Singapore-based Qoo10 acquires South Korean e-tailer WeMakePrice
The Singapore-based e-commerce platform Qoo10 has acquired South Korea's online shopping site WeMakePrice, making Qoo10 fourth in domestic online co...
S.Korea's NPS increases stake in Lotte Tour Development
South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS) has increased its stake in Lotte Tour Development Co. to 6.07%, according to an announcement by Lotte T...
SK C&C partners with Storm Ventures to discover promising B2B startups
South Korean IT services company SK C&C announced on Wednesday a partnership with American venture capital firm Storm Ventures to discover and c...
South Korea's Kosdaq Global Index set to add more stocks
Financial investment sources on Wednesday said Korea Exchange on March 31 conducted a regular review on listing more companies on the Kosdaq Global ...
SeAH rolls out S.Korea's first 24-inch STS steel pipe production line
South Korea's SeAH Steel Corp. through an expansion has the nation's largest plant for stainless steel (STS) welded steel pipe measuring 60.9 cm (24...
South Korea groans under snowballing national liabilities
South Korea’s liabilities ballooned last year following heavy fiscal spending related to the COVID-19 pandemic to buttress growth in Asia...
Maeil cracks China’s alternative milk market with Starbucks deal
South Korea’s Maeil Dairies Co. has jumped into China’s alternative milk market, worth $17 billion in 2022, by supplying Almond Breeze B...
Time for South Korea's answer to the US battery subsidy act
The latest guidelines on US subsidies for electric vehicles under the Inflation Reduction Act come as a relief in every sense to South Korean batter...
LG Energy tops global EV battery market excluding China
South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. in January and February maintained its No. 1 position on the global market for electric vehicle (EV) batteries...
MBK Partners eyes China’s local consumption: Letter to investors
Private equity giant MBK Partners focused on defending its portfolio last year, especially Chinese companies during the lockdown, while being active...
U.S., South Korea Vie Over Extradition of Crypto Fugitive Do Kwon
The U.S. and South Korea are both seeking to extradite captured crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon from Montenegro, authorities in the tiny European nation...
Lotte Shopping: Resurrected in Indonesia after death in China
JAKARTA – On a hot spring day in March, Lotte Mart’s Gandaria City Mall hypermarket was as bustling with shopping Indonesians as usual.I...
South Korean beef poised for export to Malaysia by end-April
South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on Tuesday the successful conclusion of negotiations with Malaysia, allowing...
Samsung, SK seek dialogue with China at Boao Forum
BEIJING – The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) is expected to serve as a venue for the world’s two largest memory chipmakers -- Samsung Electro...
NHN Commerce chosen as imported goods supplier by China's Douyin
NHN Commerce, South Korea's e-commerce platform, announced on Monday that NHN Accommate, its Chinese subsidiary, has been chosen as a supplier of im...
Domestic duty-free sales surpass 1 trillion won in February
Domestic duty-free sales in South Korea increased by 36.7% in February compared to the previous month, due to the resumption of short-term visas for...
Samsung's Lee visits growth driver MLCC China plant
Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee has chosen Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co.'s new multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) plant in Tianjin as ...
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...
Jury still out on Korean chipmakers’ tech upgrades in China
When the US Commerce Department announced the guardrail clauses on the CHIPS and Science Act earlier this week, South Korea’s government offic...
S.Korean crypto fugitive Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro
The fugitive South Korean cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon, responsible for the more-than-$40 billion crash in the global virtual currency market last y...
S.Korea's CGBio exports $8 mn filler to Australia, New Zealand
CGBio, a South Korean bio-regenerative medical company, announced on Thursday that it has signed a contract to export its hyaluronic acid (HA) fille...
SK On, EcoPro, China’s GEM to jointly build precursor factory
South Korea’s electric vehicle (EV) battery major SK On Co. will build a precursor plant at home with a Korean partner, EcoPro Co., and China'...
South Korea’s births fall to record low in January
South Korea’s births fell to a fresh low in January, while the number of deaths reached its record high, statistics data shows, signaling an a...
Samsung, SK Hynix look to China exit plans as growth stunted
Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, are in quandary over their growth strategies in China fo...
LG Chem supplies RO filters for Chinese lithium extraction project
South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. has supplied reverse osmosis (RO) filters for a project to extract lithium from China's largest salt lake.The company on ...
CGBio inks export deal for hyaluronic acid fillers with Chinese distributor
CGBio, a South Korean bio-regenerative medical company, has signed an export deal with Shanghai Feiting Trading Co., a Chinese medical device distri...
Will S.Korean games benefit from China’s deregulation?
China is loosening its grip on foreign online games with approvals on 27 titles, raising hopes that South Korean publishers will expand their presen...
Wave Lifestyle Tech signs MOU with Saudi gov't to expand robot business
Wave Lifestyle Tech, a South Korean foodtech robot company, said on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia’...
S.Korea's FutureChem gets approval for phase 3 clinical trials in China
South Korean radiopharmaceutical development company FutureChem Co. announced on Thursday that China's National Medical Products Administration (NMP...
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...
