Korea's E-Mart shares tumble despite push for profitability

Korea's E-Mart shares tumble despite push for profitability

South Korea’s largest hypermarket chain E-Mart Inc., a unit of a local retail giant Shinsegae Group, suffered a drop in its share prices to a ...

Amkor to top semiconductor packaging sector with better tech

Amkor to top semiconductor packaging sector with better tech

Amkor Technology Inc., the world’s No. 2 semiconductor packaging company, aims to take the sector throne by improving technology competitivene...

SK, Hana Financial groups to jointly develop credit rating model

SK, Hana Financial groups to jointly develop credit rating model

South Korea’s SK Group and Hana Financial Group are jointly developing a next-generation credit rating model for the financially disadvantaged...

YG’s new girl group lifts stock price to decade high

YG’s new girl group lifts stock price to decade high

YG Entertainment Inc., the K-pop label behind global sensation Blackpink, saw its stock hitting the highest point in more than 10 years as a new gro...

LG Electronics' German affiliate gets partner for vehicle front development

LG Electronics' German affiliate gets partner for vehicle front development

ZKW Group of Germany, an automotive lighting and headlight affiliate of LG Electronics Inc., on Thursday said it signed a memorandum of understandin...

LS Group opens LS Dream Center in Hanoi for Korean-Vietnamese families

LS Group opens LS Dream Center in Hanoi for Korean-Vietnamese families

South Korea's LS Group said on Thursday that it has partnered with a domestic non-government organization (NGO) Cooperation and Participation in Ove...

LG Chem in talks with Glenwood to sell off diagnostics unit

LG Chem in talks with Glenwood to sell off diagnostics unit

LG Chem Ltd. is slated for exclusive talks with Seoul-based Glenwood Private Equity to sell off its in vitro diagnostics business, according to biop...

Dongwon Group drops bid to take over McDonald’s Korea

Dongwon Group drops bid to take over McDonald’s Korea

Dongwon Group has canceled its bid to take over McDonald's franchise in South Korea."We reviewed the takeover of McDonald's Korea but our conclusion...

BTS Forest created in Seoul by fans' donations

BTS Forest created in Seoul by fans' donations

“BTS Forest” has been created in Seoul’s Nanji Hangang Park, South Korea’s largest music streaming service Melon announced o...

Hyundai Motor to pay quarterly dividends with record Q1 profit

Hyundai Motor to pay quarterly dividends with record Q1 profit

Hyundai Motor Co. on Tuesday reported its largest-ever quarterly profit, which soared a whopping 86.3% from a year earlier, while unveiling a plan t...

S.Korea’s Woori Financial profit up on interest rate margins

S.Korea’s Woori Financial profit up on interest rate margins

Woori Financial Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest financial holding company, logged growth in a quarterly net profit as larger interest rate...

Korean E-Land unites fast fashion units for China biz growth

Korean E-Land unites fast fashion units for China biz growth

South Korea’s major retailer E-Land Group has consolidated one of its fast fashion brand's operations at home and in China to accelerate growt...

Dongwon Group to establishe new corporation for auto parts logistics

Dongwon Group to establishe new corporation for auto parts logistics

South Korea's Dongwon Group announced on Monday that it will launch a new corporation called "Next Lo Co." on May 1 to strengthen the competitivenes...

Samsung faces $303 mn jury verdict in memory patent lawsuit in US

Samsung faces $303 mn jury verdict in memory patent lawsuit in US

Samsung Electronics Co. lost a semiconductor patent infringement lawsuit filed in the US. The South Korean company received a jury verdict to pay ab...

iMarket Korea, Taylor city in Texas sign MOU for business agreement

iMarket Korea, Taylor city in Texas sign MOU for business agreement

iMarket Korea, South Korean distributor of industrial materials,  said on Friday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with th...

Hyundai ties up with LG, SK for $5.3 bn US EV cell plants

Hyundai ties up with LG, SK for $5.3 bn US EV cell plants

Hyundai Motor Group, the leading South Korean automaker, has joined hands with LG Energy Solution Ltd. and its smaller rival SK On Co. to build elec...

POSCO Holdings opens new R&D center in Pohang

POSCO Holdings opens new R&D center in Pohang

POSCO Holdings said on Thursday that it has opened a headquarters for POSCO N.EX.T Hub, which will lead the R&D efforts for the entire POSCO G...

Samsung’s Lee likely to meet Apple, Google, MS CEOs during US trip

Samsung’s Lee likely to meet Apple, Google, MS CEOs during US trip

 Samsung Group leader Lee Jae-yong will meet with chief executives of leading US companies, including Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook and Google LL...

SK Telecom, SNU Hospital to develop AI diagnosis tool for autism

SK Telecom, SNU Hospital to develop AI diagnosis tool for autism

South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and Seoul National University Hospital have developed an AI-powered diagnosis tool for the early det...

KCCI, Seoul Japan Club forms economic study group

KCCI, Seoul Japan Club forms economic study group

South Korean and Japanese businesspeople form a study group to strengthen economic cooperation between the two countries.The Korea Chamber of Commer...

K-pop group Astro's Moonbin found dead in his apartment

K-pop group Astro's Moonbin found dead in his apartment

Moonbin, a member of K-pop group Astro, has died, South Korean police said on Thursday.According to the police and the music industry, his manager f...

POSCO Group chairman presides over World Steel Association meeting

POSCO Group chairman presides over World Steel Association meeting

Choi Jeong-woo, Chairman of POSCO Group and the World Steel Association, attended the association's first half-regular meeting held in Vienna, Austr...

SK Telecom enters next-generation broadcasting platform market in US

SK Telecom enters next-generation broadcasting platform market in US

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. said on Tuesday that it will sell a next-generation broadcast platform, utilizing mobile edge computing (MEC) technolog...

Hyundai Mobis develops world’s first rollable vehicle display

Hyundai Mobis develops world’s first rollable vehicle display

Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s sixth largest automotive components supplier, has developed a rollable vehicle display, the first of its kind i...

SK Group chairman’s eldest son to play key role at US unit PassKey

SK Group chairman’s eldest son to play key role at US unit PassKey

Chey In-geun, the eldest son of SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, has moved to the South Korean conglomerate’s major US business operations amid...

GS Group's petrochem equipment unit eyes up to $154 mn via pre-IPO

GS Group's petrochem equipment unit eyes up to $154 mn via pre-IPO

GS Entec Corp., a South Korean equipment maker for petrochemical and power plants, is set to raise 150 billion to 200 billion won ($115 million-$154...

LS Group' corporate value soars as EV battery market grows

LS Group' corporate value soars as EV battery market grows

LS Corp., a holding company of South Korea's LS Group, has seen its enterprise value swell by nearly 1 trillion won ($760 million) over the past yea...

Hanwha heir apparent named senior advisor at US energy investor

Hanwha heir apparent named senior advisor at US energy investor

Hanwha Group Vice Chairman Kim Dong-kwan, the heir apparent of the South Korean energy-to-defense conglomerate, has been named a senior advisor at S...

POSCO Group plans talks with former US diplomat

POSCO Group plans talks with former US diplomat

Former US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun will hold talks with Chairman Choi Jeong-woo of South Korea’s POSCO Group.They will discuss...

LG tops in market cap gain, beating Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor

LG tops in market cap gain, beating Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor

The total market value of companies under South Korea’s fourth-largest business group LG increased the most in a year, beating out its bigger ...

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