S.Korea's brewery Seoul Jangsu forms marketing tie-up with fashion industry

S.Korea's brewery Seoul Jangsu forms marketing tie-up with fashion industry

With South Korea's traditional milky rice wine makgeolli seeing its second heyday centered on the 20- and 30-something crowds, marketing tie-ups tar...

Korea's LifeSemantics establishes health functional food subsidiary

Korea's LifeSemantics establishes health functional food subsidiary

Digital healthcare company LifeSemantics Co. has entered the health functional food business by creating a new subsidiary, NutraSemantics. The South...

HD Hyundai forms S.Korea's first integrated carbon footprint team in shipbuilding

HD Hyundai forms S.Korea's first integrated carbon footprint team in shipbuilding

South Korea's HD Hyundai Co. has teamed up with domestic shipbuilders and classification societies to form the first integrated "carbon footprint" t...

S.Korea's SK Ecoengineering launches cogeneration platform

S.Korea's SK Ecoengineering launches cogeneration platform

SK Ecoengineering Co., a South Korean engineering company specializing in environmental and energy projects, said on Thursday that it has launched a...

Kolon Industries showcases hydrogen fuel cell materials at Tokyo Expo

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...

Korea to raise young chip engineers for Samsung, SK Hynix

Korea to raise young chip engineers for Samsung, SK Hynix

South Korea plans to nurture more youths specialized in semiconductors at high schools to ease the worsening shortage of high-skilled workers at d...

Pulmuone looks to enter US plant-based convenience food market

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 E&C consortium breaks ground on $7 bn S-Oil Shaheen project

Hyundai E&C consortium breaks ground on $7 bn S-Oil Shaheen project

A South Korean consortium led by Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. has embarked on building 9.26 trillion won ($7 billion) petrochemical fa...

System on chips: Samsung’s new high-stakes foundry business

System on chips: Samsung’s new high-stakes foundry business

Samsung Electronics Co. is setting its sights on system on chips (SoCs) to continue to drive growth in its foundry business amid a protracted slowdo...

S.Korea's builders diversify biz portfolios to waste battery, other sectors

S.Korea's builders diversify biz portfolios to waste battery, other sectors

South Korea's construction companies are exploring other sectors to find new growth engines amid deteriorating profitability in the housing industry...

Concerned about CHIPS Act, Korea says US investment less attractive

Concerned about CHIPS Act, Korea says US investment less attractive

South Korea on Monday expressed concerns about the guidelines of the US Chips and Science Act, saying that some of the conditions the US government ...

S.Korea's Taekwang Industrial acquires ISO 45001 certification

S.Korea's Taekwang Industrial acquires ISO 45001 certification

Taekwang Industrial Co., a textile and petrochemical subsidiary of Taekwang Group, announced on Sunday that it has achieved ISO 45001 certification ...

Samsung’s DRAM market share rises amid industrywide revenue drop

Samsung’s DRAM market share rises amid industrywide revenue drop

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, saw its DRAM market share rise in the fourth quarter of last year despite a sig...

Plant, machinery maker Doosan seeks future from chips, robots

Plant, machinery maker Doosan seeks future from chips, robots

BARCELONA -- South Korea’s plant and machinery powerhouse Doosan Group is seeking its future growth engines from the semiconductor and robot s...

Lotte to produce clean ammonia in US with CF Industries

Lotte to produce clean ammonia in US with CF Industries

Lotte Chemical Corp., a major South Korean petrochemical manufacturer, joined hands with CF Industries Holdings Inc., the world’s largest ammo...

Samsung, SK Hynix face cap on tech level of chips made in China

Samsung, SK Hynix face cap on tech level of chips made in China

WASHINGTON D.C. – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, might be unable to manufacture a...

Dongwon solo bidder for Boryung Biopharma estimated at $385 mn

Dongwon solo bidder for Boryung Biopharma estimated at $385 mn

South Korea’s leading seafood and logistics conglomerate Dongwon Group is seeking to buy local biopharmaceutical company Boryung Biopharma Co....

S.Korea to spur defense sector tech with $1.5 bn R&D investment

S.Korea to spur defense sector tech with $1.5 bn R&D investment

South Korea plans to accelerate growth in the defense industry, a future growth engine of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, by investing more tha...

POSCO ICT to be rebranded as POSCO DX for digital transformation

POSCO ICT to be rebranded as POSCO DX for digital transformation

POSCO ICT Co., the IT services subsidiary of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc., announced on Sunday that it will rebrand itself as POSCO D...

Chip designers in high demand despite industry slowdown

Chip designers in high demand despite industry slowdown

The semiconductor industry is reeling from a chip supply glut amid a broader global economic slowdown. However, as the saying goes, every cloud has ...

S.Korea's battery industry looks for staff fluent in European languages

S.Korea's battery industry looks for staff fluent in European languages

South Korea's battery companies are seeking human resources fluent in the languages and familiar with the cultures of countries where plants are loc...

Vietnam’s rise: An ominous sign for Korean chipmakers

Vietnam’s rise: An ominous sign for Korean chipmakers

Just a few years back, it was Taiwan that was on everyone’s lips in the semiconductor industry.The small East Asian island country, home to th...

S.Korea's extended reality sector forms industry convergence alliance

S.Korea's extended reality sector forms industry convergence alliance

The Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a convergence alliance of the domestic exte...

S.Korea's Kyung Dong Navien expands its business in Central Asia

S.Korea's Kyung Dong Navien expands its business in Central Asia

South Korea's heating systems manufacturer Kyung Dong Navien Co. held a conference for 100 local dealers in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Feb. 10.The con...

Shinhan Financial returns to top in Korea with record NP in 2022

Shinhan Financial returns to top in Korea with record NP in 2022

Shinhan Financial Group Co. reported a record-high net profit of 4.6 trillion won ($3.6 billion) last year, snatching back the crown of South Korea&...

South Korean companies rattled by activist shareholders

South Korean companies rattled by activist shareholders

South Korea’s major companies are under attack by activist shareholders, who are exerting ever-increasing clout over critical corporate decisi...

Dongwon Industries in talks to buy McDonald’s Korea as exclusive suitor

Dongwon Industries in talks to buy McDonald’s Korea as exclusive suitor

Dongwon Industries Co. will discuss a deal with McDonald’s Corp. to buy the latter’s Korean operations in hopes of riding on the renewed...

Industrial Bank of Korea goes all in with Eastern Europe push

Industrial Bank of Korea goes all in with Eastern Europe push

Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) will open an office in Poland in the first half of this year, with analysts saying the bank's president Kim Seong-tae...

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering ends fears over stock overhang

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering ends fears over stock overhang

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a subholding company for shipbuilding, oil refining and machinery conglomerate HD Hyundai Co. ...

Meritz Securities poised to become Korea’s No. 1 for first time

Meritz Securities poised to become Korea’s No. 1 for first time

Meritz Securities Co., once a mid-tier securities firm in South Korea, is expected to command the local market as No. 1 after earning more than 1 tr...

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