Korea’s Hana Financial Group targets foreign customers

Hana Financial Group, South Korea’s third-largest financial holding company, is targeting foreign individual customers in the country with a d...

Blackpink’s dance performance video surpasses 1.7 billion views

K-pop girl group Blackpink's “How You Like That” dance performance video has garnered more than 1.7 billion YouTube views, the group's a...

Daishin Securities lowers its price target for Nongshim

Daishin Securities Co. cut its price target on Nongshim Co.'s stock to 530,000 won ($397) from 550,000 won ($412) on Tuesday, saying the company's o...

Korea’s MeatBox to go public despite other failed grocery platform IPOs

MeatBox Global Inc., South Korea’s online livestock product sales platform operator, aims for an initial public offering valued at up to 28.5 ...

SK Hynix’s CXL optimization software tool installed on Linux

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., said on Monday the key features of its computer expr...

South Korea's hy to export Helicobacter Project Will to China

South Korea's hy, formerly known as Korea Yakult and a leader in dairy products, said on Monday that it started exporting its fermented milk product...

Naver to set up Middle Eastern headquarters in Saudi Arabia

Naver Corp., which has been actively seeking to unlock opportunities in the Middle East with its new growth engines artificial intelligence, cloud a...

Hanwha, LG to support Korea Zinc in battle against MBK

South Korea’s Hanwha Group and LG Group are likely to help Korea Zinc Inc. fight against a takeover by MBK Partners Ltd. as the private equity...

LG Chem to provide cathode materials to Japan's PPES

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. said on Sunday it will begin supplying cathode materials to Prime Planet Energy & Solutions (PPES), a battery joint v...

HD Hyundai to supply shaft generator for Middle Eastern firm

South Korea's HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co. secured a $37 million contract to supply shaft generator systems for 17 liquefied natural gas (LNG) car...

Analysts rebut Morgan Stanley’s chip winter view; oversupply unlikely

Morgan Stanley’s recent view that the global chip industry faces an imminent winter and companies like SK Hynix Inc. will suffer is exaggerate...

Samjong KPMG reappoints CEO Kim Kyo Tae for 4th term

Kim Kyo Tae on Friday was reappointed to a fourth term as chief executive of Samjong KPMG, announced the South Korean unit of the global audit and a...

Race to win tableside ordering market heats up in Korea

Baemin, South Korea's top food delivery platform, and the country’s leading travel and accommodation booking platform operator Yanolja Co. hav...

Hyundai Motor Group becomes KT's largest shareholder

Hyundai Motor Group has officially become the largest shareholder of South Korea's major telecommunications company KT Corp., following a public int...

Korea Zinc teams up with brokerage firm to counter MBK

Korea Zinc Inc. Chair Choi Yun-birm has joined hands with a major local securities firm in a counterattack against MBK Partners Ltd. and the company...

S.Koreans log most hours on YouTube worldwide

YouTube was the most popular app among South Korean smartphone users, a study found, logging the most hours on the video streaming platform worldwid...

MBK not to sell Korea Zinc to China after tender offer

MBK Partners Ltd. does not plan to sell Korea Zinc Inc., the world’s largest zinc and lead smelter, to China if MBK's takeover bid of up to 2 ...

Mirae Asset named as Best Securities House in S.Korea by Euromoney

Mirae Asset Securities announced on Thursday that it has been named “Best Securities House in South Korea” at the Euromoney Securities H...

SK Enmove gets gold rating of EcoVadis ESG evaluation

South Korea’s lube oil maker SK Enmove Co., Korea’s top oil refiner SK Innovation Co.'s subsidiary, said on Thursday it received a Gold ...

LX Pantos founder’s son sells shares to LX International for $37 mn

The only son of LX Pantos Co.’s late founder has unloaded his additional shares in the company to South Korean logistics-to-trading conglomera...

Rising overseas trips to raise Korea’s travel account deficit

Demand for overseas travel among South Koreans during the upcoming holiday grew, while the number of inbound tourists from China is expected to shri...

Hyundai Motor’s IONIQ 5: Pope Francis’ Popemobile in Singapore

Pope Francis on Friday wrapped up his 12-day visit to the Asia-Pacific region with a visit to Singapore, where less than 10% of the population ident...

SK E&S mulls sale of real estate to boost clean energy biz

SK E&S Co., the natural gas business unit of South Korea’s SK Group, is considering selling its real estate asset in Seoul, which is expec...

MBK, Young Poong seek $1.5 bn hostile bid for Korea Zinc

MBK Partners Ltd., the North Asia-focused private equity firm, is set to take over Korea Zinc Inc. through an up to 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) ho...

Kia, 42dot, Geotab to team up for PBV management system

Kia Corp. said on Friday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with 42dot and Geotab to develop a management system for purpose-built vehi...

Doosan completes high-end copper foil plant in Gimje, Korea

South Korea's Doosan Corp. completed the construction of a high-end copper foil plant to produce materials widely used in automotive electronic comp...

South Korea scraps anti-nuclear policy with approval of two nuclear plants

South Korea has approved the construction of two nuclear power plants, officially ending its anti-nuclear policy pursued by the previous Moon Jae-in...

Samsung mass-produces QLC V9 NAND to lead AI storage market

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Thursday it has begun mass production of a 286-layer high-capacity NAND...

Korea's Woori Bank adds two more branches in India

South Korea’s Woori Bank announced on Thursday that It has opened additional branches in Pune and Ahmedabad, India.These are the bank's fourth...

LG CNS establishes joint venture with Sinarmas in Indonesia

South Korea's LG CNS Co. said on Thursday that it established a joint venture LG Sinarmas Technology Solutions in Indonesia with Sinarmas Group in J...