Home & Shopping, Teleken signs business agreement

Home & Shopping, Teleken signs business agreement

South Korea's TV and online shopping operator Home & Shopping Co. announced on Friday that it has signed a business agreement with the Japanese ...

Japan's fever for Korean homegrown brands on the rise

Japan's fever for Korean homegrown brands on the rise

Shimamura Co., Japan’s second-largest apparel company that runs around 2,200 stores nationwide, has dispatched a team of four buyers to Seoul ...

Foreign visitors to S.Korea in July surpass 1 mn post-COVID-19

Foreign visitors to S.Korea in July surpass 1 mn post-COVID-19

The number of foreign tourists visiting South Korea has exceeded 1 million in a month for the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19. According t...

Amorepacific's Aestura to enter Japanese market

Amorepacific's Aestura to enter Japanese market

South Korean beauty and cosmetics giant Amorepacific Corp. announced on Wednesday that its derma cosmetic brand Aestura will enter the Japanese mark...

S.Korea's duty-free sector expects boom from Chinese tourists' return

S.Korea's duty-free sector expects boom from Chinese tourists' return

South Korea's duty-free stores are over the moon thanks to the resumption of Chinese group tours after a hiatus of six years and five months, with m...

The Hyundai Seoul attracts 100 mn visitors in 30 months

The Hyundai Seoul attracts 100 mn visitors in 30 months

The Hyundai Seoul, the largest shopping mall in the South Korean capital, has attracted over 100 million visitors since its opening to emerge as a h...

Cuckoo Electronics' duty-free sales in July surge by 592%

Cuckoo Electronics' duty-free sales in July surge by 592%

South Korea's Cuckoo Electronics Co. announced on Friday that its duty-free sales in July increased by 592.6% compared to the same period last year,...

LG Display boosts ties with Mercedes-Benz in vehicle screens

LG Display boosts ties with Mercedes-Benz in vehicle screens

South Korea's LG Display Co. has reinforced its auto display cooperation with German automotive giant Mercedes-Benz, raising prospects that the form...

HLB signs with Japan's OSCL for exclusive supply of C-Trelin ingredient

HLB signs with Japan's OSCL for exclusive supply of C-Trelin ingredient

South Korea's pharmaceutical company HLB Therapeutics Co. announced on Thursday that it has entered into a business agreement with Japan's Osaka Syn...

Fans of Supreme rush into the label's 1st Korean store

Fans of Supreme rush into the label's 1st Korean store

The US street fashion brand “Supreme,” which has a global fandom with a brand name written in white in a red box, opened its first store...

Seoul’s slow but enduring push to be Asia’s premier financial hub

Seoul’s slow but enduring push to be Asia’s premier financial hub

It is a long-cherished dream of Seoul, the capital city of South Korea, to present itself to the world as Asia’s prime financial hub, but the ...

SK Telecom to host global AI hackathon in Seoul with OpenAI

SK Telecom to host global AI hackathon in Seoul with OpenAI

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. will hold next month an artificial intelligence contest with OpenAI, the American information and communications techno...

Camp David Summit to Unite U.S., South Korea, Japan

Camp David Summit to Unite U.S., South Korea, Japan

WASHINGTON—A new trilateral alliance linking the U.S., South Korea and Japan will enhance cooperation among the nations in key areas, includin...

Hyundai Motor, Seoul Univ. to establish Future Automotive Mobility

Hyundai Motor, Seoul Univ. to establish Future Automotive Mobility

Hyundai Motor Co. and Seoul National University have joined forces to cultivate talent in electric vehicle control and vehicle software, which are e...

Cruise ship from China to visit S.Korea's Jeju Island on Aug. 31

Cruise ship from China to visit S.Korea's Jeju Island on Aug. 31

Reservations for cruise ships visiting South Korea's Jeju Island are flooding in amid China's resumption of all group tours to its neighboring cou...

Falling on deaf ears: Costco Korea cart pusher's death

Falling on deaf ears: Costco Korea cart pusher's death

Costco Wholesale’s co-founder Jim Sinegal had said South Korea was a “fantastic market,” where it ran its largest store in terms o...

S.Korea is far more reliant on China for rare earth metal than Japan: report

S.Korea is far more reliant on China for rare earth metal than Japan: report

South Korea is far more dependent than Japan on neodymium permanent magnets from China at 88%, while the rate for Japan, a land devoid of rare earth...

Korea’s tourism industry pins high hopes on return of Chinese big spenders

Korea’s tourism industry pins high hopes on return of Chinese big spenders

BEIJING – China’s official announcement to lift its ban on group tourists’ travel to South Korea will likely be a boon for the tra...

Seven out of 10 int'l travelers choose Japan: Yanolja reports

Seven out of 10 int'l travelers choose Japan: Yanolja reports

Osaka, followed by other Japanese cities, is the top international choice for South Korean travelers, while domestically, Jeju Island remains the fa...

S.Korea, Laos boost partnership in global drive to cut CO2 emissions

S.Korea, Laos boost partnership in global drive to cut CO2 emissions

South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on Tuesday held talks with Laos' Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment at the Seoul hea...

Seoul Metro to develop communication system for foreign passengers

Seoul Metro to develop communication system for foreign passengers

Foreign users of major subway stations in Seoul can communicate with Seoul Metro Corp. staff through simultaneous translation.  Through artific...

S.Korea's Lotte Department Store launches 'K-Beauty' tour service

S.Korea's Lotte Department Store launches 'K-Beauty' tour service

South Korea's Lotte Department Store on Monday announced the launch of a "K-Beauty tour" service for foreign tourists.The company will first give fr...

S.Korea's No. 1 flight route in 2023 is Incheon-Osaka

S.Korea's No. 1 flight route in 2023 is Incheon-Osaka

South Korea's most popular international flight route in the first half of this year was between Incheon International Airport and Kansai Internatio...

Toray Advanced Materials reviews film line expansion in S.Korea

Toray Advanced Materials reviews film line expansion in S.Korea

Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. (TAK) is reviewing its film line expansion in South Korea as part of its 300 billion won ($229 million) capital ...

Affinity's CJ Lee to become 3rd Korean executive to leave

Affinity's CJ Lee to become 3rd Korean executive to leave

Affinity Equity Partners’ founding member and Managing Partner Lee Chul-joo (CJ Lee) will resign from the Asia’s leading buyout manager,...

S.Korean cosmetics overtake French as top imports in Japan

S.Korean cosmetics overtake French as top imports in Japan

South Korean cosmetics topped the Japanese import market for the first time in 2022, surpassing French brands, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported Thursd...

Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino hits record revenue in July

Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino hits record revenue in July

South Korea’s Lotte Tour Development's Jeju-based casino saw record revenue in July thanks to an increased number of foreign tourists to the c...

GS25 becomes No. 1 convenience store chain in southern Vietnam

GS25 becomes No. 1 convenience store chain in southern Vietnam

South Korean convenience store chain GS25 announced on Thursday that it has become the top operator in southern Vietnam, surpassing rivals US' Circl...

42dot launches its first B2B self-driving shuttle service

42dot launches its first B2B self-driving shuttle service

42Dot, a self-driving technology affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, on Tuesday said it launched a self-driving shuttle at Samsung Mobility Museum in ...

Seoul mulls ‘treble damages’ for illegal K-content websites

Seoul mulls ‘treble damages’ for illegal K-content websites

The South Korean government and the ruling People Power Party are considering tripling punitive damages to illegal distributors of Korean entertainm...

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