IFEZ to apply for designation of southern Ganghwa as free economic zone

IFEZ to apply for designation of southern Ganghwa as free economic zone

The Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) Authority is set to submit its application by the end of June to designate the southern end of Ganghwa Island ...

LG Display eyes turnaround on China's shift to OLED

LG Display eyes turnaround on China's shift to OLED

LG Display Co., the world’s top large-sized organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel maker, will likely swing to profit this year for the fir...

LG Display unveils industry’s brightest OLED panel for AI TVs

LG Display unveils industry’s brightest OLED panel for AI TVs

LG Display Co., the world’s top organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel maker, on Thursday unveiled a fourth-generation screen optimized for...

Gloves off for Samsung, LG in high-end OLED display fight

Gloves off for Samsung, LG in high-end OLED display fight

Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co., the global leading organic light-emitting diode panel makers, are fiercely competing in the professional OLE...

LG Display to sell its last LCD plant to CSOT for $1.5 bn

LG Display to sell its last LCD plant to CSOT for $1.5 bn

South Korea’s LG Display Co. plans to sell its liquid crystal display (LCD) panel plant in Guangzhou, China, to TCL China Star Optoelectronics...

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...

Young Korean investors choose monthly dividend ETFs over crypto

Young Korean investors choose monthly dividend ETFs over crypto

For decades, investments in financial products that promise decent dividend payouts such as high-dividend stocks have been associated with elderly i...

SK invests $200 mn in US AI cluster builder SMART Global

SK invests $200 mn in US AI cluster builder SMART Global

SK Telecom Co. said on Tuesday it has agreed to invest $200 million in SMART Global Holdings Inc. (SGH), a US artificial intelligence cluster builde...

Samsung Display gets Pantone Validated

Samsung Display gets Pantone Validated

Samsung Display announced on Thursday that its monitors and laptop panels received Pantone Validated and SkinTone Validated. The company said i...

QCells wins 2GW solar panel deal for US community solar farms

QCells wins 2GW solar panel deal for US community solar farms

Hanwha Q Cell Co., better known as QCells in overseas markets, has signed a solar panel supply and partnership agreement for energy storage system (...

Hyundai Motor debuts 2025 Avante with improved cluster space use

Hyundai Motor debuts 2025 Avante with improved cluster space use

Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Thursday that it has launched the updated model of the compact sedan, 2025 Avante, and has begun full-scale sales.Sin...

SK Ecoplant builds rooftop solar panels at Samil Vina in Vietnam

SK Ecoplant builds rooftop solar panels at Samil Vina in Vietnam

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company, said on Tuesday it has completed building rooftop solar panel...

Hyundai Mobis unveils M.VICS 5.0

Hyundai Mobis unveils M.VICS 5.0

Hyundai Mobis, the world’s sixth-largest auto parts maker, unveiled the latest version of its next-generation integrated cockpit system M.VICS...

Shinhan Financial units to reside under one roof in Vietnam

Shinhan Financial units to reside under one roof in Vietnam

Shinhan Financial Group Co. is upping the ante in the Vietnamese financial market to further widen the gap with rivals as the country’s leadin...

Korean Air breaks ground on Asia’s largest aircraft engine MRO cluster

Korean Air breaks ground on Asia’s largest aircraft engine MRO cluster

Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s No. 1 full-service carrier, said on Thursday it has begun construction of a $439 million aircraft engine m...

New iPad Pro to feature Samsung, LG OLED screens

New iPad Pro to feature Samsung, LG OLED screens

South Korea’s two leading display makers Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co. are said to have been chosen by Apple Inc. to supply all the 8.5...

POSCO to build world's largest battery cathode plant cluster

POSCO to build world's largest battery cathode plant cluster

GWANGYANG, South Jeolla Province  -- POSCO Future M Co., a battery materials supplier, on Thursday broke ground on its fifth cathode materials ...

Samsung foldable panel gets US military certification

Samsung foldable panel gets US military certification

Samsung Display announced on Monday that its 7-inch foldable panel, used in the latest generation of foldable phones, completed the demanding MIL-ST...

Qcells, Microsoft strike 12GW solar panel deal

Qcells, Microsoft strike 12GW solar panel deal

Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar power unit of South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group also known as Qcells in overseas market...

LG Display unveils brightest OLED TV panel for turnaround

LG Display unveils brightest OLED TV panel for turnaround

LAS VEGAS, NV -- LG Display Co., the global leading manufacturer of large-size organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels, introduced the industry&r...

LG Display to raise $494 mn through syndicated loan

LG Display to raise $494 mn through syndicated loan

LG Display Co., the world’s leading manufacturer of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels, will raise 650 billion won ($494 million) by t...

LG Display to unveil future mobility panels at CES

LG Display to unveil future mobility panels at CES

LG Display Co., the world’s leading organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel maker, will unveil its next-generation automotive display produc...

L&F to invest $1.9 bn to build key battery materials plants

L&F to invest $1.9 bn to build key battery materials plants

DAEGU, South Korea – L&F Co., South Korea’s major cathode supplier seeking to transform into a comprehensive battery materials produ...

SK Geo breaks ground on $1.4 bn plastic recycling cluster

SK Geo breaks ground on $1.4 bn plastic recycling cluster

South Korea’s SK Geo Centric Co. on Wednesday broke ground on a waste plastic recycling complex to transform itself into a green petrochemical...

LG Display’s OLED panel gets certifications for eye comfort

LG Display’s OLED panel gets certifications for eye comfort

South Korea’s LG Display Co. announced on Wednesday its third-generation OLED TV panels got a certification from global safety science resea...

LG Display narrows Q3 losses, sees turnaround in Q4

LG Display narrows Q3 losses, sees turnaround in Q4

LG Display Co. said on Wednesday it will likely turn a profit in the fourth quarter of this year, snapping its losing streak of the past six quarter...

KG Mobility to supply automotive parts to Saudi SNAM

KG Mobility to supply automotive parts to Saudi SNAM

South Korea's KG Mobility Corp., formerly Ssangyong Motor Co., announced on Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for building a part...

Samsung, LG waging fierce war in OLED screen panels

Samsung, LG waging fierce war in OLED screen panels

South Korea’s Samsung Display and LG Display Co. are locked in a fierce war for supremacy in manufacturing OLED panels for monitors amid boomi...

SK Hynix pins high hopes on specialty DRAM for AI use: CEO

SK Hynix pins high hopes on specialty DRAM for AI use: CEO

In the semiconductor industry, it’s been quite a while since memory chips became a commodity, meaning so low an entry barrier that any chipmak...

US OKs Chinese-made solar modules using materials of S.Korea's OCI

US OKs Chinese-made solar modules using materials of S.Korea's OCI

The US has approved the import of Chinese-made solar panels using polysilicon from South Korea's green and energy company OCI Holdings Co.Pundits sa...

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