Lotte Chilsung Krush beer enters Mongolian market

South Korea's Lotte Chilsung Beverage announced on Friday that its beer brand Krush entered the Mongolian market. The company sponsored Davaida...

Korean shopping mecca Dongdaemun Market's vacancy rates soar

Store vacancy rates in South Korea’s largest shopping mecca Dongdaemun Market have soared to as high as 86%, with Chinese e-commerce platfor...

Korea’s April factory output rebounds amid weak consumption

South Korea’s factory production rebounded in April on healthy manufacturing while domestic consumption and capital expenditures dipped, indic...

Lotte's sugar-free soju Saero to enter European market

South Korea's Lotte Chilsung Beverage Co. is poised to introduce its zero-sugar soju Saero to the European market next month, aiming to expand its g...

LX Pantos to enter Indonesian resource logistics market

South Korea's LX Pantos said on Thursday that it signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with KSA, Indonesia's largest bulk carrier, to tap into the S...

Korean biotech Bertis to join BIO 2024 for global reach

South Korean biotech Bertis Inc. will deliver presentations at the BIO International Convention, one of the world’s largest bio and healthcare...

Korea's golf apparel market shrinks as golf boom fizzles

The heyday of South Korea’s golf apparel market seems to be over with the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Millennials and Generation Z, who had ...

Mega Coffee to open first store in Mongolia

South Korea's low-price coffee chain, Mega MGC Coffee, announced on Tuesday that it will open its first overseas store in Mongolia on May 30. This...

Tencent-backed Shift Up seeks June IPO at $2.6 bn value

South Korean gaming firm Shift Up Corp. is eyeing an initial public offering on the main Kospi in June, with an enterprise value of 3.48 trillion wo...

Samsung to deepen foray in US HVAC market with Lennox

Samsung Electronics Co. will set up a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) joint venture with Lennox International Inc., a major US HVAC...

Webcash Global, BC Card Vietnam partner on B2B fintech

Webcash Global, an affiliate of South Korea's Webcash Co., announced on Tuesday that it has recently signed a business agreement with BC Card Vietna...

SK Hynix: More room for share price rise after bull run

SK Hynix Inc.'s market value broke through the roof to top 150 trillion won ($110 billion) on Monday, becoming the second stock in South Korea to re...

Hyundai Glovis adopts system to meet US' green policies on car carriers

Hyundai Glovis Co., the world’s third-largest car shipping company, is set to introduce an emission reduction system for its vehicle carriers ...

Samsung Bioepis leads in Soliris biosimilar market in Europe

STOCKHOLM – Samsung Bioepis Co.'s biosimilar to Soliris for the treatment of patients with rare, life-threatening disease paroxysmal nocturnal...

Kolon Global inks Korea’s 1st private wind power supply deal

Kolon Global Corp., the leading South Korean wind farm developer, signed the country’s first private wind power supply deal with local compani...

Korean AI startups yet to join global unicorn club

The number of artificial intelligence unicorns has been on the rise thanks to the AI boom, but none of these South Korean AI startups have yet to jo...

GS25 opens 300th store in Vietnam

South Korean convenience store chain GS25 said on Sunday that it opened its 300th store in Vietnam. This is the milestone since it entered th...

Seaweed, dubbed ‘Korea’s black semiconductor,’ powers its economy

Dried seaweed, widely used to make kimbap, or seaweed-wrapped rice rolls, is often referred to as the “black semiconductor” in South Kor...

Handok gets Biocon's obesity drug exclusive distribution in S.Korea

South Korean pharmaceutical company Handok Inc. announced on Friday that it signed an exclusive domestic sales and distribution agreement with India...

Samil PwC expands global foothold with Carlyle's Japan KFC deal

Global accounting industry leader PricewaterhouseCoopers’ South Korean member firm is expanding its foothold with global mergers and acquisiti...

HD Hyundai, Shell to develop liquefied hydrogen carrier

HD Hyundai Co., a South Korean shipbuilding and machinery conglomerate, announced on Friday that it will collaborate with global energy compa...

Kia premieres EV3 to boost global electrification push

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, on Thursday premiered the EV3, its low-cost electric sport utility vehicle (SUV), to reboot...

Hyundai Infracore, Doosan Bobcat agree to product cross-selling in US

South Korea’s two leading construction machinery makers HD Hyundai Infracore Co. and Doosan Bobcat Inc. on Thursday agreed to the cross-sellin...

LG targets India’s edtech market with interactive whiteboards

LG Electronics Inc. is acclerating its foray into India’s business-to-business (B2B) market, zooming in on the country’s rapidly-growing...

LG CNS' marketing platform MOP surpasses 800 corporate customers

South Korea’s LG CNS Co., a cloud computing services arm of LG Corp., announced on Thursday that its Marketing Optimization Platform (MOP), la...

Samsung to unveil QLC-based NAND in H2 to lead AI storage market

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, plans to unveil a new high-capacity NAND memory chip in the second half to lead...

POBA favors data centers, senior housing in Europe: CIO

South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), a retirement fund with assets under management (AUM) of 26 trillion won ($19.1 bill...

Nexon releases Dungeon & Fighter Mobile in China

South Korea’s online game developer Nexon Korea Corp. on Tuesday officially launched the action role-playing game (RPG) Dungeon & Fighter ...

Korean construction machine makers set sights on India, Brazil, Mexico

South Korea’s leading construction machine makers are actively advancing into emerging markets such as India, Brazil, Mexico and Saudi Arabia,...

Samsung cements TV market lead in Q1; LG tops OLED segment

Samsung Electronics Co. has retained the top spot in the global TV market in the first quarter of this year, cementing its lead in the ultra-large p...