The Turning Point

A consortium led by electric bus maker Edison Motors Co. has been named the preferred buyer of South Korea’s troubled sport utility vehicle ma...

When Cheil Industries, a former chemical unit of South Korea’s largest conglomerate Samsung Group, decided to hive off a business unit that ma...

South Korean shipbuilders, brimming with heavy order backlogs, are turning their focus to high-value and eco-friendly vessels for new orders as the ...

South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO is returning even stronger from the pandemic-caused economic slowdown, with an all-time high quarterly ...

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. said on Thursday it is turning its main home appliance plant into a smart factory, which improves productivi...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dampened South Korea's growth potential between this year and the next by 0.2 percentage points to its historic low of 2.0...

South Korea’s online content platform KidariStudio Inc. will likely attract 50 billion won ($43 million) from China’s ByteDance Ltd., th...

SILICON VALLEY -- In a digital world where data theft is growing rapidly, hackers who turn their lives around to help in the fight against cybercrim...

Leading private equity firms, including Bain Capital, KKR & Co. and MBK Partners, appeared to have turned to an exit mode in South Korea this ye...

South Korean conglomerates have been reaching out to D.CAMP, the country's largest non-profit foundation for startups, to get in touch with domestic...

The contract prices of memory chip prices are hovering around multi-year high levels, fanning the view that the global semiconductor market is enter...

Shares of E-Mart Inc., South Korea’s largest retailer, are rallying after the company bought an extra stake in Starbucks Korea to control two-...

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, on Tuesday posted its highest quarterly profit and sales in nearly three years on ...

Kurly Inc., the operator of South Korea's online grocery delivery service Market Kurly, has canceled a US listing plan to resume its domestic IPO pr...

South Korea's SK Innovation Co. is tapping private equity firms to sell up to a 49% stake in SK Global Chemical Co. after the chemical raw materials...

South Korean material makers are boosting their efforts to go green as they increasingly adopt eco-friendly technologies for raw materials such as c...

The world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker KT&G Corporation is rapidly widening the global reach of its e-cigarette products, which have beco...

South Korea’s art market is facing the biggest boom since the global financial crisis, drawing wealthy investors and art enthusiasts alike. Se...

South Korea’s coal power companies are facing tighter scrutiny for debt financing as they are increasingly shunned by financial investors amid...

Hyundai Motor became the key beneficiary of South Korean institutional investors' heavy buying on the local bourse this month as the global chip sho...

South Korea’s major conglomerates SK Group and Lotte Group have joined hands to strengthen their foothold in the fast-growing hydrogen sector....

Hyundai Motor Co.’s Santa Fe hybrid has earned higher ratings than Toyota Motor Corp.’s Highlander, one of its strongest rivals, in an e...

South Korea’s biosimilar and pharmaceutical companies are looking at a growing chance of emerging as a global hub for manufacturing vaccines f...

A seasoned investment banker of Korean origin, David Kim, has turned his eyes to rising startups that have yet to receive attention and began to int...

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. said on Thursday it expects its loss-making auto parts business to turn to profit in the second half of this...

LG Display Co., a major South Korean display panel maker, has been in the red for years, weighed by subdued panel prices amid a supply glut caused b...

For Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., South Korea’s third-largest steelmaker, Companhia Siderurgica do Pecem steel mill in Brazil, commonly known as CSP...

Hyundai Motor Group has unveiled a plan to build high-speed electric car charging infrastructure across the country as the South Korean auto giant s...

Korean investment bankers are more visible on Wall Street than ever before. Between 2010 and 2020, some 120 bankers, of Korean origin, landed covete...

South Korea’s benchmark stock index closed above the 3,000 mark for the first time on Jan. 7, powered by sectors such as telecoms and financia...