NPS to vote in favor of KT&G CEO candidate Bang

NPS to vote in favor of KT&G CEO candidate Bang

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, is slated to vote in favor of the KT&G Corp. b...

Hyundai, Kia's European sales reach 79,000 units in February

Hyundai, Kia's European sales reach 79,000 units in February

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. reported a 2.3% rise in European sales in February, selling a combined total of 79,130 vehicles, according to data f...

Hyundai vows to cut costs, seek shift toward SDVs as EV uptake slows

Hyundai vows to cut costs, seek shift toward SDVs as EV uptake slows

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has vowed to sharpen its electric vehicle price competitiveness through tech advancement and eff...

Hyundai Motor unveils Genesis G90 Black

Hyundai Motor unveils Genesis G90 Black

Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Thursday that its premium brand Genesis launched the Genesis G90 Black, the highest trim of its premium brand of Gene...

HD Hyundai to supply 60 excavators to Sudan

HD Hyundai to supply 60 excavators to Sudan

South Korea's HD Hyundai Construction Equipment Co. announced on Wednesday that it recently signed a contract to supply 60 construction equipment un...

LG injects $97 mn into Vista Equity’s fund for new tech investments

LG injects $97 mn into Vista Equity’s fund for new tech investments

LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate, injected $97 million into a fund run by Vista Equity Partners Management LLC for investme...

Daishin to sell its headquarters at $493 mn to NH-Amundi

Daishin to sell its headquarters at $493 mn to NH-Amundi

South Korea’s Daishin Securities Co. is set to sell its headquarters office to NH-Amundi Asset Management Co. for 660 billion won ($492.6 mill...

Hyundai E&C wins $132 mn biogas facility project

Hyundai E&C wins $132 mn biogas facility project

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) announced on Monday that it was selected as the preferred bidder for a private invest...

Korea eyes $1.5 bn injection in KDB to boost chip, battery sectors

Korea eyes $1.5 bn injection in KDB to boost chip, battery sectors

South Korea may inject some 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) into Korea Development Bank (KDB) by the end of this month to support the state-run bank's...

BNK Capital raises $41.5 mn in foreign currency

BNK Capital raises $41.5 mn in foreign currency

South Korea’s BNK Capital announced on Monday that it raised $41.5 million in foreign currency funds from overseas state-owned banks.This is...

Hyundai Dept. Store virtual idol pop-ups attract 100,000

Hyundai Dept. Store virtual idol pop-ups attract 100,000

South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Co. said on Monday that its pop-up stores of the three virtual idol groups at The Hyundai Seoul attracted ove...

Hyundai to bring Casper EV to Japan, premium Genesis cars to India

Hyundai to bring Casper EV to Japan, premium Genesis cars to India

Hyundai Motor Co. will bring its electric Casper crossover city car to Japan next year as part of a bid to reinvigorate its performance in the neigh...

Hyundai Motor unveils design of commercial EV platform

Hyundai Motor unveils design of commercial EV platform

Hyundai Motor Co. unveiled the design of its first commercial electric vehicle (EV) platform ST1 on Thursday. ST1 is a commercial platform based on ...

Hyundai Mobis develops integrated module for EV front face

Hyundai Mobis develops integrated module for EV front face

Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s sixth-largest automotive parts maker, known as Mobis outside of its home South Korea, announced Thursday that i...

Hyundai Motor, Kia to recall 170,000 EVs

Hyundai Motor, Kia to recall 170,000 EVs

Around 170,000 units of electric vehicles (EVs) from Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. are voluntarily recalled, the largest recall in the domestic EV...

Hyundai Rotem unveils lamination press for EV motor cores

Hyundai Rotem unveils lamination press for EV motor cores

South Korea's Hyundai Rotem Co. announced on Wednesday that it unveiled a lamination press for electric vehicle (EV) motor cores at its Dangjin plan...

HD Hyundai Heavy to build next-gen second Aegis destroyer

HD Hyundai Heavy to build next-gen second Aegis destroyer

South Korea's HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the shipbuilding affiliate of HD Hyundai Co., announced on Wednesday that it has begun construct...

Hyundai L&C targets US, India with premium finishing material

Hyundai L&C targets US, India with premium finishing material

Hyundai L&C, South Korea’s Hyundai Department Store Group’s building materials unit, said on Tuesday that it will increase the propo...

Hyundai E&C, Glennmont D&D sign renewable energy PPA

Hyundai E&C, Glennmont D&D sign renewable energy PPA

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) announced on Tuesday that it signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for solar renewabl...

Foreign venture funding for Korean startups picks up

Foreign venture funding for Korean startups picks up

South Korean startups raising funds from overseas venture capital firms nearly doubled in the first two months of this year from a year ago, heighte...

MBK’s Michael ByungJu Kim: Most influential in Korea’s capital market

MBK’s Michael ByungJu Kim: Most influential in Korea’s capital market

Michael ByungJu Kim, co-founder and partner of Northeast Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd., has been chosen as the most influential...

Goldman Sachs Korea co-head Chung to move to Hyundai Capital

Goldman Sachs Korea co-head Chung to move to Hyundai Capital

Goldman Sachs’ Chung Hyung-Jin, co-head of the Seoul office and the leader of the firm’s investment banking (IB) business in South Korea...

HD Hyundai speeds up digital transformation with Naver

HD Hyundai speeds up digital transformation with Naver

HD Hyundai Co. announced on Monday that it signed a business agreement with Naver Corp. for digital transformation (DX), cloud transformation, and a...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics to supply hybrid camera lenses to Hyundai

Samsung Electro-Mechanics to supply hybrid camera lenses to Hyundai

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, plans to begin supplying hybrid lenses for automotive camera modules ...

Hyundai Motor, Toyota compete to take upper hand in Brazil

Hyundai Motor, Toyota compete to take upper hand in Brazil

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and Japan’s No. 1 carmaker Toyota Motor Corp. have been competing for decades to take the ...

HD Hyundai strengthens eco-friendly remodeling vessels

HD Hyundai strengthens eco-friendly remodeling vessels

South Korea's HD Hyundai Marine Solution said on Friday that it signed a contract with the Greece-based Neptune to deliver engine part load optimi...

Samsung Asset wins iF Design Award

Samsung Asset wins iF Design Award

South Korea's Samsung Asset Management announced on Friday that its exchange-traded fund (ETF) brand KODEX has won the top prize in the communicatio...

Hyundai Motor launches trade-in program to revive EV sales

Hyundai Motor launches trade-in program to revive EV sales

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, said on Thursday it introduced a trade-in program in the country for electric vehicles to boos...

HD Hyundai Chemical to produce eco-friendly bio-naphtha

HD Hyundai Chemical to produce eco-friendly bio-naphtha

South Korea's HD Hyundai Chemical Co. announced on Thursday that it will collaborate with CJ CheilJedang Corp. to produce eco-friendly bio-naphtha...

Australian real estate debt, capitalizing on growth: Savills IM

Australian real estate debt, capitalizing on growth: Savills IM

The commercial real estate (CRE) debt market in Australia has grown rapidly over the last decade. According to the Australian Prudential Regulation ...

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