Lotte gets exclusive right of Bacha Coffee in S.Korea
South Korea's Lotte Department Store announced on Thursday that is has secured the exclusive franchise and distribution rights for Bacha Coffee, M...
Mohegan gains Korea’s 1st foreign casino license in 19 years
Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment (MGE) will open a foreigners-only casino at its resort complex in Incheon, South Korea in the first quarter after...
S.Korea should cut inheritance, gift taxes to OECD levels: SME lobby chief
South Korea, which imposes some of the highest inheritance and gift taxes on businesspeople among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Deve...
Korea’s ELS market to stagnate after HSCEI debacle: KOFIA chairman
The Korea Financial Investment Association (KOFIA) will go all out to minimize any adverse effects on the South Korean financial market from an anti...
Harim, KDB in dispute over $5 bn HMM deal conditions
Talks to sell South Korea’s No. 1 ocean carrier HMM Co. to Harim Group, a leading poultry processor, have made little progress amid disputes o...
North Korea’s missiles tested on the battlefields of Ukraine
SEOUL—One of the world’s biggest illicit-arms suppliers just got a major advertisement.In recent weeks, Russian forces have fired...
POSCO E&C develops solution for detecting wall cracks by drones
South Korea's POSCO E&C has developed a solution for apartment exterior wall maintenance using drones.The company announced on Tuesday that it h...
Tech spies face tougher Korean penalties; 18 years in jail for overseas leaks
South Korea plans to dole out harsher punishments for industrial espionage, with a proposal to triple the penalty for an overseas leak of national t...
Mercedes-Benz unveils New E-Class in S.Korea
Mercedes-Benz Korea on Friday unveiled the 11th generation of its fully redesigned mid-sized The New E-Class sedan in South Korea.This latest iterat...
Why spend more on an IPO? No invitation to foreign banks
South Korea’s Viva Republica Inc. has recently invited a handful of domestic brokerage companies to give presentations to revive its IPO plan....
Kakao’s multimodal LLM Honeybee: Korea’s answer to Gemini, GPT-4
Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile platform operator, said on Friday it has developed a multimodal large language model (MLLM) with the lat...
South Korean central bank not to increase gold reserves
South Korea’s central bank does not plan to buy more gold for its foreign exchange reserves, although the monetary authority has not purchased...
Gaonchips opens corporation in Silicon Valley
South Korea’s Gaonchips Co. announced on Friday that it opened its new overseas corporation Gaonchips America Inc. in Silicon Valley, the US...
Korean startup Moreh tops global large language model test
South Korean artificial intelligence tech startup Moreh Inc. said on Thursday that its large language model (LLM) topped a performance assessment by...
S.Korea’s LS Group wins regulatory nod for securities biz
South Korea’s electrics components-to-energy conglomerate LS Group is set to start the securities business as it secured regulatory approval t...
Woori Financial to bolster private banking service: chairman
Woori Financial Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest financial holding company, will reinforce its wealth management service for high-net-worth...
S.Korea, Indonesia to strengthen battery materials supply chain
South Korea and Indonesia plan to strengthen the collaboration to establish an electric vehicle (EV) battery ecosystem, capitalizing on Indonesia'...
S.Korea’s Hyosung to expand tire cord business to India
DAVOS, Switzerland -- Hyosung Group, a South Korean textile-to-chemicals conglomerate, plans to expand its tire cord business to India, the world's ...
POSCO Int'l to supply motor cores to Hyundai, Kia in Europe
POSCO International Corp. announced on Thursday that it has secured an order for 1.03 million units of motor cores, which will be featured electric ...
POSCO Future M to sharply raise synthetic graphite output
South Korea’s POSCO Future M Co. will sharply raise its synthetic graphite production by the end of 2025 as China’s export restrictions ...
S.Korea to scrap capital gains taxes on financial products
South Korea will scrap a plan to impose taxes on capital gains from financial products for all shareholders and further lower securities transaction...
Korean learning platform Elice raises $14.9mn from Vertex
Elice Inc., a South Korean startup offering an all-in-one digital learning platform for teachers and corporations, will transform into an artificial...
Steel giant POSCO raises $500 mn in 3-year green bonds
POSCO raised $5 million in three-year green bond sales on Jan. 16 to invest the proceeds in domestic facilities, the largest steelmaker in South Kor...
Korean steelmakers mull anti-dumping suit vs Chinese, Japanese firms
Under growing pressure from increased imports of cheap Chinese and Japanese steel products, South Korean steelmakers are considering filing an anti-...
Korea's LX International buys Indonesian nickel miner for $100 mn
South Korean trading firm LX International Corp. said on Tuesday that it has acquired a 60% stake in Indonesian miner PT Adhi Kartiko Pratama (AKP)&...
Yes to cannabis but no to bitcoin?
Aftershocks continue in the South Korean financial market following the country’s financial regulator’s ban on the trading of spot bitco...
Korea’s Kia to set up sales unit in Thailand; EV plant an option
South Korea’s second-largest automaker Kia Corp. plans to establish a sales subsidiary in Thailand as part of its electric vehicle push in the...
Semiconductors power Korea’s tech exports to 15-month high
South Korea’s tech products exports rose for a second straight month to a 15-month high in December 2023 as overseas sales of semiconductors e...
Korea Investment leads Mongolia Mortgage Corp.'s global bond issuance
Korea Investment & Securities Co. (KIS) announced on Tuesday its successful completion of the lead management for a $225 million global bond iss...
Roche to use Biodyne’s tech for cervical cancer diagnostic kits
Roche, a Swiss multinational healthcare company, is set to use a South Korean company’s technology for cervical cancer diagnostic kits.Biodyne...
