POSCO, JSW to build 6 million-ton steel plant in India

South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO Group has agreed with JSW Steel Ltd. to build an integrated steel mill with an annual capacity of 6 mil...

HD Hyundai to build quantum-secure network for shipbuilding, defense

HD Hyundai Co., the parent of the world’s largest shipbuilder, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., will build a quantum cryptography communicatio...

Hyundai, Kia take crown as Saudi Arabia’s best-selling cars in H1

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp.'s subcompact models took the top two spots in Saudi Arabia’s automobile market in the first half of this year ...

Samsung to set up chip packaging R&D center in Yokohama, raise stakes vs TSMC

Samsung Electronics Co. will set up an advanced chip packaging research and development center in Yokohama, Japan with an investment of 25 billion y...

LG CNS to build AI data center in Vietnam, accelerating Southeast Asia push

LG CNS Co. will build a hyperscale artificial intelligence data center for Vietnam’s state-run telecom giant Vietnam Posts and Telecommunicati...

LG CNS to build AI data center in Indonesia, first for Korean firm

LG CNS Co., the information technology services unit of South Korea’s LG Group, has bagged a deal to build an artificial intelligence-ready da...

Naver, LG, SK, NC, Upstage named to build S.Korea’s sovereign AI model to challenge ChatGPT

South Korea has chosen five technology firms, including LG, Naver and SK Telecom Co., to spearhead the country’s flagship sovereign AI initi...

HD Hyundai, ECO launch US shipbuilding project

HD Hyundai Co., South Korea's largest shipbuilding group, has kicked off a joint shipmaking project with US partner Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), a...

LG launches ChatExaone AI beta service, available soon for enterprise use

South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG Group has made its artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatExaone, available to external users, sign...

Hanwha Ocean wins $1.4 bn order from Yang Ming to build 7 containerships

Hanwha Ocean Co., South Korea’s third-largest shipbuilder, has bagged an order to build seven containerships, valued at about 2 trillion won (...

Shinsegae, Hana Financial, Bain Capital to finance $438 mn Starfield Cheongna

Shinsegae Property, a subsidiary of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group, on Tuesday unveiled a 600 billion won ($438 million) investment agree...

Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman courts Korean AI startups as Riyadh, Abu Dhabi vie to build tech hubs

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the Middle East was a land of opportunity for many South Korean construction workers, who labored there under the scorc...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ plan to build plant in Mexico shelved amid Trump tariffs

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, has abandoned plans to build a new manufacturing plant in Mexico and ...

POSCO sets sights on lithium production in US

POSCO Holdings Inc. has teamed up with Australia’s Anson Resources Ltd. to build a direct lithium extraction (DLE) demonstration plant in the ...

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...

Invesco, SK D&D likely to buy co-living building in Seoul

A consortium between US asset management firm Invesco and the real estate investment arm of SK D&D Co. has been named the preferred buyer of Nou...

Kakao Mobility to build smart infrastructure for Saudi Diriyah project

Kakao Mobility Corp., which runs South Korea’s most popular ride-hailing app, Kakao T, has clinched a deal to build a future mobility infrastr...

Goodai Global poised to build L'Oréal-style empire via M&As

Goodai Global Inc. is seeking to acquire South Korea’s first-generation independent cosmetics brand Skinfood for about 150 billion won ($108 m...

Hanwha Aerospace to build defense plant in Germany as European base

Hanwha Aerospace Co. plans to build a precision missile manufacturing plant in Germany as part of its global strategy to expand its presence across ...

Cushman & Wakefield, Avison Young to lead Orange Center sale in Seoul

Cushman & Wakefield and Avison Young have been appointed to oversee the sale of Orange Center, a prime office tower in Seoul’s central bus...

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...

LG Energy, Samsung SDI to build 1st US LFP battery plants with GM

In a pivotal shift for the North American electric vehicle battery landscape, South Korea’s two leading battery makers – LG Energy Solut...

Hanwha Philly Shipyard to localize LNG builds, expand capacity

Hanwha Group will significantly increase production capacity at its US shipyard from 1.5 vessels to 10 per year as it aims to transform the facility...

Bid heats up for IGIS-owned co-living building in Seoul

An auction for a co-living building, owned by South Korea’s top real estate asset management firm IGIS Asset Management Co., in the hip Hongda...

HD KSOE secures $1.8 bn in container ship orders

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE) secured orders for 22 container ships worth a total of 2.54 trillion won ($1.8 billion) ...

Ritz-Carlton to return to Seoul, tapped by IGIS Asset for landmark project

IGIS Asset Management Co., South Korea’s leading real estate investment firm, has named The Ritz-Carlton the preferred hotel brand for its amb...

S.Korean gaming giant Netmarble eyes headquarters building sale

Netmarble Corp., a leading South Korean gaming company, is seeking to sell its headquarters building in Seoul, which could fetch up to 800 billion w...

Orion behind original Choco Pie to invest $580 million in new plants

Orion Corp., a South Korean confectionery and snack manufacturer, will inject 830 billion won ($580 million) over three years to expand snack manufa...

IGIS taps Samjong KPMG, Cushman & Wakefiel, NAI for sale of AP Tower

IGIS Asset Management Co., a leading South Korean real estate investment firm, has chosen a consortium of Samjong KPMG Accounting Corp., Cushman &am...

Kia to build North America-targeted electric pickup model

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest carmaker, will build an electric pickup model tailored for North America to enter the world’s la...