CJ Foodville goes global from in-flight meals to Starbucks bread

CJ Foodville Co., a South Korean food company, is deepening its presence in Southeast Asia with premium bakery products, catering to airplane passen...

Ramen, ready-to-eat meals lead 10% rise in 2024 K-food exports

South Korea’s food exports climbed 10% on-year to $7.26 billion in 2024, led by ramen, ready-to-eat meals and seasoned seaweed, according to g...

US auto parts tariffs take effect; Korea avoids heavy hit

The US has eased tariffs on automotive parts that took effect on May 3, offering a sigh of relief to South Korean suppliers, who said a worst-case s...

Korea bags Romanian project to refurbish nuclear reactor

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) on Thursday inked a final agreement with Romania’s Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica (SNN) to r...

Lotte replaces 21 CEOs, slashes executive jobs by 22% in drastic reshuffle

South Korea’s retail-to-chemical conglomerate Lotte Group on Thursday replaced 21 chief executives across its affiliates and slashed executive...

Samsung to replace chiefs of 3 key posts: Memory, foundry, system LSI

Samsung Electronics Co. plans to replace the three key posts of its semiconductor business — memory, foundry and system LSI — as the Sou...

LG Group carries out modest management reshuffle

Cho Joo-wan will continue to lead LG Electronics Inc. as chief executive after its parent LG Group on Thursday carried out modest reshuffles in its ...

Binggrae sells plant-based Melona at Costco in Australia

South Korean food and beverage company Binggrae said on Wednesday that it sells its plant-based Melona at Costco stores in Australia from November.P...

Tesla asks Samsung, SK Hynix to supply HBM4 chip samples

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. are said to each be developing a sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) chip prototype for Tesla In...

Samsung to cut chip executive jobs, restructure in battle versus SK Hynix

Samsung Electronics Co. plans to drastically cut its chip executive jobs and restructure semiconductor-related operations as it struggles to compete...

CJ CheilJedang to provide dumplings for Qantas Airways’ in-flight meals

CJ CheilJedang Corp. expands its K-food territory with Australia's largest airline.CJ CheilJedang announced on Tuesday that it will introduce Bibigo...

Race to win tableside ordering market heats up in Korea

Baemin, South Korea's top food delivery platform, and the country’s leading travel and accommodation booking platform operator Yanolja Co. hav...

Mobility firms, banks replace battery, K-culture stocks in KEDI 30 Index

Mobility, financial services and biotech companies have elbowed out battery and entertainment stocks in the KEDI Innovator ESG 30 Index in an annual...

HYBE replaces ADOR CEO; Ex-CEO Min barks at sacking

HYBE Co. has finally removed Min Hee-jin from ADOR, the label behind girl group NewJeans, as chief executive some four months after it failed to kic...

Taihan Cable wins $137 mn long-term contract in US

South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. announced on Thursday that its US sales subsidiary T.E.USA has secured a long-term contract worth 190 ...

KAI inks $1.4 bn supersonic fighter jet mass production deal

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), the country’s sole military aircraft manufacturer, said on Tuesday it signed a 2 trillion won ($1.4 bil...

Korean IT firms prefer engineers with business capabilities

More South Korean information technology companies are seeking engineers with business capabilities as artificial intelligence is expected to take o...

Hyundai, LG Energy to jointly develop EV battery swapping service

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. will join forces with the world’s leading battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. to launch electric vehic...

Doosan Enerbility to expand power generation biz in Kazakhstan

South Korea's Doosan Enerbility Co. announced on Thursday that it signed a cooperation agreement and memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Kazakh s...

Daesang to scale up meal kits, kimchi production in Vietnam

Daesang Corp., South Korea’s leading food maker, said on Monday its two Vietnamese operations have each completed their second plant in the co...

Samsung Electronics replaces chip head amid HBM crisis

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, on Tuesday replaced its semiconductor business chief as the South Korean company st...

T'way Air, CJ CheilJedang to collaborate on in-flight meals

South Korea's low-cost carrier T'way Air Co. announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with CJ CheilJedang Corp. on May...

Korea’s Shinsegae replaces building unit chief amid property downturn

South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae Group on Tuesday replaced the head of its construction unit amid the sluggish property market, adding to ...

Taihan Cable wins $81 mn power network replacement order in US

South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution Co. announced on Friday that it secured a project of 110 billion won ($81.5 million) to replace aging po...

Samsung to supply $752 million in Mach-1 AI chips to Naver, replace Nvidia

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, will supply its next-generation Mach-1 artificial intelligence chips to Naver Corp....

Kakao to replace K-pop pioneer SM execs over poor governance

Kakao Corp. is set to replace executives of SM Entertainment Co., who ousted its founder Lee Soo-man when the South Korean mobile giant acquired the...

SK Group reintroduces Saturday CEO meeting after 20 years

South Korea’s energy-to-telecom conglomerate SK Group has decided to reintroduce Saturday gatherings of its subsidiaries' chief executives aft...

Taihan Cable sees best profit in 15 years on foreign orders

Taihan Cable & Solution Co., a major South Korean cable manufacturer, on Tuesday said its 2023 operating profit hit the largest level in 15 year...

Bulgogi & ramyun top Jeju Air's in-flight menu in 2023

South Korea'st budget carrier Jeju Air Co. announced on Monday that its most popular in-flight meals and cabin cafe items in 2023 were bulgogi deopb...

Korea to domestically develop air-to-air missiles for KF-21

South Korea plans to develop short-range, air-to-air missiles to be mounted on the Korean fighter KF-21 with homegrown technology by 2035 in a 591.9...