Yanolja Cloud to develop real estate platform with SK Discovery

South Korea's Yanolja Cloud, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, announced on Tuesday its partnership with SK Discovery Co. to build a proptech ...

Samsung Elec boosts robotics as key growth engine: Vice chairman

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest chip producer, will go all out to expand its robotics business, Vice Chairman and Co-CEO Han Jong...

SK C&C, Naver Cloud team up to boost AI services for Korean companies

SK C&C, a leading information technology service provider in South Korea, has announced a partnership with Naver Cloud to develop ultra-large ar...

Wave Lifestyle Tech signs MOU with Saudi gov't to expand robot business

Wave Lifestyle Tech, a South Korean foodtech robot company, said on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia’...

S.Korea's STX to spin off shipping division

South Korea's general trading company STX Corporation has announced plans to divide its shipping division into a new company specializing in shippin...

Startup Innospace launches Korea’s first private projectile

South Korean space startup Innospace said on Monday it has launched a suborbital test projectile, the country’s first private launch vehicle, ...

Bespin Global to work with GBike for smart mobility business in Vietnam

Bespin Global, a cloud delivery platform company based in South Korea, announced on Thursday that it had partnered with GBike, a micromobility tech ...

OCI to expand polysilicon line, buy back shares to boost corporate value

OCI Co., a leading South Korean chemical and green energy company, plans to significantly increase the size of its upcoming share buyback and cancel...

LG Elec to spend over $4 bn on capex in 2023, biggest in a decade

LG Electronics Inc. has decided to go bold to widen the technology gap with its rivals, with its biggest capital expenditure in a decade of more tha...

Korea's LifeSemantics establishes health functional food subsidiary

Digital healthcare company LifeSemantics Co. has entered the health functional food business by creating a new subsidiary, NutraSemantics. The South...

EQT sees huge potential in security services for S.Korean SMEs

The digital security market is rapidly growing in South Korea, one of the world’s fastest-aging countries and amid its soaring labor costs.&nb...

S.Korea's Harim launches street food brand Melting Piece

South Korea's leading poultry processing firm, Harim Co., announced on Thursday the launch of its new street food brand, Melting Piece, in response ...

F&F bets on China's beauty market under MLB brand

F&F Co., a South Korean retailer of Western brands such as Major League Baseball (MLB), has been rapidly penetrating China's cosmetics market, w...

Lotte Mart unveils integrated private brand Good Today

South Korea's hypermarket Lotte Mart on Wednesday announced the debut of its integrated private brand (PB) Good Today under its plan to conduct focu...

Lotte Fine Chemical, OCI Global join hands for clean ammonia business

Lotte Fine Chemical Co., a subsidiary of Lotte Chemical Corp., and Europe’s No.1 clean ammonia producer OCI N.V., or OCI Global, will collabor...

Hyundai Asan to sell $30.7 million worth of shares for capital restructuring

Hyundai Asan Co. under South Korean conglomerate Hyundai Group will raise 40 billion won ($30.7 million) in its seventh share sale since it was forc...

Samsung suspends business with select software partner companies

Samsung Electronics Co. has recently “suspended transactions” with select software partner companies through regular auditing, with arou...

Hahn & Co. puts SK Shipping’s tanker business up for sale

South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Co. is seeking to sell SK Shipping Co.’s tanker division, a business widely seen as the breadwinne...

Nongshim lands deal to export smart farms to Saudi Arabia

South Korea's food and beverage giant Nongshim Co. will export smart farms to Saudi Arabia, following a similar deal with the United Arab Emirates (...

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...

Pulmuone looks to enter US plant-based convenience food market

Pulmuone, a leading South Korean producer of plant-based foods such as tofu and bean sprouts, is trying to expand the K-food territory in the global...

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

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

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, 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

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

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 & 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

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...

Dongsuh Foods applies green certification package to products

South Korea's food processing company Dongsuh Foods Corporation announced on Monday the launch of new green technology-certified packaging.This gree...