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SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), a unit of SK Innovation Co., has climbed to the top ranking among battery materials makers in terms of market capitali...

POSCO Chemical Co. will invest 600 billion won ($523 million) from 2022 to build a cathode materials plant in Pohang city with an annual capacity of...

Young South Koreans are drowning in debt.Korean youths in their 20s and 30s are reeling under growing personal debt as they aggressively take out pe...

South Korean Lotte Chemical Corp. plans to double liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) use for ethylene production by next year as the domestic industry ru...

South Korean material makers are boosting their efforts to go green as they increasingly adopt eco-friendly technologies for raw materials such as c...

San Francisco-based startup Impressivo is seeking partnerships in the fitness and healthcare sector as the company aims to bridge the fitness and he...

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

Hyosung Group has once again made a key step forward in achieving its long-term ambition to become South Korea’s corporate leader in the hydro...

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 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...

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. and POSCO have agreed to invest a combined 17 billion won ($15 million) in Australia's Queensland Pacifi...

ESG is one of the most frequently mentioned keywords in South Korea today. It stands for environmental, social and corporate governance, the three...

SK Inc., the holding and investment company of SK Group, has made another big investment in the US hydrogen segment.On Jun. 3, SK said that it bough...

South Korea’s automakers are facing a drastic increase in manufacturing costs. Raw material prices are soaring and the global chip shortage re...

As SM Entertainment Co., the label behind the global K-pop phenomenon, is up for grabs in the M&A market, the battle heats up between the countr...

With competition heating up in the global race for more eco-friendly cars, South Korea’s major companies are moving forward with their plans t...

Vision Fund, led by billionaire SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, has decided to invest around $2 billion in South Korea's largest travel platform Yan...

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. is diversifying into electric vehicle raw materials and hydrogen businesses as new growth drivers, moving a...

Kakao Corp.’s Japanese unit is set to secure 600 billion won ($530 million) from South Korea-based private equity firm Anchor Equity Partners....

South Korea’s major companies are looking for merger and acquisition opportunities in the rechargeable battery materials sector, which is grow...

South Korea’s major companies are increasingly adopting corporate storytelling as a means of rebranding their identities.As the companies enjo...

The South Korean unit of US auto giant General Motors Co. will halt two of its three plants next week in the latest sign of the worsening global aut...

South Korea on Friday unveiled a prototype of its homegrown fighter jet, the KF-21, two decades after it vowed to develop a next-generation superson...

Posco Chemical Co., the secondary battery materials unit of POSCO, will supply anodes, a key material used in electric car batteries, to the joint v...

South Korea’s top conglomerates have enjoyed their domestic market leadership for decades with a focus on the steel, shipbuilding and petroche...

South Korea is hitting its stride as an innovator, but it’s an overnight success story over 20 years in the making. Coupang’s $60B IPO t...

The initial public offering of SK Bioscience Co. was priced at the upper end of its price band of 65,000 won ($57.3) per share on Monday to raise 1....

South Korea’s SK Global Chemical, a wholly owned subsidiary of SK Innovation, and POSCO have joined hands to develop steel and plastic composi...

Graphene is often called a “wonder material” because of the extraordinary properties that come from its nano-scale structure. It is an e...

Back in 2019, SKC Kolon PI, a maker of industrial film, was put up for sale as the company’s two largest owners thought the business’s g...