BTS’ Dynamite music video surpasses 2 billion views, a new milestone for the group
Five years after its release, BTS’ Dynamite continues to dazzle, now crossing the 2 billion-view mark on YouTube — the group’s fir...
Blackpink’s Rosé earns $8 million from YouTube as 'APT.' craze tops 3.6B views
Blackpink’s Rosé is proving that her star power extends far beyond the stage — straight into YouTube’s revenue stream.Accor...
YNCC avoids default with $220 mn lifeline from DL Chemical, Hanwha
Yeochun NCC Co. (YNCC), South Korea’s third-largest ethylene maker, has narrowly avoided default as its shareholders – DL Chemical Co. a...
Blackpink’s Pink Venom MV surpasses 1 bn views on YouTube
K-pop sensation Blackpink has reached a new milestone, as the music video for Pink Venom surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube, YG Entertainment Inc....
Blackpink’s Jump music video draws 100 mn YouTube views
Blackpink’s music video for their new single Jump has attracted 100 million views on YouTube in just 15 days since its release, according to i...
Asian manufacturing activity stumbles again under weight of Trump tariffs
Factory activity slowed across much of Asia in May as uncertainty over U.S. tariffs continued to cause steep declines in new orders, purchasing ma...
Trump says Korea interested in Alaska gas project; Korean firms skeptical
South Korea, Japan and other countries want to partner with the US in a $44 billion natural gas pipeline project in Alaska, President Donald Trump s...
Bank of Korea cuts rates, growth forecast on Trump tariff policy
South Korea’s central bank on Tuesday cut interest rates while sharply reducing its economic growth forecast as lingering political turmoil fo...
Koreans' yen savings fall on profit-taking despite BOJ rate hike views
Yen-denominated deposits in South Korea fell in November, dragging down overall foreign-currency savings, as investors took profits from the Japanes...
Korea’s export growth at 14-month low, adds to BOK rate cut views
South Korea’s export growth fell to a 14-month low in November with shipments to the world’s two biggest markets the US and China down, ...
Rose’s music video ‘APT.’ surpasses 300 mn views on YouTube
The music video for “APT.”, featuring girl group Blackpink's Rose in a duet with pop star Bruno Mars, has surpassed 300 million views on...
Two out of 5 CEOs hold negative views on Korean startup scene
Nearly half of South Korean startups hold negative views on the country’s startup ecosystem, citing the prolonged startup funding winter and t...
Chip winter looming? Micron, Samsung give opposite views
Micron Technology Inc. on Wednesday delivered stronger-than-expected quarterly results and gave a bullish outlook for the current quarter, shrugging...
Blackpink’s dance performance video surpasses 1.7 billion views
K-pop girl group Blackpink's “How You Like That” dance performance video has garnered more than 1.7 billion YouTube views, the group's a...
Analysts rebut Morgan Stanley’s chip winter view; oversupply unlikely
Morgan Stanley’s recent view that the global chip industry faces an imminent winter and companies like SK Hynix Inc. will suffer is exaggerate...
SK Hynix shares nosedive after Morgan Stanley downgrade
The share price of SK Hynix Inc. plummeted as much as 11% at one point on Thursday after Morgan Stanley sharply cut its target price in an about-tur...
Samsung, Ottogi unveil exclusive lifestyle TV goods
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Friday that it collaborated with the domestic food company Ottogi to release limited edition goods called Samsu...
Korean shipbuilding shares surge on supercycle hope, Trump Trade
South Korea’s Big Three shipbuilders, also the world’s three largest, stand to benefit from the emerging industry supercycle and the so-...
SK Broadband's Filmotalk surpasses 6.6 mn cumulative views
South Korea’s internet service provider SK Broadband Co. announced on Wednesday that the cumulative viewership of its offline film talk concer...
Korean won at 17-month low on Middle East woes, Fed rate view
The South Korean won currency on Tuesday fell to its weakest level in 17 months, briefly touching the psychologically important 1,400 per dollar lev...
Private markets open to more high-net-worth individuals: Hamilton Lane
The number of high-net-worth individuals allocating capital to private markets is increasing fast. These are wealthy individuals who own at least $1...
Shortt gets 400 mn views in one year in SE Asian market
Shortt, a South Korean short form content company, announced on Wednesday that it has got a total of 400 million views of its campaigns for South Ko...
Korean LPs eye industrial, logistics amid e-commerce growth
Global real estate will be the least-chosen asset class for South Korean institutional investors this year, according to a recent survey. Despite curr...
Peak views: What lies ahead in 2024?
With 2023 at a close, financial markets are at an important junction. Major developed market central banks have paused their rate rises and there ...
Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ surpasses 5 billion views on Youtube
The music video for singer Psy's global hit "Gangnam Style" has surpassed 5 billion views on YouTube.According to YouTube on Saturday, the music vid...
South Koreans expect inflation to slow, relief to BOK’s hawkish stance
South Koreans expect inflation to slow over the next 12 months, providing relief to the central bank’s hawkish stance that policy rates should...
Korea, Chile launch 8th round of FTA upgrade negotiations
The eighth round of negotiations for modernizing the Korea-Chile Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will take place in Seoul from November 29 to December 1....
New Mercedes E-Class, world’s first to use LG’s SPM display
LG Display Co., the world’s leading organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel maker seeking to cement its market leadership, is supplying its ...
K-tourism video ads with Lee Jung-jae exceed 510 mn views
The four-video Challenge Korea series promoting tourism in South Korea with "Squid Game" actor Lee Jung-jae has surpassed half a billion views in ju...
BTS’ ‘Boy With Luv’ surpasses 1.7 billion YouTube views
The number of YouTube views of the group BTS' "Boy With Luv" music video exceeded 1.7 billion, the agency Big Hit Music said on Tuesday.The music vi...
