Kyochon sets sights on Western expansion with Canadian franchise deal

Kyochon sets sights on Western expansion with Canadian franchise deal

Kyochon F&B, the operator of South Korea's premier fried chicken brand Kyochon Chicken, said on Tuesday that it has secured a master franchise a...

S.Korea's Kakao Enterprise introduces Matching 2.0 strategy

S.Korea's Kakao Enterprise introduces Matching 2.0 strategy

Kakao Enterprise, a leading IT platform business operator in South Korea, recently announced its "Matching 2.0" strategy to enhance the quality of s...

Korean shipbuilding, defense sectors offer bright 2023 outlook

Korean shipbuilding, defense sectors offer bright 2023 outlook

South Korea’s major companies in shipbuilding, defense and construction industries expect strong earnings this year, despite growing concerns ...

Ford EV production halt casts doubts over SK cell quality

Ford EV production halt casts doubts over SK cell quality

Ford Motor Co. said on Tuesday it has stopped production and shipments of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck due to a possible battery issue,...

S.Korea's EcoPro boosts raw material plant for cathode materials

S.Korea's EcoPro boosts raw material plant for cathode materials

South Korea's EcoPro Co., a leading cathode supplier for global battery makers, is expanding its plant for raw materials used in secondary battery c...

Samsung secures $16 bn loan from display unit for chipmaking

Samsung secures $16 bn loan from display unit for chipmaking

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has signed a deal to take out a cash loan of 20 trillion won ($15...

Hyundai Elevator's open API sees rapid expansion of participants

Hyundai Elevator's open API sees rapid expansion of participants

Hyundai Elevator Group announced on Tuesday that its open API (application programming interface), which was launched in March last year, has seen r...

Olive Young exports K-beauty products to Middle East

Olive Young exports K-beauty products to Middle East

Olive Young, a health and beauty platform, has begun targeting the Middle Eastern cosmetics market.South Korea's CJ Olive Young, which operates Oliv...

Hancom goes global with SDK, SaaS products

Hancom goes global with SDK, SaaS products

South Korea’s homegrown office suite developer Hancom Inc. will seek to boost its brand awareness in the global B2B software market with softw...

Aekyung Chemical to expand surfactant plant in Vietnam

Aekyung Chemical to expand surfactant plant in Vietnam

Aekyung Chemical plans to expand its surfactant plant in Vietnam, with the aim of targeting global markets in Southeast Asia, the company said on Fr...

LIG Nex1 to work with Romanian state-run defense supplier

LIG Nex1 to work with Romanian state-run defense supplier

South Korea's defense contractor LIG Nex1 Co. will join hands with ROMARM, a Romanian state-run defense company, to develop anti-aircraft missiles a...

Philip Morris aims to top Korea's heated-tobacco market with Iluma

Philip Morris aims to top Korea's heated-tobacco market with Iluma

Philip Morris International Inc., a major US tobacco maker, aims to regain the throne in South Korea's competitive heat-not-burn cigarette market wi...

Korea EV battery makers lose market share against Chinese rivals

Korea EV battery makers lose market share against Chinese rivals

South Korean electric vehicle cell makers lost a market share against Chinese competitors last year as they failed to fully benefit from a surge in ...

Humasis participates Dubai MEDLAB Middle East 2023

Humasis participates Dubai MEDLAB Middle East 2023

South Korean medical devices maker, Humasis Co., is participating in the MEDLAB Middle East 2023 event taking place at the Dubai World Trade Center ...

Low-cost carriers in S.Korea returning to profitability

Low-cost carriers in S.Korea returning to profitability

South Korea's low-cost carriers (LCC) Jeju Air Co. and Jin Air in the fourth quarter last year each earned operating profit for the first time since...

S.Korean biotech firm Genesystem to bring molecular testing to India

S.Korean biotech firm Genesystem to bring molecular testing to India

Genesystem, a South Korean biotech firm specializing in on-site molecular testing platforms, announced on Tuesday its entry into the Indian market t...

Profit matters for survival of startups amid investment drought

Profit matters for survival of startups amid investment drought

As venture capitalists tighten their purse strings amid looming recession fears, only startups with killer products that generate profits are well-p...

Kumho Petrochem's rubber products win eco-friendly certification

Kumho Petrochem's rubber products win eco-friendly certification

Kumho Petrochemical Co. said on Tuesday that its four synthetic rubber products including SSBR, HBR, LBR, and NdBR have earned International Sustain...

Chong Kun Dang, Synaffix ink deal to introduce ADC technology

Chong Kun Dang, Synaffix ink deal to introduce ADC technology

Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical Corp. said on Monday that it has signed a contract with Dutch biotechnology firm Synaffix B.V for the use of antibody-...

Aekyung commences mass production of eco-friendly plasticizers

Aekyung commences mass production of eco-friendly plasticizers

Aekyung Chemical, an affiliate of South Korea's Aekyung Group, has begun mass-producing eco-friendly plasticizers derived from recycled waste plasti...

Toray Korea to boost PPS resin production with expansion plan

Toray Korea to boost PPS resin production with expansion plan

Toray Advanced Materials Korea (TAK) has announced plans to increase its annual production capacity of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin by 5,000 to...

SeAH begins construction on stainless steel pipe plant in Saudi Arabia

SeAH begins construction on stainless steel pipe plant in Saudi Arabia

SeAH Gulf Special Steel Industries (SGSI), a joint venture between South Korea's SeAH CSS and Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco, has broken ground on a...

South Korea's Jeju Air to open up Indonesian skies

South Korea's Jeju Air to open up Indonesian skies

Jeju Air Co. and Indonesia's largest airline corporation will work together to develop flight routes and discover new tourism business opportunities...

DB HiTek to expand high value-added specialized image sensor business

DB HiTek to expand high value-added specialized image sensor business

South Korea's chip foundry DB HiTek Co. attained foundry process technology and is set to expand its high-value-added specialized image sensor busin...

Philip Morris, KT&G extend sales partnership to 2038

Philip Morris, KT&G extend sales partnership to 2038

KT&G Corp., the world's fifth-largest tobacco maker, has extended its sales partnership with US cigarette giant Philip Morris International Inc....

LG Innotek gears up for FC-BGA substrate mass production

LG Innotek gears up for FC-BGA substrate mass production

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. is preparing to mass produce flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) substrates from the fourth quarter of this year, ...

Korean refiners lift runs to 3-year high on record exports

Korean refiners lift runs to 3-year high on record exports

Refiners in South Korea raised their operating rates to a three-year high in 2022 as petroleum product exports hit a record high in value.Refinery r...

Samsung considers chip output cut as first-quarter loss looms large

Samsung considers chip output cut as first-quarter loss looms large

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is considering slashing its semiconductor production as the company is heading ...

KT&G refuses activist funds' call for ginseng biz spinoff

KT&G refuses activist funds' call for ginseng biz spinoff

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, on Thursday refused activist funds' requests to spin off and list its ginseng unit wh...

POSCO gets nod for battery technology transfer to overseas plants

POSCO gets nod for battery technology transfer to overseas plants

POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Co., on Thursday won government approval to transfer technology to its overseas...

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