Maybe Happy Ending: A robot love story that rewrote Broadway playbook

Maybe Happy Ending: A robot love story that rewrote Broadway playbook

On an unremarkable evening in November 2024, inside the opulent Belasco Theatre in Manhattan, something quietly historic was taking place.A delicate...

How STIC Investments’ bet on animal fat processor DK O&T paid off

How STIC Investments’ bet on animal fat processor DK O&T paid off

In South Korea, businesses handling livestock by-products have lacked investor appeal. They were usually mom-and-pop businesses and appeared to hold...

Koramco seeks to sell Seoul prime office tower in $272 million deal

Koramco seeks to sell Seoul prime office tower in $272 million deal

South Korea’s Koramco REITs Management & Trust Co. is poised sell a prime office building in Seoul in an estimated 400 billion won ($272 m...

S.Korean AI content platform Zeta surpasses 1 mn users

S.Korean AI content platform Zeta surpasses 1 mn users

South Korean generative artificial intelligence (AI) startup Scatter Lab said on Monday its interactive AI content platform Zeta has surpassed 1 mil...

Ashley Queens’ success story: Premium dining, but at affordable prices

Ashley Queens’ success story: Premium dining, but at affordable prices

Korean food, or K-food, is popular around the world. And it’s almost become a rite of passage for foreigners who come to South Korea to try tr...

SY Lee: A Korean startup creator who fetched $80 mn for Story Protocol

SY Lee: A Korean startup creator who fetched $80 mn for Story Protocol

Seung Yoon Lee, a South Korean startup creator, was in his early 20s when he co-founded Radish Fiction Inc., a US-based mobile fiction platform, in ...

E-Mart’s No Brand success story: A Korean snack chain goes global

E-Mart’s No Brand success story: A Korean snack chain goes global

When South Korean convenience store operator E-Mart Inc. launched its low-budget house label No Brand in 2015, few thought it would last long.Under ...

Kia reveals teaser of Tasman development process

Kia reveals teaser of Tasman development process

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, released One More Round, a teaser video series of its first pickup truck The Kia Tasman.&nb...

Lotte Mall writes success story in Hanoi with Koreanization

Lotte Mall writes success story in Hanoi with Koreanization

Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi, a mega commercial complex in Vietnam, has hit a sales milestone of 200 billion won ($145 million) less than one year sin...

Netmarble's new RPG 'Solo Leveling' logs $70 mn sales in 1st month

Netmarble's new RPG 'Solo Leveling' logs $70 mn sales in 1st month

South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp. is enjoying growing sales of its new action role-playing game (RPG) “Solo Leveling: Arise,” ...

Samsung Galaxy S24: A success story even before hitting the shelves

Samsung Galaxy S24: A success story even before hitting the shelves

Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest flagship smartphone series, the Galaxy S24, is enjoying strong demand even before hitting the shelves of the compan...

Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi cited as a Lotte success story

Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi cited as a Lotte success story

Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi, a premium commercial complex, has emerged as a hot spot in Vietnam, hitting the 100 billion won ($74 million) milestone ...

Lotte mulls Lotte World Tower spruce-up to rival Azabudai Hills Tower

Lotte mulls Lotte World Tower spruce-up to rival Azabudai Hills Tower

Lotte Group is considering sprucing up the Lotte World Tower in Seoul, the tallest building in South Korea, to maintain its position as a landmark s...

BTS’ Beyond the Story tops NYT bestseller list

BTS’ Beyond the Story tops NYT bestseller list

BTS' first official book "Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS", published in celebration of 10th Anniversary, topped the New York Times bestse...

Genesis rewrites Hyundai story, shedding Honda copycat image

Genesis rewrites Hyundai story, shedding Honda copycat image

Once dismissed as a Honda copycat, Hyundai Motor Co. is poised to pass yet antother milestone, with its luxury brand Genesis on track to top 1 milli...

Samsung C&T wins order $585 mn construction project in Taiwan

Samsung C&T wins order $585 mn construction project in Taiwan

The construction division of South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. on Monday said it landed an order for the Fubon Aozihdi Development Project from Ta...

Mirae Asset Securities, Near Protocol team up for blockchain techs

Mirae Asset Securities, Near Protocol team up for blockchain techs

South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities announced on Thursday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for collaborative research in bloc...

BTS’ memoir of past decade to be published in July

BTS’ memoir of past decade to be published in July

A book describing the K-pop boy band BTS’ 10 years of history will be published in July.According to the New York Times and the Guardian, the ...

Netflix to inject $2.5 bn in Korean drama series, movies over next 4 years

Netflix to inject $2.5 bn in Korean drama series, movies over next 4 years

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  US streaming giant Netflix is slated to invest $2.5 billion in South Korea over the next four years to boost its cont...

CGBio opens cosmetic surgery clinic in Bali using bio-medical tech

 CGBio opens cosmetic surgery clinic in Bali using bio-medical tech

CGBio, a South Korean bio-renewable medical company, announced on Monday that it opened a medical esthetic clinic, called Nulook, in Bali, Indonesia...

SK Earthon to be reborn as carbon-neutral company

SK Earthon to be reborn as carbon-neutral company

SK Earthon, an oil development subsidiary of South Korea's SK Innovation Co., plans to transform into a carbon-neutral company focused on oil explor...

Ssangyong E&C completes construction of Dubai's Atlantis The Royal

Ssangyong E&C completes construction of Dubai's Atlantis The Royal

Ssangyong Engineering & Construction announced on Tuesday the successful completion of "Atlantis The Royal," an ultra-luxury hotel in Dubai, the...

Cizion, Parameta form strategic partnership for data protocol

Cizion, Parameta form strategic partnership for data protocol

Cizion, a South Korean data-specialized startup, announced on Tuesday that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Parameta, a domestic IT ...

Korea’s top delivery app operator Woowa launches food delivery robot

Korea’s top delivery app operator Woowa launches food delivery robot

The self-driving robot Dilly Tower of Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of Korea’s top food delivery app Baedal Minjok, commonly known as Bae...

Corporate VC veterans pinpoint their best investments 

Corporate VC veterans pinpoint their best investments 

South Korean conglomerates in recent years have ramped up their investment in startups, yielding positive returns. Hyundai Motor Co. Vice Pre...

Experts define goal of AI tech development as cooperation with humans

Experts define goal of AI tech development as cooperation with humans

Renowned artificial intelligence (AI) scholar Masashi Sugiyama said his research goal is to develop AI that can work and learn alongside people.Su...

SK Group reworks 'financial story' action plans

SK Group reworks 'financial story' action plans

Chief executives of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group are overhauling their action plans to implement the “financial story&rdquo...

SK Group’s 'financial story' running out of steam?

SK Group’s 'financial story' running out of steam?

South Korean private equity firms that plan to inject a total of 1.2 trillion won ($1 billion) into SK Ecoplant Co. are having a hard time raising t...

Samsung in do-or-die race with $355 bn spending plan

Samsung in do-or-die race with $355 bn spending plan

"It's not a matter of numbers, but a matter of do or die for us."This is the first public remark from Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman and de f...

Golfzon County IPO poised to be another MBK success story

Golfzon County IPO poised to be another MBK success story

Golfzon County Co. is gearing up for an initial public offering, which will offer MBK Partners a chance to exit from its investment in South Korea&r...

Kakao Pay backs out of acquisition deal for SSG Pay, Smile Pay Hanwha in talks to buy five-star hotel Paraspara Seoul Kia's Lego-like PV5 with 16 variants to hit market in July Stray Kids make K-pop history with landmark stadium show in Germany S.Korea’s most prominent business leader returns with all charges cleared