NCSOFT unveils trailer of new shooting game LLL

NCSOFT Corp. on Monday unveiled the gameplay trailer for LLL, its new shooting game for PCs and consoles to be released worldwide in 2024, for the f...

SK Nexilis develops copper foil for cylindrical batteries

South Korea's SK Nexilis, a maker of copper foil for secondary cells under SKC Inc., has achieved a world first with its development of a highly elo...

Korean construction firms boost Saudi Arabia presence with megaprojects

RIYADH – South Korean firms are accelerating their efforts to win construction projects from Saudi Arabia as the Middle East’s largest e...

POSCO Chemical completes world's largest cathode materials plant

POSCO Chemical will soon launch operations at its newly completed factory for cathode materials, the biggest of its kind in the world with an annual...

LG Display unveils world’s first high-resolution stretchable display

LG Display Co., a major South Korean display panel maker, said on Tuesday it has developed the world’s first full-color stretchable display th...

Blockchain-based messenger 'Block Chat' debuts

South Korea's Blockchain Labs, which developed the Coov app for electronic certification for vaccination against COVID-19, on Tuesday said it has re...

Intensify 'friend-shoring' to boost foreign direct investment: Baldwin

Global businesses are forecast to suffer supply chain disruptions next year amid worsening geopolitical risk, such as the Russia-Ukraine war and pro...

SK Nexilis bolsters ties with Polish, Korean cities for sustainable growth

South Korean copper foil producer SK Nexilis Co. on Nov. 7 signed an MOU with the authorities of two cities — Jeongeup, Korea, and Stalowa Wol...

Samsung, LG gear up for launch of 8K gaming monitors

Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s two largest TV makers, are bracing for the impending arrival of a next-generati...

Samsung Elec's brand value rises to $87.7 billion

Samsung Electronics' brand value has broken the $80 billion mark. Korea's flagship company saw such value grow in double digits for the second ...

NPS considers new investment in global real estate

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is open to new investments in overseas real estate, the pension fund’s American real estate...

Singapore PE firm proposes KT&G spin off ginseng biz

A Singaporean private equity firm has proposed a number of measures to KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, including a sp...

Korea's Samsung Biologics signs $296 mn CMO deal with GSK

South Korea’s Samsung Biologics Co. has signed a $296.1 million deal to supply biopharmaceutical products to UK-based multinational pharma gia...

NPS emerges as savior of Korea’s ailing won currency

The South Korean state-run National Pension Service (NPS) has been spotted selling dollars for won, supporting the ailing local unit, as the world&r...

Hyundai unveils Korea’s first heavy-feed petrochemical plant

Hyundai Chemical Co. on Wednesday held an official ceremony of completion of South Korea’s first heavy-feed petrochemical complex (HPC), desig...

Samsung Biologics opens the world's largest CDMO factory

South Korea’s Samsung Biologics Co.’s new biopharmaceuticals plant launched operations on Tuesday, a move expected to widen the gap betw...

Hyundai’s NEXO crossover tops world’s hydrogen vehicle market

Hyundai Motor Co.'s NEXO crossover has become the world’s best-selling hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) in the first eight months of...

SK Hynix hikes use of locally produced neon gas for chip manufacture

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it will significantly raise the use of locally produced neon, a ...

Hyundai Heavy's KSOE expected to turn to black in Q3

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE), under Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, is forecast to have turned to the black for the firs...

LG Display holds digital art exhibition in London

South Korea’s LG Display Co. is holding a digital art exhibition in London for works created on its organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels...

Samsung Display debuts world's first 17-inch slidable display PC

South Korea’s Samsung Display Co. announced the world’s first 17-inch slidable display PC prototype at the Intel Innovation developer co...

IGIS Asia, Quadreal to form JV for warehouse development in Korea

IGIS Asia Investment Management Pte., the Singapore-based subsidiary of South Korea’s largest real estate manager IGIS Asset Management, and V...

S.Korea to introduce advanced supercomputer by 2024

South Korea will introduce a high-performance supercomputing system by 2024, more than 24 times faster than the current model, a government-run rese...

Hyundai Group unveils purpose-built vehicle for airport pickup

Hyundai Motor Group has unveiled the interior design and user experience technologies for its purpose-built vehicles (PBVs) as the top South Korean ...

S.Korea forecast to have world's oldest population by 2070

South Korea is expected to become the world’s most elderly country with about half of its population aged 65 or older by 2070, the government ...

Samsung leader Lee’s latest role: Special envoy for World Expo 2030 bid

As South Korea is serious about hosting the World Expo 2030, the country’s top business leaders will be given new roles: Leading the governmen...

Hyundai CEO says on track for hydrogen-fueled NEXO’s new model

Hyundai Motor Co. is on track to develop a revamped model of its hydrogen fuel car NEXO, its chief executive said on Wednesday, as the South Korean ...

LG Chem to build carbon nanotube Plant 4 for EV batteries

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s chemicals giant, is set to build the world’s largest single-line carbon nanotube (CNT) manufacturing plant i...

LG Electronics to debut world’s largest 97-inch OLED TV at IFA 2022

LG Electronics Inc. will unveil the world’s largest 97-inch organic light-emitting diode TV at the upcoming electronics show in Germany, a mov...

Lotte to support Korean SMEs via exhibitions in Berlin, New York

Lotte Group, South Korea’s fifth-largest conglomerate, is set to boost the global sales channels of some 200 Korean small and medium-sized ent...