Samsung, LG Electronics top 2 global TV makers in H1

Samsung, LG Electronics top 2 global TV makers in H1

Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc., two South Korean tech giants, respectively achieved the No. 1 and No. 2 spots in the global TV set ...

Korea sales set to China to fall for 15th straight mth on property crisis

Korea sales set to China to fall for 15th straight mth on property crisis

South Korea’s exports to China are poised to slide for a 15th straight month with an expected deeper drop in August amid a faltering economic ...

LX Pantos, POSCO Flow to cooperate in global logistics

LX Pantos, POSCO Flow to cooperate in global logistics

South Korea’s LX Pantos Logistics and POSCO Flow, formerly POSCO Terminal, will strengthen their cooperation in logistics for secondary batter...

Hanwha Life sees cumulative profit in 15 years in Vietnam

Hanwha Life sees cumulative profit in 15 years in Vietnam

Hanwha Life Insurance Co.’s Vietnamese subsidiary has reported a cumulative profit in 15 years, marking the first South Korean insurers’...

SK Telecom expands its Web3 ecosystem

SK Telecom expands its Web3 ecosystem

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. has joined hands with Polygon Labs, a New York-based global blockchain company, to expand its Web3 ecosystem.Both compa...

Celltrion to merge with global sales affiliate by end-2023

Celltrion to merge with global sales affiliate by end-2023

South Korean pharmaceutical giant Celltrion Group has begun procedures to merge biopharmaceuticals developer and producer Celltrion Inc. with global...

SK Pharmteco gears up for big leap in advanced biotherapies

SK Pharmteco gears up for big leap in advanced biotherapies

SK Pharmteco Co., South Korean conglomerate SK Group’s contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), is upping the ante in its b...

HMM wins top ESG rating among global shipping companies

HMM wins top ESG rating among global shipping companies

South Korea’s No. 1 container transportation and shipping service HMM Co. has secured the premier position in global shipping for its environm...

SK Telecom to host global AI hackathon in Seoul with OpenAI

SK Telecom to host global AI hackathon in Seoul with OpenAI

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. will hold next month an artificial intelligence contest with OpenAI, the American information and communications techno...

BTS’ Jungkook tops Billboard’s global charts for 4th consecutive week

BTS’ Jungkook tops Billboard’s global charts for 4th consecutive week

BTS’ Jungkook’s solo debut single “Seven” topped the US Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. US charts for four consecutive...

Samsung's Bespoke Qooker surpasses 200,000 units in sales

Samsung's Bespoke Qooker surpasses 200,000 units in sales

Samsung Electronics Co.'s Bespoke Qooker has exceeded cumulative sales of 200,000 units within two years since its launch.Bespoke Qooker is a vers...

Mirae Asset Global Investments buys Australian robo-advisor firm

Mirae Asset Global Investments buys Australian robo-advisor firm

South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments announced its acquisition of Stockspot, a prominent Australian robo-advisor specialist.In a statement r...

Staying 5 hours on cruise ship in Busan raises sales 30%: study

Staying 5 hours on cruise ship in Busan raises sales 30%: study

With the resumption of international cruise ship travel to South Korea, domestic credit card company BC Card says daily sales in commercial district...

Rebidding Notice of Share Sales in PT Bayan Resources Tbk

Rebidding Notice of Share Sales in PT Bayan Resources Tbk

Rebidding Notice of Share Sales in PT Bayan Resources Tbk I. Overview of sale 1. Sellers: Korea Southern Power Co., Ltd.(“KOSPO”), K...

Samsung raises $2.2 billion via ASML stake sale for chip investment

Samsung raises $2.2 billion via ASML stake sale for chip investment

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has sold 3.55 million shares in Dutch chip equipment maker ASML Holding N.V. fo...

Korean C&R Research to set up US, Thai units for global biz

Korean C&R Research to set up US, Thai units for global biz

C&R Research Inc., South Korea’s top contract research organization (CRO), plans to establish units in the US and Thailand this year while...

NewJeans selected as models for Hyundai Dept. Store Duty Free

NewJeans selected as models for Hyundai Dept. Store Duty Free

South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Duty Free announced on Monday that it has newly appointed the five-member K-pop girl group NewJeans as models...

Falling mineral prices to hit Korean battery materials makers

Falling mineral prices to hit Korean battery materials makers

South Korean battery materials makers are likely to report worsened profitability in the third quarter of this year as prices of lithium hydroxide a...

Hyundai's premium Genesis cars to break 1 million units in global sales

Hyundai's premium Genesis cars to break 1 million units in global sales

Genesis, the luxury car brand of Hyundai Motor Co., is on the verge of breaking the million mark in cumulative global sales this month in seven year...

Kombucha tea brands lure investors as diet drink market grows

Kombucha tea brands lure investors as diet drink market grows

South Korea’s medium-sized electronics components maker Phoenix Rising PTE Ltd. has agreed to invest 3 billion won ($2.3 million) in domestic ...

Taihan Cable posts highest first-half operating profit in 20 years

Taihan Cable posts highest first-half operating profit in 20 years

South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. announced on Friday that its consolidated operating profit for the first half of this year reached 41....

Samsung’s latest Galaxy smartphones, watches hit global markets

Samsung’s latest Galaxy smartphones, watches hit global markets

Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest models of its flagship Galaxy series of smartphones, watches and tablets have begun hitting the shelves of the comp...

S.Korea's Hanon Systems hits 'home run' with heat pump for EVs

S.Korea's Hanon Systems hits 'home run' with heat pump for EVs

Hanon Systems, a leading South Korean maker of automotive thermal management systems, posted surprising results in the second quarter in blowing awa...

LS Cable invests $117.5 million in boosting submarine cable output

LS Cable invests $117.5 million in boosting submarine cable output

South Korea’s LS Cable & System on Thursday announced additional investment of 155.5 billion won ($117.5 million) in its plant in Donghae,...

S.Korea's largest investment forum to begin Sept. 11

S.Korea's largest investment forum to begin Sept. 11

South Korea’s largest investment conference will be held in Seoul Sept. 11-15 with around 100 chief executives from global financial services ...

Global fashion brands block Koreans' access to US websites

Global fashion brands block Koreans' access to US websites

Some global fashion brands such as Ralph Lauren Corp. and Tommy Hilfiger have blocked South Koreans’ access to their US websites to support bu...

Hyundai Elevator sets sights on global ‘Top 5’ ranking by 2030

Hyundai Elevator sets sights on global ‘Top 5’ ranking by 2030

Shanghai Hyundai Elevator, a subsidiary of South Korea’s Hyundai Elevator Co., unveiled on Thursday an ambitious plan to bolster its market sh...

Hyundai Mobis wins EV component supply deal from VW

Hyundai Mobis wins EV component supply deal from VW

South Korea’s Hyundai Mobis Co. has bagged a deal purportedly worth billions of dollars to supply a key electric vehicle component to Volkswag...

Toss’ TADA sale back to square one; its mobility push faces setback

Toss’ TADA sale back to square one; its mobility push faces setback

Viva Republica Inc., South Korea’s fintech unicorn operating mobile financial platform Toss, is at a crossroads as its second attempt to sell ...

SK Square to buy back $152 mn of its stocks by March 2024

SK Square to buy back $152 mn of its stocks by March 2024

South Korean investment firm SK Square Co. will buy back 200 billion won ($151.9 million) worth of corporate shares by March of next year as an effo...

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