Kolon, Hyosung to give up control over nylon material maker Capro

 Kolon, Hyosung to give up control over nylon material maker Capro

South Korea’s Hyosung Group and its longtime rival Kolon Group in the fiber, textile and petrochemical businesses are poised to give up their ...

CMG Pharma acquires animal nutrition company ING Medix

CMG Pharma acquires animal nutrition company ING Medix

CMG Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary of South Korea's CHA Biotech, said on Monday that it is moving into the pet nutrition supplement market by acquirin...

WeMade sets up blockchain corporation in UAE

WeMade sets up blockchain corporation in UAE

WeMade Co., South Korea's game developer and publisher and the issuer of cryptocurrency WeMix, set up WeMix MENA Ltd. in the United Arab Emirates (U...

Kookmin Bank launches foreign currency trading platform KB Star FX

Kookmin Bank launches foreign currency trading platform KB Star FX

South Korea's largest lender Kookmin Bank on Monday launched its new contactless platform for foreign exchange transactions dubbed KB Star FX.The on...

Ssangyong Motor takes part in Brussels Motor Show

Ssangyong Motor takes part in Brussels Motor Show

Ssangyong Motor Co. said on Monday that it would participate in the 2023 European Motor Show Brussels and begin to move into the European market in ...

UAE’s sovereign funds to invest $30 billion in South Korea

UAE’s sovereign funds to invest $30 billion in South Korea

ABU DHABI – The United Arab Emirates will invest $30 billion in South Korea across strategic sectors, including the nuclear power, defense, hy...

FSS to inquire actual use of funds raised by issuing ESG bonds

FSS to inquire actual use of funds raised by issuing ESG bonds

From now on, companies in South Korea that have raised funds by issuing ESG (environmental, social, and governance) bonds will have to answer questi...

Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis set for February IPO

Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis set for February IPO

South Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. aims to raise up to $166 million through a listing next month, becoming the country’s first...

SK Inc. eyes significant growth in bio business from 2024

SK Inc. eyes significant growth in bio business from 2024

SAN FRANCISCO – SK Inc.,  the investment and holding company of South Korea’s SK Group, expects significant growth in its biopharma...

Kookmin Card acquires Cambodian leasing firm at $5.2 mn

Kookmin Card acquires Cambodian leasing firm at $5.2 mn

KB Kookmin Card, a credit card unit of KB Financial Group, and its Cambodian local subsidiary KB Daehan Specialized Bank, acquired the Southeast Asi...

S.Korea to extend trading hours of local forex market

S.Korea to extend trading hours of local forex market

South Korea will extend the trading hours for the local foreign exchange market to attract overseas investors and improve the trading system so that...

LG Innotek eyes top spot in FC-BGA substrate market

LG Innotek eyes top spot in FC-BGA substrate market

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. will boost the production of its flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) packages, or high-density package substrates,...

Samsung’s new 5 nm high-performance SSD faster, uses less power

Samsung’s new 5 nm high-performance SSD faster, uses less power

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Thursday it is ready to produce in large quantities PM9C1a, its latest ...

KCCI launches Carbon Reduction Certification Center

KCCI launches Carbon Reduction Certification Center

The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry(KCCI) said Thursday that it has established the Carbon Reduction Certification Center, a professional org...

Samsung, SK Hynix to benefit from Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPU

Samsung, SK Hynix to benefit from Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPU

The much-awaited launch of Intel Corp.’s latest processors dubbed Sapphire Rapids is a boon for leading memory chipmakers such as Samsung Elec...

Samsung Biologics receives Terra Carta Seal

Samsung Biologics receives Terra Carta Seal

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Wednesday it was awarded the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Ter...

SK Hynix issues $1 bn sustainability-linked bonds

SK Hynix issues $1 bn sustainability-linked bonds

South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. has raised $1 billion in sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) to become the world's first memory chipmaker to issue ...

Celltrion Healthcare lands biosimilar deal in Brazil for 2nd straight year

Celltrion Healthcare lands biosimilar deal in Brazil for 2nd straight year

South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. on Tuesday said that for the second straight year, it landed an order for infliximab, an antibody used to tre...

POSCO to enter palm oil refining market in Indonesia

POSCO to enter palm oil refining market in Indonesia

POSCO International Co., a trading arm of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Co., will build a palm oil refining plant in Indonesia to foray into...

Korea’s secondhand car market cools amid elevated interest rates

Korea’s secondhand car market cools amid elevated interest rates

South Korea’s secondhand car market is cooling rapidly as both dealers and buyers are reeling from elevated interest rates, which also bode il...

S-1 calls AI video solutions core of this year's AI security market

S-1 calls AI video solutions core of this year's AI security market

Access management of facial recognition needs the most improvement this year and artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions such as intelligent cl...

Korean activist fund KCGI buys Meritz Asset Management

Korean activist fund KCGI buys Meritz Asset Management

A consortium led by Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI), a local activist fund, said on Jan. 9 it signed a share purchase agreement l...

Korea's SK On scraps $3.2 bn Turkey EV battery factory plan

Korea's SK On scraps $3.2 bn Turkey EV battery factory plan

SK On Co., the world’s No. 5 electric vehicle battery maker, dropped a plan to build a 4 trillion won ($3.2 billion) plant in Turkey as higher...

POSCO to issue up to $553 million in unsecured bonds

POSCO to issue up to $553 million in unsecured bonds

South Korea's top steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc. is expected to issue won-denominated unsecured bonds worth up to 700 billion won ($553.9 million) t...

Samsung’s Q4 profit tumbles; cuts 2023 chip profit forecast by half

Samsung’s Q4 profit tumbles; cuts 2023 chip profit forecast by half

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, posted its worst quarterly operating profit in eight years on F...

KEXIM bank issues $3.5 billion in foreign currency bonds

KEXIM bank issues $3.5 billion in foreign currency bonds

The Export-Import Bank of Korea on Thursday said it issued a record-high $3.5 billion in global bonds to investors worldwide.The government-run bank...

Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market

Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. kept their fifth place in sales in the US market for the second consecutive year. Despite production setbacks due to...

LG Uplus announces official start of original content production

LG Uplus announces official start of original content production

LG Uplus Corp. announced on Thursday that it would officially kickstart producing original content, following its pilot program about desserts relea...

Hyundai's Nexo keeps 1st place in hydrogen car market beating Toyota

Hyundai's Nexo keeps 1st place in hydrogen car market beating Toyota

Hyundai Motor Co.'s hydrogen fuel cell car model Nexo far surpassed Toyota in the world's market share. According to SNE Research, a market research...

KT receives record-high corporate bond bids of $2.3 billion

KT receives record-high corporate bond bids of $2.3 billion

KT Corp., which boasts the nation's highest credit rating at the stable “AAA,” reached a whopping 2.89 trillion won ($2.27 billion) in c...

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