Hyundai Motor set to exit Russia with St. Petersburg plant sale to AGR

 Hyundai Motor set to exit Russia with St. Petersburg plant sale to AGR

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. is reportedly exiting Russia by selling its car manufacturing plant in St. Petersburg to AGR Aut...

S.Korea, Indonesia to bolster high-tech partnership

S.Korea, Indonesia to bolster high-tech partnership

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- South Korea and Indonesia have affirmed their commitment to expanding the scope of business cooperation from high tech to food...

Doosan seeks to fuel Indonesia power plants with green ammonia

Doosan seeks to fuel Indonesia power plants with green ammonia

Doosan Enerbility Co., a South Korea construction equipment manufacturer, said on Friday it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Indo...

S.Korea inks FTA with Philippines, boon to Korean car exports   

S.Korea inks FTA with Philippines, boon to Korean car exports   

South Korea has signed a free trade pact with the Philippines, which is expected to bolster Korean car exports to the Southeast Asian country with a...

Daewoong gets patent of Nabota as migraine drug in US

Daewoong gets patent of Nabota as migraine drug in US

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. announced on Thursday that it has received a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office for the use of...

Hyundai Mobis eyes over 30% growth in Europe through 2030

Hyundai Mobis eyes over 30% growth in Europe through 2030

MUNICH, GERMANY – Hyundai Mobis Co., an auto part-making unit of Hyundai Motor Group, is targeting average annual sales growth of 30% in Europ...

Celltrion to expand new plant for drug products

Celltrion to expand new plant for drug products

South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion Inc. announced on Tuesday that it plans to enlarge its finished pharmaceuticals manufacturing facility...

CJ Foodville to invest $37 mn to build bakery plant in US

CJ Foodville to invest $37 mn to build bakery plant in US

Tous les Jours, the bakery brand under South Korea's CJ Foodville, unveiled plans on Tuesday to invest over 50 billion won ($37 million) in its firs...

Samsung commits $3.7 mn to chipmaking education at UT Austin

Samsung commits $3.7 mn to chipmaking education at UT Austin

Samsung Electronics Co. has committed $3.7 million to University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering to educate talent and boo...

LG Magna to build plant in Hungary for European EV market

LG Magna to build plant in Hungary for European EV market

MUNICH -- LG Magna e-Powertrain Co., a joint venture between South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. and Canada’s Magna International Inc., ha...

POSCO mulls opening integrated steel plant in India

POSCO mulls opening integrated steel plant in India

CHENNAI, INDIA – POSCO, the South Korean steel giant under POSCO Holdings Inc., is considering opening an integrated steel mill in India ...

Hyundai, LG to spend combined $7.6 bn to build EV, battery plants in US

Hyundai, LG to spend combined $7.6 bn to build EV, battery plants in US

Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution Ltd. will spend a combined $7.59 billion to build electric vehicle and battery cell plants in Georgia, th...

Hugel resubmits application to FDA for botulinum toxin product

Hugel resubmits application to FDA for botulinum toxin product

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Hugel Inc., announced on Friday that it has resubmitted applications to the US Food and Drug Administration ...

Hanwha Q Cells brings forward US solar module production

Hanwha Q Cells brings forward US solar module production

Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar power unit of South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group, brought forward operations of a US pla...

Hyundai Steel's offshore wind power plant gets int’l certification

Hyundai Steel's offshore wind power plant gets int’l certification

South Korea’s Hyundai Steel on Wednesday said its Ulsan Factory 2 in the southern coastal city of Ulsan received certification as an offshore ...

Kia’s Hwaseong plant halted due to fire; K5, K8, EV6 output affected

Kia’s Hwaseong plant halted due to fire; K5, K8, EV6 output affected

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, said on Tuesday the operation of its car manufacturing plant in Hwaseong, 80 km southwest o...

Hyundai Motor to self-develop EV chargers to slow Tesla’s ascent

Hyundai Motor to self-develop EV chargers to slow Tesla’s ascent

Hyundai Motor Group will develop ultra-fast electric vehicle chargers with its proprietary technology to catch up to the world’s No. 1 EV make...

Samsung, LG Electronics gear up for IFA, IAA Mobility 2023

Samsung, LG Electronics gear up for IFA, IAA Mobility 2023

Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are set to attend Europe's biggest tech trade fair and biggest motor show, IFA and IAA Mobility, res...

IS Dongseo buys EV battery recycling firm BTS Technology

IS Dongseo buys EV battery recycling firm BTS Technology

IS Dongseo Co., a South Korean waste management company, has acquired Slovakia-based battery recycling company BTS Technology Ltd. for 37.5 billion ...

POSCO E&C to build offshore wind power plant with Norwegian firm

POSCO E&C to build offshore wind power plant with Norwegian firm

South Korea’s POSCO E&C, formerly POSCO Engineering and Construction, and a Norwegian company are promoting the Ulsan Firefly project, the...

Hyundai Rotem unveils ultra-large servo press line

Hyundai Rotem unveils ultra-large servo press line

Hyundai Rotem, a subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group and a South Korean railway system manufacturer, announced on Thursday that it held a demonstrat...

Hyundai Motor’s China restructuring continues with Chongqing plant sale

Hyundai Motor’s China restructuring continues with Chongqing plant sale

Hyundai Motor Co., reeling from its weak car sales in China, has put its Chongqing plant up for sale as South Korea’s top automaker continues ...

LS e-Mobility to supply $187 million in EV parts to Hyundai Motor, Kia

LS e-Mobility to supply $187 million in EV parts to Hyundai Motor, Kia

LS e-Mobility Solutions Co., a power transmission parts maker, has won a 250 billion won ($187 million) deal to supply electric vehicle (EV) parts...

BYD, KG Mobility in talks to build EV battery plant in Korea

BYD, KG Mobility in talks to build EV battery plant in Korea

BYD, the world’s No. 3 electric vehicle battery producer, and KG Mobility Corp., formerly Ssangyong Motor Co., are in talks to build a joint c...

EcoPro BM, SK On, Ford to invest $886 mn to build cathode plant in Canada

 EcoPro BM, SK On, Ford to invest $886 mn to build cathode plant in Canada

EcoPro BM Co., South Korea’s leading battery material producer, will invest $886 million jointly with SK On Co. and Ford Motor Co. to build a ...

SK On to expand domestic battery cell plant for $1.1 bn

SK On to expand domestic battery cell plant for $1.1 bn

SK On Co., a South Korean rechargeable battery maker, will make its largest-ever domestic facility investment of 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) to ...

Hyundai acquires GM’s Indian plant, aims to sell more SUVs, EVs

Hyundai acquires GM’s Indian plant, aims to sell more SUVs, EVs

Hyundai Motor Co. has acquired a car manufacturing plant in India from General Motors Co. as South Korea's top automaker aims to expand its presence...

Cosmax opens Asia's largest cosmetics plant in China

Cosmax opens Asia's largest cosmetics plant in China

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's biggest cosmetics maker using original design manufacturing (ODM), has opened Asia's largest cosmetics plant in China. ...

Hyundai's all-new Santa Fe to hit Korean market mid-August

Hyundai's all-new Santa Fe to hit Korean market mid-August

Hyundai Motor Co.'s all-new Santa Fe will finally hit the market with presales to take place this Saturday in South Korea, where the mid-size sport ...

Hyundai Mobis wins EV component supply deal from VW

Hyundai Mobis wins EV component supply deal from VW

South Korea’s Hyundai Mobis Co. has bagged a deal purportedly worth billions of dollars to supply a key electric vehicle component to Volkswag...

Korean waste management firm Koentec on market for $730 mn US unveils 25% tariffs on S.Korea, sets Aug. 1 deadline for agreement Samsung’s Q2 operating profit halves amid sluggish chip sales Samsung Heavy Industries clinches $635 mn preliminary FLNG deal with African shipowner Gochujang, fiery seasonings: K-sauces go viral among adventurous foreign palates