SKC eyes M&As in semiconductor, rechargeable battery materials

SKC Inc., a South Korean chemical materials company under SK Group, is seeking to buy semiconductor and rechargeable battery materials companies in ...

LG Energy inks $3.3 bn ECV battery deal for N.America, Europe

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s third-largest secondary battery maker, has inked a supply deal estimated up to $3.3 billion for North Ame...

Jay Park's Won Soju ready to land in United States

"Won Soju" launched by a South Korean rapper Jay Park will be exported to the United States. Liquor company Won Spirits said on Thursday that it has...

POSCO Chemical breaks ground on second anode material plant

POSCO Chemical Co., a battery material unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., on Jan. 31 broke ground on its second plant to p...

Foreigners net sell S.Korean bonds for first time in four years

Foreign investors dumped South Korean bonds in Janaury, becoming net sellers of the securities for the first time in four years as they booked pro...

Samsung to advance solid-state battery output after record sales

South Korea’s Samsung SDI Co. reported its largest-ever profit and revenue last year, which will drive its efforts to produce solid-state batt...

Korea boosts energy cooperation with natural resource-rich W.Australia

South Korea has boosted its energy cooperation with Western Australia, the biggest of Australia's six states and packed with natural resources.Minis...

POSCO Chem, Samsung SDI ink $33 bn EV battery material deal

POSCO Chemical Co., a battery material unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., and Samsung SDI Co., the world’s No. 6 ele...

LG Energy to raise capex by 50% in bet on strong EV growth

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, plans to ramp up capital expenditure by more than half thi...

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...

LG Energy partners with Seoul Nat'l Univ. for battery technology

South Korea's No. 1 secondary battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. and Seoul National University on Friday signed an agreement to establish an indu...

SK On, graphite processor Urbix to jointly produce anode materials

South Korea's SK On Co. and US graphite processor Urbix Inc. have signed an agreement to jointly develop high-performance anode materials, Korea's l...

NGeneBio's diagnostic products start to be used in clinical tests in Vietnam

South Korea's medical diagnostics company NGeneBio Co. said on Wednesday that it is expanding its business in the Southeast Asian precision diagnost...

Woori Financial to acquire VC firm Daol Investment

South Korea’s Woori Financial Group is set to acquire Daol Investment Co., a venture capital arm of the liquidity-strapped Daol Financial Grou...

Hanwha, LG Energy team up for US battery production

South Korea’s Hanwha Group will invest in LG Energy Solution Ltd.'s battery production lines for energy storage systems (ESS) in the US, some ...

SK-Ford JV likely to raise $4 bn via US loan program

Glendale, Kentucky -- A battery joint venture between South Korea’s SK On Co. and Ford Motor Co. is likely to raise about $4 billion in a US g...

LG Energy, Honda to build $4.4 billion battery plant in Ohio

LG Energy Solution Ltd. and Honda Motor Co. have launched their first US joint venture to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Ohio, LG said o...

SK Energy teams up with state-run power supplier for EV charging station

SK Energy, a major South Korean oil refiner, teamed up with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) to install electric vehicle (EV) and hydrogen...

S.Korea’s battery material exports double to $10 bn

South Korea’s battery material exports more than doubled to exceed overseas sales of electric vehicle cells last year, helping the country&rsq...

SK Ecoplant looks to enter US battery recycling business: CEO

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering company, will enter the US battery recycling business by investing in promising startups, C...

Ford in talks with LG Energy for Turkey EV battery plant

Ford Motor Co. is in talks with LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, to build a cell factory in...

LG Energy posts largest-ever profit led by US JV with GM

South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. posted its largest-ever profit in 2022, driven by strong sales after its US joint venture with Ge...

Korea's SK On scraps $3.2 bn Turkey EV battery factory plan

SK On Co., the world’s No. 5 electric vehicle battery maker, dropped a plan to build a 4 trillion won ($3.2 billion) plant in Turkey as higher...

Hyundai's Genesis beats rival Infiniti in US car sales

Genesis, Hyundai Motor Group's premium sub-brand, sold more car units in the US last year than its Japanese rival Infiniti.Genesis sold a record-hig...

Diverging lithium, nickel prices unnerve Korean battery makers

The prices of lithium and nickel, key minerals for electric vehicle batteries, have been diverging since late last year, which is set to further wid...

Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. kept their fifth place in sales in the US market for the second consecutive year. Despite production setbacks due to...

Lotte Chemical to take part in CES for first time

South Korea's Lotte Chemical Corp. for the first time will take part this month in CES, the world's largest information technology and home applianc...

Applied Materials injects $40 mn in glass substrate maker Absolics

Applied Materials Inc., a global leading equipment and software supplier to semiconductor makers, has invested 51 billion won ($40.2 million) in Abs...

No holds barred: State support for Samsung, SK Hynix, Hyundai Motor

It couldn’t come at a worse time.South Korea’s exports are set for a 4.5% decline in 2023. So believes the Yoon Suk-yeol government.The ...

7-Eleven shows off first realistic metaverse store at CES 2023

Convenience store franchiser 7-Eleven said on Tuesday that it would display a new concept metaverse store for the first time in the industry toget...