Maybe Happy Ending: A robot love story that rewrote Broadway playbook

Maybe Happy Ending: A robot love story that rewrote Broadway playbook

On an unremarkable evening in November 2024, inside the opulent Belasco Theatre in Manhattan, something quietly historic was taking place.A delicate...

Asia’s defense stocks climb on hopes of more European arms spending

Asia’s defense stocks climb on hopes of more European arms spending

Defense stocks in key Asian markets jumped on Tuesday, buoyed by expectations that European nations will boost security spending amid fears that the...

LG, SNU team up to develop AI modeling for protein structure predictions

LG, SNU team up to develop AI modeling for protein structure predictions

LG AI Research Institute, the artificial intelligence think-tank of LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-biggest conglomerate, on Thursday signed a ...

How STIC Investments’ bet on animal fat processor DK O&T paid off

How STIC Investments’ bet on animal fat processor DK O&T paid off

In South Korea, businesses handling livestock by-products have lacked investor appeal. They were usually mom-and-pop businesses and appeared to hold...

Koramco seeks to sell Seoul prime office tower in $272 million deal

Koramco seeks to sell Seoul prime office tower in $272 million deal

South Korea’s Koramco REITs Management & Trust Co. is poised sell a prime office building in Seoul in an estimated 400 billion won ($272 m...

LS Cable, Denmark's CIP sign LOI for floating offshore wind

LS Cable, Denmark's CIP sign LOI for floating offshore wind

South Korea's LS Cable & System Ltd. said on Wednesday that it signed a letter of intent (LOI) for offshore wind cooperation with Copenhagen Inf...

S.Korean AI content platform Zeta surpasses 1 mn users

S.Korean AI content platform Zeta surpasses 1 mn users

South Korean generative artificial intelligence (AI) startup Scatter Lab said on Monday its interactive AI content platform Zeta has surpassed 1 mil...

CJ CheilJedang launches protein snack O-right Tempeh Chips in Thailand

CJ CheilJedang launches protein snack O-right Tempeh Chips in Thailand

CJ CheilJedang Corp. accelerates its business expansion in Thailand with a new protein snack.CJ CheilJedang announced on Monday that it has launched...

Ashley Queens’ success story: Premium dining, but at affordable prices

Ashley Queens’ success story: Premium dining, but at affordable prices

Korean food, or K-food, is popular around the world. And it’s almost become a rite of passage for foreigners who come to South Korea to try tr...

SY Lee: A Korean startup creator who fetched $80 mn for Story Protocol

SY Lee: A Korean startup creator who fetched $80 mn for Story Protocol

Seung Yoon Lee, a South Korean startup creator, was in his early 20s when he co-founded Radish Fiction Inc., a US-based mobile fiction platform, in ...

Samyang Roundsquare holds 'Buldak Ferry Party' in Denmark

Samyang Roundsquare holds 'Buldak Ferry Party' in Denmark

Samyang Roundsquare, formerly known as Samyang Foods Group in South Korea, announced on Friday that it held a consumer event called the "Buldak Spic...

E-Mart’s No Brand success story: A Korean snack chain goes global

E-Mart’s No Brand success story: A Korean snack chain goes global

When South Korean convenience store operator E-Mart Inc. launched its low-budget house label No Brand in 2015, few thought it would last long.Under ...

Huonslab eyes speedy anticancer drug delivery with new patent

Huonslab eyes speedy anticancer drug delivery with new patent

South Korean biotech Huons Global Co. said on Tuesday that its research and development unit Huonslab has issued a domestic patent claiming a techno...

Kia reveals teaser of Tasman development process

Kia reveals teaser of Tasman development process

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, released One More Round, a teaser video series of its first pickup truck The Kia Tasman.&nb...

Lotte Mall writes success story in Hanoi with Koreanization

Lotte Mall writes success story in Hanoi with Koreanization

Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi, a mega commercial complex in Vietnam, has hit a sales milestone of 200 billion won ($145 million) less than one year sin...

Netmarble's new RPG 'Solo Leveling' logs $70 mn sales in 1st month

Netmarble's new RPG 'Solo Leveling' logs $70 mn sales in 1st month

South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp. is enjoying growing sales of its new action role-playing game (RPG) “Solo Leveling: Arise,” ...

Lunit, Radiobotics team up to enter EMEA markets

Lunit, Radiobotics team up to enter EMEA markets

South Korean medical AI company Lunit announced on Thursday that it partnered with the Danish musculoskeletal AI diagnostics company Radiobotics ApS...

Celltrion releases Remsima SC in Denmark

Celltrion releases Remsima SC in Denmark

South Korea's Celltrion Inc. announced on Thursday that it released its autoimmune disease treatment Remsima SC (infliximab) in Denmark. Remsima SC ...

Samsung Galaxy S24: A success story even before hitting the shelves

Samsung Galaxy S24: A success story even before hitting the shelves

Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest flagship smartphone series, the Galaxy S24, is enjoying strong demand even before hitting the shelves of the compan...

Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi cited as a Lotte success story

Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi cited as a Lotte success story

Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi, a premium commercial complex, has emerged as a hot spot in Vietnam, hitting the 100 billion won ($74 million) milestone ...

CJ CheilJedang to launch Excycle Basak Chip in global market

CJ CheilJedang to launch Excycle Basak Chip in global market

South Korean food company CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Thursday that it introduced its Excycle Basak Chip, a snack born from their in-house ven...

SK Bioscience start to deliver Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

SK Bioscience start to deliver Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

South Korea's SK Bioscience Co. announced on Tuesday that it started to deliver the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine against XBB.1.5 variant.According to No...

Lotte mulls Lotte World Tower spruce-up to rival Azabudai Hills Tower

Lotte mulls Lotte World Tower spruce-up to rival Azabudai Hills Tower

Lotte Group is considering sprucing up the Lotte World Tower in Seoul, the tallest building in South Korea, to maintain its position as a landmark s...

BTS’ Beyond the Story tops NYT bestseller list

BTS’ Beyond the Story tops NYT bestseller list

BTS' first official book "Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS", published in celebration of 10th Anniversary, topped the New York Times bestse...

Genesis rewrites Hyundai story, shedding Honda copycat image

Genesis rewrites Hyundai story, shedding Honda copycat image

Once dismissed as a Honda copycat, Hyundai Motor Co. is poised to pass yet antother milestone, with its luxury brand Genesis on track to top 1 milli...

Vestas to relocate Asia-Pacific HQ to Seoul in September

Vestas to relocate Asia-Pacific HQ to Seoul in September

Denmark-based Vestas, the world's top wind turbine manufacturer, is set to move its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters from Singapore to South Korea...

Samsung C&T wins order $585 mn construction project in Taiwan

Samsung C&T wins order $585 mn construction project in Taiwan

The construction division of South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. on Monday said it landed an order for the Fubon Aozihdi Development Project from Ta...

BTS’ memoir of past decade to be published in July

BTS’ memoir of past decade to be published in July

A book describing the K-pop boy band BTS’ 10 years of history will be published in July.According to the New York Times and the Guardian, the ...

S.Korea's Bertis releases two academic findings at AOHUPO conference

S.Korea's Bertis releases two academic findings at AOHUPO conference

Bertis, South Korean company specializing in the development of proteomics-based precision medicine technology, announced on Monday that it presente...

Netflix to inject $2.5 bn in Korean drama series, movies over next 4 years

Netflix to inject $2.5 bn in Korean drama series, movies over next 4 years

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  US streaming giant Netflix is slated to invest $2.5 billion in South Korea over the next four years to boost its cont...

Kakao Pay backs out of acquisition deal for SSG Pay, Smile Pay Hanwha in talks to buy five-star hotel Paraspara Seoul Kia's Lego-like PV5 with 16 variants to hit market in July Stray Kids make K-pop history with landmark stadium show in Germany S.Korea’s most prominent business leader returns with all charges cleared