Cosmax to make inroads into Japanese market in earnest

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's cosmetics original design manufacturing (ODM) company, said on Thursday that it would start targeting the Japanese market...

SK E&S moves into EV charging market

South Korea's liquefied petroleum gas supplier SK E&S said on Wednesday that its subsidiary Parking Cloud will begin electric vehicle charging s...

BC Card eyes Central Asian payment market entry this year

South Korea's financial services company BC Card said on Wednesday that it would seek to enter the Central Asian market this year on the back of its...

Kolon, Hyosung to give up control over nylon material maker Capro

South Korea’s Hyosung Group and its longtime rival Kolon Group in the fiber, textile and petrochemical businesses are poised to give up their ...

CMG Pharma acquires animal nutrition company ING Medix

CMG Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary of South Korea's CHA Biotech, said on Monday that it is moving into the pet nutrition supplement market by acquirin...

Kookmin Bank launches foreign currency trading platform KB Star FX

South Korea's largest lender Kookmin Bank on Monday launched its new contactless platform for foreign exchange transactions dubbed KB Star FX.The on...

Ssangyong Motor takes part in Brussels Motor Show

Ssangyong Motor Co. said on Monday that it would participate in the 2023 European Motor Show Brussels and begin to move into the European market in ...

UAE’s sovereign funds to invest $30 billion in South Korea

ABU DHABI – The United Arab Emirates will invest $30 billion in South Korea across strategic sectors, including the nuclear power, defense, hy...

Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis set for February IPO

South Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. aims to raise up to $166 million through a listing next month, becoming the country’s first...

Kookmin Card acquires Cambodian leasing firm at $5.2 mn

KB Kookmin Card, a credit card unit of KB Financial Group, and its Cambodian local subsidiary KB Daehan Specialized Bank, acquired the Southeast Asi...

S.Korea to extend trading hours of local forex market

South Korea will extend the trading hours for the local foreign exchange market to attract overseas investors and improve the trading system so that...

LG Innotek eyes top spot in FC-BGA substrate market

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. will boost the production of its flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) packages, or high-density package substrates,...

Samsung’s new 5 nm high-performance SSD faster, uses less power

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Thursday it is ready to produce in large quantities PM9C1a, its latest ...

Samsung, SK Hynix to benefit from Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPU

The much-awaited launch of Intel Corp.’s latest processors dubbed Sapphire Rapids is a boon for leading memory chipmakers such as Samsung Elec...

Samsung Biologics receives Terra Carta Seal

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Wednesday it was awarded the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Ter...

Celltrion Healthcare lands biosimilar deal in Brazil for 2nd straight year

South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. on Tuesday said that for the second straight year, it landed an order for infliximab, an antibody used to tre...

POSCO to enter palm oil refining market in Indonesia

POSCO International Co., a trading arm of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Co., will build a palm oil refining plant in Indonesia to foray into...

Korea’s secondhand car market cools amid elevated interest rates

South Korea’s secondhand car market is cooling rapidly as both dealers and buyers are reeling from elevated interest rates, which also bode il...

S-1 calls AI video solutions core of this year's AI security market

Access management of facial recognition needs the most improvement this year and artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions such as intelligent cl...

Korean activist fund KCGI buys Meritz Asset Management

A consortium led by Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI), a local activist fund, said on Jan. 9 it signed a share purchase agreement l...

Korea's SK On scraps $3.2 bn Turkey EV battery factory plan

SK On Co., the world’s No. 5 electric vehicle battery maker, dropped a plan to build a 4 trillion won ($3.2 billion) plant in Turkey as higher...

Samsung’s Q4 profit tumbles; cuts 2023 chip profit forecast by half

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, posted its worst quarterly operating profit in eight years on F...

Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. kept their fifth place in sales in the US market for the second consecutive year. Despite production setbacks due to...

Hyundai's Nexo keeps 1st place in hydrogen car market beating Toyota

Hyundai Motor Co.'s hydrogen fuel cell car model Nexo far surpassed Toyota in the world's market share. According to SNE Research, a market research...

S.Korea’s IPO market sours as Kurly postpones listing

South Korea’s initial public offering market has soured as gourmet food delivery platform Kurly Inc. delayed its listing amid deteriorating in...

Novarex, Riman sign agreement to jointly develop health-functional food

South Korea's health functional foods company Novarex and cosmetics company Riiman Korea met to promote the health-functional foods business togethe...

Korea's coffee brand Ediya to open 1st overseas branch in Guam

Ediya Coffee, South Korea's home-grown low-priced coffee brand, will open a branch in Guam in the first half of this year to seek growth through exp...

Hyundai, Kia aim to outpace industry growth in 2023

The Hyundai Motor Group is aiming to boost sales by 10% this year from 2022, above an estimated single-digit growth in the global automotive market....

LG Uplus succeeds in linking open RAN standard equipment

LG Uplus Corp. said on Tuesday that it has succeeded in linking open distributed unit (O-DU) and open RAN (radio access network) radio unit (O-RU) b...

KT, E-mart warm up S.Korea's corporate bond market

South Korea's KT Corp. and E-mart Inc. are the frontrunners in the new year's corporate bond demand forecasts, attracting attention on if they can b...