Hyundai E&C, KAI to develop export-type package for defense industry

Hyundai E&C, KAI to develop export-type package for defense industry

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction (E&C) and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) will jointly develop an export package for ...

Kwangdong introduces new drug candidate for pediatric myopia

Kwangdong introduces new drug candidate for pediatric myopia

South Korean pharmaceutical company Kwangdong Pharmaceutical announced on Monday that it has signed a contract with Hong Kong-based Zhaoke Ophthalmo...

LG takes lead in nurturing young AI talent by holding AI hackathon

LG takes lead in nurturing young AI talent by holding AI hackathon

South Korea's LG announced on Sunday that it held the "LG AI Hackathon" for nurturing young artificial intelligence (AI) talent for two days from ...

Korean research team develops AI chip to cut power use

Korean research team develops AI chip to cut power use

South Korean scientists have developed a chip that needs less electricity for advanced efficiency and data processing to help the country’s se...

Samsung Chairman Lee to meet new premier in China

Samsung Chairman Lee to meet new premier in China

Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee arrived in Beijing on March 23 to review the chipmaker’s business in China, which is gradually rec...

S.Korea to benefit from rising global defense spending

S.Korea to benefit from rising global defense spending

South Korea is expected to log another year of record defense exports in 2023 thanks to growing military budgets across the world as local major arm...

LG Energy to build $5.6 billion battery complex in Arizona

LG Energy to build $5.6 billion battery complex in Arizona

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker, said on Friday it is investing 7.2 trillion won ($5.6 billion) to build a b...

HYBE accepts Kakao’s tender offer to exit SM Entertainment

HYBE accepts Kakao’s tender offer to exit SM Entertainment

HYBE Co., the largest shareholder of SM Entertainment Co., said on Friday it has accepted Kakao Corp.’s tender offer to sell its shares in the...

KT Cloud, DigitalBridge join hands for data center biz in Korea

KT Cloud, DigitalBridge join hands for data center biz in Korea

KT Cloud Co., the cloud computing unit under South Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier KT Corp., and US infrastructure investment firm Digit...

Brokerage firms in S.Korea log sharp falls in 2022 earnings

Brokerage firms in S.Korea log sharp falls in 2022 earnings

Brokerage firms in South Korea, led by Mirae Asset Securities Co., suffered a 50% plunge in net profit in 2022, as dwindling trading fees outweighed...

Doosan Fuel Cell teams up with Kolon Global for hydrogen fuel cell

Doosan Fuel Cell teams up with  Kolon Global for hydrogen fuel cell

South Korean fuel cell manufacturer Doosan Fuel Cell, and Kolon Global Corp., a South Korean company that specializes in the production of industria...

MBK-UCK consortium offers 2nd tender to delist Osstem Implant

MBK-UCK consortium offers 2nd tender to delist Osstem Implant

The MBK Partners-Unison Capital Korea (UCK) consortium said on Wednesday it will conduct a second tender offer for shares in Osstem Implant Co., a f...

EcoPro taps mines in the Americas to secure cathode materials: EcoPro CEO

EcoPro taps mines in the Americas to secure cathode materials: EcoPro CEO

EcoPro Group, South Korea’s leading battery materials producer, is mulling investments in mines in the Americas to source cathode materials, a...

Hyundai Heavy tops global 2-stroke engine production

Hyundai Heavy tops global 2-stroke engine production

South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. became the world’s first shipbuilder to have marked 200 million brake horsepower (bhp) in cum...

Kakao Mobility buys UK ride-hailing startup Splyt for global biz

Kakao Mobility buys UK ride-hailing startup Splyt for global biz

South Korea’s Kakao Mobility Corp. said on Wednesday it has acquired the British ride-hailing startup Splyt, marking the first overseas takeov...

Bespin Global to work with GBike for smart mobility business in Vietnam

Bespin Global to work with GBike for smart mobility business in Vietnam

Bespin Global, a cloud delivery platform company based in South Korea, announced on Thursday that it had partnered with GBike, a micromobility tech ...

Lotte Global Logistics establishes resource recycling platform in Korea

Lotte Global Logistics establishes resource recycling platform in Korea

South Korea's Lotte Global Logistics has established a resource recycling platform across ten logistics centers. The company has introduced the solu...

Two global shareholder voting advisors oppose activist funds in S. Korea

Two global shareholder voting advisors oppose activist funds in S. Korea

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis, the world's two biggest advisory bodies for shareholder voting rights, have recommended op...

S.Korea confirms easing inflation; BOK to hold rate

S.Korea confirms easing inflation; BOK to hold rate

South Korea confirmed that inflation eased while Asia’s fourth-largest economy continued to slow, adding to expectations that the government m...

S.Korea's Naver gets global compliance certification

S.Korea's Naver gets global compliance certification

South Korea’s top search portal Naver Corp. said on Friday that it had received a global certification for its compliance management system fr...

ISS, Glass Lewis urge shareholders to veto activist fund's requests on JB

ISS, Glass Lewis urge shareholders to veto activist fund's requests on JB

Proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. are urging shareholders of JB Financial Group Co., a South Ko...

S.Korea’s NPS taps investment strategy head as NY office chief

S.Korea’s NPS taps investment strategy head as NY office chief

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is slated to undergo a management reshuffle for the first time since Chief Investment Officer Seo...

Kolon Industries showcases hydrogen fuel cell materials at Tokyo Expo

Kolon Industries showcases hydrogen fuel cell materials at Tokyo Expo

Kolon Industries Inc., a Korean manufacturer of chemical and textile products, said on Wednesday that it was exhibiting its hydrogen fuel cell parts...

Global macro investing to revive for more volatile age: M&G

Global macro investing to revive for more volatile age: M&G

The value of investments will fluctuate, which will cause prices to fall as well as rise and investors may not get back the original amount they inv...

Kia unveils flagship EV9 design; world premiere in March

Kia unveils flagship EV9 design; world premiere in March

Kia Corp. on Wednesday showcased its large flagship electric sport utility vehicle EV9 as the No. 2 South Korean carmaker is extending its EV lineup...

SK sells US car-sharing firm Turo stake to earn over $32 mn

SK sells US car-sharing firm Turo stake to earn over $32 mn

South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group exited from Turo, the US top peer-to-peer car-sharing company, to make an estimated return ...

Lotte Fine Chemical, OCI Global join hands for clean ammonia business

Lotte Fine Chemical, OCI Global join hands for clean ammonia business

Lotte Fine Chemical Co., a subsidiary of Lotte Chemical Corp., and Europe’s No.1 clean ammonia producer OCI N.V., or OCI Global, will collabor...

S.Korean biotech NKMax’s unit aims for US IPO

S.Korean biotech NKMax’s unit aims for US IPO

NKMax Co., a South Korean cancer drug maker, is in talks with local and foreign investors in a bid to list its California-based unit NKGen Biotech I...

S.Korea's Krafton, Naver to set up JV for metaverse services in H1

S.Korea's Krafton, Naver to set up JV for metaverse services in H1

Krafton Inc., a leading game developer in South Korea, is slated to establish a joint venture with Naver Z Corp., a metaverse unit of the country&rs...

Kakao, HYBE shares rally on reconciliation but SM shares tank

Kakao, HYBE shares rally on reconciliation but SM shares tank

Investors welcomed the end of a fierce month-long battle between HYBE Co. and Kakao Corp. over control of South Korea’s K-pop pioneer SM Enter...

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