Funds with high exposure to Nvidia, Samsung yield higher returns

Funds with high exposure to Nvidia, Samsung yield higher returns

It's time again to snap up semiconductor stocks – the market darlings these days.Just like its global peers, including the New York Stock Exch...

POSCO, LG Electronics to jointly build smart factory

POSCO, LG Electronics to jointly build smart factory

POSCO Holdings Inc. and LG Electronics Inc. announced on Wednesday that they will collaborate to upgrade POSCO's smart factory technology. The initi...

AI-driven GPU, advanced chip shortage: Boon for Samsung, SK Hynix

AI-driven GPU, advanced chip shortage: Boon for Samsung, SK Hynix

The global chip industry, which has been reeling from elevated inventory levels due to weak demand, is seeing a silver lining: Inventories of advanc...

LG Chem breaks ground on 4th cathode material plant in S.Korea

LG Chem breaks ground on 4th cathode material plant in S.Korea

LG Chem Ltd., the top chemicals company in South Korea, said on Wednesday it broke ground on the country’s largest plant to produce carbon nan...

S.Korea to develop supercomputer for industrial use

S.Korea to develop supercomputer for industrial use

South Korea is set to develop a supercomputer for industrial use as Asia’s fourth-largest economy lags far behind on the performance of such d...

S.Korea mulls adding national pension benefits to raise birth rate

S.Korea mulls adding national pension benefits to raise birth rate

South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare is considering adding national pension benefits for married couples to raise the ever-declining birth r...

Scammers set to exploit ChatGPT hype with fake apps in S.Korea

Scammers set to exploit ChatGPT hype with fake apps in S.Korea

OpenAI’s sensational chatbot service ChatGPT is finally available in South Korea after its official launch last week, but its devotees in the ...

Foreign demand for chip stocks powers Kospi to 1-year high

Foreign demand for chip stocks powers Kospi to 1-year high

South Korea’s main bourse Kospi on Tuesday hit its highest closing since June last year, boosted by foreigners’ net buying in semiconduc...

Seoul, Washington seek to release $7 bn Iranian funds frozen in S.Korea

Seoul, Washington seek to release $7 bn Iranian funds frozen in S.Korea

South Korea and the US are discussing ways to release $7 billion worth of Iranian funds held in the Asian country as Seoul and Washington seek to im...

Schaeffler Korea to produce parts for hybrid cars, EVs

Schaeffler Korea to produce parts for hybrid cars, EVs

Schaeffler Korea Corp., the largest plain and roller bearing provider to automotive and industrial sectors in South Korea, is set to celebrate 70 ye...

LG Electronics to release monitor that folds neatly in bag

LG Electronics to release monitor that folds neatly in bag

LG Electronics Inc. on Wednesday will release the portable screen and stand StanbyME Go, which targets the growing ranks of South Korea's campers as...

S.Korea warns of stern response in case of N.Korea satellite launch

S.Korea warns of stern response in case of N.Korea satellite launch

The launch of North Korea's first military reconnaissance satellite has entered a “countdown”. North Korea notified the Japanese governm...

S.Korean chips’ heavy reliance on China, US poses risk to national economy

S.Korean chips’ heavy reliance on China, US poses risk to national economy

South Korea’s semiconductor industry is more vulnerable to economic and industrial shifts in its key export markets than those of its rivals T...

Korea’s first integrated car plant being transformed into Kia’s EV base

Korea’s first integrated car plant being transformed into Kia’s EV base

GWANGMYEONG, Gyeonggi Province -- Kia Corp.'s oldest integrated auto plant — which is also South Korea’s first of its kind — was c...

POSCO to develop internal-use AI tool to replace ChatGPT

POSCO to develop internal-use AI tool to replace ChatGPT

Steel giant POSCO Group has embarked on the development of an AI chatbot for internal use amid growing concerns about data leaks through generative ...

Starbuck’s seasonal giveaways still popular in S.Korea

Starbuck’s seasonal giveaways still popular in S.Korea

Starbucks Korea announced on Sunday that the amount of application access increased by 50% on average compared to the previous day on last Thursday,...

LG Electronics blocks access to generative AI in company

LG Electronics blocks access to generative AI in company

LG Electronics Inc. has decided to block access to generative AI services through its intranet. Industry sources said on Friday, LG Electroni...

Mirae Asset’s US real estate fund faces heavy losses

Mirae Asset’s US real estate fund faces heavy losses

A private fund for US real estate managed by South Korea’s Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. has seen huge losses amid the tumble of the offi...

S.Korea's Shift Up scouts former OpenAI engineer

S.Korea's Shift Up scouts former OpenAI engineer

South Korea's game develop and design studio Shift Up has hired AI developer Kim Tae-hoon, who hails from Silicon Valley, to enhance its game artifi...

S.Korea’s heated debate on domestic helpers from Southeast Asia

S.Korea’s heated debate on domestic helpers from Southeast Asia

South Korea is embroiled in a heated debate on a program to recruit domestic helpers from Southeast Asia at lower rates than those paid to their Kor...

Renault Korea creates mobility exhibition hall in metaverse

Renault Korea creates mobility exhibition hall in metaverse

Renault Korea announced on Friday that it plans to establish and run an automobile-related experiential space called Renault Korea Hub in the metave...

S.Korea gov’t urges caution on using Vietjet Air, AirAsia

S.Korea gov’t urges caution on using Vietjet Air, AirAsia

South Korean consumers have witnessed a substantial rise in complaints related to Vietjet Air and AirAsia, popular low-cost carriers used for trav...

Naver Cloud builds S.Korea’s first 5G network at construction site

Naver Cloud builds S.Korea’s first 5G network at construction site

Naver Cloud for the first time in South Korea has launched a specialized 5G mobile communications network at an apartment construction site.The comp...

S.Korea's construction companies turn sector into high-tech battleground

S.Korea's construction companies turn sector into high-tech battleground

South Korea's construction companies are aggressively employing state-of-the-art technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), 3D modeling and ...

LG Energy's Ochang plant, Korea's EV cell mother factory

LG Energy's Ochang plant, Korea's EV cell mother factory

OCHANG, North Chungcheong Province -- LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, on Thursday for the ...

S.Korea succeeds in 3rd launch of homegrown rocket Nuri

S.Korea succeeds in 3rd launch of homegrown rocket Nuri

GOHEUNG, SOUTH KOREA -- South Korea launched its homegrown space rocket on Thursday, making its first achievement to send a satellite for com...

Mercedes Korea executive promoted as US customer service chief

Mercedes Korea executive promoted as US customer service chief

Kim Jee-seop, former vice president of the customer service department at Mercedes-Benz Korea, has been promoted to oversee the German automaker&rsq...

S.Korean startup Drama & Company introduces AI talent recruiter

S.Korean startup Drama & Company introduces AI talent recruiter

Drama & Company, the developer of South Korea’s popular cloud-based business card management app Remember, is readying its next business w...

POSCO completes giga steel plant in China

POSCO completes giga steel plant in China

South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO announced on Thursday that it has completed a specialized integrated processing facility for giga ste...

S.Korea's total fertility rate hits 0.81 in Q1

S.Korea's total fertility rate hits 0.81 in Q1

South Korea in the first quarter posted a total fertility rate (TFR) of 0.81, the lowest in history for that quarter. Because the number of bir...

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