Hyundai’s luxury Genesis goes bespoke under One of One brand

Hyundai’s luxury Genesis goes bespoke under One of One brand

Owning a luxury car with the design, interior finish or even engine power to one's liking is what drivers dream of but seems out of reach for most.G...

South Koreans turned off by luxury fashion houses’ price hikes 

South Koreans turned off by luxury fashion houses’ price hikes 

A Cartier boutique inside a department store in Seoul’s posh Gangnam District was unusually slow on Tuesday. The quiet ambience was in sh...

Genesis posts sales growth in US as other auto brands suffer

Genesis posts sales growth in US as other auto brands suffer

Hyundai Motor Co. said on Wednesday its premium Genesis brand saw its US car sales considerably grow in April when all other major carmakers reporte...

CJ steps up US exports with new instant rice bowls

CJ steps up US exports with new instant rice bowls

South Korea's food and beverage giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. on April 21 began shipment of its new Hetbahn instant rice products for US consumers from...

LG Household acquires The Crème Shop for US expansion

LG Household acquires The Crème Shop for US expansion

LG Household & Health Care Ltd. has acquired a controlling stake in The Crème Shop Inc. as it seeks to expand its presence in the US beau...

Lotte to end dawn delivery service where Coupang, Kurly lead

Lotte to end dawn delivery service where Coupang, Kurly lead

South Korea’s retail giant Lotte Group will cease dawn delivery services for fresh food from this weekend, two years after it jumped into the ...

Fila Korea: Hidden beneficiary of China’s guochao fashion trend

Fila Korea: Hidden beneficiary of China’s guochao fashion trend

The burgeoning Chinese fashion fad, known as guochao, has pushed out or significantly reduced the popularity and influence of Western and other well...

Korean PE firm in exclusive talks to buy golf grip brand SuperStroke

Korean PE firm in exclusive talks to buy golf grip brand SuperStroke

South Korea's Daol Private Equity, formerly known as KTB Private Equity, is in exclusive talks to buy the entirety of SuperStroke, a US golf grips m...

LG Household to lower reliance on Chinese market as shares slump

LG Household to lower reliance on Chinese market as shares slump

LG Household & Health Care Ltd. was one of the most coveted shares on the Korean bouse in the past couple of years as the company basked in the ...

Korea's major fashion firms rush to embrace content marketing

Korea's major fashion firms rush to embrace content marketing

Major South Korean fashion companies are speeding up their investment in content startups. F&F Holdings, the distributor of the US outdoor brand...

Korea rises as test bed for global luxury brands

Korea rises as test bed for global luxury brands

South Korea is becoming a test bed for global high-end brands such as Balenciaga, Valentino, IWC and Breitling. The world's top luxury brands, pre...

Goldman exits Korean beauty startup without profit

Goldman exits Korean beauty startup without profit

Goldman Sachs has divested of its stake worth 75 billion won ($62 million) in South Korea's cosmetics startup GP Club Co. without a profit due to de...

Renault drops Samsung from brand name in Korea to end ties

Renault drops Samsung from brand name in Korea to end ties

Renault Samsung Motors Corp., the South Korean unit of Renault S.A., has dropped Samsung from its name as the French automaker moves to end 22 years...

Korea Investment in $4.4 bn lending group for Tropicana deal

Korea Investment in $4.4 bn lending group for Tropicana deal

Korea Investment & Securities Co. will arrange senior and mezzanine loans for Paris-based PAI Partners to fund its acquisition of Tropicana an...

Hyundai Motor Group sweeps board at IIHS safety awards

Hyundai Motor Group sweeps board at IIHS safety awards

The Hyundai Motor Group once again received more safety awards than any of its counterparts from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)...

K-beauty vegan rebel Dear Dahlia in Paris' Galeries Lafayette

K-beauty vegan rebel Dear Dahlia in Paris' Galeries Lafayette

South Korean cosmetics brand Dear Dahlia successfully opened a boutique in Europe’s largest department store in 2019 – just two years ...

Kia: New king in J.D. Power’s most reliable auto brand rankings

Kia: New king in J.D. Power’s most reliable auto brand rankings

Kia Corp. is the top-ranked automaker in J.D. Power’s 2022 US Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) ahead of General Motor Co.’s Buick as we...

KTB PE earns 100% return from US brand sold to P&G

KTB PE earns 100% return from US brand sold to P&G

South Korea-based KTB Private Equity has earned a 100% return from Farmacy Beauty, just a year after its investment, following Procter & Gamble'...

Mesh to raise up to $253 mn to become logistics unicorn

Mesh to raise up to $253 mn to become logistics unicorn

Logistics service provider Mesh Korea Co. plans to raise 200 billion to 300 billion won ($168.6 million to $253 million) in its upcoming rights is...

SK Telecom taps AI expert as new technology chief

SK Telecom taps AI expert as new technology chief

SK Telecom Co., South Korea's top mobile carrier, has tapped its e-commerce arm's chief executive and artificial intelligence (AI) expert Lee Sang-h...

Hyundai’s Chung charts vision as top-tier eco-friendly auto brand

Hyundai’s Chung charts vision as top-tier eco-friendly auto brand

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group on Monday set out its vision to be a top-tier eco-friendly auto brand with its focus on electr...

Hyundai, Kia, Genesis sweep car of the year awards in 2021

Hyundai, Kia, Genesis sweep car of the year awards in 2021

Hyundai Motor Group’s major auto brands have won a record number of top global awards and industry accolades this year in recognition of its e...

Cosmetics brands shift to video influencers from celebrities

Cosmetics brands shift to video influencers from celebrities

 As influencers on YouTube and social media platforms are becoming central to the marketing efforts of companies, South Korean cosmetics brands...

Korea Sindoh unveils cutting-edge 3D printer under new brand fabWeaver

Korea Sindoh unveils cutting-edge 3D printer under new brand fabWeaver

Sindoh Co., South Korea’s top 3D printer maker, unveiled a state-of-the-art 3D printer under its new premium brand fabWeaver as it aims to exp...

Orchestra PE buys Korean pizza brand Banolim

Orchestra PE buys Korean pizza brand Banolim

Orchestra Private Equity set up Orchestra Private Equity IV (OPE IV) to invest $32 million in Korea’s pizza chain operator Banolim Food Co. an...

Korean apparel retailer F&F returns as market darling after relisting

Korean apparel retailer F&F returns as market darling after relisting

South Korean outdoor clothing retailer F&F Co. has returned as one of the most coveted stocks on the main bourse, with its share price nearly tr...

Jeju as Korea's new shopping mecca: Shinsegae's task ahead

Jeju as Korea's new shopping mecca: Shinsegae's task ahead

Unlike Hawaii and Las Vegas, there is one thing missing on Jeju Island, South Korea's top tourist destination: premium outlets.The island hosted 15 ...

Wooyoungmi emerges as 'new luxury' menswear brand

Wooyoungmi emerges as 'new luxury' menswear brand

When South Korean menswear brand Wooyoungmi had the highest sales in the men’s fashion hall of Paris-based luxury department store Le Bon Marc...

Specialty coffee brand Terarosa raises $60 mn from Unison Capital

Specialty coffee brand Terarosa raises $60 mn from Unison Capital

The operator of Terarosa, known as the Blue Bottle Coffee of South Korea, has received around 70 billion won ($60 million) in funding from Unison Ca...

Korean eyewear startup to again design China's top dept store hall

Korean eyewear startup to again design China's top dept store hall

South Korean eyewear brand Gentle Monster is slated to design the luxury hall space of the Chengdu branch of SKP, China’s top department sto...

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