South Korea set to abolish financial investment gains tax: Yoon

South Korea set to abolish financial investment gains tax: Yoon

South Korea plans to abolish capital gains taxes on financial investments to revitalize the lackluster domestic financial market and help individual...

Samsung, SK Hynix join forces with foreign rivals to win AI chip war 

Samsung, SK Hynix join forces with foreign rivals to win AI chip war 

South Korea’s two chip giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. are expected to further deepen ties with rivals and customers from aro...

S.Korean refiners’ race for EV lubricants heats up

S.Korean refiners’ race for EV lubricants heats up

South Korean major refiners are upping the ante to win the market for electric vehicle lubricants and liquid coolants for heat management amid the r...

CJ CheilJedang opens online B2B section

CJ CheilJedang opens online B2B section

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. introduced a business-to-business (B2B) section CJ The Market for Biz on its e-commerce website CJ The ...

Taeyoung files for debt workout; offers to sell stake in KKR JV

Taeyoung files for debt workout; offers to sell stake in KKR JV

South Korea’s Taeyoung Group, saddled with 5.6 trillion won ($4.4 billion) in debt and loans it has guaranteed, filed for a debt workout progr...

Food tech market emerges as IT firms' new battleground

Food tech market emerges as IT firms' new battleground

The food technology market is set to become the new battleground for tech giants and startups as they race to develop the world's most customized an...

Korean game developers expedite global conquest

Korean game developers expedite global conquest

South Korea’s major game developers NCSOFT Corp., Nexon Co. and Netmarble Corp. plan to roll out new games for overseas players next year in a...

Grandeur regains Korean sedan crown after two-year hiatus

Grandeur regains Korean sedan crown after two-year hiatus

Hyundai Motor Co.'s Grandeur mid-to-large-sized sedan is poised to reclaim its crown as the best-selling Korean car in the domestic passenger car se...

HS Ad, Coupang to co-work for retail media advertising

HS Ad, Coupang to co-work for retail media advertising

South Korea’s HS Ad Inc. announced on Thursday that it will collaborate with the domestic e-commerce giant Coupang for data-based digital mark...

Campbell Lutyens taps ex-KIC PE chief as Korea head

Campbell Lutyens taps ex-KIC PE chief as Korea head

Campbell Lutyens & Co. Ltd., a UK private equity advisory firm, has tapped sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) former PE he...

CJ CheilJedang to launch Excycle Basak Chip in global market

CJ CheilJedang to launch Excycle Basak Chip in global market

South Korean food company CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Thursday that it introduced its Excycle Basak Chip, a snack born from their in-house ven...

Boryung, HK inno.N to co-market Kanarb, K-CAB

Boryung, HK inno.N to co-market Kanarb, K-CAB

South Korea’s pharmaceutical companies Boryung Corp. and HK inno.N announced on Wednesday that they will start co-marketing for their respec...

Chip cycle hits rock bottom but uncertainty lingers: Chey

Chip cycle hits rock bottom but uncertainty lingers: Chey

The global semiconductor market has hit "rock bottom" but uncertainties remain high amid growing protectionism and lingering concerns about China&rs...

Watchmaker TAG Heuer launches direct operations in S.Korea

Watchmaker TAG Heuer launches direct operations in S.Korea

Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer S.A. is set to launch direct operations in South Korea, the world’s seventh-largest luxury market in terms of sales...

S.Korean drone exports quadruple from goal

S.Korean drone exports quadruple from goal

South Korean drone exports surged to $1.11 million in 2023, exceeding the government's target by more than four times, fueled by strong demand for d...

SUVs: Name of the game in 2023 South Korean auto market

SUVs: Name of the game in 2023 South Korean auto market

Back in the 1970s, when simply having a car was a status symbol in South Korea, a four-door passenger sedan was the car of choice. And Hyundai Motor...

ToolGen gets FDA approval for TGT-001 as ODD

ToolGen gets FDA approval for TGT-001 as ODD

South Korean genome editing developer ToolGen Inc. announced on Monday that its application for orphan drug designation (ODD) of the gene correction...

New Samsung, LG laptops drive industry shift toward on-device AI

New Samsung, LG laptops drive industry shift toward on-device AI

Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are unveiling new artificial intelligence-powered laptops next month, joining an industry move to in...

Korea's agro-food exports reach $8.3 bn milestone in just 11months

Korea's agro-food exports reach $8.3 bn milestone in just 11months

South Korea's agricultural and food exports hit a record high in 2023, fueled by strong demand for instant noodles, strawberries, and other staples....

S.Korea to spend $2.3 bn to quadruple robot market by 2030

S.Korea to spend $2.3 bn to quadruple robot market by 2030

South Korea’s public and private sectors will together invest more than 3 trillion won ($2.3 billion) by 2030 to nearly quadruple the domestic...

Korea's NPS taps Jun Ahn as real estate investment head

Korea's NPS taps Jun Ahn as real estate investment head

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, appointed Jun Ahn (Ahn Jun-sang) as its real estate inv...

Hankook prepared to defend MBK Partners’ takeover bid: Chairman Cho

Hankook prepared to defend MBK Partners’ takeover bid: Chairman Cho

Cho Hyun-bum, chairman of Hankook & Company Co., the holding firm of South Korea’s top tire maker Hankook Tire & Technology Co., said ...

SeAH Wind bags $1.1 bn wind turbine monopile order in UK

SeAH Wind bags $1.1 bn wind turbine monopile order in UK

South Korean steelmaker SeAH Steel Holdings Corp. said on Thursday its UK subsidiary SeAH Wind Ltd. has won a £900 million ($1.1 billion) orde...

Hyundai-invested SES to provide Li-Metal battery B samples, eyes UAM

Hyundai-invested SES to provide Li-Metal battery B samples, eyes UAM

SES AI Corp., a high-performance battery maker backed by several global automakers such as GM and Hyundai Motor Co., has moved one step closer to co...

AI, cloud to rule video surveillance market in 2024: Hanwha Vision

AI, cloud to rule video surveillance market in 2024: Hanwha Vision

Hanwha Vision Co., formerly Hanwha Techwin, expects the global video surveillance market to undergo a major upgrade with the development of artifici...

New 2024 E-Class soon to arrive in Korea, land of Mercedes-Benz

New 2024 E-Class soon to arrive in Korea, land of Mercedes-Benz

As with the launch of every new E-Class, the flagship model of luxury German car brand Mercedes-Benz, the phrase “evolution, not revolution&rd...

Home&Shopping opens exclusive section in Vietnam K-Market

Home&Shopping opens exclusive section in Vietnam K-Market

South Korea's Home&Shopping announced on Friday that it opened its exclusive section in the K-Market in Vietnam. The company aims to support the...

Unwavering whiskey fad in Korea, held up by mass-market spirits

Unwavering whiskey fad in Korea, held up by mass-market spirits

The whiskey hype, which started during the COVID-19 pandemic, shows no sign of receding in South Korea, and the latest craze, mainly driven by affor...

Doosan Robotics eyes top spot in cobot market after Oct IPO

Doosan Robotics eyes top spot in cobot market after Oct IPO

SUWON – South Korea’s Doosan Robotics Inc. is aiming for the top spot in the collaborative robot market excluding China, zooming in on t...

LG H&H’s sales surges 300% on Qoo10 in 6 months

LG H&H’s sales surges 300% on Qoo10 in 6 months

South Korea’s LG H&H Co. announced on Thursday that its sales in November this year in Megawari, a shopping event organized by Qoo10, th...

Shinsegae, Hana Financial, Bain Capital to finance $438 mn Starfield Cheongna Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman courts Korean AI startups as Riyadh, Abu Dhabi vie to build tech hubs K Shipbuilding up for sale as Korean shipyards ride new boom Samsung to buy US health tech firm Xealth in digital health push Korean waste management firm Koentec put on market for $730 mn