IMM puts Hyundai LNG Shipping on sale

IMM put Hyundai LNG Shipping, South Korea’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker operator, on sale in a predicted $1.7 billion deal.IMM Priv...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics aims to take lead in MLCC market

South Korea-based electronic components maker Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. is looking to take lead in the multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) mar...

Samsung shares struggle as big strategic decisions still await Lee

Shares of Samsung Electronics Co. have been trapped in a boxed range since the start of the year, dashing retail investors’ hope that the tech...

LG Chem to power China battery plants with 100% renewable energy

South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. says it is powering its two battery component plants in China with 100% renewable energy purchased from Chinese p...

SK Bioscience to kick off phase 3 vaccine trials

SK Bioscience Co. has received approval from South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) for phase 3 clinical trials of its COVID-19...

CJ Cheiljedang posts record-high earnings in Q2

South Korea's food giant CJ Cheiljedang Corp. posted record-high earnings in the second quarter of this year, breaking its own record from the first...

Kakao to strengthen subscription services after Q2 results

Kakao Corp. this year has reported the highest second-quarter earnings in company history.Its regulatory filing on Aug. 6 posted an operating profit...

SK Hynix to set up US NAND firm led by Intel’s senior vice president

SK Hynix that took over Intel Corp.’s NAND memory chip business plans to set up a new company in the United States. Intel’s senior vice ...

Korean companies’ race heats up in $2.8 tn global wind farm markets

The global offshore wind power generation equipment market is heating up with cut-throat competition among South Korean companies. The country&rsquo...

Celltrion to enter clinical trials of new COVID-19 treatment

South Korean biosimilar maker Celltrion Inc. will launch the first-phase clinical trials of its new COVID-19 treatment candidate next month, followi...

Daewoong Pharmaceutical aims to top $4 bn in sales by 2027

South Korea-based Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. is hoping to achieve 5 trillion won ($4.4 billion) in sales by 2027, meaning that the company aims to ...

Kolon Industries posts strong Q2 results with growth in all key areas

Kolon Group’s industrial materials maker Kolon Industries Inc. saw a quarterly operating profit over 100 billion won ($87 million) for the fir...

Krafton IPO draws lukewarm demand from retail investors

Korea’s major game developer Krafton Inc’s much-anticipated IPO subscription has closed by only drawing a muted response from investors....

POSCO partners with Australia’s Roy Hill for carbon neutrality initiatives

South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO and Australia’s major iron ore supplier Roy Hill have strengthened their existing partnership to cond...

TiumBio acquires stake in SK Plasma to beef up R&D for rare diseases

South Korea-based biopharmaceutical company TiumBio is set to acquire 30 billion won ($26 million) worth of shares in SK Plasma, a blood product com...

Korea's sole AI chip designer takes on automotive chip market

South Korea-based semiconductor intellectual property provider Openedges Technology Inc. has come into the limelight with global automaker Hyundai M...

Metaverse platform Maxst makes strong debut on Kosdaq

South Korea-based metaverse platform Maxst Co. made a strong debut on the country’s tech-heavy junior bourse Kosdaq on July 27 with its share ...

SK, China's Joyvio to launch $90 mn alternative food fund

SK Inc., the investment arm of South Korea's SK Group, will launch a 100 billion won ($90 million) fund jointly with Joyvio Group, a unit of Chinese...

IMB Dx eyes platform to detect stage 1 cancer with single draw of blood

IMB Dx Inc., a South Korean biotechnology startup focusing on diagnostic devices, plans to develop a platform that can detect early-stage cancer wit...

Korea Shipbuilding delivers dismal Q2 loss on higher steel plate prices

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE), a leading South Korean shipbuilder, on Wednesday posted a dismal quarterly operating loss ...

Korean PEFs' 2020 investments, exits at record highs

Private equity firms registered in South Korea posted their largest-ever amount of both investments and divestments in 2020 which were almost balanc...

Samsung looks to acquire bio company, reviews botox maker Hugel

Samsung Group is looking to buy a biopharmaceutical company as the top South Korean business conglomerate is resuming merger and acquisition activit...

Korea Inc. rush to sell property, new shares to fund new business

South Korea’s major companies are rushing to secure cash to fund new business. Some have sold or securitized property, while others issued n...

7brau becomes Korea's second craft brewery en route to IPO

South Korea-based Seven Brau Co., or 7brau, is poised to become the country's second craft brewery to make a trading debut, following the footsteps ...

LG Chem challenges top latex player Kumho with aggressive expansion

South Korea’s top chemical maker LG Chem Ltd. has vowed to leapfrog crosstown rival Kumho Petrochemical Co. to become the world’s top la...

Celltrion, Samsung Bioepis anticipate increased biosimilar sales in Europe

South Korean biosimilar companies such as Celltrion Inc. and Samsung Bioepis Co. are likely to see their sales hike by tens of millions of dollars...

Korean battery SMEs rush for money to expand capacity

South Korean rechargeable battery-related companies are jumping into capital markets to raise money for capacity expansion as the fast-growing ele...

Kakao Pay eyes August listing, seeks to raise near $2 bn

South Korea-based Kakao Pay Corp. is set to make a trading debut on the country's main bourse next month -- just a week after its sister company Kak...

HYBE CEO steps down to focus on music production

BTS agency HYBE’s founder Bang Si-hyuk will resign from his position as CEO to focus on music production. HYBE said that Bang will remain as c...

COVID-19 blues? Pandemic makes SD Biosensor Korea’s top-grossing bio firm

Multinational biopharmaceutical companies have dominated the world’s diagnostics market for years. However, the coronavirus pandemic, which st...