Kia ranks first in customer satisfaction in India
Kia Corp. said on Tuesday that it ranked first in the mass-market brand category in the customer experience index survey recently released by India'...
Mirae Asset's India Billion Consumer ETF surpasses $150 mn in net assets
South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments said on Thursday that the net assets of its TIGER India Billion Consumer ETF surpassed 200 billion wo...
Hyundai Glovis enters LNG transport business with Woodside Scarlet Ibis
Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, is entering the liquefied natural gas transportation business wit...
Affirma Capital seeks to sell entire stake in both SeAH FS, S&G Holdings
Affirma Capital, a Singapore-based buyout private equity firm, is seeking to sell its entire stake in both South Korean steel tube maker SeAH FS and...
SK, Geely join forces for EV battery, component production
SK Inc., the holding company of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, will join forces with Chinese auto giant Zhejiang Geely Holding Gro...
Kia taps ex-BMW, Mercedes-Benz designers for China, Europe
Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, has appointed former designers of German luxury carmakers BMW AG and Mercedes-Benz AG as chiefs of i...
KG Mobility seeks to expand into Vietnam
South Korean automaker KG Mobility Corp. said on Friday it had sought to expand strategic cooperation, including entering the Vietnamese market, aft...
EVs, SUVs power Hyundai, Kia’s US sales to Sept records
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s two largest carmakers, enjoyed record September sales thanks to the popularity of their electri...
Rolls-Royce unveils its first all-electric model, Spectre, in Seoul
Rolls-Royce has unveiled Spectre, the brand's first all-electric model, on Friday in Seoul for the first time in the Asia-Pacific region.The exterio...
Korea auto output to increase slightly in 2023: research
Domestic automobile output next year is forecast to increase 1.4% over this year to 3.7 million units.The Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association...
LG Display develops invisible speaker for automobiles
South Korea's LG Display on Monday said it has developed an in-vehicle sound solution that uses screen vibrations to produce sound, and that the dev...
Renault confident of Korean sales recovery; looks to larger cars
When French carmaker Groupe Renault dropped Samsung from its South Korean unit's company name in March, it aroused worries that the firm may not be ...
Automobile, chemical, refinery lead manufacturing sector revival
South Korea’s manufacturing sector saw an unexpected revival during the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, 23 ...
China’s Geely challenges Hyundai with entry to Korea’s e-truck market
China’s largest privately owned carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. is entering South Korea’s electric truck market to compete wit...
Time to buy Korean chipmakers; Samsung among 2022 top picks
The year of the tiger will see decent stock price gains in leading chipmakers such as Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. on expected hypersca...
S.Korea's car output tumbles to lowest in 17 years
South Korea's car output in 2021 is estimated to have tumbled to its lowest level in 17 years as a global shortage of semiconductors slowed down pro...
Korea exports hit record to top $640 bn in 2021
South Korea’s exports have reached an all-time high thanks to strong overseas demand for key products such as semiconductors amid the global e...
Hyundai to target Southeast Asia EV market from Indonesia
Hyundai Motor Group chairman Chung Euisun has declared that the world’s fifth-largest carmaker will target the electric vehicle market in Sout...
Korea's automobile exports log double-digit growth between Jan and May
Automobile exports log double-digit growth for five straight months In May 2021, exports of automobiles nearly doubled compared to the year-earlier...
Chip shortage hits Korea’s COVID-19 diagnostic device manufacturers
The global chip shortage is impacting South Korea’s COVID-19 test device makers. They are paying up to 10 times the normal price of semiconduc...
SK Holdings, China’s Geely launch $300 million future mobility fund
South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. and China’s leading carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. have launched a $300 million joint fund...
SK, China’s Geely eye investment fund for hydrogen, eco-friendly business
South Korea’s SK Holdings Co. and China’s Geely Auto Group are looking to set up a joint fund designed to invest in hydrogen and other e...
