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TOKYO – Hyundai Motor Co. will accelerate its penetration into Japan, a market it has been struggling to crack for decades, with small-size el...

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s third-largest battery maker, said its quarterly operating profit more than doubled from the previous thre...

Korea Zinc Inc.'s face-off with an MBK Partners-led consortium over control of the world’s largest zinc smelter looks set to escalate into a l...

South Korea’s No. 2 petrochemical manufacturer Lotte Chemical Corp. plans to liquidate its rubber joint venture in Malaysia to scale back its ...

Shares in Korea Zinc Inc. soared on Thursday, a day after completing its buybacks, driven by institutional investors covering shorts on the stock an...

Tesla Inc. is in talks with SK Hynix Inc. at the US electric vehicle giant’s request for a possible 1 trillion won ($725 million) order of ent...

Samsung Bioepis Co., Samsung Biologics Co.'s fully owned biosimilar subsidiary, is expected to post its best-ever annual revenue this year after sal...

Korea Zinc Inc. succeeded in taking control of Young Poong Precision Corp., a key player in the management battle against North Asia-focused private...

South Korea’s exports, the country’s main growth driver, fell 2.9% in the first 20 days of October amid falling demand for vehicles and ...

South Korea’s professional baseball league games enjoyed record-high attendance of more than 10 million this year thanks to the growing number...

An increasing number of South Korean companies are on the radar of private equity investors as the firms undergo digital transformation and generati...

UK-based activist fund Palliser Capital Ltd. is calling on SK Square Co., the investment arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK G...

Activist investor Palliser Capital has built a stake in the holding company of highflying artificial-intelligence chip maker SK Hynix Inc. and is pu...

Sono Hospitality Group, South Korea’s largest resort operator, will add low-cost carrier Air Premia Inc. to its bulging portfolio after agreei...

North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd. has secured a large enough stake in Korea Zinc Inc. through a tender offer to take control ...

South Koreans are flocking to bookstores to snap up 2024 Nobel laureate Hang Kang’s novels, making her books — and even those of her nov...

Foreign investors' appetite for South Korean stocks turned sour with sales of 7.36 trillion won ($5.5 billion) worth of shares on the Korean bourse ...

LG Electronics Inc. said on Wednesday that it was named Lowe's 2024 Vendor Partners of the Year. Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement store...

Lotte Group, a multinational retail-to-chemical business empire, is seeking to ride the growing popularity of Korean food to achieve its global expa...

Samsung Group Chairman Jay Y. Lee on Sunday inspected Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co.’s production facilities for multilayer ceramic capacitors ...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. has vowed to more than double its sales in five years to 67 trillion won ($50 billion) by diversifying its battery products ...

Hanwha Investment & Securities said on Monday that it acquired a stake in Edinburgh Airport in Scotland.Edinburgh Airport is jointly owned by Gl...

Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, is poised to claim the top three spots on the country’s best-selling car list this year thanks...

Using multiple measures, CU and GS25 both claim they are the No. 1 player in South Korea’s convenience store (CV) market.CU, operated by BGF R...

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group said on Sunday its vehicle sales in Singapore, a high-tech innovation hub, more than doubled i...

A consortium of MBK Partners-Young Poong Corp. on Friday raised its tender offer price for Korea Zinc Inc. again and removed the lower limit of its ...

UBS Group AG remained on the top of the South Korean merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory market as of the end of the third quarter after addin...

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. and its sister firm Kia Corp. saw their US sales decline last month due to fewer selling days and weak market ...

South Korea’s exports extended their growth streak for the 12th straight month in September mainly driven by record-high semiconductor shipmen...

Celltrion Inc., South Korea’s largest biosimilar maker, said on Monday that it completed the establishment of a local subsidiary in Vietnam....