Vietnam’s rise: An ominous sign for Korean chipmakers

Just a few years back, it was Taiwan that was on everyone’s lips in the semiconductor industry.The small East Asian island country, home to th...

S.Korea's extended reality sector forms industry convergence alliance

The Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a convergence alliance of the domestic exte...

Daesang Wellife signs contract with RexSoft for healthcare platform

South Korea's Daesang Wellife Corp. has inked a 2 billion won ($1.5 million) investment contract with local healthcare data science company RexSoft ...

Hyundai Motor offers Bluelink free to new customers in US

Hyundai Motor Co. in a world first is offering lifetime membership of its connected car care service Bluelink free to new customers in the US, judgi...

S.Korea's Kyung Dong Navien expands its business in Central Asia

South Korea's heating systems manufacturer Kyung Dong Navien Co. held a conference for 100 local dealers in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Feb. 10.The con...

Shinhan Financial returns to top in Korea with record NP in 2022

Shinhan Financial Group Co. reported a record-high net profit of 4.6 trillion won ($3.6 billion) last year, snatching back the crown of South Korea&...

Chanel Korea to power its stores with renewable energy

Chanel Korea has taken a step toward reducing its carbon footprint by signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Korea East-West Power. The ag...

South Korean companies rattled by activist shareholders

South Korea’s major companies are under attack by activist shareholders, who are exerting ever-increasing clout over critical corporate decisi...

Dongwon Industries in talks to buy McDonald’s Korea as exclusive suitor

Dongwon Industries Co. will discuss a deal with McDonald’s Corp. to buy the latter’s Korean operations in hopes of riding on the renewed...

Industrial Bank of Korea goes all in with Eastern Europe push

Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) will open an office in Poland in the first half of this year, with analysts saying the bank's president Kim Seong-tae...

NHN Dooray, HandySoft join forces to develop advanced collaboration tools

NHN Dooray, a provider of online collaboration tools, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with HandySoft, Inc., South Korea's leading gro...

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering ends fears over stock overhang

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a subholding company for shipbuilding, oil refining and machinery conglomerate HD Hyundai Co. ...

Meritz Securities poised to become Korea’s No. 1 for first time

Meritz Securities Co., once a mid-tier securities firm in South Korea, is expected to command the local market as No. 1 after earning more than 1 tr...

SK Ecoplant passes industry-first carbon reduction target verification

South Korea's construction and engineering company SK Ecoplant Co. said on Thursday that it has passed the greenhouse gas reduction target verificat...

S.Korea's online K Bank withdraws plan for Kospi listing

South Korea's K Bank has withdrawn its highly anticipated plan to hold an IPO this year in the judgement of a lower corporate value due to the slugg...

Samsung Heavy Industries adopts integrated monitoring system

In a first for shipbuilding, South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has developed a system to confirm all data generated in the process of shipbuild...

Korea Customs Service to advance Tanzania's e-customs clearance system

The Korea Customs Service said on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Tanzania Revenue Authority for cooperati...

KB Financial Group holds investment conference via metaverse

South Korea's KB Financial Group on Tuesday presented its investment philosophy to individual and institutional customers in the metaverse, a three-...

Kia launches 2024 Niro model with enhanced features

Kia Corp. announced on Wednesday the launch of the 2024 Niro, a compact crossover SUV hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) models, which will be availab...

Samsung to showcase customized home appliances at KBIS 2023

Samsung Electronics Co. will showcase its home appliance lineup that focuses on sustainability and personalized design at the 2023 Kitchen & Bat...

Samsung vows no chip output cut, eyes second-half demand recovery

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday it has no plans to cut semiconductor production even if it incurs temporary losses as the world’s larg...

Companies prioritize sense of responsibility over skills when hiring staff: study

Two-thirds of South Korea's top 100 companies are looking for talented employees with a spirit of challenge and sense of responsibility, mainly beca...

POSCO Chem, Samsung SDI ink $33 bn EV battery material deal

POSCO Chemical Co., a battery material unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., and Samsung SDI Co., the world’s No. 6 ele...

A-Team Ventures succeeds in attracting $4.1 mn investment from LX

A-Team Ventures, which runs an online manufacturing platform "Capa," said on Friday that it has raised a Series B funding of 5 billion won ($4.1 mil...

Woori Bank's Vietnam subsidiary reports record-high performance

Woori Bank Vietnam, South Korean lender Woori Bank's local subsidiary in Vietnam, had heydays last year, tiding over the aftermath of the COVID-19 o...

S.Korea's Bespin Global launches all-in-one AIoT

South Korea's cloud solution provider Bespin Global said on Thursday that it would launch "IoTOps," a software as a service (SaaS)-based artificial ...

DongKoo Bio signs MOU to move into SE Asian healthcare market

DongKoo Bio & Pharma Co. has built a bridgehead for expansion toward the world, including Southeast Asia by joining hands with LVMC Holdings, th...

Take QR code instead of long password when connecting to Wi-Fi

LG Uplus Corp. introduced a functionality that allows access to Wi-Fi through an Internet TV screen. This is intended to make it possible to connect...

SK Hynix unveils industry’s fastest mobile DRAM chip LPDDR5T

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it has developed the world’s fastest mobile DRAM chip and ...

Samsung's Galaxy S23 obtains Canstar Blue's Most Satisfied Customers award

Galaxy S23, the latest mobile handset of South Korea's electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co.,  obtained the Canstar Blue 2023 Most Satisfie...