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Amkor Technology Inc., the world’s No. 2 semiconductor packaging company, aims to take the sector throne by improving technology competitivene...

LG Electronics Inc. on Wednesday said it will promote as one of its new growth engines antibacterial glass powder, or fine particles made with cru...

South Korea’s SK Group and Hana Financial Group are jointly developing a next-generation credit rating model for the financially disadvantaged...

Mirae Asset Securities UK, the UK corporation of South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities, announced on Monday that it has acquired GHCO, a market-makin...

Samsung Group leader Lee Jae-yong wrapped up a 22-day US business trip on Friday after meeting with nearly two dozen chief executives of multination...

Doosan Corp., the holding company of South Korean plant-to-machinery conglomerate Doosan Group, is slated to attract $200 million for its hydrogen f...

Hyundai Motor Co. in the first quarter controlled over half of the global market for fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) powered by hydrogen thanks t...

South Korea, trailing in the global race for quantum technology, will open a new quantum technology-dedicated graduate school with a consortium led ...

South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities has made history as the first Korean financial investment firm to join the Singapore Exchange's (SGX) trading...

The number of young workers in South Korea fell for a sixth straight month in April to its lowest point in more than two years, deepening concerns t...

South Korea's low-cost carriers (LCCs) since last month have waged an intense competition with the recovery of the overseas travel market. They boos...

South Korea's massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), a mainstream genre in domestic games, is showing signs of an increasingly he...

One Store Co., a South Korean homegrown app store, is slated to attract more than 200 billion won ($151.3 million) as its 100 billion won loan, whic...

Samsung Group leader Lee Jae-yong, currently in the US, has vowed to make biotechnology the conglomerate’s second core strategic business afte...

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean railway system maker under Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Monday that it has signed an infrastructure fund inve...

South Korean green bonds eligible for government support enjoyed robust demand despite lower yields, as investors upgraded environmental, social, ...

South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co. will build a recycling facility for electric vehicle (EV) waste batteries in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, ...

Back in the early 2000s, Meritz was an obscure, lesser-known insurance-related company in South Korea’s financial arena.Part of Hanjin Group, ...

Once-popular games for feature phones in the 2000s are seeing a revival in South Korea on the growing demand for simple and easy titles for smartpho...

Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment and digital wallet service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., announced on Thursday it has signed an a...

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., reported a 30% on...

The economic outlook of South Korean manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors is negative for May, marking the 12th consecutive month of such p...

Woori Financial Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest financial holding company, logged growth in a quarterly net profit as larger interest rate...

South Korea will set a separate quota of 5,000 foreign workers to solve the labor shortage in domestic shipbuilding and accept 120,000 such workers ...

Healthcare continued to be the preferred sector for South Korean institutional investors this year as it was last year, a survey found. Meanwhile, the...

The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) on Thursday said the number of patents filed overseas by domestic companies last year set a record-hi...

South Korea will invest 20 trillion won ($15.1 billion) in the rechargeable battery sector by 2030 to widen its technology gap with global competito...

South Korean and Japanese businesspeople form a study group to strengthen economic cooperation between the two countries.The Korea Chamber of Commer...

Shinhan Financial Group's Chairman Jin Ok-dong is set to embark on his first overseas business trip since taking office as chairman last month. From...

South Korea has released guidelines on the advancement of small modular reactors (SMR), a critical sector for the domestic nuclear power industry, u...