Korea's Shinhan, Hana accelerate overseas push after record profits

South Korean major banks aim to accelerate their expansions in other countries as their overseas investments paid off with record profits last year ...

LG Display to raise $971 mn in rights offering for OLED business

LG Display Co., the world’s leading manufacturer of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels, said on Monday it will raise 1.29 trillion won...

Korean banking groups see record-high loan losses in 2023

South Korea’s top four financial services groups – KB, Shinhan, Hana and Woori -- booked 1.97 trillion won ($1.5 billion) of loans as lo...

KEPCO narrows losses with 2nd straight quarterly profit

South Korea’s power utility Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) on Friday posted its second straight quarterly profit, sharply above market for...

Norway’s prime office value drop hits Korean retail investors

A South Korean real estate fund is set to post a 100% loss as the value of its sole asset, a prime office building wholly leased to Norway’s l...

Hanwha Ocean develops draft measuring with drones

South Korea's Hanwha Ocean Co., the world's third-largest shipbuilder, announced on Tuesday that it has developed a system that utilizes drones and ...

Daewoong Pharmaceutical digitizes DB of 800 mn chemical compounds

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical announced on Monday that it has established a drug development system Daewoong AI System (DAISY) which combine...

Global property market plunge hits Korean financial firms

South Korean financial service companies are seeing increased losses in global real estate amid the commercial property value plunge and concerns ar...

SK Biopharm targets $311 mn for Cenobamate US sales

South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals targeted 416 billion won ($311 million) for its epilepsy treatment Cenobamate in the US market this year. SK Bi...

Hypermarket chain E-Mart posts first annual loss in 2023

South Korea’s top supermarket chain E-Mart Inc. announced on Thursday that it provisionally recorded a consolidated operating loss of 46.9 bil...

EcoPro’s 2023 profit halves on softer EV demand, materials prices

South Korea’s major battery materials company EcoPro Co. saw last year’s operating profit halved from the previous year after a steeper-...

LG unveils new stick vacuum cleaner with 20% less weight

LG Electronics Inc. released the cost-effective wireless vacuum cleaner LG CordZero A9 Air on Monday, reducing product weight and price burdens.Th...

Delays in court rulings raise business risks for South Korean companies

Less than five years ago, Invossa, a cell and gene therapy for osteoarthritis, was expected to hit the global market with great fanfare.Developed by...

No annual bonuses for Samsung chip unit due to loss

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, decided not to pay annual bonuses to staff of its semiconductor business due to the...

Celltrion, WuXi XDC to develop new antibody-drug conjugates

South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. has signed a business agreement with China’s WuXi XDC to jointly develop new antibody-drug conjugates (ADC)...

Korean investors doomed to suffer $171 mn losses from HSCEI ELS

South Korean investors have already suffered about 230 billion won ($171 million) losses from their investments in equity-linked securities (ELS) ti...

Celltrion to export three anticancer drugs to Europe

South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. announced on Thursday that it has secured supply contracts for three anticancer biosimilars in European countries...

LG Chem to start phase 3 for head, neck cancer drug in US

South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. announced on Wednesday that its US-based subsidiary Aveo Pharmaceuticals will start Phase 3 clinical trials for its...

Orion to buy control of biotech startup LegoChem for $415 mn

South Korea’s snack and confectionery maker Orion Group has agreed to buy a controlling stake in LegoChem Biosciences Inc., a Korean biotech s...

OCI-Hanmi merger to create Korea’s Bayer: OCI Chairman

Merging into one team, OCI Group and Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group will leap forward to be a global novel drug manufacturing and biotechnology innova...

JW Pharma takes gout drug Epaminurad to Malaysia for phase 3

South Korea's JW Pharmaceutical Corp., announced on Monday that it has received approval from the Malaysian National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Age...

Celltrion to expand Yuflyma supply network in Europe

South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. announced on Friday that it will supply its biosimilar Yuflyma (active ingredient: adalimumab) for the treatment ...

Celltrion applies for interchangeability of Yuflyma in US

South Korea's Celltrion Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has applied to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a modified approval to repl...

Kobiolabs gets US patent for oral obesity drug candidate

Kobiolabs Co., a South Korean microbiome-based new drug development company, announced on Wednesday that it has a patent for Roseburia intestinalis ...

Samsung’s narrowed Q4 chip losses fuel bullish 2024 outlook

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of memory chips, smartphones and TVs, said on Tuesday its chip business losses significantl...

Korea’s Hanwha Ocean quits money-losing container shipbuilding business

South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean Co., the world’s third-largest shipbuilder, has decided to exit the money-losing container shipbuilding busin...

LG Chem out-licenses obesity drug candidate to US firm

LG Chem Ltd. has agreed to license out a rare genetic obesity drug candidate in phase 2 clinical trials to Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Inc., a US biotech...

SK Biopharm, Dong-A ST sign licensing deal of Cenobamate

South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. announced on Thursday that it has signed a contract with Dong-A ST to transfer the rights to commercialize t...

MedPacto gets FDA OK for colorectal cancer drug clinical trial

South Korea's biotech company MedPacto Inc. announced on Tuesday that it has got approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its I...

Korea’s NPS sees record assets, profit on double-digit return

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) enjoyed record assets and profit in 2023 as the world’s third-largest pension fund reported...