new-concept functional materials

South Korea’s unionized truckers, on day three of a large-scale strike, have moved to disrupt the supply of materials needed to manufacture se...

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is set to supply the industry’s best-performing DRAM to US graphic chipmaker...

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), a prestigious South Korean university, has developed a highly-reliable, large-scal...

South Korea’s food and beverage conglomerate SPC Group announced Tuesday it has acquired French casual coffee chain Lina’s Déve...

Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia is set to buy a majority stake in the world’s largest polyimide film manufacturer PI Advanced Mater...

South Korea’s top chemicals company LG Chem Ltd. and the world’s largest zinc and lead smelter Korea Zinc Co. have agreed to launch a ba...

South Korea’s Kakao Mobility Corp. will begin providing drivers for door-to-door auto transport from as early as mid-June, according to tech i...

South Korea’s top advanced composite materials producer aims to speed up its expansion in the aerospace sector with the acquisition of an airp...

LG Chem Ltd. announced Tuesday it will set up a joint venture with Chinese mining company Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. to secure a steady supply of ra...

Medipost Co., a South Korean biotechnology company, has acquired a 39.6% stake in OmniaBio Inc., a Canada-based cell and gene therapy contract devel...

Iljin Materials Co., a South Korean electric vehicle battery materials maker, accelerated the process of the sale of a majority stake in a deal esti...

The price of LUNA 2.0 (LUNA), the brand-new token of the controversial Terraform Labs Ltd., has been on a tumultuous ride since its debut a couple o...

Two leading South Korean materials companies PI Advanced Materials Co. and NexFlex Co. have drawn final bids mainly from foreign rivals and private ...

South Korea’s POSCO Chemical Co. and General Motors Co. on Friday agreed to set up a joint venture that will supply about 20 trillion won ($16...

In capitalism and the market economy, one’s monetary compensation is measured by his or her degree of contribution to improving the lives of o...

South Korea’s POSCO Group will invest 53 trillion won ($42 billion) by 2026 primarily in its steel, rechargeable battery materials and hydroge...

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate after Samsung, on Thursday announced a plan to invest 247 trillion won ($195 billion) in k...

KT Cloud is working to raise 1 trillion won ($792 million) by issuing new shares. The cloud arm of telecom juggernaut KT Corp. plans to use the...

Iljin Materials Co., a South Korean supplier of electric vehicle battery materials, has put a majority stake up for sale, which is estimated at arou...

The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) of South Korea will focus on portfolio diversification this year while increasing investment in growth se...

Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s top automaker, unveiled plans to spend $10.5 billion on the auto industry in the US through 2025 as it aims...

Kim Hyun-soo, a former real estate investment head of South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), has been named Asia head of Allianz Real Estate,...

SK On Co., an electric vehicle battery maker of SK Innovation Co., is bolstering its M&A team by hiring M&A experts from a leading law firm ...

South Korea’s Iljin Materials Co. plans to invest 500 billion won ($391.2 million) in a battery materials plant in Spain, its first production...

Samsung Electronics Co. is working on a mobile application processor chip, which will be used exclusively for its flagship Galaxy smartphone series ...

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. has raised its stake in affiliate Lotte Fine Chemical Co. amid speculation that the two companies may merge...

NCSOFT Corp., South Korea’s leading game developer, surprised investors with stronger-than-expected profit in the first quarter as Lineage W, ...

South Korea's new president Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office on Tuesday, is set to push the expansion of sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corpor...

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery manufacturer, plans to build a new US factory to supply batteries to a planned E...

KKR & Co., a global private equity firm, is set to buy South Korean conglomerate SK Group’s industrial gas production facility at slightly...