S.Korean biotech GI Innovation's IPO draws tepid market interest

South Korean biotech GI Innovation Inc. is slated to debut on the local public market at less than half of its pre-IPO investment value, facing luke...

Hyundai Motor opens Habitat One exhibition in Seoul

Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Sunday that it will host a "Habitat One" exhibition at Hyundai Motor Studio Seoul in Gangnam, Seoul, showcasing a fut...

Samsung gets $191 million profit valuation from investment in Rainbow Robotics

Samsung Electronics Co. is found to have earned 250 billion won ($191 million) in profit valuation from its investment made two months ago in Rainbo...

Korean ETP market doubles amid increasing distrust of fund managers

South Korea’s exchange-traded product (ETP) market has doubled in four years as more investors preferred their own trades to discretionary inv...

Tmap Mobility, SWM to collaborate in autonomous driving area

Tmap Mobility Co., a Korean navigation app company, announced on Friday a business agreement to promote cooperation in autonomous driving technology...

Hyundai Motor, Kia to research EV energy with three universities

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. will form a research ecosystem for sustainable electric vehicle (EV) energy with Seoul National University, Chung-An...

Korea EV cell makers unveil new products to expand market

South Korea’s electric vehicle battery makers on Wednesday unveiled prototypes of new products, especially lithium iron phosphate (LFP) models...

EQT sees huge potential in security services for S.Korean SMEs

The digital security market is rapidly growing in South Korea, one of the world’s fastest-aging countries and amid its soaring labor costs.&nb...

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...

F&F bets on China's beauty market under MLB brand

F&F Co., a South Korean retailer of Western brands such as Major League Baseball (MLB), has been rapidly penetrating China's cosmetics market, w...

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...

S.Korea’s jobs in February grow at slowest pace in 2 years

South Korea’s jobs grew at the slowest pace in two years last month partly owing to a slowdown in the country’s manufacturing sector due...

S.Korea's individual investors buy bonds this year worth $5.3 billion

Individual investors in South Korea this year have made net bond purchases, or the difference between the buying and selling amounts, worth over 7 t...

Korea Ginseng Corporation opens new R&D center in California

Korea Ginseng Corporation (KGC), a leading producer of Korean ginseng products, said on Wednesday that it has opened a new research and development ...

Korean 3D tech firm Koh Young looks to US medical robot market

Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean developer of 3D optical inspection devices used in electronics manufacturing, is slated to enter the US me...

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

Hanwha Energy sells Spanish solar plant project to Irish firm

South Korean energy company Hanwha Energy Corp. said on Wednesday that it had sold a solar power plant project in Spain to Amarenco Solar, an Irish ...

S.Korea to host Asia's largest advertising festival for 1st time since 2007

Seoul in October will host Asia's largest advertising festival AdAsia. The organizers of this year's event aim to host more than just a conference a...

Boeing’s Korean supplier targets UAV market with guided weapons

Boeing Co.’s leading South Korean contractor aims to develop unmanned aerial vehicles with guided weapons, given the rapidly growing military ...

S.Korean sovereign wealth fund KIC to set up Mumbai office

Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) has kicked off procedures to open a Mumbai-based office later this year, The Korea Economic...

CJ Group adopts AI-based copywriter for producing marketing content

South Korea's CJ Group on Tuesday said it will develop and run a personalized artificial intelligence (AI) copywriter that automatically produces ma...

Governor of Louisiana visits Kumho Tire HQ in Seoul

South Korea's leading tire manufacturer Kumho Tire Co., Inc. announced on Monday that Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards visited its headquarters i...

Hyundai to boost India presence via takeover of GM plant

Hyundai Motor Co., the leading South Korean carmaker, is set to expand its presence in India with a takeover of General Motors Co.’s plant in ...

SK Networks renames its EV charger unit to SK Electlink

SK Networks Co., the general trading and rental arm of South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate SK Group, said on Monday that it has changed t...

Pulmuone looks to enter US plant-based convenience food market

Pulmuone, a leading South Korean producer of plant-based foods such as tofu and bean sprouts, is trying to expand the K-food territory in the global...

Hyundai L&C targets China’s interior materials market

Hyundai L&C, a South Korean building materials company under the Hyundai Department Store Group, said on Sunday that it has entered the Chinese ...

SK Ecoplant targets European waste battery recycling market

SK Ecoplant Co., its Singaporean subsidiary TES-AMM, and domestic eco-friendly business and secondary battery materials leader Ecopro Co. are poised...

DB HiTek sees capacity utilization rate rise to 80%

South Korea's semiconductor foundry company DB HiTek Co. last month saw its capacity utilization rate rise to the mid-80% level thanks to rising dem...

Number of commercial building transactions in Seoul hits all-time low

The number of commercial and office building transactions in Seoul hit an all-time low in January.Realty Planet, a big data-based commercial real es...