Insatiable Hyundai Motor aspires to lead India with SUVs, EVs

Insatiable Hyundai Motor aspires to lead India with SUVs, EVs

Hyundai Motor Group must become “the first mover” in India, which has emerged as the next fierce battlefield for global car makers after...

Hanjin KAL secures liquidity to keep chairman's control of firm

Hanjin KAL secures liquidity to keep chairman's control of firm

Hanjin KAL Corp., the holding firm of South Korean flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co., is actively raising money via bond issuances and sale of prope...

Samsung to unveil vision for chips resembling human senses at Tech Day

Samsung to unveil vision for chips resembling human senses at Tech Day

Chipmakers around the world have long aspired to develop semiconductors that can replicate human senses such as smell, hearing, vision, taste and to...

S.Korea's Webcash releases Vietnamese version of 'Branch'

S.Korea's Webcash releases Vietnamese version of 'Branch'

The Vietnamese version of Webcash Co.'s fund management system "Branch," called "WE-MBA," has been launched. WE-MBA is integrated with 17 Vietnamese...

SSG.Com announces global first launch of Piaget's new watch

SSG.Com announces global first launch of Piaget's new watch

SSG.COM, the e-commerce platform of South Korean retail heavyweight Shinsegae Inc., revealed on Tuesday its exclusive introduction of Swiss luxury b...

Orion teams up with Dutch Mill to tap Vietnamese dairy market

Orion teams up with Dutch Mill to tap Vietnamese dairy market

South Korea's Orion Corp. announced on Tuesday its strategic collaboration with Thailand's dairy behemoth, Dutch Mill Co., marking its ambitious ent...

S.Korea, Laos boost partnership in global drive to cut CO2 emissions

S.Korea, Laos boost partnership in global drive to cut CO2 emissions

South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on Tuesday held talks with Laos' Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment at the Seoul hea...

Korea’s time deposit rates head north on higher bank bonds’ coupon

Korea’s time deposit rates head north on higher bank bonds’ coupon

South Korea’s commercial banks have joined thrifts and credit unions in a race to offer their time deposit holders higher interest to cover cl...

LG Energy Solution tops global EV battery market excluding China in H1

LG Energy Solution tops global EV battery market excluding China in H1

South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. in the first half of this year retained its No. 1 ranking on the global market for electric vehicle (EV) batte...

S.Korea's Lotte Department Store launches 'K-Beauty' tour service

S.Korea's Lotte Department Store launches 'K-Beauty' tour service

South Korea's Lotte Department Store on Monday announced the launch of a "K-Beauty tour" service for foreign tourists.The company will first give fr...

LG, Samsung vie for HVAC lead with green technology

 LG, Samsung vie for HVAC lead with green technology

South Korea’s long-time technology archrivals LG Electronics Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. are upping the ante in the race to lead the grow...

Affinity's CJ Lee to become 3rd Korean executive to leave

Affinity's CJ Lee to become 3rd Korean executive to leave

Affinity Equity Partners’ founding member and Managing Partner Lee Chul-joo (CJ Lee) will resign from the Asia’s leading buyout manager,...

S.Korean transformers invade US market on surging demand

S.Korean transformers invade US market on surging demand

South Korea’s heavy electrical equipment makers are expanding their presence in the US, the world’s second-largest electricity consumer,...

Hyundai, Kia to showcase new cars at Indonesia’s GIIAS auto show

Hyundai, Kia to showcase new cars at Indonesia’s GIIAS auto show

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. will participate in Indonesia’s largest auto show next week as the South Korean sister firms ramp up their off...

Com2uS' Minigame Party surpasses 1 mn global downloads

Com2uS' Minigame Party surpasses 1 mn global downloads

South Korean game company Com2uS Corp. announced on Friday that its mobile game "Minigame Party," which was simultaneously released worldwide on Jul...

Dongwha Pharm to buy Vietnamese pharmacy chain at $30 mn

Dongwha Pharm to buy Vietnamese pharmacy chain at $30 mn

South Korea's Dongwha Pharm announced on Thursday that it signed an agreement to acquire a 51% stake in Trung Son Pharma, a leading pharmacy chain i...

Kolon Global wins $226 mn contract for Mongolian public housing project

Kolon Global wins $226 mn contract for Mongolian public housing project

South Korea's Kolon Global Corp. announced on Friday that it has won a public housing construction project in Mongolia worth 295.7 billion won ($226...

With long-gone heyday, Capro clings to stake sale for survival

With long-gone heyday, Capro clings to stake sale for survival

Once everyone’s darling but now an ugly duckling, Capro Co., South Korea’s sole maker of caprolactam, a nylon raw material, is despera...

LG Electronics to form $100-million global startup fund

LG Electronics to form $100-million global startup fund

LG Electronics Inc. has committed over $100 million to a startup fund to unearth new technologies in sustainable energy, digital health, artificial ...

Big Bang deregulation poised to bolster S.Korean ST market

Big Bang deregulation poised to bolster S.Korean ST market

South Korea’s fractional investment market is gearing up for a grand opening after the government earlier this year unveiled security token of...

CJ Logistics teams up with world’s No. 7 shipping company ONE

CJ Logistics teams up with world’s No. 7 shipping company ONE

South Korea's largest parcel delivery service CJ Logistics on Thursday said it signed a strategic partnership deal with Japan’s Ocean Network ...

Hanwha Aerospace ventures into eco-friendly ship market

Hanwha Aerospace ventures into eco-friendly ship market

South Korea's Hanwha Aerospace Co. announced on Thursday that it has completed the development of a megawatt-hour (MWh) energy storage system (ESS)....

Global EV, battery sectors in war for talent acquisition

Global EV, battery sectors in war for talent acquisition

Global electric vehicle and battery makers are fiercely competing to secure talent with high salaries and various incentives as their workforces a...

Baskin-Robbins stands out in melting Korean ice cream market

Baskin-Robbins stands out in melting Korean ice cream market

Global ice cream chain Baskin-Robbins, the top ice cream seller in South Korea, is solidifying its market position with localization despite the cou...

HD Hyundai to expand LNG tanker conversion biz with orders

HD Hyundai to expand LNG tanker conversion biz with orders

HD Hyundai Global Service, the ship retrofit subsidiary of the world’s second-largest shipbuilder HD Hyundai Co., is poised to bag orders to c...

APR’s fashion brand Nerdy opens two more stores in Vietnam

APR’s fashion brand Nerdy opens two more stores in Vietnam

South Korea's cosmetic and clothing company APR announced on Wednesday that its street style fashion brand Nerdy opened its third and fourth stores ...

Com2us launches RPG game ‘Heir of Light: Eclipse’ in Canada, Indonesia

Com2us launches RPG game ‘Heir of Light: Eclipse’ in Canada, Indonesia

Com2us Holdings Corp. announced on Wednesday that its new role-playing game (RPG), Heir to  Light: Eclipse, is now available on Google Play in ...

Samsung’s Bespoke Jet AI sweeps global acclaim

Samsung’s Bespoke Jet AI sweeps global acclaim

Bespoke Jet AI, the cordless stick vacuum cleaner of Samsung Electronics Co., continues to receive international recognition for its superior techno...

S.Korean carmakers post brisk sales on strong exports in July

S.Korean carmakers post brisk sales on strong exports in July

South Korea's car sector posted strong sales last month as favorable exports offset the sluggish domestic market.Industry sources on Tuesday said th...

S.Korean LLM by Upstage beats global benchmark ChatGPT

S.Korean LLM by Upstage beats global benchmark ChatGPT

The latest artificial intelligence model of South Korean AI startup Upstage scored higher than ChatGPT by global AI giant OpenAI in a world-recogniz...

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