Daesang launches kimchi brand with three-Michelin-star chef

Daesang launches kimchi brand with three-Michelin-star chef

South Korean leading food maker Daesang Corp., the operator of kimchi brand Jongga, said on Thursday it launched San Ho Won with three-Michelin-star...

Why North Korean soldiers are prepared to die in Russia

Why North Korean soldiers are prepared to die in Russia

SEOUL—Ryu Seong-hyeon doesn’t need to imagine what the thousands of North Korean soldiers deployed to the Russian front line...

With Samsung Bespoke AI kitchen, anyone can be a Michelin-star chef

With Samsung Bespoke AI kitchen, anyone can be a Michelin-star chef

Lim Hee-won, a celebrity chef who appeared on Netflix’s cooking competition show Culinary Class War, made a special trip to a studio in Seoul ...

South Korea’s next AI unicorns stand out at KPAS 2024

South Korea’s next AI unicorns stand out at KPAS 2024

South Korea’s major telecom company KT Corp. and the country’s leading financial newspaper The Korea Economic Daily have teamed up to sc...

South Korea to designate Jeju as flying taxi pilot service zone

South Korea to designate Jeju as flying taxi pilot service zone

South Korea will designate its resort island Jeju a test operation zone for flying taxis as part of the country’s national urban air mobility ...

LG Chem promises extra $14.4 million in aid over Indian gas leak

LG Chem promises extra $14.4 million in aid over Indian gas leak

South Korea’s top chemicals maker LG Chem Ltd. said on Wednesday it will offer an additional 1.2 billion Indian rupees ($14.4 million) in huma...

POSCO seeks additional lithium deals from Argentina, Chile

POSCO seeks additional lithium deals from Argentina, Chile

POSCO Holdings Inc., the parent of South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO, aims to clinch additional deals from Argentina and Chile to secure lith...

South Korea pledges $19 billion support package to revitalize chip sector

South Korea pledges $19 billion support package to revitalize chip sector

South Korea, home to the world’s two largest memory chipmakers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., has unveiled a record 26 trillion wo...

S.Korea’s KT to innovate media, content businesses with AI

S.Korea’s KT to innovate media, content businesses with AI

South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp. is set to innovate its media and content businesses with artificial intelligence as it seeks new growth d...

Nongshim to launch Shin Ramyun Tomyum in Thailand

Nongshim to launch Shin Ramyun Tomyum in Thailand

South Korean food and beverage giant Nongshim Co. announced on Wednesday that it will launch the first global collaboration products of its flagship...

Louis Vuitton to launch fourth pop-up restaurant in Seoul

Louis Vuitton to launch fourth pop-up restaurant in Seoul

The French luxury brand Louis Vuitton will open a pop-up restaurant in South Korea. This is the fourth one since May this year.According to company ...

100 new South Korean AI vanguards to be unveiled

100 new South Korean AI vanguards to be unveiled

One hundred new South Korean startups at the vanguard of development of innovative AI technology will be unveiled later this month, according to The...

Lotte Ventures hosts L-Camp in Tokyo for promising Korean startups

Lotte Ventures hosts L-Camp in Tokyo for promising Korean startups

 TOKYO – Lotte Ventures Corp., the corporate venture capital (CVC) business unit of South Korea’s Lotte Group, on Thursday hosted L...

S.Korea to spur startup investments with eased rules

S.Korea to spur startup investments with eased rules

South Korea will deploy at least 10% of a state-backed fund of funds (FoF) to venture capital investment dedicated to small startups every year, the...

Shinyoung Asset, Baillie Gifford launch global growth stock fund

Shinyoung Asset, Baillie Gifford launch global growth stock fund

Shinyoung Asset Management Co. has joined hands with Baillie Gifford & Co., a UK investment management firm, to launch a long-term growth stock ...

VaxCell Bio's treatment shows promise for advanced liver cancer

VaxCell Bio's treatment shows promise for advanced liver cancer

South Korea's VaxCell Biotherapeutics Co. on Tuesday said its treatment for advanced liver cancer under development stopped or greatly reduced the g...

Pulmuone launches unmanned instant cooking vending machine

Pulmuone launches unmanned instant cooking vending machine

South Korean food company Pulmuone announced on Tuesday that it developed an advanced robotic vending machine capable of preparing hot meals on dema...

India, LG’s land of promise with young, rich population

India, LG’s land of promise with young, rich population

NOIDA, India -- LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, plans to build a new electronics plant in India to cement its dominant...

Discovery in S.Korea promises dieting without limits on eating

Discovery in S.Korea promises dieting without limits on eating

A drug candidate in South Korea could allow people seeking to lose weight to eat to their heart's content.The Center for Cognition and Sociality of ...

S.Korea exports Hanwoo beef to Cambodia for 1st time

S.Korea exports Hanwoo beef to Cambodia for 1st time

The premium Korean beef Hanwoo was exported to Cambodia on Monday for the first time, marking the culmination of eight years of quarantine negotiati...

LG bets big on promising technologies for future growth

 LG bets big on promising technologies for future growth

LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate, is accelerating its investment in promising tech companies across the world despite the l...

S.Korea's T&R Biofab secures patent in Japan for 3D-printed liver

S.Korea's T&R Biofab secures patent in Japan for 3D-printed liver

South Korea's regenerative medicine company T&R Biofab Co. on Monday said it obtained a patent in Japan for production technology for liver or...

S.Korea to inject more than $2.3 bn in quantum science, tech by 2035

S.Korea to inject more than $2.3 bn in quantum science, tech by 2035

South Korea will pour more than 3 trillion won ($2.3 billion) into quantum science and technology by 2035, aiming to become the world’s fourth...

LG Energy selects 10 promising global startups in battery area

LG Energy selects 10 promising global startups in battery area

South Korea's battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. announced on Tuesday that it will strengthen collaboration with global startups with high growth...

CJ to open pop-up Korean restaurant for promising chefs in Seoul

CJ to open pop-up Korean restaurant for promising chefs in Seoul

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. in the second half of the year will open a pop-up Korean restaurant for up-and-coming chefs on the upsc...

S.Korean startups eye on Southeast Asia as promising market

S.Korean startups eye on Southeast Asia as promising market

SINGAPORE - Southeast Asia with a youth population constituting about one-third of the region’s total population and surging internet penetrat...

CJ CheilJedang launches Cuisine.K project

 CJ CheilJedang launches Cuisine.K project

South Korea's largest food company CJ CheilJedang Corp., announced on Tuesday the launch of "Cuisine.K," a project aimed at discovering and nurturin...

AbClon shows promising results in clinical tests of leukemia treatment

AbClon shows promising results in clinical tests of leukemia treatment

South Korean companies are standing out in the global competition to develop chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) treatments, dubbed "dream" a...

Shinsegae supports int'l expansion of S.Korea's promising fashion brands

Shinsegae supports int'l expansion of S.Korea's promising fashion brands

South Korea's Shinsegae Department Store has launched activities to support the overseas expansion of up-and-coming domestic fashion brands. The com...

S.Korea offers major support to online overseas shipments of 100 promising SMEs

S.Korea offers major support to online overseas shipments of 100 promising SMEs

South Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups on Thursday said it launched an online export package program of extensive support for the entire proces...

IMM joins $600 mn fund for K-beauty unicorn Goodai Global in M&A drive Blackpink’s Jump music video achieves 100 mn YouTube views Seoul signals agricultural market access on tariff talks table amid intensifying US trade pressure Korea’s top four financial holding firms post stellar Q2 profit on won, non-interest gains KB Asset poised to buy Signature Tower in Seoul for over $700 mn