Hyundai Heavy to invest $30 million in TerraPower for SMR business

Hyundai Heavy to invest $30 million in TerraPower for SMR business

South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Group said on Friday it has signed a deal to invest $30 million in TerraPower, a US nuclear power ventu...

Korea's premium pet food market sees rapid growth

Korea's premium pet food market sees rapid growth

Korea's pet food market is getting more sophisticated, with brands appearing whose products are even more expensive than food for humans despite hav...

Samsung Elec's brand value rises to $87.7 billion

Samsung Elec's brand value rises to $87.7 billion

Samsung Electronics' brand value has broken the $80 billion mark. Korea's flagship company saw such value grow in double digits for the second ...

BOK may raise rates by 50 bps again on Fed, inflation

BOK may raise rates by 50 bps again on Fed, inflation

South Korea’s central bank may increase interest rates by 50 basis points again as the US Federal Reserve continued to aggressively tighten mo...

Korea's KB Securities to earn market's 1st quadruple crown

Korea's KB Securities to earn market's 1st quadruple crown

In a first for a Korean brokerage, KB Securities has led all major performance categories this year and could achieve the domestic sector's first "q...

Korea's WeMade shakes off crisis, secures new investment

Korea's WeMade shakes off crisis, secures new investment

Korea's game development company WeMade has secured new investment worth 66 billion won ($46.4 million), breathing a sigh of relief after receiving ...

North Korea Barrages south with missiles; South Korea swiftly responds

North Korea Barrages south with missiles; South Korea swiftly responds

SEOUL—North Korea unleashed its biggest barrage in years, firing nearly two dozen missiles, including one that flew south of its disputed mari...

Korean American women leaders in finance stress finding joy in work

Korean American women leaders in finance stress finding joy in work

NEW YORK – One by one, impeccably dressed Korean American women flocked into the Anchorage Capital Group’s headquarters in New York City...

Korean Air to introduce new planes, spend $1.7 bn on safety

Korean Air to introduce new planes, spend $1.7 bn on safety

Korean Air Lines Co., the country’s flag carrier, plans to bring in new airplanes and spend $1.7 billion on safety measures after a recent spa...

Market Kurly drops Market from platform name to expand business scope

Market Kurly drops Market from platform name to expand business scope

South Korea’s Kurly Inc. has changed the name of its grocery delivery service platform Market Kurly to Kurly as part of its corporate strategy...

EQT Partners to invest $1.4 bn in Korea's No. 2 physical security firm

EQT Partners to invest $1.4 bn in Korea's No. 2 physical security firm

Sweden’s EQT Partners AB is set to acquire a 36.87% stake in South Korean security services provider SK Shieldus Co. from a consortium led by ...

Dongwon Industries reborn as holdings company after 53 years

Dongwon Industries reborn as holdings company after 53 years

Korea's seafood giant Dongwon Industries on Wednesday said its completed merger with Dongwon Enterprise has given their parent Dongwon Group a new h...

Public-private battery alliance launched to source critical minerals

Public-private battery alliance launched to source critical minerals

The South Korean government, in tandem with the private sector, launched a battery alliance on Tuesday in a bid to support the companies in sourcing...

S.Korea prepares to launch $7.6 bn stock market stabilization fund

S.Korea prepares to launch $7.6 bn stock market stabilization fund

South Korea last week completed the process needed to launch a stock market stabilization fund of 10.76 trillion won ($7.6 billion). The timing for ...

Korea's POSCO gets greener via integrated CO2-free brand

Korea's POSCO gets greener via integrated CO2-free brand

Korea's POSCO has introduced the integrated brand Greenate to symbolize the commitment of the nation's top steelmaker to achieve carbon neutrality b...

Foreign PE firms on hunt for Korea Inc. with strong dollar

Foreign PE firms on hunt for Korea Inc. with strong dollar

Foreign private equity firms have taken advantage of the strong dollar to dominate corporate acquisition deals in South Korea, adding to expectation...

Korea’s 1st export decline in 2 years dims BOK’s big-step rate hike outlook

Korea’s 1st export decline in 2 years dims BOK’s big-step rate hike outlook

South Korea’s exports fell for the first time in two years in October, posting a trade deficit for seven months in a row – the clearest ...

Korea's Meritz Group likely to sell off its asset management arm

Korea's Meritz Group likely to sell off its asset management arm

South Korea’s Meritz Financial Group Inc. is poised to sell off its subsidiary Meritz Asset Management Co., The Korea Economic Daily understoo...

Lotte Shopping joins hands with UK's Ocado to build online grocery store 

Lotte Shopping joins hands with UK's Ocado to build online grocery store 

Lotte Shopping Co. will join forces with the Hertfordshire, England-based Ocado Group, which licenses grocery fulfillment technology to retailers.&n...

Korea should open retail electricity market for renewables

Korea should open retail electricity market for renewables

South Korea on Oct. 26 officially launched the carbon neutrality commission based on laws for green growth, which took effect last March, amid the g...

Korea's SK Chemicals to make chemically recycled food containers

Korea's SK Chemicals to make chemically recycled food containers

South Korea's SK Chemicals on Tuesday said it has joined forces with Poolinglim P&P to make the nation's first food containers using chemically ...

Korea's underwear giant BYC asked to open accounting books

Korea's underwear giant BYC asked to open accounting books

Insider trading without due process.This is what South Korea's Truston Asset Management, the No. 2 stakeholder of underwear giant BYC with 8.13%, ha...

Korea’s KHNP inks nuclear power plant deal with Poland

Korea’s KHNP inks nuclear power plant deal with Poland

Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) signed an initial agreement for a nuclear power plant in Poland, paving the way to win an expected $30 bill...

EcoPro BM to build battery materials plant in Canada

EcoPro BM to build battery materials plant in Canada

EcoPro BM Co., South Korea’s leading battery material producer, is set to build a plant in Canada with a $704 million investment in a partners...

Naver Webtoon to pursue profits with Yonder app launch in US

Naver Webtoon to pursue profits with Yonder app launch in US

South Korea’s Naver Webtoon Corp. has been successful in the domestic market with its loyal subscribers willing to pay to read a diverse libra...

Domino’s Korea to use third party delivery agents, the franchise's first case

Domino’s Korea to use third party delivery agents, the franchise's first case

It took a whole year for Domino’s Korea to convince the Michigan-based delivery pizza behemoth for an exemption to its corporate guidance of u...

Korea's stock deposits dip to lowest point since July 2020

Korea's stock deposits dip to lowest point since July 2020

Monthly average deposits for stock investment in South Korea are poised to drop below 50 trillion won ($35.1 billion) for the first time since July ...

Germany’s MBraun, Korean university to co-work on solar cells: CEO

Germany’s MBraun, Korean university to co-work on solar cells: CEO

MBraun, an affiliate of Germany’s Indus Holdings AG, plans to invest 1 billion won ($702,000) in a South Korean university as part of a deal t...

Korea’s Peak Bio makes Nasdaq debut via SPAC deal with Ignyte

Korea’s Peak Bio makes Nasdaq debut via SPAC deal with Ignyte

Peak Bio Co., a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, is debuting on the Nasdaq through a merger with US blank cheque company Ignyte Acquisition C...

BOK to ease Legoland developer default-led credit crunch

BOK to ease Legoland developer default-led credit crunch

South Korea’s central bank joined rescue moves to improve liquidity in the local bond market and alleviate the fallout from a debt default by ...

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