KED's startup news platform Geeks launches revamped website

KED's startup news platform Geeks launches revamped website

Geeks, The Korea Economic Daily’s startup news platform launched in May, launched an upgraded website in Korean on Monday. The new conten...

Samsung unveils gaming experience zone at Selfridges London

Samsung unveils gaming experience zone at Selfridges London

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest chipmaker and a global electronics giant, announced on Sunday it will open a gaming simulator experience ...

KCC's paint selected as World-Class Product for 14 consecutive years

KCC's paint selected as World-Class Product for 14 consecutive years

South Korea's leading chemical and auto parts supplier KCC Corp. said on Thursday that its anti-rust and anti-fouling paints for ships and ceramics ...

LG Chem in $95.5 million drug out-licensing deal with China’s Innovent

LG Chem in $95.5 million drug out-licensing deal with China’s Innovent

LG Chem Life Sciences, the biopharmaceutical unit of LG Chem Ltd., and China’s biotech company Innovent Biologics have entered into a strategi...

Shinsegae chairwoman maintains most expensive house in Korea

Shinsegae chairwoman maintains most expensive house in Korea

South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group Chairwoman Lee Myung-hee has maintained the most expensive house for an eighth straight year in South Kore...

Ace View’s surround view monitoring system works at high speed

Ace View’s surround view monitoring system works at high speed

Ace View Co., a South Korean surround view monitoring system provider, has unveiled a new product that works at driving speeds of as high as 100 km ...

KB Financial included in DJSI for 7 consecutive years

KB Financial included in DJSI for 7 consecutive years

KB Financial Group has been included in the 2022 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for seven years in a row announced by Standard & Poor's Gl...

SK Telecom gets global approval for UAM-interworking tech standard

SK Telecom gets global approval for UAM-interworking tech standard

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. on Thursday said the International Telecommunication Union's Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) approved ...

PCL’s diagnostic kit measures concentration of COVID-19 antibodies

PCL’s diagnostic kit measures concentration of COVID-19 antibodies

PCL Inc., a South Korean in vitro diagnostics device maker, plans to bring two test kits – one that simultaneously detects COVID-19 and influenza infe...

SK Hynix develops world's fastest server DRAM sample

SK Hynix develops world's fastest server DRAM sample

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Thursday it has developed working samples of DDR5 multiplexer combined ranks dual ...

Hyundai Motor sells hydrogen-powered truck Xcient in S.Korea

Hyundai Motor sells hydrogen-powered truck Xcient in S.Korea

Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday said it launched sales of its hydrogen-powered fuel cell truck Xcient Fuel Cell in South Korea.The model is the worl...

JSCO Holdings signs MOA with Philippines' nickel mining company

JSCO Holdings signs MOA with Philippines' nickel mining company

JSCO Holdings said on Thursday that it has signed a comprehensive memorandum of agreement (MOA) with EVE Mining & Development Corporation (EVM) ...

SK On-Ford Motor EV battery joint venture breaks ground in Kentucky

SK On-Ford Motor EV battery joint venture breaks ground in Kentucky

NEW YORK – SK On Co., a leading South Korean battery maker, and Ford Motor Co. have begun building their multi-billion-dollar joint venture in...

Hahn & Co. completes SKC's industrial film unit takeover for $1.2 bn

Hahn & Co. completes SKC's industrial film unit takeover for $1.2 bn

South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Co. has completed a 1.6 trillion won ($1.2 billion) deal to wholly acquire the industrial film business ...

LS Mtron supplys tractors to world's No. 2 agricultural machinery firm

LS Mtron supplys tractors to world's No. 2 agricultural machinery firm

LS Mtron, the industrial machinery and core component arm of Korea's LS Group, on Monday said it concluded a contract worth 500 billion won ($387.4 ...

Hyundai E&C creates world's first children's playground using 3D printing

Hyundai E&C creates world's first children's playground using 3D printing

Hyundai Engineering & Construction said on Thursday it has installed children's playground equipment it made using 3D printing technology at Hil...

Tesla’s Musk names Korea among top candidate sites for Gigafactory

Tesla’s Musk names Korea among top candidate sites for Gigafactory

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday that South Korea is among its top candidates to build in Asia another Gigafactory, the US ele...

South Korea's total fertility rate falls under 0.8 in 3rd quarter

South Korea's total fertility rate falls under 0.8 in 3rd quarter

South Korea's birth rate in the third quarter this year set another all-time low of under 0.8, and the national population consequently declined f...

South Korea aims to build world’s 6th inland base in the Antarctic 

South Korea aims to build world’s 6th inland base in the Antarctic 

The South Korean government announced on Monday that it will build the world’s sixth inland base in the Antarctic by 2030. The Ministry o...

CJ CheilJedang serves up K-food for Qatar World Cup fans

CJ CheilJedang serves up K-food for Qatar World Cup fans

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. said on Tuesday it is operating a Korean food section within the Qatar World Cup’s fan zone, mana...

LG Display develops invisible speaker for automobiles

LG Display develops invisible speaker for automobiles

South Korea's LG Display on Monday said it has developed an in-vehicle sound solution that uses screen vibrations to produce sound, and that the dev...

YouGov ranks Samsung Elec. as world's top brand, ahead of Google

YouGov ranks Samsung Elec. as world's top brand, ahead of Google

Samsung Electronics Co. is the world’s top brand with a score of 127, according to research firm YouGov’s Global Best Brand Rankings for...

Samsung's chipmaking unit raises initial base salary to match SK Hynix's

Samsung's chipmaking unit raises initial base salary to match SK Hynix's

Samsung Electronics Co.'s device solutions (DS) division, which manufactures semiconductors and displays, has raised its initial annual base salary ...

Korea's NPS to get partial tax refund on US real estate sales

Korea's NPS to get partial tax refund on US real estate sales

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) is set to receive a tax refund of 30 billion won ($22.4 million) from the US Internal Revenue Ser...

LG Electronics rolls out cutting-edge mini-LED monitor for surgery

LG Electronics rolls out cutting-edge mini-LED monitor for surgery

LG Electronics on Tuesday said it has unveiled its new mini-LED monitor for surgery at this year's Medica, the world's largest trade exhibition for ...

KAIST invents world's 1st rubber-like printed circuit board

KAIST invents world's 1st rubber-like printed circuit board

South Korea's top science and technology university has invented the world's first printed circuit board (PCB) that bends and stretches like rubber ...

NCSOFT unveils trailer of new shooting game LLL

NCSOFT unveils trailer of new shooting game LLL

NCSOFT Corp. on Monday unveiled the gameplay trailer for LLL, its new shooting game for PCs and consoles to be released worldwide in 2024, for the f...

SK Nexilis develops copper foil for cylindrical batteries

SK Nexilis develops copper foil for cylindrical batteries

South Korea's SK Nexilis, a maker of copper foil for secondary cells under SKC Inc., has achieved a world first with its development of a highly elo...

Korean construction firms boost Saudi Arabia presence with megaprojects

Korean construction firms boost Saudi Arabia presence with megaprojects

RIYADH – South Korean firms are accelerating their efforts to win construction projects from Saudi Arabia as the Middle East’s largest e...

POSCO Chemical completes world's largest cathode materials plant

POSCO Chemical completes world's largest cathode materials plant

POSCO Chemical will soon launch operations at its newly completed factory for cathode materials, the biggest of its kind in the world with an annual...

Organic food chain Chorocmaeul up for sale amid liquidity woes Samsung to unveil 1st triple-folding smartphone by year’s end to rival Huawei’s Mate X2 Tri-Fold IMM Credit closes $700 mn blind credit fund backed by NPS BOK chief warns household debt near tipping point, keeps rates steady Cohen & Steers names Andrew Shin to lead S.Korea institutional business