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Korea’s leading firms across multiple industries, from consumer electronics to agricultural equipment, are widening the use of edge computing ...

South Korea’s art market is projected to double or even triple in size this year, thanks to the widening of the customer base across all gener...

Fubon Life Insurance Co., a unit of Taiwan’s Fubon Financial Holding Co., has raised its stake in a Korean joint venture with Hyundai Motor Gr...

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and Grab Holdings Inc. have agreed to strengthen their partnership in mobility services to accelerate the ad...

DB HiTek Co., one of South Korea’s leading foundry chipmakers, is enjoying the current market boom, which is forcing makers of cars and electr...

A Twosome Place has scrapped its initial public offering plans after being touted as the country’s first coffee chain to go public. This has r...

Kolon Group is making a remarkable comeback this year to challenge its longtime rival Hyosung Group in future-growth segments including hydrogen. Ac...

South Korea-based Line Plus Corp. is set to become the country's first large business group to allow employees to work from home permanently. T...

South Korea’s major banks are rushing to Singapore as the city-state is emerging as a new financial hub in Southeast Asia, replacing the tradi...

South Korea’s largest auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis announced on June 17 that it has developed a new grille technology that allows drivers to...

South Korea's island of Jeju is famous for its native citrus and pork. It's also where Shin Woo-sup, the founder of startup studio Futurera, came up...

Samsung Electronics Co. will commercialize a wearable robot for healthcare by the end of this year as the South Korean tech giant is delving into th...

Samsung Electronics Co. has unveiled a new multi-chip that integrates high-performance DRAM and NAND flash memory chips into a single compact packag...

The blurring of industry boundaries and increasing new opportunities in the pandemic era are driving major Korean companies to split businesses into...

IMM Investment Corp., a South Korean alternative investment firm, is planning to raise 1 trillion won ($900 million) for its new infrastructure fund...

Toss Bank in September will enter the race of internet-only banks in South Korea as the third player, competing against K Bank and Kakao Bank. Toss ...

South Korea-based electronics giant LG has revealed new designs of its logo, "Face of the Future," in a move to upgrade its brand storytelling. On J...

JW Pharmaceutical Co. has become the first South Korean drug maker to develop the generic version of a next-generation antibiotic substance, the med...

Mando Corp., a South Korean auto parts maker under Halla Group, is splitting off the autonomous driving business into a separate entity to sharpen i...

South Korea’s two leading bakery franchise companies are expanding aggressively in Southeast Asia.SPC Group, the operator of Korea’s lar...

 The combined valuation of some 70 tech startups that received funding from the platform giant Naver Corp. has reached around 1.3 trillion won ...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday launched a low-end 5G smartphone in overseas markets amid intensified price competition initiated by Chinese mobil...

South Korean mobile platform giant Kakao Corp.’s enterprise value is rising backed by its strong business performance, threatening to overtake...

HYBE Co., the global entertainment powerhouse behind BTS, has successfully closed its previously announced rights offering to raise 445.5 billion wo...

South Korea’s exports surged to the highest level in over 32 years in May on the back of strong demand for semiconductors and automobiles, rei...

Coupang Corp. has a unique corporate culture for a company headquartered in South Korea.  Industry insiders highlight that this uncommon cultur...

South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS) decided on Friday to exclude from its portfolio new coal-fired power development projects both at home ...

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has unveiled an upgraded version of its fuel cell truck XCIENT, turning up the heat on rivals in...

It’s been about four months since Lee Seul, a manager at real estate app Zigbang, worked from the company office in Gangnam, one of South Kore...

Early this month, when Anchor Equity Partners was in intense negotiations with Kakao Corp. over the terms of its 600 billion won ($530 million) inve...