S.Korean securities downgrades GS E&C’s investment opinion

S.Korean securities downgrades GS E&C’s investment opinion

Hyundai Motor Securities downgraded its investment opinion on GS Engineering & Construction Corp. (GS E&C) from "Buy" to "Market Perform" on...

Naver, Com2uS slash workforce to downsize new businesses

Naver, Com2uS slash workforce to downsize new businesses

South Korea’s leading online platforms and gaming publishers such as Naver Corp., Com2uS Corp. and Kakao Corp. have joined global Big Tech com...

Hanwha bond bookbuilding 10 times oversubscribed

Hanwha bond bookbuilding 10 times oversubscribed

Hanwha Corp., the parent company of Hanwha Group, announced on Thursday that it had received orders totaling 1.49 trillion won ($1.14 billion) in it...

Woori Financial to bolster private banking service: chairman

Woori Financial to bolster private banking service: chairman

Woori Financial Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest financial holding company, will reinforce its wealth management service for high-net-worth...

Toss Bank launches commission-free foreign exchange services

Toss Bank launches commission-free foreign exchange services

South Korea’s fintech platform Toss Bank said on Thursday it has launched commission-free foreign exchange services for the first time as a do...

LG Chem sees up to 25% battery sector growth in 2024: report

LG Chem sees up to 25% battery sector growth in 2024: report

South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd., the parent of the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd., expects up ...

Celltrion to export three anticancer drugs to Europe

Celltrion to export three anticancer drugs to Europe

South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. announced on Thursday that it has secured supply contracts for three anticancer biosimilars in European countries...

Korean learning platform Elice raises $14.9mn from Vertex

Korean learning platform Elice raises $14.9mn from Vertex

Elice Inc., a South Korean startup offering an all-in-one digital learning platform for teachers and corporations, will transform into an artificial...

SK Telecom to enter AI pet diagnostic market in US

SK Telecom to enter AI pet diagnostic market in US

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. announced on Wednesday that it has signed with the US-based veterinary diagnostic radiology firm Vetology to laun...

NPS picks tech, electronics as its favorite local stocks in 2023

NPS picks tech, electronics as its favorite local stocks in 2023

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, picked information tech, electric and electronic s...

SK On signs tech transfer with Solid Power

SK On signs tech transfer with Solid Power

SK On Co., a battery affiliate of South Korea's SK Group, announced on Wednesday that it has signed a technology transfer agreement with the US-ba...

Samsung, LG go head-to-head in AI components market

Samsung, LG go head-to-head in AI components market

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. and LG Innotek Co., two major South Korean suppliers for Apple iPhones, are going head-to-head in the artificial intel...

Korea’s Kia to set up sales unit in Thailand; EV plant an option

Korea’s Kia to set up sales unit in Thailand; EV plant an option

South Korea’s second-largest automaker Kia Corp. plans to establish a sales subsidiary in Thailand as part of its electric vehicle push in the...

Korean wind power companies foresee tailwind from Taiwan, US

Korean wind power companies foresee tailwind from Taiwan, US

South Korean wind power companies such as SK oceanplant Co., HD Hyundai Electric Co. and CS Wind Corp. are expected to get a tailwind from Taiwan&rs...

Celltrion Holdings eyes Nasdaq IPO by early 2025: chairman

Celltrion Holdings eyes Nasdaq IPO by early 2025: chairman

South Korean biosimilar giant Celltrion Group is planning to debut on the Nasdaq market by early 2025, founder and Chairman Seo Jung-jin said at the...

Daesang launches alternative sweetener brand Sweevero

Daesang launches alternative sweetener brand Sweevero

South Korean food company Daesang Corp. announced on Tuesday that it is launching the integrated brand "Sweevero" for alternative sweeteners like al...

Mojave Proving Ground: Backbone of Hyundai, Kia’s success in US

Mojave Proving Ground: Backbone of Hyundai, Kia’s success in US

CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. – The Mojave Desert, known by locals as the "high desert," lies some 170 km northeast of Los Angeles, California. In t...

Lotte Chem’s sale of Pakistani PTA unit falls through

Lotte Chem’s sale of Pakistani PTA unit falls through

Lotte Chemical Corp.'s plan to sell off its Pakistani PTA subsidiary to local chemicals producer Lucky Core Industries Ltd. has collapsed, a year af...

Billboard to establish subsidiary in S.Korea in June 2024

Billboard to establish subsidiary in S.Korea in June 2024

The globally recognized American music entertainment media brand Billboard, known for its music charts, has announced the launch of its South Korean...

NPS bets on Samsung Electro-Mechanics, sells POSCO stocks in Q4

NPS bets on Samsung Electro-Mechanics, sells POSCO stocks in Q4

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, saw the amount of listed local shares it owns rise...

LG Elec opens its first overseas EV charger plant in Texas

LG Elec opens its first overseas EV charger plant in Texas

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. has opened its first overseas EV charger factory in Fort Worth, Texas. The move comes as the global home app...

Rise of Korean activist investors at home

Rise of Korean activist investors at home

As the annual general shareholders’ meeting season is approaching fast, publicly traded companies in South Korea are readying for a swath of p...

Naver unveils reports of Qatar Asian Cup utilizing AI

Naver unveils reports of Qatar Asian Cup utilizing AI

South Korea's Naver Corp. announced on Friday that it has published AI Scout Report for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup 2023, which...

SK Networks invests $19 mn in AI startup Upstage

SK Networks invests $19 mn in AI startup Upstage

South Korea's SK Networks Co. announced on Friday that it has invested 25 billion won ($19.02 million) in the domestic artificial intelligence (AI...

Hyundai unveils IONIQ 5 N concept NPX1 in Japan

Hyundai unveils IONIQ 5 N concept NPX1 in Japan

Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Friday that it unveiled the high-performance electric vehicle (EV) IONIQ 5's N Performance Concept model NPX1 for the...

Yonsei Cream Milk Bread to be launched in Taiwan

Yonsei Cream Milk Bread to be launched in Taiwan

Yonsei Milk, a non-profit social contribution company of South Korea's Yonsei University, announced on Friday that it will export its mega-hit des...

BOK hints at policy rate peak but in no hurry to cut rates

BOK hints at policy rate peak but in no hurry to cut rates

South Korea’s central bank on Thursday hinted its policy rate may have peaked after leaving the rate unchanged for the eighth straight meeting...

Celltrion revises up earnings goals to overtake Amgen

Celltrion revises up earnings goals to overtake Amgen

Celltrion Inc., South Korea's leading biosimilar maker, on Wednesday expressed its ambition to join the global top 10 biotech and pharmaceutical com...

CJ ENM to hold KCON Hong Kong in March

CJ ENM to hold KCON Hong Kong in March

South Korea’s entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM Co. announced on Thursday that it will hold its annual K-pop festival KCON in Hong Kong for the ...

Celltrion applies for interchangeability of Yuflyma in US

Celltrion applies for interchangeability of Yuflyma in US

South Korea's Celltrion Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has applied to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a modified approval to repl...

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