HD Hyundai, ECO launch US shipbuilding project

HD Hyundai, ECO launch US shipbuilding project

HD Hyundai Co., South Korea's largest shipbuilding group, has kicked off a joint shipmaking project with US partner Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), a...

GM CEO Mary Barra quells Korea exit talk amid mounting auto tariff pressures

GM CEO Mary Barra quells Korea exit talk amid mounting auto tariff pressures

US auto giant General Motors Co. is regarding its South Korean factories as central to its global supply chain, particularly for compact SUVs and el...

LG launches ChatExaone AI beta service, available soon for enterprise use

LG launches ChatExaone AI beta service, available soon for enterprise use

South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group has made its artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatExaone, available to external users, sign...

Stray Kids make K-pop history with landmark stadium show in Germany

Stray Kids make K-pop history with landmark stadium show in Germany

Stray Kids set a new milestone in K-pop history with a solo performance at one of the largest stadiums in Germany, highlighting the unwavering globa...

S.Korea’s most prominent business leader returns with all charges cleared

S.Korea’s most prominent business leader returns with all charges cleared

After nearly a decade spent fighting allegations of corporate wrongdoing, Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong has been acquitted on all ch...

Hanwha-owned burger chain Five Guys Korea up for sale two years after launch

Hanwha-owned burger chain Five Guys Korea up for sale two years after launch

South Korea’s Hanwha Group is seeking to sell the Korean operations of US premium burger chain Five Guys, two years after the brand’s hi...

HYBE sparks summer vibes with BTS live album, TXT comeback, new boy band launch

HYBE sparks summer vibes with BTS live album, TXT comeback, new boy band launch

HYBE Co., a South Korean music powerhouse, is turning up the heat this summer with a wave of major releases, including a live album from its flagshi...

Samsung to launch AI health coach beta in US by end-2025

Samsung to launch AI health coach beta in US by end-2025

NEW YORK – Samsung Electronics Co. will roll out a beta version of AI-powered health coach within the Samsung Health application in the US by ...

Hyundai premieres IONIQ 6 N: Latest motorsport DNA for electric age

Hyundai premieres IONIQ 6 N: Latest motorsport DNA for electric age

In a dramatic showing on the famed hill climb of West Sussex, Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday debuted the IONIQ 6 N, its second high-performance elect...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ plan to build plant in Mexico shelved amid Trump tariffs

Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ plan to build plant in Mexico shelved amid Trump tariffs

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, has abandoned plans to build a new manufacturing plant in Mexico and ...

Kia to make, sell China-launched EV5 in Korea to keep top spot

Kia to make, sell China-launched EV5 in Korea to keep top spot

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, plans to manufacture and sell the EV5, its first China-made all-electric vehicle, at home t...

Korea Investment & Securities, Capital Group eye product launch in Korea

Korea Investment & Securities, Capital Group eye product launch in Korea

Korea Investment & Securities Co. (KIS), a unit of Korea Investment Holdings Co., is exploring new offshore funds for individual investors in co...

Hana Asset launches ultra-low-fee Nasdaq 100 ETF

Hana Asset launches ultra-low-fee Nasdaq 100 ETF

Hana Asset Management Co. will list the “1Q US Nasdaq 100 ETF” on Tuesday, an exchange-traded fund that tracks the Nasdaq 100 index with...

LG Energy Solution, Toyota Tsusho launch battery recycling JV in US

LG Energy Solution, Toyota Tsusho launch battery recycling JV in US

LG Energy Solution Ltd. has set up a battery recycling joint venture with Toyota Tsusho Corp. in the US, deepening the South Korean battery giant&rs...

EQT taps ex-DHK Management CEO to lead S.Korea's real estate push

EQT taps ex-DHK Management CEO to lead S.Korea's real estate push

Swedish asset manager EQT Partners, also the largest private equity firm in Europe, has named David Kim, chief executive of South Korean real estate...

LG CNS forms strategic partnership with robotics startup Skild AI

LG CNS forms strategic partnership with robotics startup Skild AI

LG CNS Co., the information technology service arm of LG Group, said on Tuesday it has formed a strategic partnership with Skild AI to develop AI-dr...

Hyundai Motor-backed Motional names AI veteran Laura Major as CEO

Hyundai Motor-backed Motional names AI veteran Laura Major as CEO

Motional Inc., the autonomous driving joint venture backed by Hyundai Motor Group, has appointed Laura Major, an artificial intelligence and robotic...

Koramco targets $7 bn bet on Korea data centers

Koramco targets $7 bn bet on Korea data centers

Koramco Asset Management Co., South Korea’s leading real estate investment firm, plans to invest 10 trillion won ($7 billion) in domestic data...

Korean financial firms launch global IR blitz to woo foreign capital  

Korean financial firms launch global IR blitz to woo foreign capital  

Chiefs of South Korea’s major financial groups – Shinhan, Woori and iM – are ramping up global investor outreach with new sharehol...

Samsung gears up for foray into space infrastructure industry

Samsung gears up for foray into space infrastructure industry

Samsung Group is stepping up efforts to venture into the space infrastructure industry, a sector analysts say remains a blue ocean where South Korea...

S.Korea’s Naver to launch Silicon Valley venture arm in aggressive AI push

S.Korea’s Naver to launch Silicon Valley venture arm in aggressive AI push

Naver Corp., South Korea’s top internet portal operator, plans to set up a dedicated venture capital arm in Silicon Valley in a move seen as a...

Greystar hires ex-Samsung SRA manager to launch Seoul office

Greystar hires ex-Samsung SRA manager to launch Seoul office

Greystar Real Estate Partners, the largest housing investment firm in the US, has hired Kang Junghwan, former managing director and head of portfoli...

Hyundai Motor, PIF break ground on Saudi Arabia plant

Hyundai Motor, PIF break ground on Saudi Arabia plant

Hyundai Motor Co. has joined forces with the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, to build its first manufactur...

Hanwha's 'Sea Ghost' makes waves as Greece eyes unmanned naval tech

Hanwha's 'Sea Ghost' makes waves as Greece eyes unmanned naval tech

GEOJE, South Korea – Under a slate-grey sky at the quiet port of Jangmok on South Korea’s southern coast, a sleek, 12-meter vessel slipp...

Now, slim is in – and Samsung aims to be No. 1 with Galaxy S25 Edge

Now, slim is in – and Samsung aims to be No. 1 with Galaxy S25 Edge

With the advent of mobile AI, the performance arms race among smartphone makers is reaching diminishing returns, as some market analysts put it.The ...

BYD’s Atto 3 overtakes Tesla’s Model Y as best-selling EV in South Korea

BYD’s Atto 3 overtakes Tesla’s Model Y as best-selling EV in South Korea

China’s BYD Co. has dethroned Tesla Inc. in South Korea with its compact sport utility vehicle, the BYD Atto 3, becoming the best-selling impo...

Coupang’s Q1 revenue up; quarterly dip signals rising competition

Coupang’s Q1 revenue up; quarterly dip signals rising competition

Coupang Inc., South Korea’s largest e-commerce platform, extended its year-on-year sales growth with an 11.1% increase to post $7.9 billion in...

BMW surpasses Mercedes in Korean sales for 1st time in 10 years

BMW surpasses Mercedes in Korean sales for 1st time in 10 years

The top five imported car brands in South Korea underwent a major shake-up last year. BMW overtook Mercedes-Benz in sales for the first time in a de...

Celltrion unveils cancer medicine to expand new drug pipelines

Celltrion unveils cancer medicine to expand new drug pipelines

South Korea’s leading biosimilar drug developer Celltrion Inc. on Sunday unveiled an anticancer medicine to expand new pipelines and accelerat...

Hyundai to launch 42 new cars to cope with Trump tariffs, EV slowdown

Hyundai to launch 42 new cars to cope with Trump tariffs, EV slowdown

Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-largest automaker, plans to unveil 42 new models, including hybrids of existing cars, next year to cope...

IMM joins $600 mn fund for K-beauty unicorn Goodai Global in M&A drive Blackpink’s Jump music video achieves 100 mn YouTube views Seoul signals agricultural market access on tariff talks table amid intensifying US trade pressure Korea’s top four financial holding firms post stellar Q2 profit on won, non-interest gains KB Asset poised to buy Signature Tower in Seoul for over $700 mn