Kakao to challenge Naver, Apple for offline payment services

South Korea’s largest mobile payment app KakaoPay has bought a stake in the country’s No. 1 electronic payment system provider, accordin...
South Korea’s largest mobile payment app KakaoPay has bought a stake in the country’s No. 1 electronic payment system provider, accordin...
SK Bioscience Co., the biopharmaceutical unit of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, sought approval from the World Health Organization...
Two credit rating agencies have lowered South Korean big-box retail giants’ credit profiles. Korea’s top three big-box stores, Homeplus ...
Gourmands in North America will be able to enjoy South Korean fried chicken more conveniently as BB.Q Chicken, the country’s leading franchise...
Lee Jae-yong, Samsung Group’s de facto leader, on Friday had his right to work restored, paving the way for big moves for South Korea’s ...
South Korea’s six biggest companies joined hands with Malaysia’s state energy firm Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) for the carbon c...
South Korean startup Bebridge Inc. announced Thursday it raised 2.5 billion won ($1.9 million) in pre-Series A round from Magna Investment, Bluepoin...
The chairman and chief executive of French luxury label Louis Vuitton is scheduled to visit South Korea next week and meet with the heads of three m...
A couple of months ago, media outlets reported Chanel plans to open stores solely for VIP shopping in Asia.The French label is widely expected to op...
South Korean convenient stores are ramping up competition in the business of drone delivery. The initial target regions include the Seoul subur...
South Korea’s two largest convenience store chains GS25 and CU are branching out into Malaysia in search of new growth markets.GS Retail Co., ...
South Korea’s large retailers are keen on redeveloping their decades-old stores into modern residential and commercial complexes as a way out ...
PANGYO, Gyeonggi Province – In Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi film Minority Report, Tom Cruise gets all the information he needs through...
South Korea’s major shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), said on Friday it will join forces with marine asset ...
Lotte Duty Free, South Korea’s largest duty-free business operator, is closing one of its flagship stores in Seoul in the wake of the COVID-19...
SK E&S Co., the natural gas business unit of South Korea’s SK Group, and Australia’s leading energy company Santos Ltd. are seeking ...
South Korea’s major electronics retailers such as Lotte Himart are facing a headwind as more customers are buying home appliances online and d...
One Store Co., South Korea's homegrown app store, on Wednesday canceled its initial public offering on the Korea Exchange, after its shares failed t...
SK E&S Co., the natural gas business unit of South Korea’s SK Group, is investing $110 million for a 10% stake in Summit Carbon Solutions ...
One Store Co., South Korea's homegrown app store, will venture into Taiwan and Southeast Asia within the year, aiming to crack Google and Apple's du...
MBK Partners has put one of the large store buildings of South Korea's supermarket chain Homeplus up for sale as part of an ongoing effort to improv...
South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and its spin-off investment firm SK Square Co. joined hands with Europe’s largest teleco...
Shares in South Korea's GS Retail Co. suffered their worst percentage fall in nearly five years on May 6, after the convenience store operator's fir...
South Korea's Lotte Duty Free Co. is slated to open a downtown store in Sydney on May 5, after Australia reopened its international borders to forei...
One Store Co., investment firm SK Square Co.'s homegrown app store, is gearing up for an initial public offering to be held in May. The local app st...
Nexon Co.'s Dungeon & Fighter Mobile has elbowed out NCSoft Corp.'s Lineage W to rank as the most popular Korean mobile game in the week since i...
SK Shieldus Co. and One Store Co., two units of South Korea's SK Square Co., submitted their initial public offering applications on Thursday to rai...
South Korea’s major retailer Hyundai Department Store Group is set to buy Zinus Inc., a maker of best-selling mattresses in North America for ...
South Korea’s SK E&S Co. is set to enter the business of carbon storage in depleted gas fields.The natural gas business unit of SK Group s...
Convenience stores are hotbeds for South Korean IT companies to test their artificial intelligence (AI) technology.That is because the establishment...