Samsung flexes financial muscle as insurance, card units top rankings

Samsung Group’s financial affiliates are closing in on KB Financial Group for the top spot in South Korea’s financial services sector, u...

Samsung flexes NAND muscle with high-capacity microSD cards

Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday unveiled two new microSD cards boasting high performance and capacity usually found in solid-state drives (SSDs...

Samsung flexes AI chip muscles ahead of Altman visit

Samsung Electronics Co. will go all out to win the AI chip race with its most advanced AI memory chip products, its semiconductor business head said...

LG Electronics' OLED Flex wins top Red Dot Design Award

LG Electronics Inc., said on Sunday that it has won a total of 24 awards at the prestigious "Red Dot Design Award."  Among the accolades, LG El...

Small S.Korean PE firms flex muscle during pandemic

Private equity firms registered in South Korea enjoyed a 20% jump in their accumulated commitments in 2021 as a whole, led by small and medium-sized...

Korea shipbuilders to win mega tanker deals on rising LNG demand

Orders for mega liquefied natural gas carriers have reemerged as demand for the gas has increased alongside the global push to cut carbon emissions....

Samsung flexes foundry muscle amid supply chain woes

Samsung Electronics Co. may emerge a winner in the prolonged pandemic era, making full use of fabless chipmakers' efforts to diversify the manufactu...

SK Innovation set to flex muscle with $4 bn in new cash

SK Innovation Co., South Korea's leading electric vehicle battery maker, is on course to raise more than 5 trillion won ($4.5 billion) this year fro...

Carlyle flexes muscles in Korean financial industry as Lee takes helm

The Carlyle Group has been growing its presence in South Korea after sealing a string of investment and business deals with top Korean financial servi...

Korean banks flex muscles for alternative assets; Kookmin, Shinhan may invest in KKR’s fund

South Korea’s Kookmin Bank and Shinhan Bank are consdering investing 30 billion won ($26 million) each to a private equity buyout fund which KKR &...