South Korea says US Chips Act subsidies have too many requirements

SEOUL—The U.S. Chips Act is dangling billions of dollars in subsidies in front of the world’s biggest semiconductor manufactur...

SGC Energy pursues transformation of biomass power plants in Vietnam

South Korea's SGC Energy Co. is pursuing a project to convert coal power plants abroad into those using biomass.The power supplier, which has secure...

LS Electric unveils innovative solutions at Korea, Japan energy exhibitions

LS Electric Co., Ltd., an industrial electric solutions company from South Korea, is set to showcase innovative solutions at smart energy exhibition...

Samsung SDS acquires Korea’s No. 1 procurement SCM company

Samsung SDS Co., the information technology service unit of South Korea's Samsung Group, has acquired a 33.39% stake in Emro Inc., Korea's top suppl...

S.Korea to host Asia's largest advertising festival for 1st time since 2007

Seoul in October will host Asia's largest advertising festival AdAsia. The organizers of this year's event aim to host more than just a conference a...

S.Korea's Prestige Biologics attracts $59 mn overseas investment

Prestige Biologics Co., a South Korean biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) company, announced on Tuesday th...

Boeing’s Korean supplier targets UAV market with guided weapons

Boeing Co.’s leading South Korean contractor aims to develop unmanned aerial vehicles with guided weapons, given the rapidly growing military ...

S.Korea's hy to export eco-friendly refrigerated carts to Cambodia

hy Co., a South Korean distribution company, said on Tuesday that it will export its ride-on refrigerated electric carts “Cold & Cool&rdqu...

CJ Group adopts AI-based copywriter for producing marketing content

South Korea's CJ Group on Tuesday said it will develop and run a personalized artificial intelligence (AI) copywriter that automatically produces ma...

S.Korea's mattress maker Zinus posts record domestic sales in 2022

Zinus Inc., the mattress-making affiliate of South Korea's Hyundai Department Store Group, on Monday reported record-high domestic sales last year o...

Apple Pay to launch in South Korea on March 21

Apple's mobile payment service, Apple Pay, is set to launch domestically in South Korea on March 21, according to industry sources on Monday.With th...

KB Financial Group injects $385.6 million into S.Korea’s real estate PF

South Korea’s KB Financial Group on Monday said it will provide liquidity support for the domestic market for real estate project financing (P...

S.Korea's Krafton, Naver to set up JV for metaverse services in H1

Krafton Inc., a leading game developer in South Korea, is slated to establish a joint venture with Naver Z Corp., a metaverse unit of the country&rs...

POSCO, Korea Zinc, Vale to close Korean nickel JV

POSCO Holdings Inc. and Korea Zinc Co. will close Korea Nickel Corp. set up jointly with Brazilian mining giant Vale Ltd. as the two Korean companie...

Hankook Tire halts fire-hit Korean plant, threatens a fifth of global capacity

South Korea’s top tire maker Hankook Tire & Technology Co. shut down a local production complex on Sunday due to a fire, stoking concerns ...

SK Networks renames its EV charger unit to SK Electlink

SK Networks Co., the general trading and rental arm of South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate SK Group, said on Monday that it has changed t...

Ssangyong E&C wins contract for building ASML Korea campus

Ssangyong Engineering & Construction, a South Korean builder, said on Monday that it has secured a 200-billion-won ($170-million) contract to co...

Google, Microsoft laying off staff in S.Korea

The South Korean branches of Google and Microsoft have started efforts to cut staff in line with what analysts call large-scale restructuring of glo...

Samsung Chairman Jay Y. Lee pledges more anonymous donations

“I want to actively participate in volunteer work but it isn't easy because my face is known.”Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Le...

Korea to raise young chip engineers for Samsung, SK Hynix

South Korea plans to nurture more youths specialized in semiconductors at high schools to ease the worsening shortage of high-skilled workers at d...

Tourist arrival gap between S.Korea, Japan widens sharply

Since Japan resumed visa-free travel for South Koreans in October last year, South Koreans have been flocking to the neighboring country.But the num...

Naver offers platform for CJ in fight vs Coupang

Naver Corp. is shaking up South Korea’s online shopping market led by Coupang Inc. as it has launched a next-day delivery service to challenge...

Korean convention sector enjoys increase in events post-pandemic

Coex Convention & Exhibition Center, the largest event complex in Seoul, was crowded on Friday for a smart factory and plant automation fair.&ld...

S.Korea logs biggest-ever current account deficit in Jan on export slump

South Korea reported its record current account deficit in January due to sluggish exports, the country’s key growth driver, and a widened tra...

Hyundai E&C consortium breaks ground on $7 bn S-Oil Shaheen project

A South Korean consortium led by Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. has embarked on building 9.26 trillion won ($7 billion) petrochemical fa...

SK Geo Centric optimizes plastic recycling tech with US company

SK Geo Centric Co., a South Korean energy and chemical company, is accelerating technical negotiations to build the world's first plastic recycling ...

Korea's Smilegate to launch PC-mobile cross-play game globally

Smilegate, a South Korean game developer and publisher, said on Friday that it will launch its new cross-play game "Wonderers: Eternal World" global...

Samsung, Arm partner Gaonchips eyes US as next offshore base

Gaonchips Co., a long-term Samsung Electronics Co’s chip design house partner that also works with British fabless chip company Arm Inc., will...

S.Korea sees under 10 mn Facebook users per month: Report

The number of monthly users in South Korea of the Meta-run social media platform Facebook last month fell to under 10 million.Mobile Index, a big da...

System on chips: Samsung’s new high-stakes foundry business

Samsung Electronics Co. is setting its sights on system on chips (SoCs) to continue to drive growth in its foundry business amid a protracted slowdo...