GS25 becomes No. 1 convenience store chain in southern Vietnam

South Korean convenience store chain GS25 announced on Thursday that it has become the top operator in southern Vietnam, surpassing rivals US' Circl...

K-pop girl group NewJeans tops US Billboard 200

South Korean K-pop girl group NewJeans topped the US Billboard 200 chart with their second mini-album "Get Up," since its debut a year ago. Acc...

Baskin-Robbins stands out in melting Korean ice cream market

Global ice cream chain Baskin-Robbins, the top ice cream seller in South Korea, is solidifying its market position with localization despite the cou...

Kia America’s new normal: Record car sales month after month

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, has been dismissed as the weaker sibling or smaller sister firm of Hyundai Motor Co., the c...

LabGenomics plans to buy 4 to 5 more CLIA labs in US by 2027

LabGenomics Co. will advance into the US diagnostics market with laboratories regulated by the country’s Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amend...

K-pop group aespa to premiere ‘Better Things’ single in LA

K-pop girl group aespa will hold a concert "aespa LIVE TOUR 2023 - SYNK: HYPER LINE" at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, US, on August 13, their...

Samsung Bioepis seeks to buy Biogen biosimilar unit

Samsung Bioepis Co., a biopharmaceutical research and development unit under South Korea’s Samsung Group, seeks to buy a biosimilar business d...

Korea exports down the most in 3 years; BOK may keep rates

South Korea’s exports declined at their steepest pace in more than three years last month, data showed on Tuesday, adding to expectations that...

K-pop powerhouse SM to launch US office with Kakao

K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment Co. and Kakao Entertainment will jointly launch an office in the US later this year to boost their global business...

Super-large screens account for one third of Samsung’s TV sales

Samsung Electronics Co. announced that one out of every three of its Neo QLED and QLED TVs sold in South Korea between January and July this year fe...

LG’s front-load washer selected as best by Consumer Reports

LG Electronics Inc.'s front-load washers have seized the top four spots in the US consumer review conducted by Consumer Reports, earning the title o...

LG Energy Solution converts 56% of electricity into renewable energy

South Korea’s lithium-ion battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. on Monday released a report containing the company’s environmental, soci...

Gencurix joins US gov't Cancer Moonshot project

South Korean cancer molecular diagnostics company Gencurix Inc. announced on Monday that it joins US President Joe Biden's cancer-conquering project...

SKC, Toyota Tsusho tie up for N.America battery materials

SKC Ltd., a South Korean chemicals maker, has joined hands with the trading unit of Japanese top automaker Toyota Group for the electric vehicle bat...

Samsung TV Plus to feature free FIFA+ channel content

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Monday that it will offer the FIFA+  channel's content for free on Samsung TV Plus, expanding the sports offeri...

Battery recycling firms aim for 90% lithium recovery rates

A growing number of South Korean companies – from battery materials makers to power facilities builders – are jumping into the waste bat...

Bertis Pan-omics Analysis Solution, Systems (PASS) launched in US

Bertis, a company specializing in the development of proteomics-based precision medicine technology , announced on Monday the launch of PASS (Pan-om...

S.Korea's HD Hyundai chairman: We can’t rely on bad profits

Kwon Oh-gap, chairman and co-CEO of South Korea's HD Hyundai Co., has ordered his company not to rely on “bad profits” gained from tempo...

N.Korea's GNI lower than S.Korea's minimum monthly wage in 2022

It is estimated that North Korea's economic growth rate recorded -0.2% last year. This marks the third consecutive year of negative growth since the...

S.Korea in June sets post-COVID-19 monthly high in foreign visitors

The (South) Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) on Friday said 961,000 foreign visitors came to the country last month, a 321.9% jump from June last ye...

Hyundai Motor eyes EV charger alliance in US to take on Tesla

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. are planning to join BMW, General Motors, Honda Motor, Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis to collectiv...

Raphas microneedle passes US FDA's cGMP inspection

South Korea's microneedle maker Raphas Co. announced on Wednesday that it has passed the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) inspection by ...

Samsung’s new gaming monitor gets rave reviews overseas

Samsung Electronics Co.'s new premium gaming monitor "Odyssey OLED G9" has recently received consecutive praise from major global tech media outlets...

S.Korea relies heavily on Samsung Elec for R&D spending: FKI

South Korea’s corporate expenditures on research and development grew 1.7 times from 2013 to 2021, much slower than such spending by the US an...

Huons’ overseas market expansion leads to record-high sales

South Korea's Huons Group is continuing its record-breaking performance while expanding its influence in the global market.According to Huons Group ...

HD Hyundai Infracore to sell excavator on TV home shopping

South Korea’s HD Hyundai Infracore Co. will be the nation’s first to sell an excavator, a piece of heavy equipment weighing nearly two...

S.Korea’s fashion brand Handsome expands overseas portfolio

South Korean fashion company Handsome Corp. is accelerating expansion of its portfolio for licensing foreign brands.The company on Monday said it co...

MyRealTrip launches restaurant reservation service in Japan

South Korea's travel app MyRealTrip announced that it partnered with the Japanese accommodation and restaurant reservation platform Ikyu, becoming t...

Samsung SDI, Stellantis agree to build 2nd US battery plant

South Korea’s Samsung SDI Co. and the Netherlands-based automaker Stellantis N.V. have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to build the...

S.Korea's NGeneBio establishes US corporation NGeneBioAI

South Korean medical diagnostic company NGeneBio Co. announced on Monday that it has established an artificial intelligence (AI) precision diagnosti...