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

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

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

Samsung takes steps toward XR device processor chips

Samsung Electronics Co. has been taking steps to develop extended reality (XR) device processor chips to challenge Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and Go...

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,...

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

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

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

Samsung Electronics opens online pet care store

Samsung Electronics Co. has entered the expanding pet care market with the launch of its Pet Care Store on its official website, according to a stat...

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 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

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

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

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

Micron overtakes SK Hynix in shrinking DRAM market

Micron Technology Inc., the world’s third-largest DRAM maker, raised its share in the shrinking DRAM market in the first quarter, with a milde...

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

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

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

Samsung Electronics' smart factory project targets SMEs

Sales of Cookia, a small maker of tofu snacks in South Korea based in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, have jumped eight-fold in six years from 300 mil...

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...

S.Korea’s direct investment abroad hits record high in Q1 2023

South Korea’s net international investment position (NIIP) increased in the first quarter on the country’s record-high direct investment...

S.Korea’s popular MMORPGs go abroad for profitability

South Korean game developers target overseas markets for their locally hit massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) to increase pro...

South Korea officially asks US to ease chip rules on China expansion

WASHINGTON, D.C. – South Korea has officially requested the US government to review details of the guardrail provisions in the CHIPS and Scien...

LIG Nex1 secures $75 mn contract for KSIS military ground segment

South Korean aerospace manufacturer and defense company LIG Nex1 Co. announced on Wednesday a $75 million (99.1 billion won) contract with the count...

S.Korea's top tech school uses salmon DNA to block art counterfeiting

The screen of the latest Samsung Electronics smartphone series Galaxy 23 released this year has a fingerprint recognition window on the display th...

ASM to invest $100 mn to expand R&D facilities in S.Korea

The Netherlands-based semiconductor equipment maker ASM will invest $100 million (132 billion won) to boost its R&D and production capacities in...

Hanwha aims to develop unmanned fighter jet engine within decade

Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s answer to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, aims to develop engines for unmanned aircraft within the next decade t...

MBK Partners puts Korea’s largest golf course operator on market

North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners has put Golfzon County Co., the biggest golf course operator in South Korea, on sale at an estim...

Korea’s Kakao targets mobile infrastructure biz for Saudi tourism

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s mobile platform giant, targets the mobile infrastructure industry for Saudi Arabian tourism to expand its business ...