Rap icon Cardi B joins K-beauty’s celebrity fan club with BB cream
Cardi B, the Grammy-winning rapper, has joined the growing list of celebrities spotlighting Korean beauty products, fueling a new wave of global ent...
Kakao Pay in talks to acquire SSG.COM’s SSG Pay and Gmarket’s Smile Pay
Kakao Pay Corp., the mobile payment and digital wallet service unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., is in advanced negotiations to acquire t...
Coupang’s Q1 revenue up; quarterly dip signals rising competition
Coupang Inc., South Korea’s largest e-commerce platform, extended its year-on-year sales growth with an 11.1% increase to post $7.9 billion in...
JD.com opens Korean logistics centers, preluding C-commerce invasion
JD.com, often dubbed China’s answer to Amazon.com, has opened its own logistics centers in South Korea, becoming the first Chinese e-commerce ...
Shinsegae affiliate SSG.COM secures Olympus as new financial investor
Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group’s online shopping mall operator SSG.COM has secured Olympus, a special purpose company created by Korean b...
Hyundai Motor Group wins Cars.com's 2025 Top Pick EV Awards
Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday Hyundai Motor Co. ‘s IONIQ electric vehicles (EVs) and Kia Corp. ‘s EV9 have each been awarded 202...
Loss-making Gmarket joins Shinsegae’s job cut spree
Gmarket Inc. will cut jobs for the first time since it was acquired by South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae Group in 2021, joining the group&r...
South Korea's hy to export Helicobacter Project Will to China
South Korea's hy, formerly known as Korea Yakult and a leader in dairy products, said on Monday that it started exporting its fermented milk product...
Affinity-backed SSG.COM offers 1st voluntary redundancies
Money-losing SSG.COM, once the most popular online shopping mall in South Korea, is asking some of its employees to volunteer to leave the company f...
Shinsegae, CJ to tie up for product delivery, food launch
Retail-focused Shinsegae Group is set to outsource delivery services and logistics management for its e-commerce platforms such as SSG.COM and Gmark...
Shinsegae guarantees PE firms’ SSG.COM exit amid delayed IPO
Shinsegae Inc. and its supermarket chain operator E-Mart Inc. will bring in at least one investor by the end of this year to buy shares in SSG.COM f...
Shinsegae’s day of reckoning looms for online ambitions
Back in 2021, South Korea’s retail titan Shinsegae Inc. beat its archrival Lotte Shopping Co. to purchase Gmarket and Auction, the country's t...
Shinsegae faces off with Affinity, BRV over SSG.COM
Shinsegae Group could face a legal battle against two private equity firms that are demanding it buy back their combined 1 trillion won ($727 millio...
Korea's leading used-car platform Encar drops IPO plan
Encarsales.com Ltd., a South Korean used-car trading platform, will withdraw its initial public offering plan as early as this week due to deteriora...
Samyang draws record-high sales on Singles' Day in China
South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. announced on Thursday its sales during China's largest shopping festival, Singles' Day (Nov. 11), reached a new re...
Com2uS XPLA listed on S.Korea's crypto exchange Gopax
South Korea's Com2uS Holdings Corp. announced on Monday that the cryptocurrency called XPLA used in the Com2uS Group's blockchain mainnet of the s...
SSG.Com announces global first launch of Piaget's new watch
SSG.COM, the e-commerce platform of South Korean retail heavyweight Shinsegae Inc., revealed on Tuesday its exclusive introduction of Swiss luxury b...
Seoul is fourth most searched global city for summer travel: survey
The South Korean capital of Seoul is surging in global popularity as a summer travel destination amid the first peak summer season since COVID-19 we...
Virtual human YT debuts as SSG.COM’s shopping host
SSG.COM, the e-commerce brand of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Inc., announced on Tuesday that virtual human YT has been named the official sh...
Chanel watches make world's 1st online debut in Korea
Chanel watches have made their online debut through South Korea's leading platform SSG.COM, becoming the French brand’s first launch of fashio...
S.Korean semiconductor industry faces sharp decline: report
The Korea Development Institute (KDI), a renowned government-affiliated economic think tank in South Korea, disclosed on Sunday that the domestic se...
Hyundai's IONIQ 5 named Best Electric Vehicle of 2023 in US
Cars.com, a US automobile evaluation website, named the Hyundai Motor Co.'s IONIQ 5 as the Best Electric Vehicle of 2023 on Tuesday. According to Hy...
Korean grocery delivery platform Oasis starts IPO process
South Korea’s grocery delivery platform Oasis Corp. filed for preliminary IPO screening to Korea Exchange on Sept. 7. The firm is aiming to li...
Hong Kong-based Crypto.com acquires South Korean exchange OK-BIT
Hong Kong-based Crypto.com announced Monday it finalized the acquisition of a 100% stake in South Korea’s cryptocurrency exchange operator OK-...
SSG.COM joins race for top spot in luxury online shopping in Korea
SSG.COM, the e-commerce brand of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Inc., launched its online luxury goods marketplace SSG Luxury on July 3. Focusi...
Kurly applies for Korea IPO to raise about $800 mn
South Korea's Kurly Inc. on Monday applied for a preliminary review of its initial public offering, the Korea Exchange said, as the operator of groc...
Koreans log $5.7 bn loss in Q3 from overseas stock investments
South Korean investors suffered a $5.7 billion loss in the third quarter from overseas stock investments on weak foreign shares. Individual investor...
Kurly, SSG.COM, Oasis plan for fast-track 2022 IPOs
Competition among South Korean e-commerce companies for initial public offerings is expected to get even fiercer next year. Kurly Inc., the oper...
IB firms enter tough race for SSG.COM IPO underwriting deal
The race to become the lead underwriter for the IPO of Shinsegae Group’s e-commerce brand SSG.COM is getting fierce. A total of nine instituti...
Interpark draws cool response from Korean online giants
South Korea’s online retail platform Interpark Corp. has failed to drum up interest from the country's largest online platforms, including Nav...
