No subsidy, no problem: Hyundai, Kia make top 10 US list for EV sales

No subsidy, no problem: Hyundai, Kia make top 10 US list for EV sales

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. in the first half of the year were among the top 10 in sales of battery electric vehicles (EVs) in the US despite re...

Alibaba launches express ships to S.Korea as orders surge

Alibaba launches express ships to S.Korea as orders surge

Alibaba.com, China’s largest online marketplace, launched an express cargo ship service between South Korea and China this week to meet a surg...

Road near SK On’s US plant in Georgia named SK Blvd

Road near SK On’s US plant in Georgia named SK Blvd

South Korean battery maker SK On announced on Thursday that a road near its US corporation, SK Battery America's (SKBA) site, has been renamed "SK...

S.Korea files to revoke PCA ruling in favor of Elliott

S.Korea files to revoke PCA ruling in favor of Elliott

South Korea has decided to challenge an international arbitration tribunal’s decision a month ago ordering the Korean government to compensate...

Prestige Biopharma participates in US gov’t Cancer Moonshot

Prestige Biopharma participates in US gov’t Cancer Moonshot

Prestige Biopharma, a Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company with operations in South Korea and the US, announced on Tuesday that it will partici...

K-Pop music album exports hit record high in H1 2023

K-Pop music album exports hit record high in H1 2023

South Korea's K-pop music album exports achieved a new all-time record in the first half of this year, with shipments to the US rising to second p...

SK Signet to supply over 1,000 ultra-fast chargers to US

SK Signet to supply over 1,000 ultra-fast chargers to US

South Korea's electric vehicle (EV) charger manufacturer SK Signet Inc. on Monday said it landed an order to supply at least 1,000 ultra-fast charge...

Nongshim, the ‘Parasite’ food maker, aims big in US

Nongshim, the ‘Parasite’ food maker, aims big in US

Nongshim Co., South Korea’s largest instant noodle maker, is a beneficiary of the success of the Oscar-winning film Parasite as well as the ou...

Ildong Bioscience gets US FDA OK for probiotic raw materials

Ildong Bioscience gets US FDA OK for probiotic raw materials

South Korea's Ildong Bioscience on Thursday said two of its probiotic raw materials received the certification generally recognized as safe (GRAS) f...

Samsung Bioepis enters US market for biosimilars of Humira

Samsung Bioepis enters US market for biosimilars of Humira

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Samsung Bioepis, which was expected to struggle on the US market for biosimilars of Humira, the world's top-...

KAI to ramp up fighter jet share with FA-50 delivery to Poland

KAI to ramp up fighter jet share with FA-50 delivery to Poland

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), the country’s military aircraft manufacturer, started deliveries of fighter jets to Poland in a mo...

American patent trolls target S.Korean companies

American patent trolls target S.Korean companies

Over 80% of American companies that sued South Korean companies for patent infringement last year were non-practicing entities (NPE), or “pate...

Daewoong's Nabota exceeds 600,000 customers in US

Daewoong's Nabota exceeds 600,000 customers in US

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical said on Thursday that its local loyalty program for Nabota (American name: Jeuveau) in the US, a botulinum tox...

EV9 SUV to be Kia’s 1st EV assembled in US

EV9 SUV to be Kia’s 1st EV assembled in US

Kia Corp. will spend over $200 million to transform part of its assembly plant in the US state of Georgia to manufacture its second all-electric SUV...

Samsung ties up with LG Display for 83-inch OLED TV in US

Samsung ties up with LG Display for 83-inch OLED TV in US

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top TV maker, has joined hands with its South Korean rival LG Display Co. for the large organic light-emi...

NHN Commerce acquires Italian luxury brands retailer Ikonic

NHN Commerce acquires Italian luxury brands retailer Ikonic

NHN Commerce, South Korea's major online company NHN Corp.'s shopping platform, announced on Tuesday its acquisition of a 77.8% stake in Ikonic Srl,...

LG Electronics to offer energy-saving services in US

LG Electronics to offer energy-saving services in US

South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. is set to bring its auto demand response (DR) service to the US, utilizing its smart home platform, LG ThinQ, the ...

Korea tops US eco-friendly car import rankings despite IRA disadvantage

Korea tops US eco-friendly car import rankings despite IRA disadvantage

South Korea retained its top spot in exports of eco-friendly vehicles including electric cars to the US in the first quarter despite challenges pose...

LG Energy triples lithium orders from SQM for US benefits

LG Energy triples lithium orders from SQM for US benefits

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, agreed to nearly triple lithium procurement from Sociedad ...

Deal reached on LG-Stellantis battery plant subsidy; construction resumes

Deal reached on LG-Stellantis battery plant subsidy; construction resumes

All construction work at a battery joint venture in Canada between South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. and multinational automaker Stellanti...

Doosan forklifts to be sold under Bobcat brand in US, eventually to Europe

Doosan forklifts to be sold under Bobcat brand in US, eventually to Europe

Doosan Bobcat Inc., the construction and agricultural machine making unit of South Korea’s Doosan Group, will sell its forklifts under the Bob...

IVIM Tech supplies biomicroscope to leading US children’s hospital

IVIM Tech supplies biomicroscope to leading US children’s hospital

South Korea’s IVIM Technology has supplied the world’s first all-in-one intravital microscopy platform that it released last year to a m...

Ontario, S.Korea VC firm to establish $76 mn healthcare fund

Ontario, S.Korea VC firm to establish $76 mn healthcare fund

Canada's Ontario government has joined hands with a South Korean venture capital firm to establish a fund of 100 million Canadian dollars ($75.6 mil...

Lotte Energy Materials aspires to become copper foil leader: CEO

Lotte Energy Materials aspires to become copper foil leader: CEO

South Korea’s Lotte Energy Materials Corp. said on Tuesday that growing demand for reasonably priced electric vehicles will expand the market ...

SK Square, SK Hynix set up $77 million chip investment unit

SK Square, SK Hynix set up $77 million chip investment unit

SK Square Co. and SK Hynix Inc., together with two other South Korean companies, have launched a 100 billion won ($77 million) joint investment unit...

Celltrion Healthcare launches Humira biosimilar Yuflyma in US

Celltrion Healthcare launches Humira biosimilar Yuflyma in US

South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Healthcare on Monday said it launched the day before on the US market Yuflyma, a biosimilar of the ...

Coupang taps former Trump aide for political relations

Coupang taps former Trump aide for political relations

South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. hired a top aide of former US President Donald Trump to expand its political network in Washington and se...

Korea-China battery minerals tie-up mutually beneficial: CNGR chief

 Korea-China battery minerals tie-up mutually beneficial: CNGR chief

China and South Korea stand to mutually benefit by strengthening their partnership in the battery materials business amid tougher US regulations on ...

Hyundai, Kia set fresh H1 sales record in US, beating H1 2021

Hyundai, Kia set fresh H1 sales record in US, beating H1 2021

South Korea’s largest automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and its sister company Kia Corp. posted record first-half-year sales in the US this year, am...

Hanwha Q Cells captures 35% of US solar module market

Hanwha Q Cells captures 35% of US solar module market

Hanwha Q Cells Co., a unit of South Korea’s chemicals-to-construction conglomerate Hanwha Group, retained its leading position in the US resid...

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