Hanwha-owned burger chain Five Guys Korea up for sale two years after launch

Hanwha-owned burger chain Five Guys Korea up for sale two years after launch

South Korea’s Hanwha Group is seeking to sell the Korean operations of US premium burger chain Five Guys, two years after the brand’s hi...

Deal graveyard: S.Korean F&B franchise sales left without takers

Deal graveyard: S.Korean F&B franchise sales left without takers

Korean food is making waves globally, but back home, the story is different for food and beverage franchise operators. Franchisors in South Korea ar...

Korean financial firms face growing risks in overseas property investments

Korean financial firms face growing risks in overseas property investments

South Korea’s financial institutions are increasingly at risk of their overseas real estate investments turning sour, government data showed o...

TVing beefs up sports content, narrowing gap with Netflix

TVing beefs up sports content, narrowing gap with Netflix

TVing, a South Korean over-the-top (OTT) platform, is beefing up its live sports programming and TV series featuring baseball players to catch up to...

Mom's Touch to enter Laos in 2025

Mom's Touch to enter Laos in 2025

South Korean homegrown burger and chicken brand Mom's Touch & Co. said on Wednesday that it signed a master franchise agreement with Laos-based ...

SK Group may beef up reform drive after CEO seminar

SK Group may beef up reform drive after CEO seminar

South Korea’s energy-to-telecom conglomerate SK Group will hold an annual strategic meeting presided over by its Chairman Chey Tae-won from Oc...

CJ Group explores Saudi Arabia's entertainment potential

CJ Group explores Saudi Arabia's entertainment potential

CJ Group, South Korea’s food-to-entertainment giant, is exploring business opportunities in Saudi Arabia's entertainment and logistics sectors...

E-Mart, CJ CheilJedang to beef up strategic partnership

E-Mart, CJ CheilJedang to beef up strategic partnership

CJ CheilJedang Corp., South Korea’s largest food company, said on Wednesday it will increase the number of food products exclusively launched ...

Mom's Touch adds two new restaurants in Mongolia

Mom's Touch adds two new restaurants in Mongolia

South Korean homegrown burger and chicken brand Mom's Touch & Co. announced on Friday that it has recently opened its sixth and seventh stores i...

Mom's Touch opens new flagship store in Myeongdong

Mom's Touch opens new flagship store in Myeongdong

South Korean homegrown burger and chicken brand Mom's Touch & Co. announced on Tuesday that it opened a new flagship store in Myeongdong, Jung-g...

T'way Air, CJ CheilJedang to collaborate on in-flight meals

T'way Air, CJ CheilJedang to collaborate on in-flight meals

South Korea's low-cost carrier T'way Air Co. announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with CJ CheilJedang Corp. on May...

Burger, chicken franchises raise prices after elections

Burger, chicken franchises raise prices after elections

Fried chicken and hamburger franchises in South Korea have sharply bumped up their food prices following the parliamentary elections last week as th...

End of the Whopper, Burger King's belated April Fool’s prank?

End of the Whopper, Burger King's belated April Fool’s prank?

Burger King on Monday announced a plan to stop selling its iconic Whopper hamburger in South Korea this month after 40 years, provoking an outcry am...

Hyundai Mobis develops integrated module for EV front face

Hyundai Mobis develops integrated module for EV front face

Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s sixth-largest automotive parts maker, known as Mobis outside of its home South Korea, announced Thursday that i...

Burger Please!, world’s third-most downloaded app in 2023

Burger Please!, world’s third-most downloaded app in 2023

A hyper-casual game developed by South Korea’s fledgling gaming publisher Supercent was the world’s third-most downloaded newly launched...

Mom’s Touch to open first store in Japan

Mom’s Touch to open first store in Japan

South Korean homegrown burger and chicken brand Mom's Touch & Co. announced on Monday that it will open its first directly managed store Shibuya...

Mom's Touch Tokyo pop-up store visitors exceed 30,000

Mom's Touch Tokyo pop-up store visitors exceed 30,000

South Korean homegrown burger and chicken brand Mom's Touch & Co. announced on Friday its pop-up store in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan successfully con...

Spicy food craze sweeps South Korea

Spicy food craze sweeps South Korea

South Korea, famous for the spicy kick in its cuisine, is going the extra mile to turn the nation red hot with extremely spicy food, believed by Kor...

Lotteria to introduce kitchen robot Alpha Grill

Lotteria to introduce kitchen robot Alpha Grill

South Korea's Lotte GRS, the operator of fast food franchise Lotteria, plans to introduce a kitchen automation robot Alpha Grill in stores. Alp...

CS Wind eyes $2.2 bn sales in 2024 with Bladt

CS Wind eyes $2.2 bn sales in 2024 with Bladt

CS Wind Corp., a South Korean wind turbine tower manufacturer, expects its sales next year to double from last year’s to reach about 3 trillio...

Mom's Touch to open pop-up store in Tokyo

Mom's Touch to open pop-up store in Tokyo

South Korean homegrown burger and chicken brand Mom's Touch & Co. on Wednesday announced that it plans to open its first overseas pop-up store "...

S.Korea exports Hanwoo beef to Cambodia for 1st time

S.Korea exports Hanwoo beef to Cambodia for 1st time

The premium Korean beef Hanwoo was exported to Cambodia on Monday for the first time, marking the culmination of eight years of quarantine negotiati...

Samsung’s tie-up with VMware to strengthen SSD competitiveness

Samsung’s tie-up with VMware to strengthen SSD competitiveness

LAS VEGAS – Samsung Electronics Co. has partnered with US cloud software provider VMware Inc. to strengthen its competitiveness in the next-ge...

McDonald’s to increase locations by 25% in S.Korea by 2030

McDonald’s to increase locations by 25% in S.Korea by 2030

McDonald’s Corp., the world’s top fast-food restaurant operator, is set to increase the number of its locatons in South Korea by 25% to ...

S.Korea exports halal-certified beef to Malaysia for 1st time

S.Korea exports halal-certified beef to Malaysia for 1st time

Halal-certified premium Korean beef Hanwoo was exported to Malaysia on Thursday, marking the culmination of seven years of quarantine negotiations f...

Samsung on smooth track to 1.4 nm foundry tech to take on TSMC

Samsung on smooth track to 1.4 nm foundry tech to take on TSMC

SILICON VALLEY  – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, on Tuesday unveiled details of its advanced proces...

US burger chain Five Guys to launch in South Korea on June 26

US burger chain Five Guys to launch in South Korea on June 26

The American burger chain Five Guys, which has attracted keen interest in South Korea for its service and prices even before its entry into the coun...

S.Korea's ToolGen develops gene-edited cow for artificial blood

S.Korea's ToolGen develops gene-edited cow for artificial blood

South Korean genome editing developer ToolGen Inc. has teamed up with Lartbio Technology, a Seoul-based transgenic animal development company, to de...

Lotte considering opening In-N-Out Burger stores in S.Korea

Lotte considering opening In-N-Out Burger stores in S.Korea

One of US' leading burger brands, In-N-Out, is considering entering the South Korean market. After recently opening a pop-up store in Seoul, the bur...

S.Korea’s Hanwha Securities to acquire Ciptadana in Indonesia

S.Korea’s Hanwha Securities to acquire Ciptadana in Indonesia

Hanwha Investment & Securities announced on Thursday that it has decided to acquire Indonesia's Ciptadana Securities and Ciptadana Asset Managem...

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