GS Retail selects six startups to innovate retail biz

GS Retail selects six startups to innovate retail biz

South Korea's GS Retail said on Friday it selected six startups—Studio Lab, Tilda, Oasis Business, YesPlzAI, Vessl AI, and Raondata—th...

Fila sportswear brand downsizes loss-making US business

Fila sportswear brand downsizes loss-making US business

South Korean-owned sportswear brand Fila said on Tuesday it scaled back its loss-making US business to improve earnings through a restructuring in N...

Coupang posts record quarterly sales, swings to Q3 operating profit

Coupang posts record quarterly sales, swings to Q3 operating profit

Coupang Inc., South Korea’s answer to global e-commerce giant Amazon.com, posted its highest quarterly sales in the third quarter and swung to...

Daedong opens autonomous robot subsidiary Daedong Robotics

Daedong opens autonomous robot subsidiary Daedong Robotics

Daedong Group, South Korea's leading agricultural machinery manufacturer, said on Monday it established Daedong Robotics, an intelligent autonomous ...

Self-driving tech startup RideFlux raises $1.9 mn in Series B

Self-driving tech startup RideFlux raises $1.9 mn in Series B

RideFlux Inc., a South Korean autonomous driving technology startup, raised 26 billion won ($1.9 million) in a Series B funding round about four mon...

Samsung’s memory business fares better in Q3; more HBM sales ahead 

Samsung’s memory business fares better in Q3; more HBM sales ahead 

Samsung Electronics Co. reported weaker-than-expected operating profit in its chip business in the third quarter but expects a rise in sales of its ...

Lotte Card launches long-term rental car card in Vietnam

Lotte Card launches long-term rental car card in Vietnam

South Korea's Lotte Card Co. launched a long-term car rental exclusive card in Vietnam to expand its presence in the local market.Its Vietnamese s...

LG Chem strengthens automotive adhesives biz

LG Chem strengthens automotive adhesives biz

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd., the world’s fourth-largest chemical manufacturer, said on Wednesday it will expand into the automotive adhesives m...

POSCO International eyes M&A in US natural gas market

POSCO International eyes M&A in US natural gas market

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., is considering ac...

Koramco to open office next to NPS for property investment partnership

Koramco to open office next to NPS for property investment partnership

Koramco Asset Management Co. will open a liaison office next to South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) to bolster cooperation with the w...

Apparel maker Hansae sets sights on auto parts business as growth driver

Apparel maker Hansae sets sights on auto parts business as growth driver

HO CHI MINH CITY – South Korean apparel maker Hansae Yes24 Group has set its sights on the auto parts business as a new growth driver to diver...

LG Uplus to support AI startup creation

LG Uplus to support AI startup creation

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. said on Wednesday that it launched the startup support program Shift, which aims to discover and nurture startups, incl...

S.Korea’s premium kimchi war escalated by luxury hotels

S.Korea’s premium kimchi war escalated by luxury hotels

Kimchi, Koreans’ staple food throughout millennia, has become a new, lucrative revenue source for the country’s luxury hotel chain opera...

Hyundai Glovis to enter breakbulk transport business

Hyundai Glovis to enter breakbulk transport business

South Korea's Hyundai Glovis Co. said on Tuesday it participates in Breakbulk Americas 2024, a four-day event in Houston starting on October 15.&n...

Zero-sum fears arise in S.Korean airlines’ game of chicken

Zero-sum fears arise in S.Korean airlines’ game of chicken

South Korea’s air carriers are fiercely vying for lucrative or untapped routes in a game of chicken to shore up their falling profit, raising ...

Flashlight Capital offers to buy KT&G’s ginseng business for $1.4 billion

Flashlight Capital offers to buy KT&G’s ginseng business for $1.4 billion

Singapore-based investment management firm Flashlight Capital Partners Pte. (FCP) has offered to buy South Korean tobacco maker KT&G Corp.'s gin...

Microsoft, KT to invest $1.8 bn in Korea’s AI, infrastructure

Microsoft, KT to invest $1.8 bn in Korea’s AI, infrastructure

Microsoft Corp. and KT Corp. plan to invest 2.4 trillion won ($1.8 billion) in South Korea’s artificial intelligence, cloud and infrastructure...

LG Electronics doubles down on B2B business  

LG Electronics doubles down on B2B business  

LG Electronics Inc., a leading South Korean home appliance maker seeking to transform into a platform company, aims to double sales of its Business ...

Hyundai to launch India’s largest $3.3 bn IPO next week

Hyundai to launch India’s largest $3.3 bn IPO next week

Hyundai Motor Co.'s Indian subsidiary said on Wednesday it is set to launch its initial public offering, the largest listing in the country, next we...

DB Insurance outshines domestic rivals in global business

DB Insurance outshines domestic rivals in global business

DB Insurance Co. raked in the biggest profits from overseas operations among South Korean insurance companies in the first half of this year, leadin...

Hyundai Motor, Waymo forge multi-year, strategic partnership

Hyundai Motor, Waymo forge multi-year, strategic partnership

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Friday it has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Waymo LLC to jointly ...

Hyundai Mobis to mass-produce parts to double EV charging speed

Hyundai Mobis to mass-produce parts to double EV charging speed

UIWANG, Gyeonggi Province – Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s fifth-largest auto parts maker, plans to mass-produce a component that double...

FTC fines Kakao Mobility $55 mn for alleged unfair taxi-hailing service

FTC fines Kakao Mobility $55 mn for alleged unfair taxi-hailing service

South Korea’s antitrust body has fined Kakao Mobility Corp., the country’s largest taxi-hailing app operator, 72.4 billion won ($54.9 mi...

Hanwha Q Cells sells 142 MW solar power plant in Washington

Hanwha Q Cells sells 142 MW solar power plant in Washington

Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar panel manufacturing arm of South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp., said on Wednesday that it sold a 142-megawatt solar pow...

LG Uplus, GSMA sign Open Gateway agreement

LG Uplus, GSMA sign Open Gateway agreement

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. said on Monday that it signed an agreement with the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) to parti...

Jin Air to expand SE Asia, Oceania routes

Jin Air to expand SE Asia, Oceania routes

South Korea's budget carrier Jin Air said on Friday that it will resume and expand its international flights for the upcoming winter season, focus...

LG Display ends large LCD business with plant sale to CSOT

LG Display ends large LCD business with plant sale to CSOT

South Korea’s leading display maker LG Display Co. is gearing up its transition into a leading organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel maker...

Korea Securities to expand its ultra-high net worth business

Korea Securities to expand its ultra-high net worth business

Korea Investment & Securities announced on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Arceon Group to strengthen its o...

CJ Group explores Saudi Arabia's entertainment potential

CJ Group explores Saudi Arabia's entertainment potential

CJ Group, South Korea’s food-to-entertainment giant, is exploring business opportunities in Saudi Arabia's entertainment and logistics sectors...

LG Energy Solution’s battery management business gains traction

LG Energy Solution’s battery management business gains traction

LG Energy Solution Ltd. has kicked off a battery management total solution (BMTS) business to offer automakers more advanced and comprehensive batte...

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