Gochujang, fiery seasonings: K-sauces go viral among adventurous foreign palates

Gochujang, fiery seasonings: K-sauces go viral among adventurous foreign palates

Once an afterthought in the global food trade, South Korea’s signature spices and sauces, ranging from fiery gochujang to fermented doenjang, ...

Trump says Korea interested in Alaska gas project; Korean firms skeptical

Trump says Korea interested in Alaska gas project; Korean firms skeptical

South Korea, Japan and other countries want to partner with the US in a $44 billion natural gas pipeline project in Alaska, President Donald Trump s...

Bank of Korea cuts rates, growth forecast on Trump tariff policy

Bank of Korea cuts rates, growth forecast on Trump tariff policy

South Korea’s central bank on Tuesday cut interest rates while sharply reducing its economic growth forecast as lingering political turmoil fo...

South Korea’s alternative data pioneer KED Aicel in full force

South Korea’s alternative data pioneer KED Aicel in full force

South Korea’s leading alternative data service provider Hankyung Aicel Inc. is poised to transform companies' and investors’ business an...

Koreans' yen savings fall on profit-taking despite BOJ rate hike views

Koreans'  yen savings fall on profit-taking despite BOJ rate hike views

Yen-denominated deposits in South Korea fell in November, dragging down overall foreign-currency savings, as investors took profits from the Japanes...

Korea’s export growth at 14-month low, adds to BOK rate cut views

Korea’s export growth at 14-month low, adds to BOK rate cut views

South Korea’s export growth fell to a 14-month low in November with shipments to the world’s two biggest markets the US and China down, ...

Rose’s music video ‘APT.’ surpasses 300 mn views on YouTube

 Rose’s music video ‘APT.’ surpasses 300 mn views on YouTube

The music video for “APT.”, featuring girl group Blackpink's Rose in a duet with pop star Bruno Mars, has surpassed 300 million views on...

Two out of 5 CEOs hold negative views on Korean startup scene

Two out of 5 CEOs hold negative views on Korean startup scene

Nearly half of South Korean startups hold negative views on the country’s startup ecosystem, citing the prolonged startup funding winter and t...

Chip winter looming? Micron, Samsung give opposite views

Chip winter looming? Micron, Samsung give opposite views

Micron Technology Inc. on Wednesday delivered stronger-than-expected quarterly results and gave a bullish outlook for the current quarter, shrugging...

Blackpink’s dance performance video surpasses 1.7 billion views

Blackpink’s dance performance video surpasses 1.7 billion views

K-pop girl group Blackpink's “How You Like That” dance performance video has garnered more than 1.7 billion YouTube views, the group's a...

Analysts rebut Morgan Stanley’s chip winter view; oversupply unlikely

Analysts rebut Morgan Stanley’s chip winter view; oversupply unlikely

Morgan Stanley’s recent view that the global chip industry faces an imminent winter and companies like SK Hynix Inc. will suffer is exaggerate...

SK Hynix shares nosedive after Morgan Stanley downgrade

SK Hynix shares nosedive after Morgan Stanley downgrade

The share price of SK Hynix Inc. plummeted as much as 11% at one point on Thursday after Morgan Stanley sharply cut its target price in an about-tur...

Samsung, Ottogi unveil exclusive lifestyle TV goods

Samsung, Ottogi unveil exclusive lifestyle TV goods

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Friday that it collaborated with the domestic food company Ottogi to release limited edition goods called Samsu...

Korean shipbuilding shares surge on supercycle hope, Trump Trade

Korean shipbuilding shares surge on supercycle hope, Trump Trade

South Korea’s Big Three shipbuilders, also the world’s three largest, stand to benefit from the emerging industry supercycle and the so-...

SK Broadband's Filmotalk surpasses 6.6 mn cumulative views

SK Broadband's Filmotalk surpasses 6.6 mn cumulative views

South Korea’s internet service provider SK Broadband Co. announced on Wednesday that the cumulative viewership of its offline film talk concer...

Korean won at 17-month low on Middle East woes, Fed rate view

Korean won at 17-month low on Middle East woes, Fed rate view

The South Korean won currency on Tuesday fell to its weakest level in 17 months, briefly touching the psychologically important 1,400 per dollar lev...

Private markets open to more high-net-worth individuals: Hamilton Lane

Private markets open to more high-net-worth individuals: Hamilton Lane

The number of high-net-worth individuals allocating capital to private markets is increasing fast. These are wealthy individuals who own at least $1...

Shortt gets 400 mn views in one year in SE Asian market

Shortt gets 400 mn views in one year in SE Asian market

Shortt, a South Korean short form content company, announced on Wednesday that it has got a total of 400 million views of its campaigns for South Ko...

Peak views: What lies ahead in 2024?

Peak views: What lies ahead in 2024?

With 2023 at a close, financial markets are at an important junction. Major developed market central banks have paused their rate rises and there ...

Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ surpasses 5 billion views on Youtube

Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ surpasses 5 billion views on Youtube

The music video for singer Psy's global hit "Gangnam Style" has surpassed 5 billion views on YouTube.According to YouTube on Saturday, the music vid...

South Koreans expect inflation to slow, relief to BOK’s hawkish stance

South Koreans expect inflation to slow, relief to BOK’s hawkish stance

South Koreans expect inflation to slow over the next 12 months, providing relief to the central bank’s hawkish stance that policy rates should...

Korea, Chile launch 8th round of FTA upgrade negotiations

 Korea, Chile launch 8th round of FTA upgrade negotiations

The eighth round of negotiations for modernizing the Korea-Chile Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will take place in Seoul from November 29 to December 1....

New Mercedes E-Class, world’s first to use LG’s SPM display  

New Mercedes E-Class, world’s first to use LG’s SPM display  

LG Display Co., the world’s leading organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel maker seeking to cement its market leadership, is supplying its ...

K-tourism video ads with Lee Jung-jae exceed 510 mn views

K-tourism video ads with Lee Jung-jae exceed 510 mn views

The four-video Challenge Korea series promoting tourism in South Korea with "Squid Game" actor Lee Jung-jae has surpassed half a billion views in ju...

BTS’ ‘Boy With Luv’ surpasses 1.7 billion YouTube views

BTS’ ‘Boy With Luv’ surpasses 1.7 billion YouTube views

The number of YouTube views of the group BTS' "Boy With Luv" music video exceeded 1.7 billion, the agency Big Hit Music said on Tuesday.The music vi...

Nomura says new shipbuilding orders peaked; Korean firms refute

Nomura says new shipbuilding orders peaked; Korean firms refute

Nomura Securities recently said global new shipbuilding orders likely peaked in 2022, slashing its stock recommendation rating on industry leader HD...

Boy group Seventeen’s ‘Rock with You’ video hits 100 mn views

Boy group Seventeen’s ‘Rock with You’ video hits 100 mn views

Seventeen's "Rock with You" music video has surpassed 100 million views on YouTube, the group's agency PLEDIS Entertainment announced on Wednesday.T...

Samsung's Bespoke Goes On campaign video exceeds 20 mn views

Samsung's Bespoke Goes On campaign video exceeds 20 mn views

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Tuesday that its Bespoke Goes On campaign video for the Bespoke refrigerator has surpassed 20 million views on ...

Market views turn bullish on Samsung as AI-led chip demand rises

Market views turn bullish on Samsung as AI-led chip demand rises

Views on leading memory chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co. are becoming more bullish as the South Korean tech giant is expected to benefit from a ris...

Moody’s cuts credit view on KEPCO to lowest investment grade

Moody’s cuts credit view on KEPCO to lowest investment grade

Moody’s on Friday cut its view on KEPCO’s credit to the lowest investment grade, a move that could lead the rating agency to downgrade t...

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