raw material prices

South Korea’s current account surplus last year missed the central bank’s forecast as higher raw materials prices boosted imports of Asi...

South Korea's LG Energy Solution Ltd. and its parent company LG Chem Ltd. on Tuesday delivered their largest-ever results in 2021, as the increased ...

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE), under Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, on Monday reported a bigger-than-expected operating ...

EcoPro BM Co., South Korea’s leading battery material producer, is considering resignations of its key executives, including the holding compa...

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. is set to spend 602 billion won ($501.5 million) in building eco-friendly materials plants at one of its pe...

South Korea’s inflation this year is expected to accelerate to an 11-year high, adding to expectations of further interest rate hikes later th...

South Korea reported the largest trade deficit on surging raw material prices in January, string worries that capital outflows from Asia’s fou...

South Korea's POSCO Co. will transform into a holding company structure on Mar. 2, after its plan to split itself into a holding firm and a steelmak...

LG Electronics Inc. has overtaken Whirlpool Corp. as the world’s top manufacturer of home, kitchen and laundry appliances after posting record...

Chemical materials producer SKC Co. said on Jan. 26 its consortium has completed an $80 million investment in UK battery materials startup Nexeon ...

SK Group, South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate, plans to invest more than 1 trillion won ($835.3 million) in a research and development co...

Lazard Asset Management has tapped multiple professional investors in South Korea to sell off its shares in Osstem Implant Co, worth $165 million, t...

South Korea’s biotechnology startup Voronoi Inc. plans an initial public offering in March to raise up to 130 billion won ($108.4 million).Vor...

LG Innotek Co. stocks have been on a rising trend over the past three months and are trading at their highest-ever prices. However, there are mixed ...

South Korea’s three leading tire makers joined the global industry’s plans to raise product prices to maintain profitability amid higher...

Materials, components and equipment makers drove South Korea's mergers and acquisitions market to a record high last year, with smaller deals involv...

Hanwha Solutions Corp. shares are rebounding after a two months-long slide. The bounce back comes on the back of expectations that its operating pro...

As South Korean securities regulators are moving to tighten their grip on the growing trend of splitting up businesses and listing the spun-off arms...

LG Household & Health Care Ltd.’s shares have been flying high since its market debut in 2001, and have more recently basked in the global...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday reported a 52.5% jump in preliminary fourth-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, powered by replacement d...

South Korea’s top chemical maker LG Chem Ltd. will partner with China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. to launch a battery material joint ve...

South Korea is preparing measures to secure coal as Indonesia, the world’s largest supplier of thermal coal, banned exports of the commodity t...

NEW YORK -- US stock markets remain high but their prices seem reasonable at the current level of interest rates near historic lows, said Oaktree Ca...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest NAND flash memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it is adjusting operations at its manufacturing fa...

Shares of Coupang Inc., widely seen as the South Korean version of global e-commerce giant Amazon.com, are staging a rebound as the market is grad...

LG Display Co. ’s share price is continuing its upward trend, despite dampening LCD (liquid crystal display) panel prices. This is not in...

Rechargeable battery shares in Korea are continuing their slide, hit by global supply shortages. In addition to the companies that produce completed b...

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements are expected to drive high-performance chip demand higher, in particular from data center op...

South Korea’s POSCO Co. is set to split off the company to launch an investment holding firm, 21 years after its privatization. The move aims ...

EcoPro BM Co., South Korea’s top cathode materials producer, has decided to set up its first overseas plant in Hungary.EcoPro BM on Dec. 9 ann...