KPop Demon Hunters OST lands at No.6 on Billboard Hot 100

KPop Demon Hunters OST lands at No.6 on Billboard Hot 100

The original soundtrack Golden from Netflix’s hit animated movie KPop Demon Hunters has made chart history, becoming the first track by a virt...

Blackpink's new single Jump tops Spotify daily chart

Blackpink's new single Jump tops Spotify daily chart

Blackpink's new single Jump has rocketed to No. 1 on the Spotify Daily Top Songs Global chart, YG Entertainment Inc., the company behind the girl gr...

Return of the K-pop queens: Blackpink, Twice power up YG, JYP

Return of the K-pop queens: Blackpink, Twice power up YG, JYP

Blackpink and Twice, two of South Korea’s most prominent K-pop female acts, made high-profile returns on Friday with new releases, heightening...

BTS’ Jungkook, IU crowned most-loved K-pop artists worldwide

BTS’ Jungkook, IU crowned most-loved K-pop artists worldwide

BTS’ Jungkook and IU, a singer and actress, have claimed the top spots on the most-favorite K-pop artist charts in both the male and female ca...

Blackpink roars back with Deadline world tour after 2-year hiatus

Blackpink roars back with Deadline world tour after 2-year hiatus

Blackpink has made a dazzling return with its electrifying new song, “Jump,” igniting excitement for its first world tour in almost two ...

LG Group executives to meet with Honda CEO to explore partnership

LG Group executives to meet with Honda CEO to explore partnership

LG Group is accelerating its efforts to build a partnership with Honda Motor Co. as South Korea's fourth-largest conglomerate beefs up its automotiv...

Fictional K-pop band Saja Boys beat BTS, Blackpink to top US Spotify charts

Fictional K-pop band Saja Boys beat BTS, Blackpink to top US Spotify charts

A fictional K-pop boy band from a Netflix animated feature has achieved what few real-world Korean acts have – to top the US Spotify chart.You...

Korea Investment & Securities, Capital Group eye product launch in Korea

Korea Investment & Securities, Capital Group eye product launch in Korea

Korea Investment & Securities Co. (KIS), a unit of Korea Investment Holdings Co., is exploring new offshore funds for individual investors in co...

HYBE to bring K-pop idol playbook to India, tapping local talent

HYBE to bring K-pop idol playbook to India, tapping local talent

India, a country of 1.4 billion people, will be HYBE Co.'s next stop to test its K-pop model by discovering and nurturing local talent under its Cha...

SK, AWS to build South Korea’s largest, multibillion-dollar AI data center

SK, AWS to build South Korea’s largest, multibillion-dollar AI data center

South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK and Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), the world's largest cloud platform provider, will build a 103...

Partners Group sees infrastructure secondaries quadrupling to $60 bn

Partners Group sees infrastructure secondaries quadrupling to $60 bn

Infrastructure secondaries are gaining momentum as the infrastructure sector attracts investors seeking stable and predictable returns amid heighten...

Hyundai Motor Group dominates US Best Cars for Teens awards

Hyundai Motor Group dominates US Best Cars for Teens awards

Hyundai Motor Group has claimed seven out of 12 categories in US News & World Report’s Best Cars for Teens for 2025 awards, marking its fo...

Hanjin KAL, LS expand defense business alliance to counter Hoban Group

Hanjin KAL, LS expand defense business alliance to counter Hoban Group

South Korea’s Hanjin Group and LS Group are tightening their alliance further against Hoban Group, which is raising its stake in Hanjin.Korean...

HD Hyundai Group joins S.Korea’s 100 trillion won market cap club

HD Hyundai Group joins S.Korea’s 100 trillion won market cap club

South Korean shipbuilding conglomerate HD Hyundai Group has joined South Korea’s elite club of conglomerates with a market capitalization exce...

DB Group eyes Hanyang Securities amid KCGI deal uncertainty

DB Group eyes Hanyang Securities amid KCGI deal uncertainty

DB Group, which owns DB Securities Co. and DB Insurance Co., is considering acquiring Hanyang Securities Co., as a deal by South Korean private equi...

Rental housing gains appeal amid supply crunch: asset managers

Rental housing gains appeal amid supply crunch: asset managers

The rental housing markets in the US, Europe and Australia present attractive investment opportunities as persistent supply shortages and rising urb...

Korea’s KT signs $95 million AI partnership with Vietnam’s Viettel Group

Korea’s KT signs $95 million AI partnership with Vietnam’s Viettel Group

South Korea’s leading telecommunications service provider KT Corp. said on Tuesday it has signed a 130 billion won ($95 million) strategic par...

Samsung Biologics to spin off biosimilar unit Samsung Bioepis

Samsung Biologics to spin off biosimilar unit Samsung Bioepis

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, will undergo a strategic split to separate its contract development and manufac...

Vietnam, gateway for SK Group’s global renewable energy push

Vietnam, gateway for SK Group’s global renewable energy push

TIEN GIANG, VIETNAM – Off the coast of Vietnam’s Tien Giang Province, 36 wind turbines spin steadily with a constant whoosh and swish, g...

Samsung flexes financial muscle as insurance, card units top rankings

Samsung flexes financial muscle as insurance, card units top rankings

Samsung Group’s financial affiliates are closing in on KB Financial Group for the top spot in South Korea’s financial services sector, u...

Hanwha acquires Ourhome for $622 million in push to revive food business

Hanwha acquires Ourhome for $622 million in push to revive food business

South Korea’s Hanwha Group has completed the acquisition of the country’s No. 2 food service and catering company Ourhome Ltd. for 869.5...

SK Group seeks to sell SK Signet as part of sweeping portfolio realignment

SK Group seeks to sell SK Signet as part of sweeping portfolio realignment

South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group is seeking to divest SK Signet Inc., four years after acquiring the EV charger manufacturin...

Korea Investment & Securities deepens global ties with 2nd IR in New York

Korea Investment & Securities deepens global ties with 2nd IR in New York

Korea Investment & Securities Co. (KIS), the brokerage unit of Korea Investment Holdings Co., said on Wednesday it hosted its flagship investor ...

Kyobo Life poised to buy Japan’s SBI Group-owned savings bank

Kyobo Life poised to buy Japan’s SBI Group-owned savings bank

Kyobo Life Insurance Co. is in the final stages of negotiation with Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc. to buy about a 50% stake in SBI Savin...

KB Financial logs 61% profit growth, rebounding from ELS fiasco

KB Financial logs 61% profit growth, rebounding from ELS fiasco

KB Financial Group Inc. on Thursday reported a 61% jump in first-quarter profit, led by a nearly threefold rise in earnings at its flagship unit Koo...

Trump Jr. to visit Seoul next week to meet Korean business leaders

Trump Jr. to visit Seoul next week to meet Korean business leaders

Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the US President Donald Trump, is set to visit Seoul next week and meet with Korean business leaders grappling w...

Hyundai to launch 42 new cars to cope with Trump tariffs, EV slowdown

Hyundai to launch 42 new cars to cope with Trump tariffs, EV slowdown

Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-largest automaker, plans to unveil 42 new models, including hybrids of existing cars, next year to cope...

Dongwon Industries to delist wholly owned Dongwon F&B

Dongwon Industries to delist wholly owned Dongwon F&B

Dongwon Industries Co., the holding company of South Korea’s seafood-to-logistics Dongwon Group, will delist its canned tuna-manufacturing sub...

POSCO eyes deeper steel, energy ties with global peers

POSCO eyes deeper steel, energy ties with global peers

POSCO Group, South Korea’s steelmaking giant, will further bolster its competitiveness in the global steel market and energy value chains thro...

SK Group in talks with Hahn & Co. to sell SK Siltron

SK Group in talks with Hahn & Co. to sell SK Siltron

SK Inc., the holding company of SK Group, is in talks with Hahn & Co., a South Korean buyout firm, to sell SK Siltron Co., the country’s s...

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