LG Elec to increase partnerships for business expansion

LAS VEGAS -- LG Electronics Inc., the world’s top home appliance maker, is seeking more partnerships with global leading companies and increas...

Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. kept their fifth place in sales in the US market for the second consecutive year. Despite production setbacks due to...

Caliverse, KT Alpha join hands to add K-pop to metaverse

Caliverse, a subsidiary of Lotte Data Communication, said on Thursday that it has signed an agreement to expand the range of immersive metaverse con...

Korean law firm creates startup investment association

The Law Office of Choi & Lee, a small-sized law firm, became Korea's first law firm to invest in startups. In one of the most difficult times wh...

Privatization of Korea’s top container line HMM to gain traction

South Korea’s move to privatize container shipping line HMM Co. to recover taxpayer money is gaining traction as government officials start lo...

Shipbuilding expected to lead manufacturing sectors in export growth

South Korea's shipbuilding exports this year are expected to jump 76.1% from last year to $32.4 billion to lead all major manufacturing industries i...

S.Korea's automotive unit Kolon Mobility Group reborn as separate entity

South Korea's Kolon Mobility Group has been launched with Lee Kyu-ho, the great grandson of the Kolon Group founder Lee Won-man, as co-CEO. Formerly...

WeMade signs partnership with Chinese digital asset exchange

WeMade said on Wednesday that it would sign a non-fungible token (NFT) partnership with Zhongchuanyuezhong Cultural Development Co. which operates a...

S.Korea’s IPO market sours as Kurly postpones listing

South Korea’s initial public offering market has soured as gourmet food delivery platform Kurly Inc. delayed its listing amid deteriorating in...

LG Elec, Magna expand partnership into self-driving tech

LAS VEGAS – LG Electronics Inc., the world’s top home appliance producer, expanded its partnership with Canadian car parts maker Magna I...

Novarex, Riman sign agreement to jointly develop health-functional food

South Korea's health functional foods company Novarex and cosmetics company Riiman Korea met to promote the health-functional foods business togethe...

Korean LCCs cancel China-bound flights due to COVID-19

Toughened COVID-19 testing requirements on Chinese travelers will likely dent hopes for South Korea's low-cost airlines to recover from three years ...

Korea's coffee brand Ediya to open 1st overseas branch in Guam

Ediya Coffee, South Korea's home-grown low-priced coffee brand, will open a branch in Guam in the first half of this year to seek growth through exp...

NeoImmuneTech, US think tank to develop treatment for acute radiation syndrome

Biopharmaceutical company NeoImmuneTech has grabbed an opportunity to supply new drug candidates in development as strategic items to the US gover...

S.Korea fines Tesla $2.2 mn for alleged false advertising

South Korea’s antitrust body has decided to impose a fine of 2.9 billion won ($2.2 million) on Tesla Inc., the world’s top electric vehi...

S.Korea Inc. ramps up cash reserves amid economic woes

South Korean companies are rushing to raise cash from the beginning of the new year amid growing concerns over a global economic downturn and market...

Korea proposes bigger tax breaks for chipmakers, key industries

The South Korean government plans to raise tax breaks for facility investments by big companies, including chipmakers, to as much as 25% following P...

S.Korea's Daehan Green Power invests in energy superstation biz

South Korea's Daehan Green Power has entered the green hydrogen sector, a new growth engine, through an energy super station project.The company on ...

Applied Materials injects $40 mn in glass substrate maker Absolics

Applied Materials Inc., a global leading equipment and software supplier to semiconductor makers, has invested 51 billion won ($40.2 million) in Abs...

HLB confirms ophthalmic disease treatment in phase 3 clinical trials

South Korea’s biomedicine startup HLB Therapeutics Co. said on Monday that its Neurotrophic Keratopathy (NK) treatment RGN-259 proved effectiv...

KT, E-mart warm up S.Korea's corporate bond market

South Korea's KT Corp. and E-mart Inc. are the frontrunners in the new year's corporate bond demand forecasts, attracting attention on if they can b...

Naver, Kakao to hold off M&As to pursue profits

Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp., South Korea’s two leading online platforms, will put on hold acquisition-oriented growth strategies and instead p...

S.Korea's gaming industry reaches $15.7 billion in scale

South Korea's game industry in 2021 saw sales of over 20 billion won ($15.7 billion), ranking the country fourth on the global market. The Kore...

S.Korea ranks as 6th most powerful country, beating Japan

TOKYO - South Korea ranked the world’s sixth most powerful country, beating Japan, while the peninsular nation was far behind its neighbor in ...

SK Earthon teams up with British company Azuli in CO2 capture

SK Earthon has joined hands with Azuli, a British company that specializes in carbon capture and storage (CCS), to search for business opportunities...

S.Korea's top 2 LPG importers E1 and SK Gas cut supply price

South Korea's two major importers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), E1 Corp. and SK Gas Corp., have both cut their supply price of LPG in the first ...

Samsung Elec seen as 2023 top outperformer in Korea

Samsung Electronics Co. topped the list of stocks expected to outperform the South Korean stock market in 2023 on the prospect of a rebound in the m...

Korea's Traders Wholesale Club launches paid membership program

S.Korea's big-box store Traders Wholesale Club officially launched its paid membership program called Traders Club on Sunday.The store has secured...

Qatar, UAE spend most on Korean games, pushing back China, US

Middle Eastern countries have emerged as a blue ocean for the South Korean game industry, ranking first in both per-capita usage amount and playtime...

Shinhan Bank to completely scrap mobile, online balance transfer fees

Beginning on New Year's day, Shinhan Bank started waiving all balance transfer fees to other bank accounts and automated transfer fees for its mobil...