Korea's NPS CIO talks with GPIF, GIC execs on asset allocation

Korea's NPS CIO talks with GPIF, GIC execs on asset allocation

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) Chief Investment Officer Seo Won-joo has visited Japan and Singapore on his first overseas busine...

SK puts shares in Goldman-backed Korea Superfreeze on market

SK puts shares in Goldman-backed Korea Superfreeze on market

SK Group has put its shares in Korea Superfreeze Inc., a cold chain logistics company jointly owned by EMP Belstar and Goldman Sachs, on the market,...

Korean seafood giant Sajo acquires Foodist for $181 million

Korean seafood giant Sajo acquires Foodist for $181 million

Sajo Group, a South Korean seafood and fisheries conglomerate, has acquired Foodist Co., a domestic food ingredient and catering service provider, f...

SK Ecoplant seeks to absorb SK Materials' industrial gas units

SK Ecoplant seeks to absorb SK Materials' industrial gas units

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company, is seeking to absorb the profit-making subsidiaries of SK Mat...

Hyundai Glovis enters LNG transport business with Woodside Scarlet Ibis

Hyundai Glovis enters LNG transport business with Woodside Scarlet Ibis

Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, is entering the liquefied natural gas transportation business wit...

Korea FX authorities, NPS raise currency swap limit to $50 bn

Korea FX authorities, NPS raise currency swap limit to $50 bn

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, said on Friday it has agreed with foreign exchange...

Lotte Energy Materials sets sights beyond copper foil: CEO Kim

Lotte Energy Materials sets sights beyond copper foil: CEO Kim

MUNICH – Lotte Energy Materials Corp. is one of South Korea’s leading battery materials specialists.Formerly known as Iljin Materials Co...

MSCI keeps Korea on emerging market list on short-selling ban

MSCI keeps Korea on emerging market list on short-selling ban

MSCI Inc. maintained South Korean stocks in its emerging market list as the government kept its blanket short-selling ban, denting the country&rsquo...

Korea Zinc speeds up separation from Young Poong in management feud

Korea Zinc speeds up separation from Young Poong in management feud

South Korea’s largest zinc smelter Korea Zinc Co. is accelerating its efforts to terminate its decades-long business relations with parent You...

SK Shieldus, CP6 team up for autonomous vehicle security

SK Shieldus, CP6 team up for autonomous vehicle security

SK Shieldus Co., the unmanned security subsidiary of South Korea's SK Group, announced on Friday that it has signed an agreement with CP6, a domesti...

South Korea-Japan air travelers soar to 10 mn in first five months

South Korea-Japan air travelers soar to 10 mn in first five months

The number of air passengers traveling between South Korea and Japan has surpassed 10 million in the first five months of this year, setting a new r...

Affinity to buy Korea's No. 2 car leasing firm for $591 mn

Affinity to buy Korea's No. 2 car leasing firm for $591 mn

Affinity Equity Partners will buy a 100% stake in South Korea’s second-largest car leasing company SK Rent-a-Car Co. for 820 billion won ($591...

SK asks KDB for further funding before drastic restructuring

SK asks KDB for further funding before drastic restructuring

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest business group in terms of total assets, has asked the country’s state-run Korea Development Bank...

Shein cracks Korea's ultra-low-cost online fashion market

Shein cracks Korea's ultra-low-cost online fashion market

Shein, a Chinese fast fashion online retailer, announced on Thursday its official debut in South Korea with the launch of its Korea-dedicated platfo...

Hyundai E&C to build S.Korea's first nuclear-linked hydrogen plant

Hyundai E&C to build S.Korea's first nuclear-linked hydrogen plant

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) will lead a consortium to build the nation's first hydrogen production fa...

SK Innovation looks to merge with SK E&S for organic growth

SK Innovation looks to merge with SK E&S for organic growth

SK Innovation Co., the parent of South Korea’s largest oil refiner SK Energy Co. and battery maker SK On Co., is looking to merge with energy ...

LIG Nex1 earns top Morgan Stanley ESG rating of AA for 2nd consecutive year

LIG Nex1 earns top Morgan Stanley ESG rating of AA for 2nd consecutive year

LIG Nex1 Co., a leading defense system developer in South Korea, announced on Thursday that it has received an AA rating in the 2024 environmental, ...

LG Uplus to enter renewable energy market through power brokerage

LG Uplus to enter renewable energy market through power brokerage

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea's third-largest mobile carrier, announced on Thursday that it will enter the renewable energy supply business through po...

Kosdaq cancels IPO approval for cloud developer InnoGrid

Kosdaq cancels IPO approval for cloud developer InnoGrid

The Kosdaq market under the Korea Exchange said on Wednesday it has canceled its preliminary approval for InnoGrid Co.’s initial public offeri...

Shinsegae hires Alibaba Korea head to lead online mall Gmarket

Shinsegae hires Alibaba Korea head to lead online mall Gmarket

Shinsegae Group, South Korea’s retail giant, on Wednesday launched sweeping top-level management overhauls for Gmarket Inc. and SSG.COM. to ti...

S.Korea's Handsome opens global flagship store System Paris

S.Korea's Handsome opens global flagship store System Paris

South Korean fashion company Handsome Corp. announced on Wednesday that it will open its first global flagship store System and System Homme Paris i...

Line Yahoo to sever tech ties with Naver by year-end: LY CEO

Line Yahoo to sever tech ties with Naver by year-end: LY CEO

TOKYO – Japan’s LY Corp., the operator of the country’s top mobile messenger app Line, plans to sever technological and system tie...

South Korea climbs to 20th on IMD national competitiveness list

South Korea climbs to 20th on IMD national competitiveness list

South Korea’s national competitiveness ranking climbed eight notches to its highest-ever 20th thanks to a leap in the country’s business...

Korea’s food prices highest among OECD nations; utility bills at bottom

 Korea’s food prices highest among OECD nations; utility bills at bottom

South Korea’s food prices were found to be the highest among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries last y...

North Korea Sent Excrement Balloons. South Korea’s Response: Blasting BTS Hits.

North Korea Sent Excrement Balloons. South Korea’s Response: Blasting BTS Hits.

SEOUL—After enduring days of balloon bombardment from the Kim Jong Un regime, South Korea countered with an airwaves assault of it...

Kolmar Korea develops AI tech for diagnosing alopecia

Kolmar Korea develops AI tech for diagnosing alopecia

Kolmar Korea, a supplier to global cosmetics brands such as Estee Lauder, announced on Tuesday that it developed artificial intelligence (AI) techno...

SK Networks to split off SpeedMate, trade division

SK Networks to split off SpeedMate, trade division

South Korea's SK Networks Co. plans to split off its auto management division SpeedMate and its trading unit.The board of directors approved the pla...

Korea issues $10.75 bn in refund guarantees to shipbuilders

Korea issues $10.75 bn in refund guarantees to shipbuilders

South Korean banks and state-run financial institutions will issue $10.75 billion worth of refund guarantees (RGs) to domestic shipbuilders, which t...

SK's Chey rebuts court's SK unit value estimate for divorce

SK's Chey rebuts court's SK unit value estimate for divorce

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won on Monday said the Seoul High Court has innacurately inflated his contribution to the growth of SK C&C, a busines...

Hanjin expands European logistics bases

Hanjin expands European logistics bases

South Korea's Hanjin Transportation, a logistics unit of Hanjin Group, announced on Monday that it will expand its European bases, including establi...

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