How North Korea’s Hacker Army Stole $3 Billion in Crypto, Funding Nuclear Program

How North Korea’s Hacker Army Stole $3 Billion in Crypto, Funding Nuclear Program

Last year an engineer working for the blockchain gaming company Sky Mavis thought he was on the cusp of a new job that would pay more money.A recrui...

Kakao Mobility to develop EV, self-driving tech with Vietnam's Vingroup

Kakao Mobility to develop EV, self-driving tech with Vietnam's Vingroup

South Korea's Kakao Mobility is collaborating with Vietnam's No. 1 corporation Vingroup JSC and Southeast Asia's biggest information and communicati...

KIC's private equity senior director Ahn to move to Mubadala

KIC's private equity senior director Ahn to move to Mubadala

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC)’s senior director for private equity is set to move to Mubadala Investment Co., a sovereign investor based ...

Asan Medical Center to establish digestive disease hospital in Dubai

Asan Medical Center to establish digestive disease hospital in Dubai

Asan Medical Center announced plans on Thursday to establish a 65-bed gastrointestinal specialized hospital in Dubai Healthcare City in Dubai, UAE, ...

Central Europe’s fast-growing economy attracts global investors: Abris

Central Europe’s fast-growing economy attracts global investors: Abris

More investors choose safer assets in developed regions such as the US and Western Europe today with rate hikes and liquidity tightening. But Poland-b...

LG Energy’s 1st bond issue draws record $3.6 bn in bids

LG Energy’s 1st bond issue draws record $3.6 bn in bids

LG Energy Solution Ltd.'s first bond issue was 10 times oversubscribed on Thursday, drawing a record 4.7 trillion won ($3.6 billion) in bids for a S...

Intel’s foundry revamp sets off alarm bells for Samsung, TSMC

Intel’s foundry revamp sets off alarm bells for Samsung, TSMC

Intel Corp.’s announcement to restructure its manufacturing business to become a leading foundry player is setting the stage for a bigger show...

SK supports memorial monument honoring Korean War figures

 SK supports memorial monument honoring Korean War figures

South Korea's SK Group announced on Thursday its support for the construction of a memorial monument honoring the late Colonel William E. Weber and ...

S.Korea attracts investment of $940 mn from 6 European companies

S.Korea attracts investment of $940 mn from 6 European companies

South Korea has attracted investment worth $940 million from six high-tech European companies to build factories and R&D centers.The six compani...

KT to invest $5.4 bn by 2027 to develop AI platforms

KT to invest $5.4 bn by 2027 to develop AI platforms

South Korea’s telecom service provider KT Corp. will spend about 7 trillion won ($5.4 billion) by 2027 to become the country’s largest a...

CJ CGV seeks more fund from parent, stocks at 15-yr low

CJ CGV seeks more fund from parent, stocks at 15-yr low

Shares of CJ CGV Co., South Korea’s top multiplex cinema chain, hit the lowest level since the 2008-09 global financial crisis on Wednesday as...

Korea's Doosan Enerbility sells Bobcat stake in $214 mn block deal

Korea's Doosan Enerbility sells Bobcat stake in $214 mn block deal

South Korea’s major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. has sold a minority stake in Doosan Bobcat Inc., its construction equipment unit...

Lotte affiliates’ credit ratings downgraded all at once

Lotte affiliates’ credit ratings downgraded all at once

The ratings of Lotte's subsidiaries have been downgraded en masse. Lotte Chemical Corp., the group's cash cow, was cut to AA from AA+.NICE Investors...

Lotte Shopping to raise $785 mn from Korean banks for ESG push

Lotte Shopping to raise $785 mn from Korean banks for ESG push

Lotte Shopping Co., the retail arm of South Korea's fifth-largest conglomerate Lotte Group, will tap 1 trillion won ($784.4 million) from two of the...

Generative AI startup Wrtn attracts nearly $12 mn in investment

Generative AI startup Wrtn attracts nearly $12 mn in investment

South Korea's advanced tech startup Wrtn Technologies, a major player in generative artificial intelligence (AI), has attracted investment of 15 bil...

Hyundai invests $781 mn in startups to drive future innovation growth

Hyundai invests $781 mn in startups to drive future innovation growth

Hyundai Motor Group's open innovation investment in domestic and foreign startups in fields like mobility and artificial intelligence (AI) has excee...

POSCO breaks ground on lithium hydroxide plant in S.Korea

POSCO breaks ground on lithium hydroxide plant in S.Korea

POSCO Holdings Inc., the holding company of the world’s sixth-largest steel maker,held a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday to mark the commen...

Goldman Sachs slashes Korean cathode stock targets; market ignores

Goldman Sachs slashes Korean cathode stock targets; market ignores

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has slashed the target prices of South Korean top cathode stocks, namely EcoPro BM Co. and POSCO Future M Co., by nearly ha...

SKC mulls investment in materials in Haiphong, Vietnam

SKC mulls investment in materials in Haiphong, Vietnam

South Korea's SKC has teamed up with Haiphong, a key industrial city in northeastern Vietnam, to reinforce the company's basis for global expansion ...

Woori, ABL Life commit to Rubicon’s infrastructure debt fund

Woori, ABL Life commit to Rubicon’s infrastructure debt fund

South Korea’s Woori Global Asset Management Co. and ABL Life Insurance Co. have committed a sizeable amount of capital to a first closing of a...

Hanjin to participate in operation of logistics center in Thailand

Hanjin to participate in operation of logistics center in Thailand

South Korea's Hanjin Transportation, a logistics unit of Hanjin Group, announced on Friday that it will open a 9,000-square-meter container freight ...

Hyundai Mobis exceeds $770 bn in R&D investment in 2023

Hyundai Mobis exceeds $770 bn in R&D investment in 2023

South Korea's car parts maker Hyundai Mobis is turning into a software-oriented mobility company by investing over 1 trillion won ($772.3 million)...

Korean battery maker SK On attracts $400 mn from Hillhouse

Korean battery maker SK On attracts $400 mn from Hillhouse

South Korean battery maker SK On Co. has secured $400 million from Hillhouse, a Singapore-headquartered asset management firm, investment banking so...

SK Networks to invest $2 mn in Dutch agtech startup

SK Networks to invest $2 mn in Dutch agtech startup

SK Networks Co., a South Korean trading company, announced on Thursday that it will invest $2 million in the series A round of Source.ag, a smart fa...

Challenges, opportunities for Asia’s energy transition: GIG

Challenges, opportunities for Asia’s energy transition: GIG

Global investors injected more than $1 trillion into energy transition for the first time last year. South Korea poured in some $19 billion, becomin...

Investment in battery raw materials raises sodium hydroxide prices

Investment in battery raw materials raises sodium hydroxide prices

The price of sodium hydroxide or caustic soda, an essential component in the smelting of raw materials for producing batteries, is rising because So...

Doosan Bobcat invests in US-based agtech company

Doosan Bobcat invests in US-based agtech company

Doosan Bobcat, the construction and agricultural machine making affiliate of South Korea’s Doosan Group, has announced on Wednesday a str...

Samsung Electronics makes 17-fold gains from investment in ASML

Samsung Electronics makes 17-fold gains from investment in ASML

Slightly more than a decade ago, ASML Holding N.V. had to reach out to its customers such as Samsung Electronics Co., Intel Corp. and Taiwan Semicon...

HYBE in talks to raise $380 million to reach beyond K-pop: Bloomberg

HYBE in talks to raise $380 million to reach beyond K-pop: Bloomberg

HYBE Co., the South Korean entertainment powerhouse behind BTS, is said to be seeking to finance about 500 billion won ($380 million) to bring more ...

Fifty Fifty label seeks investment from Silicon Valley

Fifty Fifty label seeks investment from Silicon Valley

The South Korean label behind K-pop rookie sensation Fifty Fifty is looking to Silicon Valley for investment as the four-girl band, already with a l...

Hanwha Systems to compete with LIG Nex1 for Korean version of Iron Dome NH, KB Securities, Kookmin Bank, Kim & Chang lead capital markets in H1 From G-Dragon to Ibuki: Dongmyo emerges as global fashion hotspot Hyundai helps Korean economy most with $265 bn contribution South Korea issues €1.4 billion in largest-ever euro bond sale