SK E&S seeks Australia's support for Barossa LNG, CCS projects

SK E&S Co. has asked Australia to support its liquefied natural gas fields in the country and a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in neig...

Boy group Seventeen’s ‘Rock with You’ video hits 100 mn views

Seventeen's "Rock with You" music video has surpassed 100 million views on YouTube, the group's agency PLEDIS Entertainment announced on Wednesday.T...

Hyundai Motor Group, Seoul Univ. to jointly develop battery

Hyundai Motor Group opened a joint battery research center at Seoul National University, marking its full-fledged foray into next-generation battery...

LG Energy Solution expands cobalt supply deal with Canada’s Electra

LG Energy Solution Ltd. has signed a long-term contract to receive additional refined cobalt from Electra Battery Materials Corp. in Canada, in a mo...

GS Entec signs deal with global offshore wind power developer

GS Entec, an energy equipment manufacturer under South Korea’s GS Global Corp., on Monday said it signed a memorandum of understanding with th...

NKMax to supply health functional food to Chinese company

South Korean natural killer cell drug maker NKMax Co. announced in a regulatory filing on Friday that it has signed a supply contract with China's S...

SK Energy acquires logistics platform Goodsflow

South Korea's SK Energy will buy all shares of Goodsflow, a Seoul-based provider of logistics platform services, to enter the urban logistics center...

Hyundai Motor to advance future mobility with nanotechnology

Hyundai Motor Group, which seeks to pivot from a fast follower to a game changer in the global auto sector, has unveiled advanced materials technolo...

SM Group to buy HMM but not for over $3.5 bn: SM Chair Woo

SM Group has enough financial ammunition to buy the country’s No. 1 container shipping line HMM Co. but would not join the bid for the latter&...

Hanwha Q Cells pursues next-gen energy solutions other than solar

Lee Koo-yung, CEO of the solar power unit Qcells Division (Hanwha Q Cells) of South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp., on Monday said, "We will go beyo...

Lotte Group's Shin stresses unlearning as key to innovation

Disregarding existing ways and being open to new opportunities are challenging in South Korea’s large conglomerates, where a strict corporate ...

Lotte Chemical, DL Energy team up to produce renewable energy

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. and DL Energy have joined forces to spread carbon neutrality and environmental, social and governance (ESG)...

EcoPro, Hanwha Ocean, JYP among top MSCI inclusion candidates

EcoPro Co., Hanwha Ocean Co., JYP Entertainment Corp. and Kumyang Co. are the top candidates for inclusion in the MSCI Korea Index when the global s...

E1 to invest $75 mn in Canadian blue ammonia project

South Korea’s major liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distributor E1 Corp. said on Tuesday its plans of investing 10 million Canadian dollars (US ...

Korea Zinc likely to supply copper foil to LG Energy for EV batteries

Korea Zinc Co., the world’s largest zinc and lead smelter, will likely start supplying copper foil, a key battery component, to LG Energy Solu...

LG Energy Solution to expands BaaS with Mintech

South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. partners with Mintech Co., a battery diagnostic solution provider, to expand its Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) b...

Blackpink YouTube exceeds 90 mn subscribers

K-pop girl group Blackpink's official YouTube channel subscribers surpassed 90 million on July 17 at 5:36 a.m., according to YG Entertainment Inc.Th...

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...

Korea Zinc ties up with SK, Hanwha for Aussie green ammonia

Korea Zinc Inc., the world’s largest lead and zinc smelter, has joined hands with SK Gas Ltd. and Hanwha Impact Corp. for the green ammonia bu...

Tinder owner Match Group taps Sam Ahn as Asia's chief innovation officer

Match Group Inc., operating online dating and chat platforms like Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid in some 40 languages, has appointed its subsidiary Hyper...

SK Group chair sees semiconductor rebound in 6 mths to 1 yr

The semiconductor industry may be at the bottom of its cycle and is likely to turn around in six months to one year, in tandem with an expected econ...

SK Telecom, Hana Financial Group jointly nurture AI startups

SK Telecom Co. and Hana Financial Group are strengthening their collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). They are jointly fosteri...

SM Entertainment founder invests in Chinese drone maker

Lee Soo-man, founder and former executive producer of South Korea's SM Entertainment Co., has reportedly made a huge investment in the Chinese self-...

Samsung Elec denies rumor of Galaxy ads with Fifty Fifty

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-largest smartphone maker, has denied market rumors that K-pop rookie sensation Fifty Fifty will ap...

KHNP participates in Australian green cement project

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) will participate in the South Australia green cement transition project, which aims to produce green hydr...

Korea revives nuclear power for its 2024-2038 energy plan

South Korea is slated to bring forward action steps on its power supply plan for the 2024-2038 period, with a possibility to review building more nu...

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 ...

Genesis rewrites Hyundai story, shedding Honda copycat image

Once dismissed as a Honda copycat, Hyundai Motor Co. is poised to pass yet antother milestone, with its luxury brand Genesis on track to top 1 milli...

POSCO Int'l to build 1.26 mn tons of green hydrogen infrastructure by 2035

South Korea's largest trading company POSCO International revealed on Friday its strategy to establish a green hydrogen supply infrastructure with...

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 ...