KEPCO, EVN to promote new power business in Vietnam

KEPCO, EVN to promote new power business in Vietnam

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), the South Korean state-run utility company, and Vietnam Electricity (EVN) have agreed to collaborate on new busi...

SK Ecoplant builds rooftop solar panels at Samil Vina in Vietnam

SK Ecoplant builds rooftop solar panels at Samil Vina in Vietnam

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company, said on Tuesday it has completed building rooftop solar panel...

Shinhan Financial units to reside under one roof in Vietnam

Shinhan Financial units to reside under one roof in Vietnam

Shinhan Financial Group Co. is upping the ante in the Vietnamese financial market to further widen the gap with rivals as the country’s leadin...

Hyundai Motor releases Casper Electric teaser images

Hyundai Motor releases Casper Electric teaser images

Hyundai Motor Co. on Tuesday released a teaser image of the electrified model of its first city sports utility vehicle (SUV) The Casper Electric.T...

HD KSOE gets $100 mn order for two PC ships

HD KSOE gets $100 mn order for two PC ships

South Korea's HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) announced on Friday that it has recently signed a contract with a Europ...

Daesang to scale up meal kits, kimchi production in Vietnam

Daesang to scale up meal kits, kimchi production in Vietnam

Daesang Corp., South Korea’s leading food maker, said on Monday its two Vietnamese operations have each completed their second plant in the co...

Line Games to launch The Play of Genesis in Taiwan, Hong Kong

Line Games to launch The Play of Genesis in Taiwan, Hong Kong

South Korea's Line Games Corp. announced on Friday that it signed a publishing agreement with Vietnam's tech giant VNG for the mobile game The Play ...

SK On invests in Yuilrobotics for its US battery plants

SK On invests in Yuilrobotics for its US battery plants

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery producer, is slated to invest in South Korean robot automation system developer ...

Webcash Global, BC Card Vietnam partner on B2B fintech

Webcash Global, BC Card Vietnam partner on B2B fintech

Webcash Global, an affiliate of South Korea's Webcash Co., announced on Tuesday that it has recently signed a business agreement with BC Card Vietna...

GS25 opens 300th store in Vietnam

GS25 opens 300th store in Vietnam

South Korean convenience store chain GS25 said on Sunday that it opened its 300th store in Vietnam. This is the milestone since it entered th...

Cosmax develops smart color matching AI system

Cosmax develops smart color matching AI system

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's largest cosmetics manufacturer specializing in original design manufacturing (ODM), built a makeup product development ...

HL Mando, Kakao Mobility to develop autonomous parking robots

HL Mando, Kakao Mobility to develop autonomous parking robots

HL Mando Corp., an electric vehicle and self-driving system developing unit of South Korea's HL Group, announced on Thursday that it signed a busine...

Woori Bank offers internship for SE Asian students in S.Korea

Woori Bank offers internship for SE Asian students in S.Korea

South Korea's Woori Bank announced on Tuesday that it is recruiting interns targeting Southeast Asian students studying in Korea.This program aims t...

MedInTech attracts $14.6 mn series B investment

MedInTech attracts $14.6 mn  series B investment

MedInTech Inc., South Korea's medical smart endoscopes startup, announced on Monday that it attracted a series B investment of 20 billion won ($14.6...

SKC to build world's top biodegradable plastic plant in Vietnam

SKC to build world's top biodegradable plastic plant in Vietnam

SKC Ltd., a chemicals arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group, said on Sunday its biodegradable material unit has broken g...

Samsung Welstory completes new Vietnam logistics center

Samsung Welstory completes new Vietnam logistics center

South Korean food and beverage company Samsung Welstory announced on Thursday that it completed a new logistics center with a cold chain system in B...

S.Korea’s Lotte Card injects $68 mn into Vietnamese unit

S.Korea’s Lotte Card injects $68 mn into Vietnamese unit

Lotte Card Co., South Korea’s No. 5 credit card issuer, has injected $68 million into its Vietnamese unit to expand its business in the Southe...

Korean brokerages' foreign profits up on IB, bond trading

Korean brokerages' foreign profits up on IB, bond trading

South Korean brokerage firms expanded their net profits from overseas operations last year, backed by increased gains from their investment banking ...

LG Chem to supply switchable glass films to Webasto

LG Chem to supply switchable glass films to Webasto

LG Chem Ltd. is venturing into the automotive smart glass film market as it has won an order to supply its switchable glazing films to German auto p...

Korea’s Lotte sells Lotte Glory Properties Shenyang amid US-China dispute

Korea’s Lotte sells Lotte Glory Properties Shenyang amid US-China dispute

South Korea’s retail giant Lotte Group has signed a deal to sell a theme park project in Shenyang, China – its latest move to pull out o...

Lotte Global Logistics, Megvii to collaborate AI logistics

Lotte Global Logistics, Megvii to collaborate AI logistics

South Korea's Lotte Global Logistics announced on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Megvii Technology, a Chinese arti...

Woori Financial opens DinnoLab Vietnam Center

Woori Financial opens DinnoLab Vietnam Center

South Korea's Woori Financial Group announced on Wednesday that it has opened the DinnoLab Vietnam Center in Hanoi.DinnoLab is a program by Woori ...

Samsung releases 2024 lineup of smart monitors

Samsung releases 2024 lineup of smart monitors

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that it released its 2024 lineup of smart monitors, focusing on enhancing home life usability.The new pr...

S.Korean gov’t selects six overseas cities for K-City Network

S.Korean gov’t selects six overseas cities for K-City Network

The South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on Wednesday that it selected six cities including Indonesia's Jakarta, Vi...

Paldo completes second factory in Vietnam

Paldo completes second factory in Vietnam

South Korea’s food and beverage company Paldo announced on Tuesday that it completed the construction of its second factory in Vietnam.Paldo d...

Korean unicorns’ failed global expedition causes growth concern   

Korean unicorns’ failed global expedition causes growth concern   

Woowa Brothers Corp. and Viva Republica Inc., South Korea’s most valuable unicorns, have pulled the plug on some of their overseas businesses ...

Lotte Rental launches driver-inclusive rental service in Vietnam

Lotte Rental launches driver-inclusive rental service in Vietnam

Lotte Rental Co., South Korea's largest car rental firm, announced on Monday that it has launched a "Vietnam Driver-inclusive Rental Car."The servic...

Samsung to deploy smart home services in Miami

Samsung to deploy smart home services in Miami

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Sunday that it will deploy smart home services in the Miami residential complex, Florida with the US-based re...

SK On, Siemens DISW to build smart factory system

SK On, Siemens DISW to build smart factory system

South Korean rechargeable battery maker SK On Co. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens DISW)...

CJ CheilJedang to sell feed, livestock unit for $1.4 bn

CJ CheilJedang to sell feed, livestock unit for $1.4 bn

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. is seeking again to sell its loss-making feed and livestock subsidiary, Asia’s largest in the ind...

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