TPG to sell off Korean luxury tile firm Nox's parent for $421 mn

US alternative investment manager TPG Inc. is poised to sell a 65% stake in South Korea’s Moleem Corp., the parent of global leading luxury vi...

SK Chair Chey advises startups to address social issues for viability

In an event that marked the 10-year anniversary of startup accelerator SparkLabs, South Korean business magnate Chey Tae-won said now is the time fo...

Samsung Elec's brand value rises to $87.7 billion

Samsung Electronics' brand value has broken the $80 billion mark. Korea's flagship company saw such value grow in double digits for the second ...

Select Korean companies seek to raise cash reserves

Several corporations have recently sold stocks and real estate apparently to boost liquidity and repay maturing debts amid the "three high" era of h...

Dongwon Industries reborn as holdings company after 53 years

Korea's seafood giant Dongwon Industries on Wednesday said its completed merger with Dongwon Enterprise has given their parent Dongwon Group a new h...

SK Biopharmaceuticals to make CES debut in January

SK Biopharmaceuticals will take part in CES 2023, the world's largest trade show for IT and electronics held in Las Vegas, to unveil its medical dev...

Korea's POSCO gets greener via integrated CO2-free brand

Korea's POSCO has introduced the integrated brand Greenate to symbolize the commitment of the nation's top steelmaker to achieve carbon neutrality b...

Korea's SK Chemicals to make chemically recycled food containers

South Korea's SK Chemicals on Tuesday said it has joined forces with Poolinglim P&P to make the nation's first food containers using chemically ...

Korea's underwear giant BYC asked to open accounting books

Insider trading without due process.This is what South Korea's Truston Asset Management, the No. 2 stakeholder of underwear giant BYC with 8.13%, ha...

Meritz Securities posts positive third-quarter earnings surprise

Meritz Securities saw net profit rise 14% in the third quarter in stark contrast to other brokerages suffering from earning shocks due to the stock ...

Conglomerates cancel commercial events following Itaewon crowd crush

South Korean conglomerates are canceling promotional events through to the end of the year, following the tragic deaths of more than 150 people in t...

Germany’s MBraun, Korean university to co-work on solar cells: CEO

MBraun, an affiliate of Germany’s Indus Holdings AG, plans to invest 1 billion won ($702,000) in a South Korean university as part of a deal t...

KFCC eyes recession-resistant sectors like healthcare, necessities

The Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives (KFCC) is eyeing certain sectors that create stable revenue streams such as healthcare, daily...

Korean EV charging startup to launch business in Indonesia

South Korea’s electric vehicle charging platform startup is set to make inroads into Indonesia, a prospective EV market with the world’s...

Korea's $35 bn plan yet to ease Legoland default woes

South Korea’s $35 billion rescue plan provided a temporary painkiller to the domestic bond markets rattled by Legoland Korea developer’s...

OCI to invest $40 million to expand US solar module production facilities

OCI Co., a leading South Korean solar power cell manufacturer, said on Monday it will invest $40 million to expand the solar cell module production ...

Keppel completes Korean waste treatment firm takeover for $530 mn

Singapore-based Keppel Infrastructure completed the acquisition of South Korea’s leading waste management company EMK Co. for 760 billion won ...

Medipost to expand CDMO business with 10 new clean rooms in Korea

Medipost Co, a South Korean biotechnology company, is expanding its cell and gene therapy contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO)...

Korea's luxury e-commerce platform Balaan completes Series C

South Korean luxury e-commerce platform operator Balaan Co. will complete the attraction of 25 billion won ($17.3 million) in investment in a Series...

POSCO breaks ground on nickel refining plant in Korea

POSCO Group, the world’s sixth-largest steelmaker, broke ground on Friday for a high-purity nickel refining plant in South Korea to meet risin...

Firm dollar deters Korea Inc.’s overseas acquisition deals

The firm dollar is causing South Korean companies to postpone or cancel their plans to buy overseas firms for future growth as the US currency&rsquo...

For South Korea, US EV subsidies both give and take away

The Inflation Reduction Act provides a plethora of subsidies to boost domestic manufacturing for goods that help combat climate change. Tweaks to ...

SK Signet to build $15 million EV charger plant in Texas

SK Signet Inc., a unit of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group, said on Wednesday it will spend $15 million, or 21.3 billion won...

Hyundai Mobis to spend $1.3 bn to build US EV parts, module plants

South Korea’s top auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co. will spend $1.3 billion until 2030 to build auto parts and module plants for electric veh...

Korea’s Aju to spin off key building material business

South Korea’s Aju Group is set to split its parent company into a construction material firm and an investment corporation to enhance its prof...

LIG Nex1 to invest $77 million to expand weapons production facility

LIG Nex1 Co., a leading South Korean defense company, said on Thursday it will spend 110 billion won ($77 million) on its production facility expans...

Hyundai Rotem rolls out Korea’s fastest bullet train

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean railway system maker under Hyundai Motor Group, has rolled out the country’s fastest bullet train that can r...

Chip foundry DB HiTek pulls the plug on fabless division spinoff plan

DB HiTek Co. has pulled the plug on the possible spinoff of its fabless division, named the brand business department. The decision comes on the bac...

Weaker won offers no leg up for Korean exporters

The steeper-than-expected decline in the won’s value is posing a grave threat to South Korean companies already struggling with rising inflati...

Doosan Enerbility wins $383 mn power plant deal from Saudi Arabia

South Korea's major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. said on Friday it has won a 540 billion won ($383 million) contract to build a combine...