Bill Gates strengthens ties with Samsung, SK, HD Hyundai on energy, biotech, philanthropy projects

Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder-turned-philanthropist, has stepped up his engagement with South Korea’s corporate titans, meeting the hea...
Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder-turned-philanthropist, has stepped up his engagement with South Korea’s corporate titans, meeting the hea...
CJ ENM Co., South Korea’s largest entertainment company, has formed a music joint venture with Hakuhodo Inc., a more than century-old Japanese...
SK Innovation Co.’s sale of its 50% stake in Boryeong LNG Terminal has drawn strong interest from domestic and international private equity fu...
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., one of the world’s leading shipbuilders, has secured its first-ever maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) co...
The prime office market in core business districts in Seoul is expected to remain strong, said Savills Korea chief, citing limited new supply and th...
BTS’s first live act album Permission to Dance on Stage – Live debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart dated Aug. 2, accordi...
South Korea’s LIG Nex1 Co. will lead development of the country’s next-generation missile defense system, beating out longtime rival Han...
HYBE America Co., the US subsidiary of South Korea's entertainment titan HYBE Co., will produce a K-pop-themed film in collaboration with Paramount ...
HD Hyundai Co., South Korea's largest shipbuilding group, has kicked off a joint shipmaking project with US partner Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), a...
Celltrion Inc., South Korea’s leading biosimilar drug developer, is poised to reap nearly 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion) in revenue this year a...
Ultium Cells LLC, a battery joint venture between South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. and General Motors Co., will upgrade its battery cell ...
Samsung Electronics Co. is supplying a new high-performance image sensor featuring nanoprism technology to China’s Xiaomi, as the South Korean...
South Korea’s Hyundai Glovis Co. is poised to become the world’s first shipping company to deploy artificial intelligence-based autonomo...
NEW YORK – Samsung Electronics Co. plans to release its first triple-folding smartphone by the end of this year to fend off growing competitio...
Rhee Chang-yong, governor of the Bank of Korea (BOK), warned on Thursday that mounting household debt is now undermining both private consumption an...
Shinsegae Property, a subsidiary of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group, on Tuesday unveiled a 600 billion won ($438 million) investment agree...
Samsung Heavy Industries Co., a major South Korean shipbuilder, has signed a preliminary agreement worth 869.4 billion won ($635 million) with an Af...
Hanwha Life Insurance Co. has become the first South Korean insurance firm to advance into the overseas banking sector by securing a controlling sta...
South Korea’s years-long bid for developed-market status has suffered yet another setback after global index provider MSCI Inc. declined to ad...
Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. has emerged as a surprise contender in a race to acquire a roughly 40% stake in Kakao Mobility Corp., the o...
Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s most valuable company, is convening its most senior executives this week to plot its path back to the t...
Genesis, Hyundai Motor Co.'s premium brand, is expanding its European footprint to four additional countries –France, Spain, Italy and the Net...
South Korea’s once domestically focused automakers are making significant inroads into the global defense sector, with a string of recent cont...
Kakao Mobility Corp., which runs South Korea’s most popular ride-hailing app, Kakao T, has clinched a deal to build a future mobility infrastr...
Hanwha Ocean Co. is ramping up efforts to win Poland's highly competitive next-generation submarine project, worth around 3 trillion won ($2.2 billi...
About half of the office buildings in Seoul’s major business districts are over 30 years old, falling short of demand for modern and high-end ...
United Arab Emirates’ sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Co. and Goldman Sachs are set to invest a combined $700 million in Kakao Mobil...
Harman International Industries Inc., wholly owned by Samsung Electronics Co., has acquired Masimo Corp.’s audio business for $350 million, a ...
South Korea’s pharmaceutical exports are on course to surpass $10 billion this year, underscoring the country’s growing clout in the glo...
South Korea has proposed forming a consortium with Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam to jointly assess the feasibility of investing in the $45 billion Alask...