BlackRock names Lee Yoon Pyo as head of S.Korea business

BlackRock, the world's best-known asset manager, has appointed Lee Yoon Pyo as managing director and head of its South Korea operations, effective f...

K Bank aims to turn into AI-based investment platform: CEO

K Bank, the digital banking unit of South Korean telecom giant KT Corp., aims to turn into an AI-based investment platform after going public later ...

NCSOFT invests in Swedish game startup Moon Rover Games

NCSOFT Corp., a South Korean game developer, said on Tuesday it has made an early stage investment of $3.5 million in Swedish game startup Moon Rove...

Catering firm Ourhome taps founding family’s eldest daughter as CEO

The eldest daughter of catering service provider Ourhome Ltd.’s founding family, Koo Mi-hyun, was on Tuesday appointed chief executive of the ...

Coupang Play to livestream 2024 Masters Tournament

Coupang Play, a video streaming service provided by South Korea's largest e-commerce company Coupang Inc., will broadcast the first major golf tourn...

MBK names two partners as vice chairman, vice president

MBK Partners said on Wednesday it has named Moon Joo Ho, partner and head of South Korea for special situations, as the North Asia-focused private e...

S.Korea to put self-developed lander on moon by 2032

South Korea plans to put its first lunar lander on the moon by 2032.  In a meeting of the National R&D Project Evaluation Advisory Commit...

SK Shieldus appoints former Samsung SDS president as new CEO

South Korean security company SK Shieldus announced on Tuesday that it has appointed Hong Won-pyo, former president of Samsung SDS, as its new CEO a...

S.Korea-US to deepen aerospace ties through NASA's Artemis

South Korea and the US are set to deepen their partnership in the aerospace sector through the Artemis program, a human and robotic Moon exploration...

S.Korea's lunar orbiter Danuri captures back side of the moon

South Korea's first lunar orbiter Danuri has released photos of the moon's far side. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) announced on Wedn...

Samsung denies claim of fake moon photo by premium smartphone model

Samsung Electronics Co. has denied that a photo of the moon in the night sky taken by its premium smartphone Galaxy S23 Ultra is fake, saying as soo...

Korea’s 1st moon probe Danuri enters lunar orbit; world’s 7th mission

South Korea on Wednesday became the world’s seventh country to send a lunar orbiter to the moon, joining other advanced countries in a heated ...

S.Korea’s first mission to the Moon, Danuri, enters transfer orbit

South Korea’s first lunar orbiter, Danuri, has been launched onto a ballistic lunar transfer orbit as planned, the country’s science min...

Moon boats light up the birthplace of Korean Confucianism

Riding a crescent moon-shaped boat that changes colors is a must-do experience in the small South Korean city of Andong, 190 km southeast of Seoul.T...

The lunar economy is here – Airbus Vice President Jaffart 

Global aerospace juggernaut Airbus SE says we have already entered the lunar economy and the company is looking forward to soon collaborating on lun...

SEWORKS CEO: Black hat hacker-turned-security consultant

SILICON VALLEY -- In a digital world where data theft is growing rapidly, hackers who turn their lives around to help in the fight against cybercrim...

Korean housing prices soar to $5 tn in Moon admin with record growth

South Korean house prices have risen more during the President Moon Jae-in administration than any other as the current government has focused more ...

GS Energy to create renewable JV with Spain’s Iberdrola

South Korea’s leading oil and gas company GS Energy Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of GS Holdings, and Spain’s largest utility company...