Frozen kimbap market emerges as new K-food battlefield
South Korean fishery processing and seafood major Sajo Daerim Corp. has forayed into the frozen kimbap market, becoming a new big player in the coun...
Korean food firms chase sizzling K-food demand with expansion
South Korean food companies are scrambling to ramp up factory output at home and abroad to meet the insatiable appetite for Korean flavors and aroma...
KGC enters Malaysian healty functional food market
Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC), wholly owned by South Korean tobacco giant KT&G Corp., announced on June 13 that it sells its red ginseng brand Jung ...
Affinity fails in Lock&Lock tender offer; eyes equity swap
Hong Kong-based Affinity Equity Partners is planning for an equity swap between its new entity and South Korean food container maker Lock&Lock...
Shinsegae, CJ to tie up for product delivery, food launch
Retail-focused Shinsegae Group is set to outsource delivery services and logistics management for its e-commerce platforms such as SSG.COM and Gmark...
Daesang to scale up meal kits, kimchi production in Vietnam
Daesang Corp., South Korea’s leading food maker, said on Monday its two Vietnamese operations have each completed their second plant in the co...
Celebrity-run food chain operator TheBorn Korea files for IPO review
TheBorn Korea Inc., a leading South Korean food and beverage group operated by TV celebrity and chef Paik Jong-won, has filed for a preliminary revi...
SK seeks to sell 13.3% stake in Chinese food firm Joyvio
SK Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s second-largest business group SK, is in talks with Joyvio Group to sell its entire 13.3% stake i...
Samsung releases new Bespoke AI Family Hub product
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Friday the launch of a new "Bespoke AI Family Hub" refrigerator, designed to offer new AI experiences in everyd...
Lotte Wellfood, Studio Dragon to collaborate on K-contents
South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with K-drama producer Studio Dragon to col...
Affinity extends tender offer for food container maker Lock&Lock
Hong Kong-based Affinity Equity Partners is set to extend its tender offer for South Korean food container maker Lock&Lock Co. shares, as the pr...
CJ CheilJedang profit beats forecasts on overseas business
South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. on Tuesday reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on healthy overseas businesses and cost cut...
Ottogi, KTO partner to attract foreign tourists
The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding with domestic food company Ottogi to attract f...
CJ's Bibigo Gimbap enters Australian Woolworths stores
South Korea's food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Sunday that it released its Bibigo frozen Gimbap products at Woolworths, Australia's numb...
Overseas Korean food fans choose soju, bibimbap as favorites
South Korea’s soju and bibimbap are respectively the most popular liquor and food among foreigners, according to survey results released by th...
Samsung Welstory completes new Vietnam logistics center
South Korean food and beverage company Samsung Welstory announced on Thursday that it completed a new logistics center with a cold chain system in B...
CJ's Bibigo bolsters sports marketing with PGA tours sponsorship
Scottie Scheffler, a top-ranked American professional golfer, gave a shoutout to food served by CJ CheilJedang Corp. during The CJ Cup golf tourname...
In Korean food prices, everything’s up: Now it’s dried seaweed's turn
First, it was groceries. Then came fried chicken and hamburgers. Now, it’s seasoned seaweed products, chocolate and ice creams.As in other cou...
HD Hyundai Oilbank kicks off biodiesel mass production
HD Hyundai Oilbank Co., South Korea’s refiner backed by Saudi Aramco, started mass production of biodiesel to expand its eco-friendly energy b...
Affinity eyes full control of food container maker Lock&Lock
Affinity Equity Partners, which holds a 69.64% stake in South Korean food container manufacturer Lock&Lock Co., is slated to buy most of the com...
Korean unicorns’ failed global expedition causes growth concern
Woowa Brothers Corp. and Viva Republica Inc., South Korea’s most valuable unicorns, have pulled the plug on some of their overseas businesses ...
Nongshim Kellogg overtakes Dongsuh as Korea’s top cereal maker
Just a few years back, cereals meant cornflakes eaten with milk during busy mornings in South Korea.Nowadays, however, cereals mean granola made of ...
Korea’s rate cut hope wanes with inflation above 3% in March
South Korea’s headline inflation stayed above 3% for two straight months in March on a surge in fruit and vegetable prices coupled with higher...
Money pours in for technology to reshape Korean restaurants
Investors are betting big on food service technology startups in South Korea as the adoption of self-service systems in the country’s food and...
Naver, named 3rd most innovative company in the Asia-Pacific
South Korea’s online giant Naver Corp. ranked as the third most innovative company in the Asia-Pacific by a top US business magazine for the p...
CJ Freshway, Hanwha Robotics to team up for food robots
South Korea's CJ Freshway Corp. and Hanwha Robotics will jointly develop food robots. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding ...
Premium children's brands buck falling birth rate in Korea
Premium children's clothing and food brands have bucked the economic slowdown in a country grappling with the world’s lowest birth rate as Sou...
South Korea’s Daesang retracts bid to acquire China’s Chengfu Food
South Korea’s food giant Daesang Corp. has retracted its bid to acquire a controlling stake in China’s leading food additives maker Heil...
AliExpress sells top K-food maker’s products in S.Korea
AliExpress, an e-commerce arm of China’s Alibaba Group, on Thursday started selling products of CJ CheilJedang Corp., South Korea’s top ...
BBQ opens delivery store in Vietnam
BBQ, a popular South Korean fried chicken brand announced on Friday that it opened its first delivery and takeout store in Vietnam.The store is at V...
