Russia Pushes Security Talks With North Korea, China
SEOUL—Russia said it supports holding regular security talks with North Korea and China to address the threat posed by the U.S. on the Korean ...
S.Korea’s Q3 GDP up 0.6% on-quarter on recovery in exports
South Korea’s economy in the third quarter grew 0.6% from the previous quarter, extending a growth streak to three consecutive quarters on a r...
S.Korea’s startups see Sept. investment surge 85%
South Korea’s startups last month saw investment rise for the first time this year.The Seoul-based Startup Alliance, a private support organiz...
Samsung Bioepis gets FDA OK for its interchangeable biosimilar
Byooviz, a biosimilar of the macular degeneration treatment Lucentis and made by South Korea’s Samsung Bioepis, has received official design...
Space industry to usher in Saudi Arabia's 2nd boom: KAI
Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi Space Agency (SSA) to collaborate broadly in ...
LG Chem opens North America Innovation Center in Georgia
South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. announced on Wednesday it has opened its North America Innovation Center in Georgia, the US. The company also signed a me...
Nvidia invests in Korean generative AI startup Twelve Labs
Nvidia Corp., a global chip designer, made its first investment in a South Korean generative artificial intelligence startup as Big Tech companies G...
LG Innotek detects design flaws using AI tech
South Korean electronic parts manufacturer LG Innotek announced on Tuesday it has implemented an artificial intelligence (AI) analysis system to qui...
LG CNS starts corporate knowledge management service
South Korean information and communications technology service provider LG CNS has launched a service for finding useful knowledge and data within a...
Hanmi Pharma’s Phase 3 trials for anti-obesity medicine approved
South Korea’s Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. on Monday said the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety approved Phase 3 clinical trials for the company&...
Korea’s antitrust body grants conditional OK to Broadcom-VMware deal
South Korea’s antitrust regulator on Monday granted conditional approval for US smartphone components maker Broadcom Inc.’s proposed pur...
Toray Advanced Materials to spur carbon fiber production in Korea
Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. (TAK) broke ground on its new facility for carbon fiber production in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province on Monday,...
SK Telecom, Mars Auto to advance self-driving large trucks
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Monday with the autonomous driving startup Mars Auto for cooperation in t...
Hanwha Aerospace, KATECH to collaborate on hydrogen fuel cell
South Korea's Hanwha Aerospace Co. announced on Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea Automotive Technology Institute ...
Korea’s exports set to snap 12-month losing streak in October
South Korea may snap its 12-month-long losing streak in exports this month after it reported an on-year gain in exports in the first 20 days of Octo...
Hyundai Motor, PIF to invest $500 mn to build car plant in Saudi Arabia
RIYADH – Hyundai Motor Co. has agreed with the Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund, to set up a joint venture to build...
Hyundai, Kia aim for 20% share in Middle East with EVs by 2030
Hyundai Motor Co. and its sibling Kia Corp. together target selling 550,000 cars annually in the Middle East by 2030 to control about 20% of the reg...
Korea's HMM creditors convert $739 mn bonds into shares
Shares of HMM Co., South Korea’s No. 1 container line, are likely to fall as its main creditors exchanged perpetual convertible bonds (CBs) an...
South Korea attracts more African countries to food project
South Korea is increasing the number of African countries participating in its official development assistance (ODA) project to alleviate the chroni...
TikTok to host offline concert in S.Korea
TikTok announced on Friday that it will hold its first-ever offline live concert, "TikTok Stage The Shout," in South Korea on the 9th of next month....
SK Group needs agility to survive disruptions: chairman
South Korea's No. 2 conglomerate SK Group needs agile responses to rapidly changing business circumstances amid global geopolitical crises, C...
Korea steps up pressure on private sector to ease inflation
South Korea is intensifying pressure on the private sector to curb inflation by forcing companies such as food and beverage makers not to raise prod...
Koreans work longer hours than OECD average? Not in some sectors
South Korea has had notoriously long working hours for decades.Long hours – alongside high levels of education and an increase of women in the...
HDC IPark Mall opens S.Korea's first Nintendo pop-up store
South Korea’s HDC IPark Mall has opened Japanese game giant Nintendo’s first official pop-up store at the Yongsan location in Seoul fr...
Samsung Lee's urges to keep ‘super gap’ in semiconductor technology
Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee on Thursday visited the construction site of the global memory chip giant’s new semiconductor rese...
MZers fuel Disney Store's boom in S.Korea's offline market
The Disney Store has become one of the hottest spots within Hyundai Department Store branches since the department store operator has opened three o...
Samsung eyes next-generation 5 nm eMRAM auto chip by 2027
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Thursday it aims to develop a next-generation 5-nanometer-processed aut...
Blackstone names Koramco preferred bidder for $553 mn landmark
Blackstone Inc. has tapped South Korea’s Koramco REITs Management and Trust Co. as the preferred bidder for prime office building Arc Place, t...
Hyundai Motor muscles into online used car market
Hyundai Motor Co. is slated to start selling certified used cars online from Oct. 24, three years after its announcement to enter the 30 trillion wo...
China’s Temu challenges homegrown e-commerce platforms in Korea
Temu, a popular Chinese discount e-commerce platform that landed in South Korea just a few months ago, has apparently cracked homegrown players&rsqu...
