S.Korea’s July household debt grows at fastest pace in over 3 years

S.Korea’s July household debt grows at fastest pace in over 3 years

South Korea’s household debt is expanding at the fastest pace in over three years, clouding growth in Asia’s fourth-largest economy and ...

Korea Investment manages Vista Land $50 mn global bond issuance

Korea Investment manages Vista Land $50 mn global bond issuance

Korea Investment & Securities Co. announced on Thursday that its Hong Kong subsidiary KIS Asia managed the issuance of $50 million in global bon...

LG CNS gears up for 2025 IPO with $5.1 billion in enterprise value

LG CNS gears up for 2025 IPO with $5.1 billion in enterprise value

LG CNS Co., the information technology service unit of South Korea’s LG Group, is gearing up for an initial public offering early next year, o...

Hyundai Engineering gets Hillsboro solar power plant rights

Hyundai Engineering gets Hillsboro solar power plant rights

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Co. announced on Thursday that it acquired a 260 MW Hillsboro Solar Power Plant project from OCI Energy. This is H...

Woori Financial Group relaunches brokerage arm

Woori Financial Group relaunches brokerage arm

Woori Financial Group has returned to South Korea’s brokerage service market after a decade with the launch on Thursday of Woori Investment &a...

Central Asia emerging as South Korea’s new used car export market

Central Asia emerging as South Korea’s new used car export market

South Korea’s export volume of secondhand vehicles to Central Asia is increasing for an unexpected reason: Russia.According to the Korea Inter...

Korean commercial real estate market to show slow recovery in H2

Korean commercial real estate market to show slow recovery in H2

South Korea’s commercial real estate market will post a slow recovery in the second half of this year due to rate cut delays and no big correc...

South Korea to develop gas-cooled reactor with POSCO, SK, Daewoo

South Korea to develop gas-cooled reactor with POSCO, SK, Daewoo

South Korea has embarked on a 44.5 billion won ($32.3 million) project to jointly develop an advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactor with related domest...

Toss Securities to establish New York subsidiary

Toss Securities to establish New York subsidiary

South Korea's Toss Securities will establish a subsidiary in New York, the US to to expand its overseas business. The company announced on Tues...

Samsung SDI’s Q2 profit drops on sluggish European EV sales

Samsung SDI’s Q2 profit drops on sluggish European EV sales

Samsung SDI Co., the world’s sixth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, saw its second-quarter operating profit plunge from the year-earlie...

NCSOFT invests in Swedish game startup Moon Rover Games

NCSOFT invests in Swedish game startup Moon Rover Games

NCSOFT Corp., a South Korean game developer, said on Tuesday it has made an early stage investment of $3.5 million in Swedish game startup Moon Rove...

TMON, WeMakePrice file for court receivership amid liquidity troubles

TMON, WeMakePrice file for court receivership amid liquidity troubles

TMON Inc. and WeMakePrice Co. – the e-commerce platforms owned by Singapore-based Qoo10 Pte. – have filed for court receivership amid co...

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...

E-Mart’s No Brand success story: A Korean snack chain goes global

E-Mart’s No Brand success story: A Korean snack chain goes global

When South Korean convenience store operator E-Mart Inc. launched its low-budget house label No Brand in 2015, few thought it would last long.Under ...

Baemin founder strikes out for new trophy platform

Baemin founder strikes out for new trophy platform

Kim Bong-jin, a former chairman and CEO of Woowa Brothers Corp., operator of South Korea’s No. 1 food delivery app Baedal Minjok — Baemi...

Hanwha Solutions to raise $1.5 bn amid mounting losses

Hanwha Solutions to raise $1.5 bn amid mounting losses

Hanwha Solutions Corp., the flagship unit of South Korea’s chemicals-to-defense conglomerate Hanwha Group, is poised to raise as much as $1.5 ...

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...

South Korea’s Economy Slowed Sharply in Second Quarter

South Korea’s Economy Slowed Sharply in Second Quarter

South Korea’s economy slowed at a sharper-than-expected pace in the second quarter on sluggish private consumption and weak business investmen...

S.Korea fines AliExpress $1.4 mn for alleged privacy breach

S.Korea fines AliExpress $1.4 mn for alleged privacy breach

South Korea’s privacy authority is punishing AliExpress with measures including a $1.4 million fine for allegedly not providing measures to pr...

S.Korea’s economy slows in Q2, but on growth course

S.Korea’s economy slows in Q2, but on growth course

South Korea’s economy unexpectedly slowed in the second quarter on softer private consumption and business investments, reinforcing expectatio...

Korea to build startup campuses in Seoul, Busan by 2026

Korea to build startup campuses in Seoul, Busan by 2026

South Korea will establish startup hubs in Seoul and Busan, the country’s largest port city, by the first half of 2026 to build Asia’s N...

S.Korea's refining industry sees record export of 245.3 mn barrels

S.Korea's refining industry sees record export of 245.3 mn barrels

South Korea's four major oil refiners—SK Energy, GS Caltex, S-Oil Corp., and HD Hyundai Oilbank—achieved a record high in petroleum pr...

Hyundai, Kia to hike prices of low-cost EVs for profitability

Hyundai, Kia to hike prices of low-cost EVs for profitability

Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-largest carmaker, plans to increase prices of the existing low-cost electric vehicles in the second hal...

Spear Korea to acquire AI medical firm Life Semantics

Spear Korea to acquire AI medical firm Life Semantics

South Korea's aerospace materials company Spear Korea will acquire artificial intelligence (AI) medical firm Life Semantics Co. Life Semantics ...

LG Uplus to feature in-car games to Kia EV3

LG Uplus to feature in-car games to Kia EV3

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. said on Wednesday that it will offer its web-based in-car game service Game Portal in Kia Corp's electric vehicle (EV) ...

Lamborghini unveils 1st plug-in hybrid SUV Urus SE in Korea

Lamborghini unveils 1st plug-in hybrid SUV Urus SE in Korea

Italian sports car maker Lamborghini S.p.A. on Tuesday unveiled the Urus SE, its first plug-in hybrid super sport utility vehicle, in South Korea, t...

S.Korea's Rebellions secures investment from Aramco

S.Korea's Rebellions secures investment from Aramco

Rebellions Inc., a South Korean artificial intelligence chip design startup, announced on Tuesday that it secured investment from Saudi Arabia's sta...

HD KSOE partners with University of Michigan to foster US ship engineers

HD KSOE partners with University of Michigan to foster US ship engineers

South Korea’s HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) has joined hands with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (UM) a...

Goldman Sachs taps ex-Morgan Stanley MD as Korea co-head

Goldman Sachs taps ex-Morgan Stanley MD as Korea co-head

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said on Monday that it has appointed Ahn Jae-hoon, former managing director at Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as country co-h...

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...

S.Korean game developer Krafton acquires Japan’s ADK for $517 million S.Korea's stablecoin frenzy fuels stock rally despite regulatory uncertainty SK Hynix joins Samsung in 200 trillion won market cap club Samsung on hiring spree to bolster US foundry sales LS Electric poised to join Nvidia's supply chain via Vertiv deal