S.Korea’s Handsome releases brand book with Assouline

S.Korea’s Handsome releases brand book with Assouline

South Korean fashion company Handsome Corp., a division of Hyundai Department Store Group, said on Thursday that it has partnered with Assouline, on...

SK Hynix steps up chip stacking war with 238-layer 4D NAND

SK Hynix steps up chip stacking war with 238-layer 4D NAND

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., has begun mass production of the industry’s hi...

Samsung top in world smartphone market in Q1, beating Apple

Samsung top in world smartphone market in Q1, beating Apple

Samsung Electronics Co. regained the top spot in the smartphone market, surpassing Apple in the first quarter of 2023. This outcome was driven by th...

Polestar 3 to light up roads with headlamps of LG’s ZKW

Polestar 3 to light up roads with headlamps of LG’s ZKW

The Polestar 3, an all-electric mid-sized sport utility vehicle, will be equipped with high-definition light-emitting diode (HD LED) headlights deve...

S.Korea's Jeju Dream Tower Casino exceeds $7.6 mn in net monthly sales

S.Korea's Jeju Dream Tower Casino exceeds $7.6 mn in net monthly sales

Jeju Dream Tower Casino, located on South Korea's top tourist island of Jeju and run by Lotte Tour Development Co., broke the 10 billion won ($7.6 m...

Craft brewery startups poised to revolutionize brew scene in South Korea

Craft brewery startups poised to revolutionize brew scene in South Korea

Craft beers and highballs from emerging breweries and distilleries are poised to disturb the South Korean alcoholic beverage market dominated by gia...

Samsung Biologics, Pfizer sign $411.3 mn agreement for long-term CDMO

Samsung Biologics, Pfizer sign $411.3 mn agreement for long-term CDMO

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s No. 1 contract drugmaker, announced a groundbreaking strategic partnership with Pfizer on Thursday, marking...

S.Korea to ease regulations for foreign investor in domestic market

S.Korea to ease regulations for foreign investor in domestic market

South Korea is set to raise the annual cap for individuals' overseas fund transfers without prior notice from $50,000 to $100,000, thereby easing th...

KT to start outdoor robot delivery in Seoul from Q4

KT to start outdoor robot delivery in Seoul from Q4

South Korea’s KT Corp. from the fourth quarter will start outdoor robot delivery of food and daily necessities in Seoul’s upscale distri...

Glonet: A case of Korea's logistics David vs Japan’s shipping Goliath

Glonet: A case of Korea's logistics David vs Japan’s shipping Goliath

TOKYO – Glonet Co. is a novice logistics company hardly known in Japan’s time-honored shipping industry.The small South Korean shipping ...

Challenges, opportunities for Asia’s energy transition: GIG

Challenges, opportunities for Asia’s energy transition: GIG

Global investors injected more than $1 trillion into energy transition for the first time last year. South Korea poured in some $19 billion, becomin...

S.Korea to design proven type reactor of nuclear fusion power

S.Korea to design proven type reactor of nuclear fusion power

South Korean government has initiated the design phase for a nuclear fusion power proven type reactor, taking a significant step toward harnessing n...

LG Electronics eyes premium market in Saudi Arabia, India

LG Electronics eyes premium market in Saudi Arabia, India

LG Electronics Inc. will seek out new business opportunities as a premium brand in Saudi Arabia for the oil-rich kingdom’s $500 billion Neom m...

LS Cable, Hanwha to build S.Korea’s largest offshore wind farm

LS Cable, Hanwha to build S.Korea’s largest offshore wind farm

South Korea's LS Cable & System announced on Wednesday that it has been selected as the priority negotiator for the supply of submarine cables f...

Hyundai to supply 1,300 hydrogen buses in Seoul by 2026

Hyundai to supply 1,300 hydrogen buses in Seoul by 2026

Hyundai Motor Co., along with South Korean Ministry of Environment, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, SK E&S and Tmap Mobility, signed a memora...

LG Energy, Novonix join hands for US EV battery material

LG Energy, Novonix join hands for US EV battery material

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s third-largest electric vehicle battery maker, has teamed up with Novonix Ltd., an Australian cell ingredi...

Samsung Biologics to double production by 2032; eyes ADCs, M&As

Samsung Biologics to double production by 2032; eyes ADCs, M&As

BOSTON – Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s No. 1 contract drugmaker, plans to more than double its total annual production capacity to ...

Korean Air says it can conclude Asiana takeover via big concessions

Korean Air says it can conclude Asiana takeover via big concessions

The head of Korean Air Lines Co. has expressed confidence over the airliner's proposed acquisition of Asiana Airlines, saying, "We will make it happ...

Doosan Bobcat invests in US-based agtech company

Doosan Bobcat invests in US-based agtech company

Doosan Bobcat, the construction and agricultural machine making affiliate of South Korea’s Doosan Group, has announced on Wednesday a str...

Hyundai Mobis to expand vehicle module facility in S.Korea

Hyundai Mobis to expand vehicle module facility in S.Korea

South Korea’s Hyundai Mobis Co. will build its third automotive module plant in Ulsan, South Korea, where its parent Hyundai Motor Group opera...

S.Korean beauty brands lean toward social media stars

S.Korean beauty brands lean toward social media stars

AmorePacific Corp.'s new brand launch in February with top South Korean social media influencer Lee Sa-bae created a sensation in the domestic cosme...

KT, Naver chosen as suppliers of S.Korea’s hyperscale AI project

KT, Naver chosen as suppliers of S.Korea’s hyperscale AI project

South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency (NIA) have enlisted four tech enterprises — KT Corp., Nav...

S.Korea to seek expansion of healthcare package export

S.Korea to seek expansion of healthcare package export

South Korean government has set a goal to expand medical service exports by attracting 700,000 foreign patients and receiving 70 applications of ove...

Samsung Electronics makes 17-fold gains from investment in ASML

Samsung Electronics makes 17-fold gains from investment in ASML

Slightly more than a decade ago, ASML Holding N.V. had to reach out to its customers such as Samsung Electronics Co., Intel Corp. and Taiwan Semicon...

SK Hynix launches portable SSD Beetle X31

 SK Hynix launches portable SSD Beetle X31

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, unveiled its latest product, the Beetle X31, a portable Solid State Drive (SSD) ...

Bredis Healthcare, Tilda win June D.Day, Korea’s oldest startup pitch race

 Bredis Healthcare, Tilda win June D.Day, Korea’s oldest startup pitch race

An early-stage startup by young entrepreneurs who developed a digital diagnostic tool for brain disease and an AI-powered business optimization prog...

S.Korea's new hybrid car registrations in May exceed diesel's for first time

S.Korea's new hybrid car registrations in May exceed diesel's for first time

The number of newly registered hybrid cars in South Korea overtook that of diesel cars for the first time thanks to consumer focus on such models,...

Samsung perfects the home theater with top-notch multichannel soundbar

Samsung perfects the home theater with top-notch multichannel soundbar

Samsung Electronics Co. is not only the world’s biggest TV and memory chip maker but also the global No. 1 soundbar brand thanks to its top-no...

Celltrion’s Remsima SC praised in Europe as preferred biosimilar

Celltrion’s Remsima SC praised in Europe as preferred biosimilar

MILAN – South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. is known in Europe for its biosimilar products such as autoimmune disease treat...

S.Korea, Japan to resume finance ministers' meeting

S.Korea, Japan to resume finance ministers' meeting

South Korea's Ministry of Strategy and Finance announced on Friday that Kim Seong-wook, the ministry's Director of the Office of International Finan...

S.Korean game developer Krafton acquires Japan’s ADK for $517 million S.Korea's stablecoin frenzy fuels stock rally despite regulatory uncertainty SK Hynix joins Samsung in 200 trillion won market cap club Samsung on hiring spree to bolster US foundry sales LS Electric poised to join Nvidia's supply chain via Vertiv deal