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Hyundai Motor Co. has scrapped a plan to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fueled plant to power its main production lines in South Korea due to a...

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group will establish an investment company in the US state of Delaware to expand its presence in the North America...

POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korea’s top steel maker, and UK electric vehicle startup Britishvolt Ltd. have signed an initial agreement...

Washington D.C. has joined the three US states of California, Virginia and New York to designate Nov. 22 “Kimchi Day,” and has acknowled...

SK Materials Co., an industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Inc., and Japanese chemicals company Showa Denko K.K. have agr...

Hyundai Motor Co. on Wednesday unveiled the design of the IONIQ 6, its first all-electric sedan on an exclusive EV platform, with which South Korea&...

Aptiv PLC, one of the world’s big three autonomous driving technology companies, has agreed to invest 50 billion won ($39 million) in StradVis...

Venture capital, or the business of investing in innovative private companies with growth potential, is a local endeavor most of the time.While this...

Samsung SDI Co., South Korea’s major battery maker, inked a $6.6 billion contract to secure 60% of its needs for elecfoil, an ingredient for c...

South Korea’s petrochemical companies will build power plants for the first time in their history to meet their rising energy needs on a stabl...

South Korea’s three battery players – LG Energy Solution Ltd., SK On Co. and Samsung SDI Co. – are getting a tailwind from the fal...

The eight-day South Korean truck drivers’ strike that ended last week has laid bare one long-standing but often ignored problem at the country...

Kia Corp.'s Sportage plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) was recently recognized as the best model in the segment by two influential German auto ...

Veganism is one of the hottest buzzwords in the food and beverage industry this year. F&B juggernauts are racing to win the hearts and tast...

LG Electronics Inc.’s artificial intelligence head Lee Hyun-chul flew to Seattle this week to lure AI talent from Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.c...

  LianBio, a Nasdaq-listed biotechnology company, has joined hands with MediRama Co., a South Korean clinical development firm, to help promis...

Leading South Korean battery maker Samsung SDI Co. is ramping up facilities for cylindrical batteries to supply its products to Tesla Inc. and oth...

South Korea’s major cosmetics makers are trying to lure more customers in North America as the K-beauty boom has been weakening in China, the ...

POSCO Holdings Inc., the investment holding company of South Korea’s largest steelmaker, and SK On Co., the battery unit of SK Innovation Co.,...

Lotte Group is preparing to kickstart its biopharmaceutical business as a contract development and manufacturing company (CDMO) by building a new pl...

Voice Caddie, a South Korean maker of golf course rangefinders and related golf products, and Daol Private Equity are jointly acquiring SuperStroke,...

South Korea’s leading webtoon production startup Kenaz was taken over by a domestic hedge fund as it aims to reduce dependence on major platfo...

South Korea’s petrochemical companies are set to halt operations as the work stoppage by unionized truck drivers stretched into an eighth day ...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. announced Monday it will invest 580 billion won ($451 million) to manufacture battery cells for Austin-based Tesla, Inc.The ...

When French carmaker Groupe Renault dropped Samsung from its South Korean unit's company name in March, it aroused worries that the firm may not be ...

SEOUL—The U.S. and South Korea are responding to North Korea’s unprecedented number of missile tests this year with a greater show of ...

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), South Korea’s aerospace manufacturer, has agreed to join forces with Lockheed Martin Corp. to enter the...

SK Innovation Co., the refinery and chemicals unit of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK, is accelerating a shift toward eco-friendl...

SV Investment, a South Korean venture capital and private equity firm, is looking to launch a $100 million bio fund in the US as a growing number of...

Terraform Labs' founder and CEO Do Kwon has reemerged on Twitter, after making his account private for a couple of days. Two weeks after Terra&...