HD KSOE buys Doosan Vina for $207.5 mn in green ship push
HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) agreed to buy a full stake in Doosan Vina, the Vietnamese unit of Doosan Enerbility C...
BTS concert films to screen in 2,000 theaters worldwide
BTS is bringing some of their most unforgettable concerts back to life on the big screen, offering fans around the world a chance to relive the exci...
S.Korea’s petrochemical firms to cut capacity on state call for rigorous restructuring
South Korea’s 10 largest petrochemical companies have agreed to restructure their operations, including up to 25% cuts to their naphtha-cracki...
Kep1er, Kid Milli to perform in China, raising hopes of cultural ban easing
South Korean girl group Kep1er and rapper Kid Milli are set to hold concerts in China next month, signaling a potential easing of Beijing’s ye...
Kospi-listed firms underperform in Q2 with gloomy H2 forecast
South Korean firms suffered steeper losses in the second quarter as hefty US import tariffs took a toll, fueling fears of a tougher road ahead as th...
S.Korean President Lee to meet KPop Demon Hunters director Maggie Kang, TWICE
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will meet with Maggie Kang, director of the Netflix animated feature KPop Demon Hunters, along with K-pop girl ...
CJ ENM, Hakuhodo launch music venture to tap global fans
CJ ENM Co., South Korea’s largest entertainment company, has formed a music joint venture with Hakuhodo Inc., a more than century-old Japanese...
NH gains most in Korea’s first-half IB league; Meritz emerges as fast-rising challenger
South Korea’s investment banking hierarchy is in flux after the country’s leading brokerages reported sharply divergent earnings perform...
Capital flows to ETFs reshape S.Korea’s asset management landscape
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are drawing a growing number of South Korean individual investors seeking a broader exposure to equities, accounting fo...
Bill Gates to court Korea’s business titans in Seoul for philanthropy push
Bill Gates, billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder, is heading to Seoul this week to deepen partnerships with South Korea’s corpo...
Korea’s demographic shift to single households: Magnet for global real estate giants, investors
South Korea’s rental housing market is attracting some of the world’s largest property investors, as the country’s shifting demogr...
Yuhan’s lung cancer drug eyes blockbuster sales by 2027
A novel lung cancer therapy developed by South Korea’s Yuhan Corp. is on track to become a global blockbuster drug, with annual sales projecte...
Hyundai, Kia take crown as Saudi Arabia’s best-selling cars in H1
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp.'s subcompact models took the top two spots in Saudi Arabia’s automobile market in the first half of this year ...
Woori Bank opens Austin’s first Korean lender branch as US presence gathers pace
Woori Bank, a unit of Woori Financial Group Inc., South Korea’s fourth-largest financial services provider, has opened a branch in Austin, Tex...
S.Korea cracks down on Chinese color-coated steel plate tariff evasion
South Korea is moving to slap anti-dumping duties on Chinese “fake” color-coated thick steel plates that have been altered after import,...
HMM to buy back $1.5 bn shares, paving way for KDB’s fund recovery
HMM Co., South Korea’s largest shipping firm, will buy back and cancel 2.14 trillion won ($1.5 billion) worth of shares, paving the way for it...
UCK Partners sues ex-employee in Korea’s 1st PE non-compete case
UCK Partners has sued a former senior employee who joined local rival Premier Partners in June, alleging he violated a non-compete clause, in what i...
Daishin, Hanwha seen leading bid for S.Korea’s top real estate investor IGIS Asset
The sale of a controlling stake in South Korea’s top real estate asset management firm IGIS Asset Management Co. is picking up pace, with Dais...
Thank You, Stray Kids: Comeback buzz drives JYP share rally
Stray Kids is turning up the heat ahead of their much-awaited comeback — and JYP Entertainment’s stock is riding the wave.With their fou...
Hana Bank, Vietnam’s BIDV to expand cross-border QR payment services under strategic partnership
Hana Bank, one of South Korea’s leading lenders, said on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with Vietnam's largest state-owned commerci...
BOE risks 15-year US OLED ban in Samsung dispute; Korean display stocks rally
South Korean display makers stand to gain from a possible 15-year US import ban on organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels from China’s BOE...
S.Korea’s Lee to visit Japan next week for talks with Ishiba, resumes shuttle diplomacy
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will travel to Japan next week for talks with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, resuming the so-called shuttle dip...
LG CNS to build AI data center in Vietnam, accelerating Southeast Asia push
LG CNS Co. will build a hyperscale artificial intelligence data center for Vietnam’s state-run telecom giant Vietnam Posts and Telecommunicati...
Korea Investment Partners invests $10 million in Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Korea Investment Partners Co. (KIP), one of South Korea’s largest venture capital and private equity firms, has invested $10 million in Elon M...
South Korea’s EV sales jump, hinting at end to market slump
South Korea’s electric vehicle market is showing signs of recovery after a prolonged slowdown, with both new and used car sales rebounding fas...
YNCC avoids default with $220 mn lifeline from DL Chemical, Hanwha
Yeochun NCC Co. (YNCC), South Korea’s third-largest ethylene maker, has narrowly avoided default as its shareholders – DL Chemical Co. a...
S.Korea-US summit set for Aug. 25 with focus on security, economy
President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea and US President Donald Trump will meet face to face for the first time on Aug. 25 in Washington to discuss a...
Huntr/x’s Golden from KPop Demon Hunters rules Billboard by topping Hot 100 Chart
A fictional K-pop girl group from a Netflix animated film has achieved what few real-world acts have managed – conquering both sides of the At...
After KPop Demon Hunters, it’s the era of K-everything; what’s next?
Global enthusiasm for Korean culture and products has reached an unprecedented pitch, with Internet searches for words starting with the letter K &n...
EQT acquires controlling stake in Remember, Korea’s answer to LinkedIn
Sweden’s EQT Partners, one of Europe’s largest private equity firms, has signed a deal to acquire Remember & Company, the operator o...
