LG Uplus aims to recycle 100% of industrial waste in 3 years

LG Uplus aims to recycle 100% of industrial waste in 3 years

LG Uplus Corp. announced it will recycle 100% of industrial waste from its plants by 2025.The mobile network arm of LG Corp. published a report titl...

The North Face supplier Youngone to bet on global outdoor startups

The North Face supplier Youngone to bet on global outdoor startups

South Korea’s Youngone Holdings Co. is set to accelerate its new business by establishing a corporate venture capital (CVC) firm in Singapor...

Korea, game developers in tug of war over P2E genre

Korea, game developers in tug of war over P2E genre

A battle over play-to-earn (P2E) games in South Korea between the government and the industry has yet to show any signs of abating as the authority ...

Krafton founder: Robotics, deep learning should be S.Korea’s future

Krafton founder: Robotics, deep learning should be S.Korea’s future

Krafton Inc. founder and chairman Chang Byung-gyu is a rare example of a serial entrepreneur in South Korea – a country dominated by family-ow...

Danble taps into overlooked market of men's fashion for older millennials

Danble taps into overlooked market of men's fashion for older millennials

Danble, operated by Tailor Town, is an online fashion platform serving the often-overlooked market of men’s fashion for those in their 30s and...

NCSOFT publishes second ESG report with a playbook concept

NCSOFT publishes second ESG report with a playbook concept

NCSOFT Corp., a leading South Korean game developer, has published its second annual sustainability report using a playbook map concept. The re...

Samsung Eng. to invest in Vietnam for SE Asia water biz

Samsung Eng. to invest in Vietnam for SE Asia water biz

Samsung Engineering Co. agreed to spend $41 million on Vietnam’s largest private water treatment company for the eco-friendly business in Sout...

Korean startups rely on word-of-mouth marketing for overseas penetration 

Korean startups rely on word-of-mouth marketing for overseas penetration 

Thanks to what some economists dub a borderless economy, more South Korean startups than ever before are looking beyond the peninsula. Seoul-ba...

SK Materials, Showa Denko to jointly seek US semiconductor gas business

SK Materials, Showa Denko to jointly seek US semiconductor gas business

SK Materials Co., an industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Inc., and Japanese chemicals company Showa Denko K.K. have agr...

Shilla Duty Free targets Chinese shoppers with Alibaba

Shilla Duty Free targets Chinese shoppers with Alibaba

The Shilla Duty Free Shop, the world’s No. 3 duty-free chain, has joined hands with a Chinese e-commerce giant to attract some 158 million cro...

Samsung to fuel rivalry with Sony in mobile image sensor market

Samsung to fuel rivalry with Sony in mobile image sensor market

Samsung Electronics Co. is set to narrow the gap with bigger competitor Sony in the global image sensor market. The South Korean tech giant introduc...

S.Korea ushers in new space era with rocket launch success

S.Korea ushers in new space era with rocket launch success

GOHEUNG, South Korea -- South Korea opened a new space era as it succeeded in the launch of a homegrown space rocket carrying payloads to become the...

Tech experts to discuss future mega-trends at KIF 2022

Tech experts to discuss future mega-trends at KIF 2022

The Korea Investment Festival (KIF), the largest annual investor relations (IR) event in South Korea, will be held June 29-30 at the Fairmont Ambass...

Netmarble to officially launch Seven Knights Revolution on July 28 

Netmarble to officially launch Seven Knights Revolution on July 28 

Netmarble Corp. is poised to officially launch its latest game Seven Knights Revolution on July 28 in South Korea. The South Korean mobile game...

Korea Inc. hit by rising commodity prices, weak won, supply crisis

Korea Inc. hit by rising commodity prices, weak won, supply crisis

South Korea’s major industries, especially the petrochemical and auto parts sectors, are suffering from surging global commodity prices, a wea...

Chemical makers to halt plants as truck driver strike deepens

Chemical makers to halt plants as truck driver strike deepens

South Korea’s petrochemical companies are set to halt operations as the work stoppage by unionized truck drivers stretched into an eighth day ...

LB Investment submits preliminary IPO assessment request to KRX

LB Investment submits preliminary IPO assessment request to KRX

LB Investment has submitted a preliminary assessment request to the Korea Stock Exchange, the first step to an initial public offering. It chose Mir...

Industrial losses balloon as Korean trucker strike enters 7th day

 Industrial losses balloon as Korean trucker strike enters 7th day

South Korea’s manufacturing sector faces ballooning losses across industries as the trucker strike entered its seventh day on Monday, disrupti...

SK Innovation to focus on small reactors, batteries, waste recycling

SK Innovation to focus on small reactors, batteries, waste recycling

SK Innovation Co., the refinery and chemicals unit of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK, is accelerating a shift toward eco-friendl...

S.Korean trucker strike enters 3rd day, targets Samsung’s supply chain

S.Korean trucker strike enters 3rd day, targets Samsung’s supply chain

South Korea’s unionized truckers, on day three of a large-scale strike, have moved to disrupt the supply of materials needed to manufacture se...

LG Elec CEO pledges cross-industry design innovation

LG Elec CEO pledges cross-industry design innovation

MILAN, Italy – South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. will focus on upgrading its home appliance designs to reflect the latest design trends ...

SK Hynix to supply industry’s best-performing DRAM to Nvidia

SK Hynix to supply industry’s best-performing DRAM to Nvidia

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is set to supply the industry’s best-performing DRAM to US graphic chipmaker...

Korea's small webtoon platforms eye global adult markets

Korea's small webtoon platforms eye global adult markets

South Korea’s smaller webtoon platforms are targeting the world’s digital adult comics market, in which industry leaders Naver Corp. and...

Hyundai Robotics, Vodafone to provide service robots in Germany

Hyundai Robotics, Vodafone to provide service robots in Germany

South Korean robotics firm Hyundai Robotics Co. announced it signed a letter of intent for a business partnership with global telecommunications gia...

Hyundai’s luxury Genesis goes bespoke under One of One brand

Hyundai’s luxury Genesis goes bespoke under One of One brand

Owning a luxury car with the design, interior finish or even engine power to one's liking is what drivers dream of but seems out of reach for most.G...

Venture capital heavyweights tighten belts after 13-year spending spree

Venture capital heavyweights tighten belts after 13-year spending spree

Venture capital firms at home and abroad are tightening their belts, following growing concerns over inflation and continued interest hikes by maj...

Musinsa drops plan to buy Japan-focused rival fashion platform

Musinsa drops plan to buy Japan-focused rival fashion platform

South Korea’s top online fashion platform Musinsa withdrew a plan to acquire a local rival that focuses on Japanese shoppers.The move indicate...

Bio, mobility to top Lotte's $30 bn spending list by 2026

Bio, mobility to top Lotte's $30 bn spending list by 2026

South Korea’s Lotte Group will spend a total of 37 trillion won ($29 billion) on its businesses over the next five years, a chunk of which wil...

Hanmi Semiconductor among top 10 chip machine makers: TechInsights

Hanmi Semiconductor among top 10 chip machine makers: TechInsights

Hanmi Semiconductor Co., a South Korean chip equipment manufacturer, has been chosen as one of the world’s top 10 chip fabrication machine mak...

Humbling experience leads to VC success ⁠– LG Tech Ventures CEO

Humbling experience leads to VC success ⁠– LG Tech Ventures CEO

Kim Dong-su, CEO of Silicon Valley-based LG Technology Ventures said that the failures he experienced while working at a boutique investment firm ha...

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