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South Korean investment firm SK Square Co. has sold all of its shares in Korean biotech NanoEntek Inc., a 28.4% stake, for 58 billion won ($44.3 mil...

Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is kickstarting efforts to attract foreign visitors with new tour programs and a promotional video featuring the ...

Kream, the resale platform of South Korea’s online portal Naver Corp., has agreed to buy a stake in Malaysia’s biggest sneaker resale co...

Hyundai Motor Co.'s joint venture in China plans to launch two electric vehicle models dedicated to the mainland next year to revive its ailing busi...

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, plans to double its manufacturing capacity by building four additional plants w...

The majority of South Korea’s small and medium-sized exporters are concerned about a possible cancellation of orders or difficulty in winning ...

South Korea’s Youngone Holdings Co. is set to accelerate its new business by establishing a corporate venture capital (CVC) firm in Singapor...

South Korean manufacturers are importing even more key industrial raw materials from China, deepening concerns over the dependence of Asia’s f...

Samsung Electronics Co. is slated to enable embedded subscriber identity modules (eSIMs) into its new foldable smartphones available in South Korea ...

Shiftup Co., a South Korean mobile game developer, has joined the ranks of unicorns, or private companies worth $1 billion or more.The studio behind...

South Korea’s two major biopharmaceutical companies, Celltrion Inc. and Samsung Biologics Co., are respectively expecting more than 2 trillion...

Some major retirement funds in South Korea are raising interest rates on their members’ savings accounts in line with global central banks&rsq...

Just like its global peers, Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. have suffered from the chip shortage that bogged down the entire auto industry for nearl...

Shares of major K-pop label YG Entertainment Inc. finished Wednesday's trade 6% higher at 48,950 won ($37.52) a share, on news of Blackpink’s ...

South Korea’s Ssangyong Motor Co. will ramp up the production of its new sport utility vehicle to meet strong demand, hoping the Torres will h...

South Korea’s POSCO Holdings Inc. expects sales of its rechargeable battery materials to more than double to 41 trillion won ($31 billion) by ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has halted updates to Kakao Corp.'s KakaoTalk, South Korea's most popular messaging app. An employee of Kakao told...

When LG Electronics Inc. surprised the market last year by announcing that it was exiting the mobile phone business, one of its mainstay businesses,...

South Korea’s homegrown web browser Whale, developed by Naver Corp., is quietly increasing its presence in the domestic market, where Google C...

The much-touted sale of a controlling stake in Iljin Materials Co., a leading South Korean battery materials maker, is flagging as big spenders are ...

POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korea’s top steel maker, and UK electric vehicle startup Britishvolt Ltd. have signed an initial agreement...

Washington D.C. has joined the three US states of California, Virginia and New York to designate Nov. 22 “Kimchi Day,” and has acknowled...

SK Materials Co., an industrial gas manufacturing affiliate of South Korea’s SK Inc., and Japanese chemicals company Showa Denko K.K. have agr...

Korean Air Lines Co., the country’s top carrier, is set to take measures to normalize international flights as nations worldwide are opening u...

Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s largest auto parts producer, expected orders from global carmakers excluding Hyundai Motor Group affiliates t...

A consortium led by the chemicals-to-steel conglomerate KG Group has been named the new owner of South Korea’s troubled sport utility vehicle ...

South Korea’s biotechnology firms – public and private alike –  are facing increasingly negative financial conditions. T...

Hyundai Motor Co., Lotte Rental Co., and KB Financial Group, the No. 1 players in each of their sectors, are gearing up to fight in a new arena &nda...

The non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem has penetrated into mainstream society. NFTs are digital assets that represent objects in the physical world,...

South Korea plans to rebuild the nuclear power plant industry hard hit by the previous government’s nuclear energy phasing-out policy by placi...