S.Korea’s Hanwha Securities to acquire Ciptadana in Indonesia

Hanwha Investment & Securities announced on Thursday that it has decided to acquire Indonesia's Ciptadana Securities and Ciptadana Asset Managem...

KOTRA holds IR meeting in Tokyo for Japanese companies

Invest Korea, KOTRA's organization dedicated to attracting foreign investment, held an IR for Japanese companies interested in entering South Korea ...

Galaxy Watch's alarm of abnormal heartbeat gets approval in S.Korea

Samsung Electronics Co.'s new feature on the Galaxy Watch, which detects heartbeats and alerts the possibility of risks such as arrhythmia, can now ...

S.Korea bets on 2nd Middle East boom for SMEs, startups

The Middle East is emerging as a key export market for South Korean small enterprises and startups desperate for global expansion to tide over the e...

S.Korea’s mobile carriers seek future from service robots

South Korea’s mobile carriers are strengthening the service robot business as the sector, combined with their know-how in the telecommunicatio...

CJ Darcl certified as best workplace in India by GPTW

CJ Logistics announced on Thursday that its Indian affiliate CJ Darcl has been certified as a 2023-2024 Best Workplace in India by GPTW, a research ...

S.Korea's Seegene to share tech with Spanish diagnostics company

South Korea's in vitro diagnostic product maker Seegene Inc. on Wednesday said it signed a technology-sharing agreement with the Barcelona, Spain-ba...

Korea’s Samyang opens $22 mn surgical suture plant in Hungary

Samyang Holdings Corp., the world’s top biodegradable suture yarn manufacturer, completed the construction of a 28 billion won ($21.9 million)...

Hyundai Rotem reveals actual product of hydrogen-powered train

Hyundai Rotem, a South Korean railway system maker under Hyundai Motor Group, participated in the largest domestic railway exhibition to showcase ad...

Hyundai Vietnam Shipbuilding’s cumulative orders near 200 vessels

Hyundai Vietnam Shipbuilding Co., a unit of South Korean shipbuilding, oil refining and machinery conglomerate HD Hyundai, announced on Wednesday th...

S.Korea's Krafton establishes AI game subsidiary

South Korea's leading game developer Krafton Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has established a new independent studio called ReLU Games.Krafton ...

Japanese travelers top list of reservations to visit Seoul during BTS Festa

Trip.com, a South Korean travel platform, announced on Wednesday that the most frequent overseas travelers to Seoul during the “BTS Festa&rdqu...

S.Korea’s top pharmaceutical distributor buys 25% of No. 2 Baekje Pharma

South Korea’s top pharmaceutical distributor Geo-young Co. has acquired 25% of market No. 2 Baekje Pharmaceutical.Geo-young on Tuesday said th...

Hyundai Group chief calls on PE firm help to defend against Schindler

South Korea’s conglomerate Hyundai Group Chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun is seeking money from a local private equity firm to defend the management ...

STX to promote lithium business with Chinese company

South Korea's general trading company STX announced on Wednesday its plans to accelerate its lithium business with a leading Chinese lithium produce...

S.Korea's SK Bioscience to resume domestic flu vaccine output

South Korea's SK Bioscience Co. will resume making domestic flu vaccines by year's end, two years after it stopped production to supply a vaccine fo...

S.Korea rejects Broadcom’s corrective steps on unfair biz

South Korea’s antitrust body dismissed corrective measures proposed by US chipmaker Broadcom Inc. to avoid penalties over its alleged unfair b...

KBIZ holds SME export consultation meeting in Dubai

A large-scale business event was held in Dubai to support the expansion of Korean small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into the Middle East.Th...

S.Korea launches its first offshore wind installation vessel

Hyundai Engineering & Steel Industries launched South Korea's premier offshore wind installation vessel, the Hyundai Frontier, on Tuesday. This ...

Yoon, Korea’s No. 1 salesman, at BIE to drum up support for 2030 Expo

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will attend the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) in Paris next week to drum up support for the Asian ...

POSCO breaks ground on lithium hydroxide plant in S.Korea

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of the world’s sixth-largest steel maker,held a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday to mark the commen...

Goldman Sachs slashes Korean cathode stock targets; market ignores

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has slashed the target prices of South Korean top cathode stocks, namely EcoPro BM Co. and POSCO Future M Co., by nearly ha...

Foreign buying of Korean stocks, bonds at record high, boosting won

Foreigners bought a record $11.43 billion in South Korean stocks and bonds in May, boosting the value of the won versus the dollar amid the greenbac...

BTS 10th anniversary stamps available at Korea Post from June 13

South Korea's state-run postal service agency Korea Post announced on Monday that BTS commemorative stamps will be available at post offices from Ju...

S.Korea's game companies wage all-out offensive to recruit AI talent

The race in South Korea to secure artificial intelligence (AI) know-how in the video game industry, the hottest trend in the field, is intensifying ...

Korea’s cathode supplier L&F aims to make it big with anodes: CEO

DAEGU – L&F Co., a former LCD backlight unit maker, has long been a stranger even to locals in Daegu, a provincial city 165 km away from S...

Korea’s current account swings to deficit, four-month figures worsen

South Korea ran a current account deficit in April, swinging from the previous month’s surplus, as Asia’s fourth-largest economy continu...

OpenAI’s Sam Altman seeks help from Korean startups, chipmakers

Sam Altman, chief executive of Microsoft-backed OpenAI and ChatGPT creator, said on Friday that he hopes to collaborate with South Korean developers...

Crutches can't slow SK Chair Chey’s zeal for 2030 Expo in Busan

The largest business chambers of South Korea and Japan have agreed to cooperate on Korea’s bid to host World Expo 2030 in Busan and to deepen ...

S.Korea not ready for developed market status: MSCI

MSCI Inc. regards the South Korean stock market as not ready for its developed market status despite a series of reforms, dampening the country&rsqu...