Fifty Fifty label seeks investment from Silicon Valley

The South Korean label behind K-pop rookie sensation Fifty Fifty is looking to Silicon Valley for investment as the four-girl band, already with a l...

12-color ‘Lakeside Recital’ held by 12 poets in Como, Italy

COMO, ITALY -- Como, a lakeside city with a glacial lake at the foot of the Alps in northern Italy. The 13th European International Poetry Festival &l...

S.Korean Hanwha to spend $1 bn on US acquisitions, business

South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group plans to invest $1 billion in acquisitions of companies in the US and businesses ...

Korea's two ride hailing apps to merge in H1, become top operator

South Korea’s ride hailing apps TADA and i.M are set to complete their merger as early as the first half of this year, aiming to become the co...

Funds from West to emerging Asia power S.Korean stocks

Foreigners reported a record purchase of South Korean shares despite a global economic slowdown, as money moved from the US and Europe into emerging...

A Goliath vs. Davids battle in the S.Korean OTT market

Netflix Inc. is poised to further distance itself from its money-losing local peers in the South Korean video streaming market this year, as it make...

Fifty Fifty sets new record for K-pop girl group with Spotify listeners

K-pop rookie Fifty Fifty has surpassed 34.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify, the world's largest music streaming site, its agency Attrakt said ...

Chevrolet Trailblazer tops in US small SUV market

Chevrolet Trailblazer claimed the top spot in the subcompact crossover SUV market in the United States in the month of April. It maintained its posi...

SK Hynix seeks to raise $373 million as chip recovery looms large

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is seeking to raise as much as 500 billion won ($373 million) in bank loans to sec...

Kia offers up to $7,500 in incentives in US for leasing EV6

South Korea's Kia Corp. is offering discounts of up to $7,500 in the US for leasing its electric compact crossover SUV line EV6 to boost its price c...

Yanolja acquires Israeli tourism tech company Go Global Travel

South Korea's tourism platform unicorn Yanolja has acquired Go Global Travel (GGT), an Israel-based company for global business-to-business (B2B) tr...

YG’s new girl group lifts stock price to decade high

YG Entertainment Inc., the K-pop label behind global sensation Blackpink, saw its stock hitting the highest point in more than 10 years as a new gro...

Doosan begins pre-IPO funding round for US fuel cell unit HyAxiom

Doosan Corp., the holding company of South Korean plant-to-machinery conglomerate Doosan Group, is slated to attract $200 million for its hydrogen f...

CJ ENM’s OTT platform TVing: White elephant or new cash cow?

CJ ENM Co. is the undisputed No. 1 movie producer and distributor in South Korea, having sponsored numerous awards-wining films such as “Paras...

Korean KT Cloud to raise $452 mn from IMM via rights offering

KT Cloud Corp., a subsidiary of South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp., is set to raise 600 billion won ($452 million) from a unit of Seoul-base...

Terra co-founder Do Kwon’s $177 million assets in Korea under seizure

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, the mastermind behind the Terra-Luna cryptocurrency collapse, has had most of his assets in South Korea frozen, a...

Naver Webtoon targets entertainment business in Japan

Naver Webtoon Ltd., the world’s top digital comics provider, is targeting the entertainment sector in Japan as it aims to expand its intellect...

Amorepacific chairman's 2nd daughter emerges as 3rd-largest shareholder

Amorepacific Group, South Korea’s cosmetic giant, announced on Thursday that Chairman Suh Kyung-bae has donated a 2.5% stake to his second dau...

Samsung vetoes Broadcom's proposed measures to avoid Korean penalties

Samsung Electronics Co. and other South Korean tech companies opposed measures proposed by Broadcom Inc. to avoid penalties by the country’s a...

LG Chem in talks with Glenwood to sell off diagnostics unit

LG Chem Ltd. is slated for exclusive talks with Seoul-based Glenwood Private Equity to sell off its in vitro diagnostics business, according to biop...

POSCO, Huayou to expand ties for battery precursors

POSCO Future M Co., formerly known as POSCO Chemical Co., on Wednesday signed a preliminary agreement with China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. ...

KKR to buy Namsan Green Building in Seoul for $186.7 million

KKR & Co. Inc. has agreed to buy Namsan Green Building in a central office district in Seoul for an estimated 250 billion won ($186.7 million).T...

Korea’s GEPS to begin investing in global buyout, growth funds

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) is set to inject 100 billion won ($74.7 million) to make its first investments in gl...

SK On to spend $352 million to mass produce solid-state batteries by 2028

South Korean battery maker SK On Co. said on Monday it will spend 470 billion won ($352 million) to begin mass production in 2028 of solid-state bat...

EcoPro sets sights on Europe with $286 million cathode plant in Hungary

South Korea’s EcoPro Co., a leading battery materials maker, has begun construction of a 380 billion won ($286 million) cathode plant in Hunga...

Hyundai ties up with LG, SK for $5.3 bn US EV cell plants

Hyundai Motor Group, the leading South Korean automaker, has joined hands with LG Energy Solution Ltd. and its smaller rival SK On Co. to build elec...

S.Korean gov't unveils $424 mn strategy to boost software, AI industries

South Korean government has announced plans to invest about 563 billion won ($424 million) in bolstering the domestic software and artificial intell...

Nexon Games’ Blue Archive surpasses 1 million pre-registrants in China

South Korea’s Nexon Games Co. on Wednesday said the number of pre-registrants for its strategy role-playing game Blue Archive exceeded one mil...

Korail wins $13 million consulting project for Philippines' railway

South Korea's state-run railway company Korea Railroad Corporation (Korail), announced on Monday that it has secured a consulting contract to manage...

LG Chem, China’s Huayou Cobalt to build $923 million precursor plant

South Korea’s top chemicals company LG Chem Ltd. and its Chinese partner Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. will launch a 1.2 trillion won ($923 milli...