CJ Olive Young establishes new logistics center

South Korean beauty store chain CJ Olive Young said on Thursday that it has established the Olive Young Anseong Logistics Center in Anseong-si, Gyeo...

Samsung SDS gains AI management system certification

Samsung SDS Co. announced on Thursday that it has become the first company in South Korea's IT service industry to receive the ISO/IEC 42001 certifi...

Gas maker Air Products Korea put on sale for around $3.6 bn

US industrial gas maker Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has put its South Korean unit up for sale for an estimated 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion), in...

LG unveils Korea’s 1st open source AI to take on Meta, Google

LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-biggest conglomerate, on Wednesday introduced the country’s first open-sourced artificial intelligence la...

Samsung signs wind turbine structure supply deal with Equinor

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. said on Wednesday that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Norway's state-owned energy company Equi...

S.Korea’s current account at near 7-year high on strong chip exports

South Korea reported its biggest monthly current account surplus in six years and nine months thanks to robust exports of semiconductors. But the gr...

Lotte Wellfood eyes merger with trading arm; firms indecisives

South Korea’s Lotte Corp. is considering a merger of its confectionery unit Lotte Wellfood Co. and agricultural product trading arm Lotte Inte...

Hyundai Motor mulls connected car partnership with Google

Hyundai Motor Group is accelerating its efforts to join hands with global tech companies to advance its future mobility technologies ranging from au...

Hyundai Glovis, Huayou join hands for EV battery recycling

Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, has teamed up with a unit of China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt...

South Korea enjoys record-high kimchi exports in first half

South Korea's kimchi exports surged to an all-time high for a six-month period in the first half of this year, according to data from the Korea Agro...

Slowing economy creates opportunity for S. Korean used car sellers

South Korea’s used car sellers hope to take advantage of the slowing economic growth at home and abroad to expand their market shares.Lotte Re...

Jeju Air seeks M&A, igniting race for top place in Korea's LCC market

Jeju Air Co., a leading South Korean low-cost carrier (LCC), will likely seek the acquisition and merger of a rival small airline operator amid inte...

Korea's warehouses suffer oversupply, rising vacancies

Logistics centers in Seoul suburbs are suffering oversupply and rising vacancy rates, according to a report from South Korean commercial real estate...

Korean cosmetics, Amazon Prime Day’s top beauty products

South Korean cosmetics were top picks among beauty products of Amazon Prime members during the global leading e-commerce platform’s largest an...

S.Korea, China's technology leak, anti-dumping disputes surge

South Korean companies are getting tough on anti-dumping and patent infringement cases as they feel threatened by the intensifying price competition...

IONIQ 5 N selected as official car of Fuji Speedway Circuit

Hyundai Motor Co. announced that its high-performance electric vehicle (EV) the IONIQ 5 N was selected as the official car of Japan's Fuji Speedwa...

South Korea’s Inflation reaccelerates in July

South Korea’s headline inflation picked up at a stronger-than-expected pace in July, reaccelerating due to higher prices for agricultural and ...

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

Lotte Rental establishes UAE subsidiary

South Korea's Lotte Rental Co. said on Thursday that it established an overseas subsidiary in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to boost the expo...

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

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

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...

Mercedes-Benz ranked first in KSQI imported car dealership

Mercedes-Benz Korea announced on Wednesday that it has ranked first in the imported car dealership category for the 10th consecutive year in the 202...

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...

LG Elec opens LG Labs experience pop-up zone

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Wednesday that it will operate the "Wow Life's Good Lab" pop-up zone at Ground 220 in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, until...

LG Chem emerges as global No. 4 chemicals maker: C&EN

South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. has emerged as the world’s fourth chemicals producer, the second Asian company to be among the five largest a...

Dreamtech builds electronics, medical device factory in India

South Korean electronics components maker Dreamtech said on Monday that it built a new factory in India's Greater Noida.The company invested 85.1 bi...

Hyundai gives advanced air mobility demo in Indonesia

Hyundai Motor Group on Monday unveiled its advanced air mobility (AAM) technology and demonstrated an AAM prototype aircraft, or a flying car, in In...

SGC E&C secures $92 mn chemical plant project in Malaysia

South Korea's SGC eTEC E&C Co. announced on Monday that it secured an additional chemical plant construction project in Malaysia worth 127.3 bil...