IGIS taps managing director Oh Taesuk as infrastructure head

IGIS Asset Management Co., a leading real estate firm in South Korea, said last week it has tapped Oh Taesuk, a real asset expert with more than 20 ...

LG Electronics posts record 2023 sales, Q4 profit misses forecasts

LG Electronics Inc. on Monday posted record-high 2023 revenue thanks to robust sales of home appliances and vehicle components, although its fourth-...

H&Q, Aeneas PE put online retailer 11Street on the market

H&Q Korea Partners and Hong Kong-based Aeneas Private Equity have put South Korea’s e-commerce platform 11Street Co. up for sale to recoup...

US tops Korea’s overseas construction orders in 2023

South Korea bagged more than $30 billion in overseas construction orders last year for the fourth consecutive year, mainly driven by a rise in order...

Hyundai to invest an additional $744 mn in Indian hydrogen biz

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, is set to invest an additional $744 million in India for a hydrogen ecosystem to lead the futu...

Korea’s Hanwha Ocean quits money-losing container shipbuilding business

South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean Co., the world’s third-largest shipbuilder, has decided to exit the money-losing container shipbuilding busin...

S.Korea launches official probe into HSCEI-tied ELS sale

South Korea’s financial authorities have opened an official probe into local banks and securities firms’ potential misselling of equity-...

Asiana, Korea Univ. to jointly attract medical tourism

South Korea's Asiana Airlines Inc. announced on Monday that it has partnered with Korea University Anam Hospital to promote medical tourism. The agr...

Korea’s HMM among shippers benefiting from growing Red Sea crisis

The Red Sea crisis, disrupting the passage of ships through the Suez Canal, a central artery for global trade, is a bane for exporters looking for s...

Korea’s Hancom buys document software firm Clipsoft

Hancom Inc., a homegrown office suite developer in South Korea, said on Friday that it has acquired local business-to-business (B2B) digital documen...

Hyundai, Kia join hands with Gore to develop hydrogen fuel cell material

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group said on Friday it has signed an agreement with W. L. Gore & Associates Inc., a US material...

HD KSOE wins $230 mn order for two VLGCs

South Korea's HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) on Friday said it has secured its first order this year for two very la...

South Korea Boosts Security for Politicians as New Threats of Violence Emerge

SEOUL—South Korea beefed up security for prominent political figures as new threats of violence materialized against top officials, including ...

Korean fried chicken: World's favorite K-food

In 2023, Korean-style fried chicken retained its crown as the most-loved Korean dish among global consumers, marking its fourth consecutive year a...

N.Korea fires more than 200 artillery shells off its west coast

North Korea's military conducted coastal artillery fire in the western part of the country on Friday.The North Korean military fired more than 200 a...

Korean travel agencies enjoy surging overseas trip demand

South Korea’s travel agencies enjoyed strong demand for overseas trips, adding to hopes that their earnings are likely to improve further this...

BMW overtakes Mercedes-Benz as top-selling foreign carmaker in S.Korea

BMW has overtaken Mercedes-Benz in the South Korean market, regaining the top spot in the foreign automobile sales segment for the first time in eig...

Korea’s top regulator detects more foreigners’ naked shorting

South Korea’s top financial regulator is detecting more circumstances of naked short-selling worth tens of millions of dollars by foreign inve...

Hyundai Motor, Kia post record US sales in 2023, to rank 4th in US

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group saw its vehicle sales in the US rise to an all-time high in 2023, driven by its latest models of recreationa...

Scrap steel price poised to rebound on lower inventories

Scrap steel prices in South Korea are poised to bounce back after hitting an annual low in the last month of 2023 amid declining scrap metal invento...

Virtual humans debut on Korean Air’s in-flight video

Korean Air Lines Co. released on Thursday a new in-flight safety video featuring a virtual human dressed as a flight attendant. This is the first ti...

LG Display to premiere 480Hz gaming OLED at CES 2024

LG Display Co., the world’s leading organic light-emitting display (OLED) maker in South Korea, will showcase its premium OLED gaming panel se...

Samsung, Hyundai Motor in joint push for connected cars

Samsung Electronics Co. will connect its smart home devices with the in-vehicle infotainment systems of Hyundai and Kia cars, including electric veh...

S.Korea steps up probe on alleged submarine tech leaks to Taiwan

South Korea stepped up an investigation into alleged technology leaks of a submarine developed by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. t...

DN Solutions seeks IPO at $3 bn enterprise value on Korea’s main bourse

DN Solutions Co., formerly Doosan Machine Tools Co., is seeking an initial public offering on South Korea’s main bourse, aiming to make a Kosp...

Digital healthcare, robot, AI chip startups among VCs’ 2024 top picks

Startups that specialize in digital healthcare, robots and artificial intelligence chips are among South Korea-based venture capital firms’ to...

Nexon fined over MapleStory in-game item selling

South Korea’s online game developer Nexon Korea Corp. was fined 11.6 billion won ($8.9 million) for allegedly misleading its customers over in...

POSCO Holdings’ Chairman Choi to hand over baton

POSCO Holdings Inc.'s Chairman Choi Jeong-woo is not among the company’s next CEO candidates, suggesting Choi will leave the company after ser...

MBK names two partners as vice chairman, vice president

MBK Partners said on Wednesday it has named Moon Joo Ho, partner and head of South Korea for special situations, as the North Asia-focused private e...

Innocean establishes social marketing subsidiary

Innocean Worldwide Inc., the global marketing communications arm of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Wednesday that it has established its social m...