LG Chem mulls shuttering in-vitro diagnostics business

LG Chem mulls shuttering in-vitro diagnostics business

LG Chem Ltd. is considering an exit from the in-vitro diagnostics market to focus more on novel drug development as it lagged its smaller local riva...

LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo sued over inheritance in family feud

LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo sued over inheritance in family feud

Koo Kwang-mo, chairman of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG, has been sued over the distribution of inherited wealth, including a s...

System on chips: Samsung’s new high-stakes foundry business

System on chips: Samsung’s new high-stakes foundry business

Samsung Electronics Co. is setting its sights on system on chips (SoCs) to continue to drive growth in its foundry business amid a protracted slowdo...

Korea’s Shinsegae to bolster convenience store business

Korea’s Shinsegae to bolster convenience store business

South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae Group is set to boost its business in the rapidly growing convenience store sector as its supermarket cha...

Hanwha hires former Biden confidant as US government affairs chief

Hanwha hires former Biden confidant as US government affairs chief

WASHINGTON D.C. – South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group has hired Danny O’Brien, a top aide to US President...

Hanwha Q Cells jumps into distributed energy biz with forecast service

Hanwha Q Cells jumps into distributed energy biz with forecast service

Hanwha Q Cells, the Q Cells division of Hanwha Solutions Corp., said on Wednesday that it had started a renewable energy generation forecast service...

S.Korea's DB HiTek to split off fabless, bulk up foundry business

S.Korea's DB HiTek to split off fabless, bulk up foundry business

DB HiTek Co., a leading chipmaker in South Korea, said on March 7 it is set to split off its fabless unit by May 2 to ramp up its foundry business.D...

KEXIM bank inks $6 billion financing deal with Aramco

KEXIM bank inks $6 billion financing deal with Aramco

The Export-Import Bank of Korea said on Tuesday it has signed a three-year framework agreement with Saudi Arabian Oil Co.(Aramco), to provide up to ...

Hankook & Co. buys autonomous driving tech startup 3Secondz

Hankook & Co. buys autonomous driving tech startup 3Secondz

Hankook & Company Co., a South Korean holding company that owns tire and mobility businesses, said on Tuesday that it has acquired the autonomou...

Korea’s SPC Samlip, Siam Makro to tie up for Thai bakery business

Korea’s SPC Samlip, Siam Makro to tie up for Thai bakery business

SPC Samlip Corp., a unit of South Korea’s food and bakery giant SPC Group, said on Monday it has forged a business partnership with Siam Makro...

LG Electronics picks private 5G network as next growth engine

LG Electronics picks private 5G network as next growth engine

LG Electronics Inc. is seeking to make inroads into the private 5G network market, set to grow rapidly amid accelerated migration to automation in a...

Lotte Chairman to return to beverage unit's boardroom

Lotte Chairman to return to beverage unit's boardroom

Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin is slated to return as an inside director of Lotte Chilsung Beverage Co., the group’s subsidiary and one of...

SK Materials makes equity investment in ION for CO2 capture partnership

SK Materials makes equity investment in ION for CO2 capture partnership

SK Materials Co., an industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Inc., has made an equity investment in ION Clean Energy Inc., ...

China's CDFG targets duty free operation at Incheon Airport

China's CDFG targets duty free operation at Incheon Airport

China Duty Free Group Co. (CDFG), the only state-owned duty free business manager in China, has joined a bid alongside four South Korean retail gian...

POSCO Int'l, Daesang sign MOU to cooperate in food business

POSCO Int'l, Daesang sign MOU to cooperate in food business

POSCO International, South Korea's largest general trading company, announced on Friday that teams up with Daesang Corp. in the food business area.P...

HYBE cries foul over SM, Kakao’s undisclosed deal

HYBE cries foul over SM, Kakao’s undisclosed deal

HYBE Co., the label behind the global sensation BTS, is considering legal action to invalidate an undisclosed deal between SM Entertainment Co. and ...

KT CEO Ku Hyeon-mo drops reelection bid as controversy flares

KT CEO Ku Hyeon-mo drops reelection bid as controversy flares

KT Corp. Chief Executive Ku Hyeon-mo has abandoned his ambitious bid to lead South Korea’s largest telecommunications company for another thre...

LG Electronics plans sales blitz on US market for induction ranges

LG Electronics plans sales blitz on US market for induction ranges

LG Electronics Inc. this year has launched an all-out sales offensive for induction ranges and cooktops in the US, the world's leading market for pr...

Samsung’s old textile mill transformed into idea accelerating lab

Samsung’s old textile mill transformed into idea accelerating lab

Samsung Electronics Co. has opened its first regional C-Lab Outside campus in Daegu – where its founder Lee Byung-chull started his first busi...

KTS secures contract for LS Cable's undersea cable construction project

KTS secures contract for LS Cable's undersea cable construction project

KT Submarine Co. (KTS), a South Korean undersea cable construction company, said on Tuesday that it signed a contract with LS Cable & System Ltd...

Patty-cooking robotics startup Aniai completes seed funding

Patty-cooking robotics startup Aniai completes seed funding

Aniai Inc., a foodservice robotics developer founded by a South Korean, said on Feb. 21 it has attracted $3 million via a seed funding round to boos...

CJ Logistics opens office in Poland to beef up European business

CJ Logistics opens office in Poland to beef up European business

CJ Logistics said on Tuesday that it has opened an office in Wroclaw, Poland’s largest industrial city located in the southwest, as part of th...

SK Enmove joins GRC's ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program

SK Enmove joins GRC's ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program

South Korea's SK Enmove Co. said on Monday it will participate in the ElectroSafe Fluid Partner Program run by US-based specialist company GRC, whic...

Brazil approves Celltrion Pharm’s syringe facility

Brazil approves Celltrion Pharm’s syringe facility

Celltrion Pharm Inc., a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, said on Monday it received certification from Brazil’s health regulator for it...

Korea's Cha Bio Group to expand overseas real estate business

Korea's Cha Bio Group to expand overseas real estate business

Cha Bio Group, consisting of Cha Biotech and Cha Vaccine Research Institute as its subsidiaries, has announced its expansion into the real estate in...

Samsung’s TV business launches customer marketing team

Samsung’s TV business launches customer marketing team

South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is putting into action an age-old mantra that reflects the importance of customers in its bus...

Korean PE firm STIC to buy stake in copper foil maker Iljin

Korean PE firm STIC to buy stake in copper foil maker Iljin

South Korean private equity firm STIC Investments is poised to become the second-largest shareholder of Iljin Materials Co., a Kosdaq-listed battery...

AMCHAM head James Kim joins Hyundai Mobis as outside director

AMCHAM head James Kim joins Hyundai Mobis as outside director

James Kim, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea (AMCHAM), is joining South Korea’s largest auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co....

NHN Cloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation's KCSP program

NHN Cloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation's KCSP program

South Korea's NHN Cloud announced on Wednesday that it had become a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP), which is a partner program created...

Plain sailing for LS with record earnings under Chairman Koo’s leadership

Plain sailing for LS with record earnings under Chairman Koo’s leadership

LS Group’s plan to groom new growth engines from batteries to electric vehicles and semiconductors is set to gain impetus after South Korea&rs...

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