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LG Energy Solution Ltd., South Korea’s leading battery maker, gave up its second-largest position in the global electric vehicle cell market...

POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korea’s top steel maker, and UK electric vehicle startup Britishvolt Ltd. have signed an initial agreement...

Samsung SDI Co., South Korea’s major battery maker, inked a $6.6 billion contract to secure 60% of its needs for elecfoil, an ingredient for c...

South Korea’s three battery players – LG Energy Solution Ltd., SK On Co. and Samsung SDI Co. – are getting a tailwind from the fal...

Leading South Korean battery maker Samsung SDI Co. is ramping up facilities for cylindrical batteries to supply its products to Tesla Inc. and oth...

POSCO Holdings Inc., the investment holding company of South Korea’s largest steelmaker, and SK On Co., the battery unit of SK Innovation Co.,...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. announced Monday it will invest 580 billion won ($451 million) to manufacture battery cells for Austin-based Tesla, Inc.The ...

SK Innovation Co., the refinery and chemicals unit of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK, is accelerating a shift toward eco-friendl...

The world’s second-largest battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. has teamed up with two German research institutes to develop next-generation ...

South Korea’s top chemicals company LG Chem Ltd. and the world’s largest zinc and lead smelter Korea Zinc Co. have agreed to launch a ba...

LG Chem Ltd. announced Tuesday it will set up a joint venture with Chinese mining company Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. to secure a steady supply of ra...

Citigroup Global Markets on Monday slashed its target price for Samsung SDI Co., one of South Korea's top three battery makers, by almost half and d...

SK On Co., South Korea’s leading electric vehicle battery manufacturer, is expected to improve production capacity as its client Ford Motor Co...

South Korea’s POSCO Chemical Co. and General Motors Co. on Friday agreed to set up a joint venture that will supply about 20 trillion won ($16...

South Korea’s POSCO Group will invest 53 trillion won ($42 billion) by 2026 primarily in its steel, rechargeable battery materials and hydroge...

LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate, is set to pour $34 billion into the battery, automotive electronics and other future grow...

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate after Samsung, on Thursday announced a plan to invest 247 trillion won ($195 billion) in k...

TOKYO — North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile early Wednesday that flew only briefly before landing in the sea east o...

Samsung SDI Co., the world’s sixth-largest battery maker, and Dutch-domiciled multinational automaker Stellantis N.V. picked the state of...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. and SK On Co., the world’s No. 2 and No. 5 battery makers, respectively, are set to add prismatic batteries to their l...

SK On Co., an electric vehicle battery maker of SK Innovation Co., is bolstering its M&A team by hiring M&A experts from a leading law firm ...

South Korea’s Iljin Materials Co. plans to invest 500 billion won ($391.2 million) in a battery materials plant in Spain, its first production...

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery manufacturer, plans to build a new US factory to supply batteries to a planned E...

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s No. 2 battery producer, boosted its muscle to court industry leader China’s Con...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. and Pohang-based Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST) announced Wednesday they will embark on join...

POSCO Group, which owns South Korea’s largest steelmaker, plans to invest 25 trillion won ($20 billion) to secure a stable supply of key raw m...

SFA Engineering Corp., a small South Korean equipment maker, has for decades been known for its automated machines used in the manufacture of displa...

South Korea’s incoming administration seeks to export 10 nuclear power plants by 2030 as President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol pledged to rescind the ...

The growing fears of a Beijing lockdown are prompting South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and battery makers, already suffering from...

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, plans to spend more on global capacity expansion than init...