Boy group Seventeen’s ‘Rock with You’ video hits 100 mn views

Boy group Seventeen’s ‘Rock with You’ video hits 100 mn views

Seventeen's "Rock with You" music video has surpassed 100 million views on YouTube, the group's agency PLEDIS Entertainment announced on Wednesday.T...

KB Financial logs record profit in Q2, above consensus estimates

KB Financial logs record profit in Q2, above consensus estimates

South Korea’s second-largest financial institution KB Financial Group Inc. achieved record-high quarterly net profit in the April-June period ...

First S.Korean elected chairman of global shipbuilding committee

First S.Korean elected chairman of global shipbuilding committee

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE) announced on Tuesday that their technical advisor, Shin Jong Gye, has been elected as the...

GS Entec signs deal with global offshore wind power developer

GS Entec signs deal with global offshore wind power developer

GS Entec, an energy equipment manufacturer under South Korea’s GS Global Corp., on Monday said it signed a memorandum of understanding with th...

BTS member Jungkook’s solo single ‘Seven’ tops Billboard Hot 100

BTS member Jungkook’s solo single ‘Seven’ tops Billboard Hot 100

BTS member Jungkook's first solo single, "Seven," has debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.This is only the second time in K-pop...

S.Korea to form $6.2 bn corporate venture capital fund pool by 2025

S.Korea to form $6.2 bn corporate venture capital fund pool by 2025

The South Korean government and the private sector will jointly create a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund pool worth more than 8 trillion won ($...

EV6, GV60 outperform global peers in Auto Bild’s EV tests

EV6, GV60 outperform global peers in Auto Bild’s EV tests

Hyundai Motor Group’s electrification push under the direction of its Chairman Chung Euisun is more than paying off, with a slew of worldwide ...

Kwangdong to sell exclusively three global rare disease drugs

Kwangdong to sell exclusively three global rare disease drugs

South Korean pharmaceutical company Kwangdong Pharmaceutical announced on Monday that it signed an agreement for securing exclusive sales and distri...

S.Korea's NGeneBio establishes US corporation NGeneBioAI

S.Korea's NGeneBio establishes US corporation NGeneBioAI

South Korean medical diagnostic company NGeneBio Co. announced on Monday that it has established an artificial intelligence (AI) precision diagnosti...

Samsung Electronics launches 89-inch Micro LED TV

Samsung Electronics launches 89-inch Micro LED TV

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Sunday that it launched an 89-inch Micro LED TV model in the South Korean market. This product is Samsung's hig...

S.Korea’s Brand X establishes Taiwanese corporation

S.Korea’s Brand X establishes Taiwanese corporation

South Korea's media and e-commerce company Brand X Corp. announced on Friday that it has established a Taiwanese corporation. The move seeks to ampl...

Kakao Piccoma tops in Japanese app market sales in H1 2023

Kakao Piccoma tops in Japanese app market sales in H1 2023

Kakao Piccoma, a Japanese subsidiary of Kakao Japan Corp. and the global leading webtoon platform achieved the top position in the first half of 202...

Shinhan Bank's Chinese corporation issues $69 million in yuan bonds

Shinhan Bank's Chinese corporation issues $69 million in yuan bonds

The Chinese corporation of South Korea’s Shinhan Bank on Thursday said it issued 500 million yuan ($69.6 million) in bonds, a first in China b...

Hanjin teams up with global fandom company bemyfriends

Hanjin teams up with global fandom company bemyfriends

South Korea's Hanjin Transportation on Wednesday said it signed an agreement on business cooperation in the US with the Seoul-based global fandom co...

Mirae Asset’s global ETFs exceed $100 bn in net asset value

Mirae Asset’s global ETFs exceed $100 bn in net asset value

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., South Korea’s leading asset manager, said on Tuesday its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) worldwide have surpa...

BOK warns of household lending risk on growth, inequality

BOK warns of household lending risk on growth, inequality

South Korea’s central bank warned that household lending in the country has leaped to the world’s third highest and could hurt long-term...

Naver Webtoon becomes No.1 webtoon platform in France

Naver Webtoon becomes No.1 webtoon platform in France

South Korea's Naver Webtoon has made a name for itself as the top webtoon platform in France. Naver Webtoon announced on Monday that it participated...

Hyundai’s commitment to N brand pays off with over 100,000 car sales

Hyundai’s commitment to N brand pays off with over 100,000 car sales

Hyundai Motor Co.'s commitment to high-performance vehicles has paid off with sales of such vehicles exceeding 100,000 units six years after the lau...

Nexon’s Dave the Diver rises to global top game in 2 weeks after launch

Nexon’s Dave the Diver rises to global top game in 2 weeks after launch

Nexon Co. is poised to change the South Korean game scene with its new adventure PC role-playing game that has grabbed gamers around the world immed...

S&P expects BOK to cut rate by 100 bps in 2024 for growth

S&P expects BOK to cut rate by 100 bps in 2024 for growth

South Korea’s central bank is expected to cut its policy interest rate by one percentage point next year with inflationary pressure easing fur...

Go bolder with regulatory reform to foster unicorns in Korea: KERI

Go bolder with regulatory reform to foster unicorns in Korea: KERI

Regulatory reform is still slow in South Korea, obstructing innovation in technologies and industries, and the government must take bolder action to...

SK Telecom, Hana Financial Group jointly nurture AI startups

SK Telecom, Hana Financial Group jointly nurture AI startups

SK Telecom Co. and Hana Financial Group are strengthening their collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). They are jointly fosteri...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics joins global supply chain consortium RBA

Samsung Electro-Mechanics joins global supply chain consortium RBA

Samsung Electro-Mechanics, South Korean electronic components maker, has joined the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and Drive+, two global conso...

SK Hynix eyes wastewater facilities sale for $770 mn

SK Hynix eyes wastewater facilities sale for $770 mn

SK Hynix Inc. is in talks with its affiliate SK REIT Co. to sell the wastewater treatment facilities within its semiconductor campus in Icheon, Gyeo...

CJ Logistics revamps itself into tech-based company

CJ Logistics revamps itself into tech-based company

South Korea’s CJ Logistics on Monday said it has revamped its internal organization that it had maintained since its foundation in 1930. ...

Samsung Electronics creates global hit with new gaming monitor

Samsung Electronics creates global hit with new gaming monitor

Samsung Electronics Co. ’s new gaming monitor has received over 3,000 advance orders worldwide.The company on Monday said it began presale of ...

CJ CheilJedang simplifies organizational structure in global push

CJ CheilJedang simplifies organizational structure in global push

CJ CheilJedang Corp., the South Korean food giant with more than 200 operations worldwide, has streamlined its organizational structure to facilitat...

Hyundai Motor chairman visits Intel, seeking stable supply of chips

Hyundai Motor chairman visits Intel, seeking stable supply of chips

Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun toured Intel Corp.’s Leixlip Campus in County Kildare, Ireland last week to check out the latest tec...

Samsung unveils global campaign video of Galaxy Z

Samsung unveils global campaign video of Galaxy Z

Samsung Electronics Co. has announced the release of a new global campaign video ahead of the unveiling of the new foldable phone series on July 26....

LG Energy triples lithium orders from SQM for US benefits

LG Energy triples lithium orders from SQM for US benefits

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, agreed to nearly triple lithium procurement from Sociedad ...

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