Korea Inc. nearly triples dividend payments in decade

Korea Inc. nearly triples dividend payments in decade

Cash dividend payments by companies listed on the Korea Exchange, the country's main bourse, have nearly tripled in a decade. They have returned a l...

NPS to spur buyout, VC in US tech sector: chairman

NPS to spur buyout, VC in US tech sector: chairman

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, will speed up its private equity (PE) investments ...

Doosan Robotics opens Europe office in Germany

Doosan Robotics opens Europe office in Germany

South Korea's Doosan Robotics Inc. announced on Monday that it opened the Doosan Robotics Europe office in Düsseldorf, Germany.The Doosan Robot...

Taekwang Industrial begins modacrylic wig yarn exports

Taekwang Industrial begins modacrylic wig yarn exports

South Korea's Taekwang Industrial Co. announced on Monday that it started to export its modacrylic, a high-quality wig material yarn.Modacrylic is a...

SK seeks to sell 13.3% stake in Chinese food firm Joyvio

SK seeks to sell 13.3% stake in Chinese food firm Joyvio

SK Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s second-largest business group SK, is in talks with Joyvio Group to sell its entire 13.3% stake i...

Investors dump Korean biotech HLB stocks on FDA rejection

Investors dump Korean biotech HLB stocks on FDA rejection

HLB Co. and its affiliate stocks tumbled on Friday on news that the South Korean biotech group’s highly anticipated new cancer treatment Rivoc...

Korean landfill companies put on market after Affirma deal

Korean landfill companies put on market after Affirma deal

South Korea’s landfill companies are increasingly being put up for sale, drawing interest from private equity firms and environmental companie...

EuBiologics gets WHO certification for cholera vaccine facility

EuBiologics gets WHO certification for cholera vaccine facility

South Korea's EuBiologics Co. announced on Friday that the vaccine bulk production facility at its Chuncheon Plant No. 2 for the oral cholera vacc...

Tata, Korea's Woori to expand car financing services in Asia

Tata, Korea's Woori to expand car financing services in Asia

Woori Financial Group Inc., the fourth-largest financial holding group in South Korea, and India’s top commercial vehicle maker Tata Motors Lt...

SeAH to invest $155.3 mn to build special alloy plant in US

SeAH to invest $155.3 mn to build special alloy plant in US

SeAH Group, South Korea’s major steel group said to be a steel supplier to SpaceX, is set to foray deeper into the US, the world’s bigge...

KCCI to support Korean companies expanding into US

KCCI to support Korean companies expanding into US

The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) partnered with the Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles (KACCLA)  to address th...

SK Signet to supply EV chargers to Gilbarco

SK Signet to supply EV chargers to Gilbarco

SK Signet Inc., South Korea's electric vehicle (EV) charger manufacturer, announced on Thursday that it partnered with Gilbarco Veeder-Root, the wor...

HL Mando, Kakao Mobility to develop autonomous parking robots

HL Mando, Kakao Mobility to develop autonomous parking robots

HL Mando Corp., an electric vehicle and self-driving system developing unit of South Korea's HL Group, announced on Thursday that it signed a busine...

M&A rebound will drive private credit volume increase: Golub Capital

M&A rebound will drive private credit volume increase: Golub Capital

As the Federal Reserve signaled delays in rate cuts after meeting earlier this month, more investors have adopted for a wait-and-see attitude. Those...

Samsung Galaxy 5G phone tops ACSI in US

Samsung Galaxy 5G phone tops ACSI in US

Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy smartphone caught Apple in the cell phone manufacturer lead, taking the top spot among 5G phones, according to The ...

OCI eyes acquisition of US biopharmaceutical company

OCI eyes acquisition of US biopharmaceutical company

OCI Holdings Co., South Korea’s largest polysilicon maker, is looking abroad to acquire a biopharmaceutical company in the US in a consortium,...

CJ CheilJedang profit beats forecasts on overseas business

CJ CheilJedang profit beats forecasts on overseas business

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. on Tuesday reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on healthy overseas businesses and cost cut...

Hanmi to fire founder's wife, entering new round of family feud

Hanmi to fire founder's wife, entering new round of family feud

South Korea’s Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group is set to enter a new chapter of an ongoing family feud less than two months after the founding famil...

Hyundai Asset to enter offshore wind power market

Hyundai Asset to enter offshore wind power market

South Korea's Hyundai Asset Management Co. announced on Monday that it signed a business agreement with Cyan Renewables, a Singapore-based specialis...

KEPCO teams up with Kyrgyzstan for new energy technology

KEPCO teams up with Kyrgyzstan for new energy technology

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), the state-run utility company, has joined hands with Kyrgyzstan for new energy businesses including high-voltage...

E-Land Retail to enter convenience store market

E-Land Retail to enter convenience store market

South Korea's E-Land Retail, the operator of Kim's Club, NC Department Store, and New Core Outlet operator, plans to enter the convenience store mar...

APR completes second factory in Pyeongtaek

APR completes second factory in Pyeongtaek

South Korea's cosmetic and clothing company APR announced on Wednesday that it completed its second plant, the APR Factory Pyeongtaek 2 Campus. ...

Perigee, SSC to cooperate on space launch vehicle

Perigee, SSC to cooperate on space launch vehicle

South Korea's small space launch vehicle startup Perigee Aerospace Inc. announced on Wednesday that it partnered with the Swedish Space Corporation ...

Aekyung Chemical develops hard carbon of SIB

Aekyung Chemical develops hard carbon of SIB

South Korea's Aekyung Chemical Co. announced on Wednesday that it developed a high-performance hard carbon material that functions as the main anode...

Samsung tops global OLED market in one year

Samsung tops global OLED market in one year

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Wednesday that it achieved the number one sales position in the global OLED monitor market one year after enter...

Woongjin reborn as IT solution company beyond education firm

Woongjin reborn as IT solution company beyond education firm

Woongjin Co., better known as the home-study workbook brand Woongjin ThinkBig in South Korea, has been transforming into an information technology s...

S.Korea’s largest startup fair NextRise to be held in June

S.Korea’s largest startup fair NextRise to be held in June

The Korea International Trade Association announced on Tuesday that the largest domestic startup fair in South Korea, NextRise 2024 Seoul," will be ...

HMM gets Platinum ESG rating from EcoVadis

HMM gets Platinum ESG rating from EcoVadis

HMM Co., South Korea’s flagship sea carrier, announced on Tuesday that it achieved the Platinum rating from EcoVadis, a global environmental, ...

Samsung Electronics unveils 114-inch Micro LED

Samsung Electronics unveils 114-inch Micro LED

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Tuesday that it unveiled its 114-inch Micro LED to expand its Micro LED lineup to include 89-inch, 101-inch.&nb...

Sapeon to supply NPU IP to Telechips

Sapeon to supply NPU IP to Telechips

Sapeon Inc., the artificial intelligence (AI) chip subsidiary of South Korea's SK Telecom Co., announced on Friday that it will supply its AI semico...

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