KOSME, CJ Olive Young support K-beauty SMEs to enter US

KOSME, CJ Olive Young support K-beauty SMEs to enter US

Korea SMEs and Startups Agency (KOSME) announced on Tuesday that it held online and offline marketing and buyer meetings in partnership with CJ Oliv...

SK Telecom's X Caliber to enter SE Asian pet market

SK Telecom's X Caliber to enter SE Asian pet market

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a contract to supply X Caliber, an AI-based pet diagnosis assistance solution, to t...

Samsung, LG bet big on gaming monitors on esports boom

Samsung, LG bet big on gaming monitors on esports boom

South Korea’s electronics giants Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are gearing up for a fierce battle in the gaming monitor mark...

Hyundai gives advanced air mobility demo in Indonesia

Hyundai gives advanced air mobility demo in Indonesia

Hyundai Motor Group on Monday unveiled its advanced air mobility (AAM) technology and demonstrated an AAM prototype aircraft, or a flying car, in In...

S.Korea relinquishes control to China in smaller OLED market

S.Korea relinquishes control to China in smaller OLED market

LG Display Co. and Samsung Display Co. lost ground to their Chinese rivals in the global small and mid-sized organic light-emitting diode (OLED) pan...

Kumho Tire holds Latin American dealer convention

Kumho Tire holds Latin American dealer convention

South Korea's Kumho Tire Co. announced on Friday that it held the Kumho Dealer Convention event from July 20 to 22 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, inviting ab...

Kolmar Korea, Sensient Beauty to co-develop pigments

Kolmar Korea, Sensient Beauty to co-develop pigments

Kolmar Korea, a supplier to global cosmetics brands such as Estee Lauder, announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) wit...

China is LG H&H’s headache amid global K-beauty boom

China is LG H&H’s headache amid global K-beauty boom

South Korean cosmetics giant LG H&H Co. has yet to benefit from the global K-beauty boom due to its heavy dependence on China, the world’s...

Lotte Wellfood expands dairy exports to Vietnam

Lotte Wellfood expands dairy exports to Vietnam

South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Thursday that it will increase dairy exports to the Vietnamese market.The products newly exported to V...

LG Display cuts vendors’ stakes, axes jobs for turnaround

LG Display cuts vendors’ stakes, axes jobs for turnaround

LG Display Co., the world’s top manufacturer of large-size organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels, reduced stakes in its vendors while cut...

Samsung tipped to supply HBM3 to Nvidia for Chinese market

Samsung tipped to supply HBM3 to Nvidia for Chinese market

Samsung Electronics Co. has passed Nvidia Corp.’s qualification tests for its fourth-generation high-bandwidth memory, or HBM3 chips, for use ...

Hyundai eyes Japan’s commercial EV market in e-bus deal with Iwasaki

Hyundai eyes Japan’s commercial EV market in e-bus deal with Iwasaki

South Korean top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Tuesday it is supplying its all-electric Elec City Town buses to Iwasaki Group, effectively ent...

Kia overtakes Hyundai in US EV market driven by SUVs

Kia overtakes Hyundai in US EV market driven by SUVs

Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 carmaker after sister company Hyundai Motor Co., is racing ahead in the sports utility vehicle (SUV) and electr...

CJ CheilJedang to open Bibigo Market in Paris

CJ CheilJedang to open Bibigo Market in Paris

South Korea's CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Monday that it will open Bibigo Market at the Korea House operated in Paris during the Olympics to p...

LG Elec OLED evo TV tops in 14 countries

LG Elec OLED evo TV tops in 14 countries

LG Electronics Inc. announced that its premium lineup LG OLED evo TVs achieved first place in performance evaluations by consumer media outlets in...

TeamSparta acquires Weplanet

TeamSparta acquires Weplanet

South Korea's coding education startup TeamSparta Inc. said on Thursday that it acquired the domestic software development firm Weplanet to expand i...

Celltrion's Remsima SC breaks 20% market share in Europe

Celltrion's Remsima SC breaks 20% market share in Europe

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. said on Wednesday that its subcutaneous autoimmune disease treatment Remsima SC has surpassed...

Samsung Galaxy Z foldable's pre-sales soars 40% rise in India

Samsung Galaxy Z foldable's pre-sales soars 40% rise in India

Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest foldable phones showed strong sales potential in India, the world's most populous country, with pre-sales for the G...

More luxury brands seek Korean market on sales surge

More luxury brands seek Korean market on sales surge

South Korea’s luxury goods market, estimated at around $7.1 billion, is experiencing a surge in demand led by affluent consumers in their 40s ...

SK Telecom's X Caliber enters N.American pet market

SK Telecom's X Caliber enters N.American pet market

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Monday that it signed a distribution agreement with Canadian pet medical equipment company Nuon & Nikk...

Samsung Securities’ IB head to quit amid talent outflow

Samsung Securities’ IB head to quit amid talent outflow

Lee Jae-hyun, who has led one of Samsung Securities Co.'s investment banking divisions for two years, has recently expressed his intention to quit, ...

Korea to keep track of EV battery life cycles for recycling

Korea to keep track of EV battery life cycles for recycling

The South Korean government will monitor electric vehicle (EV) battery life cycles to share information on the lifespan, performance and accident hi...

Won to soften past 1,400, BOK rate cut likely in Oct: poll

Won to soften past 1,400, BOK rate cut likely in Oct: poll

The Korean won is forecast to continue its downward spiral and soften past the 1,400 threshold against the greenback this year, while the Bank of Ko...

Hyundai Rotem leads manufacture of next-generation railway

Hyundai Rotem leads manufacture of next-generation railway

CHANGWON, South Gyeongsang Province – Engineers at Hyundai Rotem Co.'s rolling stock factory in South Korea have their hands full manufacturin...

Lunit eyes developing markets with AI cancer diagnostics

Lunit eyes developing markets with AI cancer diagnostics

Lunit Inc., a South Korean cancer diagnostics AI company, will accelerate its inroads into developing markets grappling with inadequate cancer diagn...

Lotte Mall writes success story in Hanoi with Koreanization

Lotte Mall writes success story in Hanoi with Koreanization

Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi, a mega commercial complex in Vietnam, has hit a sales milestone of 200 billion won ($145 million) less than one year sin...

Samsung, SK, LG vie for glass substrate market in AI era

Samsung, SK, LG vie for glass substrate market in AI era

South Korea’s household names Samsung, SK and LG have entered a new race to win the glass substrate market set to surge in the artificial inte...

Hyundai Motor car sales hit record in India for 1st half

Hyundai Motor car sales hit record in India for 1st half

Hyundai Motor Co. delivered its record-high number of cars in India during the first six months of this year but lost share in the fiercely competit...

Korea’s No. 1 flea market app Karrot expands services across Canada

Korea’s No. 1 flea market app Karrot expands services across Canada

Danggeun Market Inc., South Korea’s largest online flea market service provider, is expanding its online used-goods marketplace app Karrot acr...

Hyundai accelerates EV push in Indonesia with Kona EV

Hyundai accelerates EV push in Indonesia with Kona EV

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Hyundai Motor Co. has built its brand image as a high-end carmaker in Indonesia and controls the country's electric vehic...

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