CJ CheilJedang to provide dumplings for Qantas Airways’ in-flight meals

CJ CheilJedang to provide dumplings for Qantas Airways’ in-flight meals

CJ CheilJedang Corp. expands its K-food territory with Australia's largest airline.CJ CheilJedang announced on Tuesday that it will introduce Bibigo...

Koramco puts Hyundai Motor Securities building on market

Koramco puts Hyundai Motor Securities building on market

Koramco Asset Management Co. has put the Hyundai Motor Securities building in Seoul's Yeouido business district (YBD) on the market. The deal is exp...

BMW, GS, LG open EV charging hub lounge in Seoul

BMW, GS, LG open EV charging hub lounge in Seoul

BMW Group Korea said on Thursday it opened the electric vehicle (EV) Charging Hub Lounge with GS Group and LG Group in Hoehyeon-dong, Seoul.The Char...

Nation With Lowest Birthrate Is Rocked by Soaring Sales of Dog Strollers

Nation With Lowest Birthrate Is Rocked by Soaring Sales of Dog Strollers

SEOUL—After pushing a stroller to a park near her home in a Seoul suburb, Kang Seung-min plopped down on a bench. Then an elderly woman ap...

LG’s telecom unit looks to lure foreigners with more K-pop-themed shops

LG’s telecom unit looks to lure foreigners with more K-pop-themed shops

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, is set to lure foreign customers by opening K-pop-themed stores in the country's major sho...

LG Display unveils stretchable display clothing

LG Display unveils stretchable display clothing

South Korea's LG Display Co. on Thursday showcased the futuristic clothing and bag concepts featuring stretchable displays at the 2025 S/S Seoul Fas...

Seoul breaks ground on Mt. Namsan gondola facility

Seoul breaks ground on Mt. Namsan gondola facility

The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Thursday held a groundbreaking ceremony for gondola facilities that will shuttle passengers from the base of Mt...

CJ Olive Young, Musinsa rivalry heats up in Brooklyn of Seoul

CJ Olive Young, Musinsa rivalry heats up in Brooklyn of Seoul

South Korea’s top beauty chain CJ Olive Young Corp. is turning up the heat against Musinsa to contain the rise of the country’s No. 1 on...

Hyundai Motor Group to nurture young talent in Indonesia

Hyundai Motor Group to nurture young talent in Indonesia

Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday that it held the inaugural ceremony for the first cohort of H-Jump School Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia, the...

Toyota chairman to visit Seoul, discuss hydrogen cars with Hyundai’s Chung

Toyota chairman to visit Seoul, discuss hydrogen cars with Hyundai’s Chung

Akio Toyoda, chairman of Japan’s top automaker Toyota Motor Corp., will fly to Seoul in late October to meet with Hyundai Motor Group Chairman...

KT&G to sell Korean office tower to Pebblestone for $90 mn

KT&G to sell Korean office tower to Pebblestone for $90 mn

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, is set to sell an office tower in South Korea to a local asset manager for an estimat...

LG CNS, Seoul National Univ. to establish DX talent program

LG CNS, Seoul National Univ. to establish DX talent program

South Korea's LG CNS Co. signed an agreement with Seoul National University's Department of Industrial Engineering on Tuesday to develop talent in d...

Samyang Roundsquare to recruit foreign interns

Samyang Roundsquare to recruit foreign interns

Samyang Roundsquare, the holding company of South Korea's Samyang Group, said on Friday that it recruits foreign interns with the potential for full...

BGF Retail’s CU looks beyond Kazakhstan deep into Central Asia

BGF Retail’s CU looks beyond Kazakhstan deep into Central Asia

Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country 27 times the area of South Korea, did not have any modernized convenience stores until early this year.The count...

SK Telecom releases Liberation Day remastering video

SK Telecom releases Liberation Day remastering video

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. restored footage and audio from around the time of the country's liberation in 1945, allowing modern audiences to share...

IGIS puts NPS-backed building in Seoul on sale for $294 mn

IGIS puts NPS-backed building in Seoul on sale for $294 mn

IGIS Asset Management Co., one of Asia's largest real estate investment firms, is seeking to sell a building backed by South Korea’s National ...

Seoul Semiconductor overtakes Japan’s Nichia as top backlight LED maker

Seoul Semiconductor overtakes Japan’s Nichia as top backlight LED maker

South Korea’s Seoul Semiconductor Co. has overtaken Japan’s Nichia Corp. as the world’s top backlight light-emitting diode (LED) d...

Jeju Air seeks M&A, igniting race for top place in Korea's LCC market

Jeju Air seeks M&A, igniting race for top place in Korea's LCC market

Jeju Air Co., a leading South Korean low-cost carrier (LCC), will likely seek the acquisition and merger of a rival small airline operator amid inte...

Korea's warehouses suffer oversupply, rising vacancies

Korea's warehouses suffer oversupply, rising vacancies

Logistics centers in Seoul suburbs are suffering oversupply and rising vacancy rates, according to a report from South Korean commercial real estate...

S.Korea’s July household debt grows at fastest pace in over 3 years

S.Korea’s July household debt grows at fastest pace in over 3 years

South Korea’s household debt is expanding at the fastest pace in over three years, clouding growth in Asia’s fourth-largest economy and ...

SM Entertainment, S.Korean startup Jienem to build K-Pop hotel

SM Entertainment, S.Korean startup Jienem to build K-Pop hotel

South Korea's residence operator startup Jienem announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Kreation Music Rights (K...

NH to buy Donuimun D Tower for $650 mn

NH to buy Donuimun D Tower for $650 mn

South Korea’s NongHyup Financial Group Inc. (NH Financial) is poised to acquire landmark office building Donuimun D Tower for about 900 billio...

Orion to collaborate with Vietnam on potato seed

Orion to collaborate with Vietnam on potato seed

South Korea’s Orion Corp. announced on Monday that it is strengthening its collaboration with the Institute of Agro-Biology, the Vietnam Natio...

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 ...

Hanwha, Univ. of Surrey to team up for space business

Hanwha, Univ. of Surrey to team up for space business

Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s major aerospace and defense system developer, announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understan...

Korea to build startup campuses in Seoul, Busan by 2026

Korea to build startup campuses in Seoul, Busan by 2026

South Korea will establish startup hubs in Seoul and Busan, the country’s largest port city, by the first half of 2026 to build Asia’s N...

Seoul prime office deals at 10-year low on rate uncertainty

Seoul prime office deals at 10-year low on rate uncertainty

Prime office transactions in Seoul hit a 10-year low in the second quarter due to delayed fundraising amid uncertainties of the central bank’s...

HD KSOE partners with University of Michigan to foster US ship engineers

HD KSOE partners with University of Michigan to foster US ship engineers

South Korea’s HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) has joined hands with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (UM) a...

Goldman Sachs taps ex-Morgan Stanley MD as Korea co-head

Goldman Sachs taps ex-Morgan Stanley MD as Korea co-head

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said on Monday that it has appointed Ahn Jae-hoon, former managing director at Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as country co-h...

Brokerage firm Hanyang Securities' 11.3% stake up for sale

Brokerage firm Hanyang Securities' 11.3% stake up for sale

South Korea’s Hanyang University Foundation has decided to sell 11.3% of common shares and all the preferred stocks it holds in brokerage arm ...

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