMM shares ahead of bidding

Korea's SM buys shipping line HMM shares ahead of bidding

South Korea’s SM Group has increased its ownership in HMM Co., the country’s top container shipping line. The 30th-largest conglomerate ...

Kia America’s new normal: Record car sales month after month

Kia America’s new normal: Record car sales month after month

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, has been dismissed as the weaker sibling or smaller sister firm of Hyundai Motor Co., the c...

Korea’s duty-free sales skid despite China border reopening

Korea’s duty-free sales skid despite China border reopening

South Korea’s duty-free shops suffered a sharp decline in sales in June, when the number of Chinese visitors jumped more than three times that...

Samsung Electronics opens future tech office in DX Division

Samsung Electronics opens future tech office in DX Division

Samsung Electronics Co. has conducted an internal reshuffle by opening a future technologies office to discover “non-existent” technolog...

Samsung’s Bespoke Jet AI sweeps global acclaim

Samsung’s Bespoke Jet AI sweeps global acclaim

Bespoke Jet AI, the cordless stick vacuum cleaner of Samsung Electronics Co., continues to receive international recognition for its superior techno...

S.Korean carmakers post brisk sales on strong exports in July

S.Korean carmakers post brisk sales on strong exports in July

South Korea's car sector posted strong sales last month as favorable exports offset the sluggish domestic market.Industry sources on Tuesday said th...

42dot launches its first B2B self-driving shuttle service

42dot launches its first B2B self-driving shuttle service

42Dot, a self-driving technology affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, on Tuesday said it launched a self-driving shuttle at Samsung Mobility Museum in ...

Samsung Bioepis seeks to buy Biogen biosimilar unit

Samsung Bioepis seeks to buy Biogen biosimilar unit

Samsung Bioepis Co., a biopharmaceutical research and development unit under South Korea’s Samsung Group, seeks to buy a biosimilar business d...

Korea exports down the most in 3 years; BOK may keep rates

Korea exports down the most in 3 years; BOK may keep rates

South Korea’s exports declined at their steepest pace in more than three years last month, data showed on Tuesday, adding to expectations that...

Samsung Elec to provide HBM3, packaging service to Nvidia

Samsung Elec to provide HBM3, packaging service to Nvidia

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, is set to provide high-performance semiconductors and packaging service to the glob...

Super-large screens account for one third of Samsung’s TV sales

Super-large screens account for one third of Samsung’s TV sales

Samsung Electronics Co. announced that one out of every three of its Neo QLED and QLED TVs sold in South Korea between January and July this year fe...

S.Korea sees fever for luxury goods wane in post-COVID-19 era

S.Korea sees fever for luxury goods wane in post-COVID-19 era

South Korea is seeing a gradual decline in the open run, or the practice of customers standing in line before a brand's opening at a department stor...

SK Shieldus appoints former Samsung SDS president as new CEO

SK Shieldus appoints former Samsung SDS president as new CEO

South Korean security company SK Shieldus announced on Tuesday that it has appointed Hong Won-pyo, former president of Samsung SDS, as its new CEO a...

Cosmetics giant Amorepacific hints at succession plan change

Cosmetics giant Amorepacific hints at succession plan change

South Korean cosmetics powerhouse Amorepacific Group Inc. is giving signs of changing its succession plans as Suh Min-jung, Chairman Suh Kyung-bae&r...

Samsung TV Plus to feature free FIFA+ channel content

Samsung TV Plus to feature free FIFA+ channel content

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Monday that it will offer the FIFA+  channel's content for free on Samsung TV Plus, expanding the sports offeri...

CJ CheilJedang divests Chinese subsidiary Jixiangju for $235 mn

CJ CheilJedang divests Chinese subsidiary Jixiangju for $235 mn

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Monday that it has completely sold its ownership stake in its Chinese food subsidiary, Jix...

Volvo tops S.Koreans’ favorite foreign car survey list for service

Volvo tops S.Koreans’ favorite foreign car survey list for service

Sweden's Volvo offers the best after-sales service among imported automobile dealers in South Korea, while locals drivers are disappointed by the cu...

S.Korean tire producers rally on strong demand, low costs

S.Korean tire producers rally on strong demand, low costs

South Korean tire manufacturers enjoyed healthy earnings thanks to strong global demand for electric vehicles and new cars adding to expectations th...

Samsung pins high hopes on new Galaxy Z foldables

Samsung pins high hopes on new Galaxy Z foldables

Foldable phones will likely account for one-third of Samsung Electronics Co.'s domestic sales of its flagship Galaxy smartphone series this year, le...

Hanwha Group puts savings bank on market, a clear succession path

Hanwha Group puts savings bank on market, a clear succession path

Hanwha Group, South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate, has put its non-core financial unit Hanwha Savings Bank up for sale, in a move ...

Boryung Pharma's sales surpass $311 mn in H1 2023

Boryung Pharma's sales surpass $311 mn in H1 2023

South Korea’s Boryung Corp. has alleviated the fear of falling behind in its sector expressed by its third-generation chairman Jay Kim Jung-Gy...

Samyang’s Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen sales exceed 5 bn

Samyang’s Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen sales exceed 5 bn

South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. announced on Friday that the cumulative sales of ramen with its Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen, or Buldak-bokkeum-myeon br...

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5: Don’t bother to open it!

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5: Don’t bother to open it!

The Galaxy Z Flip 5, the fifth generation of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip smartphones, makes a clear distinction from its predecessors: enabling users ...

LG Energy lifts sales guidance; Samsung SDI sees firm growth

LG Energy lifts sales guidance; Samsung SDI sees firm growth

South Korean electric vehicle battery maker are offered upbeat market outlooks, gaining structural growth momentum through strong competitiveness wi...

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