global business

South Korea’s financial regulator plans wider investigations into illegal short-selling trades by major foreign investment banks to ease conce...

South Korea's SKC Ltd. announced on Tuesday it will sell the fine ceramics business of its subsidiary SK enpulse, a semiconductor materials investme...

South Korea’s Kumho Petrochemical Co. and POSCO International Corp. are considering launching a joint venture to produce carbon nanotubes (CNT...

LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, said its automotive division enjoyed all-time high quarterly profit in the most recent...

South Korea's Hanjin Transportation announced on Friday it has opened a representative office in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to expand its logistics hu...

BARCELONA -- Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s top contract manufacturing organization by capacity, is looking for acquisitions of new drugma...

SAN FRANCISCO – LG Electronics Inc. will set up a new business entity focusing on some of its new growth pillars — digital healthcare, c...

South Korea's Naver Corp. announced on Thursday it successfully issued Samurai bonds, becoming the first global IT company to do so. Naver's debut...

Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday posted its highest-ever quarterly operating profit for the July-September period, driven by robust sales of pricey car...

DOHA -- HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world’s second-largest shipyard, has won a $3.9 billion deal to build 17 liquified natural gas ca...

Global private equity giant KKR & Co. Inc. is expected to take over Taeyoung Industry Corp., a cash cow of South Korea’s medium-sized busi...

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi Space Agency (SSA) to collaborate broadly in ...

Lotte Home Shopping Inc. has signed a character licensing agreement with Thailand’s TAC Consumer Public Co. (TACC), a lifestyle product and be...

South Korea's No. 1 shipbuilding group’s heir apparent Chung Ki-sun will deliver a keynote speech at the world’s biggest consumer techno...

Mirae Asset Financial Group, South Korea’s leading financial conglomerate, on Monday promoted Swarup Mohanty, the head of its Indian asset man...

South Korea’s biosimilar drugmaker Celltrion group on Monday moved one step closer to the planned combination of its three major affiliates wi...

South Korean food company CJ CheilJedang Corp. ’s strategic product lineup K-Street Food will be launched in June next year on major global ma...

South Korea's No. 2 conglomerate SK Group needs agile responses to rapidly changing business circumstances amid global geopolitical crises, C...

South Korea’s Nota AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization model company with investment from Naver D2 Startup Factory (D2SF), an inv...

South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. unveils recycled plastic LP records.The company announced on Thursday it has jointly developed the EcoRecord, an LP r...

South Korean venture capitalists are actively discovering attractive investment assets overseas to find a breakthrough amid a prolonged local VC dro...

L&F Co., a South Korean electric vehicle battery materials supplier to Tesla Inc., has embarked on a process to list its subsidiary in the local...

As the leader of Samsung Group for three decades, the late group Chairman Lee Kun-hee brought fundamental changes to the conglomerate under his &ldq...

POSCO International Corp., the energy and trading unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., concluded construction on an electric...

NCSOFT Corp., a major South Korean game developer and publisher, said on Tuesday it will showcase seven new titles in its upcoming global lineup at ...

Johnson & Johnson, a global pharmaceutical giant, showed more interest in South Korean bio startups with competitive innovation despite the rece...

South Korea’s HLB Therapeutics Co. on Tuesday said its US subsidiary Elevar Therapeutics has acquired the global rights excluding South Kore...

South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. announced on Tuesday a partnership with Estée Lauder, the leading global cosmetics brand, to integrate circula...

Fast food chain KFC said on Friday it will begin franchise store operations in South Korea next year, when the company will mark 40 years of busines...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. retained the top position in the global electric vehicle battery market excluding China in the first eight months of this ye...