Hyundai Engineering wins Asia Design Prize 2024
South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Co. announced on Wednesday that it won the Asia Design Prize 2024, an international design competition in Asia...
HD Hyundai, Babcock to co-develop submarine for export
South Korea's HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. announced on Wednesday that it will collaborate with the UK-based renowned defense company Babcock Int...
Samsung Bioepis to supply Hadlima to US government
South Korea’s Samsung Bioepis and the US-based Organon, the local partner company of Samsung group's biopharmaceutical research and developmen...
South Korea’s luxury hotels bask in return of tourists post-pandemic
South Korea’s luxury hotels are enjoying the return of tourists following years of COVID-19 restrictions, which significantly hurt their sales...
Altos Ventures invests $9.4 mn in Techtaka
South Korea's Altos Ventures announced on Tuesday that it has invested 12.6 billion won ($9.4 million) in the software-centric fulfillment company T...
Kakao Brain releases medical GenAI tech for free
Kakao Brain, an artificial intelligence (AI) R&D subsidiary of South Korea's Kakao Corp., announced on Tuesday that it has uploaded the Labeler ...
S.Korea to build new English disclosure system
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) announced on Feb. 18 that it will broaden the scope of its English electronic disclosure ser...
Fed rate cut hopes spur Koreans’ US Treasury bond buying spree
US Treasury bonds are gaining popularity among retail investors in South Korea amid expectations that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates...
Korea's military fund, LIG Nex1, IBK to form $60 mn defense fund
South Korea’s Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA), a retirement savings fund for military personnel, will create an 80 billion won ($60 mil...
Mirae Asset, Bloomberg to team up to develop ETFs
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., an asset manager under South Korea's financial service giant Mirae Asset Financial Group, will develop exchange-...
Family feud at Kumho Petrochem set to reignite
Park Chul-whan, the nephew of Kumho Petrochemical Co.'s former Chairman Park Chan-koo, has launched a proxy fight jointly with an activist fund, fue...
Foreign investors net buyers of Korean stocks for 3rd straight month
Foreign investors bought more South Korean stocks and bonds in January, extending their buying spree to three months.The Financial Supervisory Servi...
Shinsegae E&C to sell leisure unit to reduce debt
South Korea’s Shinsegae Engineering & Construction Co. (Shinsegae E&C) announced on Wednesday that it will sell its leisure unit Jos...
Korea gives the nod for foreign workers at plant construction sites
South Korea is expected to allow foreigners to work at plant construction sites nearly two decades after non-native Koreans were banned from those p...
Samsung C&T develops new cooling system for data centers
Samsung C&T Corp. announced on Wednesday that it collaborated with the domestic cooling system tech company DataBean to develop and commercializ...
BMW joins other foreign brands’ moves to use domestic car GPS in Korea
German luxury carmaker BMW Group is installing domestic GPS navigation systems in models sold in South Korea, joining other imported car brands&rsqu...
Shortt gets 400 mn views in one year in SE Asian market
Shortt, a South Korean short form content company, announced on Wednesday that it has got a total of 400 million views of its campaigns for South Ko...
KAI to invest $76 mn in unmanned fighter jets
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) has announced that it plans to invest 102.5 billion won ($76.64 million) in the development of core technologi...
CJ CheilJedang overseas food sales surpasses domestic market
South Korea's CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Tuesday that its overseas food sales surpassed the domestic market in the fourth quarter performan...
POSCO Int’l wins Mercury Awards for video ad
POSCO International Corp. announced on Tuesday that it has received the Honors Award in the Corporate Identity Video category at the prestigious Mer...
S.Korean companies line up for IPOs as market recovers
South Korean companies are gearing up for listings targeting billions of dollars in market capitalization as the local initial public offering (IPO)...
Hyundai Department stocks down on cheap dividend policy
Hyundai Department Store Group, a South Korean major retail conglomerate, has unveiled the group companies’ dividend payout plans for the mid ...
SK Earthon sells Peru LNG stake for $257 mn to MidOcean
SK Earthon Co., the resources development subsidiary of South Korea’s top energy company SK Innovation Co., sold a stake in Peru LNG Co. LLC f...
EcoPro’s 2023 profit halves on softer EV demand, materials prices
South Korea’s major battery materials company EcoPro Co. saw last year’s operating profit halved from the previous year after a steeper-...
Celltrion to supply Remsima SC, Yuflyma to Norway
South Korea's Celltrion Inc. announced on Wednesday that it will supply its autoimmune disease treatments Remsima SC (infliximab) and Yuflyma, the...
One Store attracts $50 mn investment from Digital Turbine
South Korean homegrown app store One Store Co. has attracted a $50 million investment from the Nasdaq-listed US-based mobile platform company Digi...
Cosmax targets Southeast Asia's halal perfume market
Cosmax Inc., South Korea's largest cosmetics manufacturer in original design manufacturing (ODM), announced on Wednesday that it opened its new perf...
LIG Nex1 inks $3.2 bn missile defense deal with Saudi Arabia
South Korea's major defense system developer LIG Nex1 Co. has clinched a $3.2 billion deal to export its latest missile interceptor to Saudi Arabia,...
SK Hynix to use 30% recycled materials by 2030
SK Hynix Inc., the world's second-largest memory chip producer, announced on Tuesday that it has established a medium- to long-term plan to utilize ...
LIG Nex1, Hyundai Rotem to team up for Middle East export
South Korea's major defense maker LIG Nex1 Co. announced on Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Hyundai Rotem Co. to...
