Hyundai Motor’s high-stakes gambit in US: Cut vehicle prices as rivals hike theirs

Hyundai Motor’s high-stakes gambit in US: Cut vehicle prices as rivals hike theirs

As global automakers raise prices in the US market to respond to new Washington import tariffs, South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group is taking th...

Hyundai Glovis charts new waters with world’s first AI-driven self-sailing car carrier fleet

Hyundai Glovis charts new waters with world’s first AI-driven self-sailing car carrier fleet

South Korea’s Hyundai Glovis Co. is poised to become the world’s first shipping company to deploy artificial intelligence-based autonomo...

Hyundai premieres IONIQ 6 N: Latest motorsport DNA for electric age

Hyundai premieres IONIQ 6 N: Latest motorsport DNA for electric age

In a dramatic showing on the famed hill climb of West Sussex, Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday debuted the IONIQ 6 N, its second high-performance elect...

Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman courts Korean AI startups as Riyadh, Abu Dhabi vie to build tech hubs

Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman courts Korean AI startups as Riyadh, Abu Dhabi vie to build tech hubs

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the Middle East was a land of opportunity for many South Korean construction workers, who labored there under the scorc...

HD Hyundai, India’s Cochin Shipyard to pursue joint shipbuilding orders

HD Hyundai, India’s Cochin Shipyard to pursue joint shipbuilding orders

HD Hyundai Co., the world’s largest shipbuilding group based in South Korea, has signed a memorandum of understanding with India’s large...

Hyundai Rotem seals record $6.5 bn K2 tank deal with Poland

Hyundai Rotem seals record $6.5 bn K2 tank deal with Poland

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean defense system developer, will export its battle tanks to Poland in what would be the largest single export deal f...

Goldman Sachs acquires Mercure Ambassador: 1st stint with Korean hotels

Goldman Sachs acquires Mercure Ambassador: 1st stint with Korean hotels

Goldman Sachs, in partnership with JB Asset Management Co., has acquired Mercure Ambassador Seoul Hongdae, a prominent mixed-use commercial property...

KKR in control feud over Korea’s top solar power plant

KKR in control feud over Korea’s top solar power plant

Global private equity giant KKR & Co. Inc. is embroiled in a management dispute over South Korea’s top solar power plant with key individu...

Hyundai helps Korean economy most with $265 bn contribution

Hyundai helps Korean economy most with $265 bn contribution

Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-biggest automaker, generated the most economic value among major South Korean conglomerates last year, ...

South Korea issues €1.4 billion in largest-ever euro bond sale

South Korea issues €1.4 billion in largest-ever euro bond sale

South Korea raised 1.4 billion euros ($1.6 billion) through a euro bond sale on Thursday, marking the country's largest-ever euro-denominated debt i...

LS Electric poised to join Nvidia's supply chain via Vertiv deal

LS Electric poised to join Nvidia's supply chain via Vertiv deal

LS Electric Co., a South Korean industrial system supplier, is poised to deliver a large volume of power control equipment, including switchgears an...

Mirae Asset debuts AI-recommended ETF on NYSE to invest in US bonds

Mirae Asset debuts AI-recommended ETF on NYSE to invest in US bonds

Mirae Asset Financial Group, one of the largest asset managers in South Korea, has launched its first exchange-traded fund (ETF) investing in high-q...

S.Korea’s power transformer exports soar as global supply shortage bites

S.Korea’s power transformer exports soar as global supply shortage bites

South Korean power equipment makers are riding a wave of export growth, with their transformers in high demand amid a global rush to reinforce power...

Hyundai Motor-backed Motional names AI veteran Laura Major as CEO

Hyundai Motor-backed Motional names AI veteran Laura Major as CEO

Motional Inc., the autonomous driving joint venture backed by Hyundai Motor Group, has appointed Laura Major, an artificial intelligence and robotic...

Hyundai Steel to displace Baoshan as GM Korea's supplier

Hyundai Steel to displace Baoshan as GM Korea's supplier

Hyundai Steel Co. is poised to displace Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. as a key supplier to GM Korea Co., a unit of General Motors Co., as the US carm...

Lotte Chemical, HD Hyundai seek to combine naphtha cracking facilities

Lotte Chemical, HD Hyundai seek to combine naphtha cracking facilities

Lotte Chemical Corp. and HD Hyundai Co. are in talks to consolidate their naphtha cracking operations in South Korea’s Daesan petrochemical co...

Hyundai Rotem set to finalize $6 bn K2 tank order from Poland

Hyundai Rotem set to finalize $6 bn K2 tank order from Poland

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean defense company, is set to finalize a tank supply contract with Poland, with the deal's value nearly doubling &nda...

Markets in honeymoon with Lee: Kospi, won rally; bond yields spike

Markets in honeymoon with Lee: Kospi, won rally; bond yields spike

South Korea’s financial markets showed strong gains on Thursday, with shares surging to an 11-month high and the won hitting a seven-month hig...

Hyundai Motor Group dominates US Best Cars for Teens awards

Hyundai Motor Group dominates US Best Cars for Teens awards

Hyundai Motor Group has claimed seven out of 12 categories in US News & World Report’s Best Cars for Teens for 2025 awards, marking its fo...

Hanjin KAL, LS expand defense business alliance to counter Hoban Group

Hanjin KAL, LS expand defense business alliance to counter Hoban Group

South Korea’s Hanjin Group and LS Group are tightening their alliance further against Hoban Group, which is raising its stake in Hanjin.Korean...

Hanwha Ocean to team up with Polish shipyards for Navy project bid

Hanwha Ocean to team up with Polish shipyards for Navy project bid

Hanwha Ocean Co. is ramping up efforts to win Poland's highly competitive next-generation submarine project, worth around 3 trillion won ($2.2 billi...

HD Hyundai Group joins S.Korea’s 100 trillion won market cap club

HD Hyundai Group joins S.Korea’s 100 trillion won market cap club

South Korean shipbuilding conglomerate HD Hyundai Group has joined South Korea’s elite club of conglomerates with a market capitalization exce...

KKR sells 9.5% stake in HD Hyundai Marine, recoups $450 million

KKR sells 9.5% stake in HD Hyundai Marine, recoups $450 million

Global private equity firm KKR & Co. Inc., formerly known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., has sold a 9.5% stake in HD Hyundai Marine Solut...

Vietnam, gateway for SK Group’s global renewable energy push

Vietnam, gateway for SK Group’s global renewable energy push

TIEN GIANG, VIETNAM – Off the coast of Vietnam’s Tien Giang Province, 36 wind turbines spin steadily with a constant whoosh and swish, g...

LS moves closer to role as Hanjin KAL’s white knight vs Hoban

LS moves closer to role as Hanjin KAL’s white knight vs Hoban

Hanjin KAL Corp., the largest shareholder of Korean Air Lines Co., is strengthening its alliance with LS Group, the parent of LS Cable & System ...

Hyundai Rotem lands $301 mn Taiwan driverless train deal

Hyundai Rotem lands $301 mn Taiwan driverless train deal

Hyundai Rotem Co. has won a 420 billion won ($301 million) order to build autonomous electric trains for Taiwan’s Taichung Metro, adding to a ...

Hyundai Motor, PIF break ground on Saudi Arabia plant

Hyundai Motor, PIF break ground on Saudi Arabia plant

Hyundai Motor Co. has joined forces with the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, to build its first manufactur...

Korean firms rush to issue bonds ahead of presidential election

Korean firms rush to issue bonds ahead of presidential election

South Korean companies are flocking to the corporate bond market ahead of the country’s presidential election early next month, seeking to loc...

Korea Securities Finance eyes its 1st foreign bond sale in 2026

Korea Securities Finance eyes its 1st foreign bond sale in 2026

Korea Securities Finance Corp. (KSFC) is preparing to issue its first foreign currency-denominated bonds in 2026 to provide low-cost funding to dome...

Kookmin Bank raises $700 mn in forex bonds amid strong demand

Kookmin Bank raises $700 mn in forex bonds amid strong demand

Kookmin Bank, a unit of KB Financial Group, raised $700 million in foreign exchange bonds on Tuesday, signaling a recovery in investor sentiment tow...

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