Amazon, Alibaba, TikTok up ante to woo Korean beauty brands

Amazon, Alibaba, TikTok up ante to woo Korean beauty brands

Riding the wave of global enthusiasm for K-Beauty, e-commerce powerhouses like Amazon and Alibaba are racing to bring South Korean cosmetics and bea...

S.Korea’s Lee to make diplomatic debut at G7 after phone call with Trump

S.Korea’s Lee to make diplomatic debut at G7 after phone call with Trump

South Korea’s new President Lee Jae-myung will attend the summit of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced countries in Alberta, Canada, next week, ...

Samsung, Perplexity close to AI alliance: Bloomberg

Samsung, Perplexity close to AI alliance: Bloomberg

Samsung Electronics Co. is reportedly in advanced talks to equip its next flagship Galaxy smartphone series with the artificial intelligence-powered...

Glenwood PE to increase blind fund to $1 bn on pension funds’ interest

Glenwood PE to increase blind fund to $1 bn on pension funds’ interest

South Korea’s Glenwood Private Equity Co. is set to increase a blind fund to 1.5 trillion won ($1 billion) as pension funds at home and abroad...

DOR sets sights on TikTok-like virtual world for gamers  

DOR sets sights on TikTok-like virtual world for gamers  

South Korean startup DOR Corporation has thrown down the gauntlet to Discord, a popular global social platform for gamers, with its TikTok-like soci...

Naver recruits 500 creators for Clip

Naver recruits 500 creators for Clip

South Korea's Naver Corp. said on Monday it will recruit 500 creators for Clip in the first half of 2025, the company's short-form platform from Dec...

Kia debuts Tasman to target $333 bn global pickup truck market

Kia debuts Tasman to target $333 bn global pickup truck market

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, on Tuesday premiered the Tasman, its first pickup truck to target t...

Stray Kids to perform at 50th American Music Awards

Stray Kids to perform at 50th American Music Awards

K-Pop boy band Stray Kids will perform at the American Music Awards, a major music awards show in the United States.The American Music Awards announ...

KT applies AIoT video surveillance to EV charging stations

KT applies AIoT video surveillance to EV charging stations

South Korea's KT Corp. said on Monday that it will expand its Artificial Intelligence Internet of Things (AIoT) video surveillance business to elect...

S.Korea's early stage VC funding down amid dearth of targets

S.Korea's early stage VC funding down amid dearth of targets

Early stage startup funding has plummeted in South Korea as venture capitalists shifted to late-stage venture firms with stable business models amid...

Kyobo Lifeplanet, FWD Hong Kong to collaborate on GenAI

Kyobo Lifeplanet, FWD Hong Kong to collaborate on GenAI

South Korea's Kyobo Lifeplanet Life Insurance Co. announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understanding with Hong Kong-based insurer FWD ...

Don’t dwell on Korea discount; light up visibility on global stage

Don’t dwell on Korea discount; light up visibility on global stage

To the world, South Korea is well known as home to the world’s top two memory chipmakers, Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., but it is...

KAI inks $1.4 bn supersonic fighter jet mass production deal

KAI inks $1.4 bn supersonic fighter jet mass production deal

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), the country’s sole military aircraft manufacturer, said on Tuesday it signed a 2 trillion won ($1.4 bil...

South Korean webtoon makers in quandary after pandemic

South Korean webtoon makers in quandary after pandemic

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic a few years back, social distancing was the rule of life. People stayed at home, with many of them killing ti...

Samsung SDS unveils supply chain solution in US

Samsung SDS unveils supply chain solution in US

South Korea's Samsung SDS Co. introduced a supplier relationship management (SRM) solution at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium 2024 in Orlando, Fl...

Japan’s heavy hand with Naver: Uneasy sign for market economy

Japan’s heavy hand with Naver: Uneasy sign for market economy

Recent actions by the Japanese government and chief executives of LY Corp. and SoftBank Corp. are raising eyebrows, leading many to question whether...

Rakuten backs S.Korea’s new mobile carrier Stage X

Rakuten backs S.Korea’s new mobile carrier Stage X

South Korea’s fledgling mobile carrier Stage X Co. has teamed up with relatively new Japanese mobile company Rakuten Group to crack Korea&rsqu...

Perigee, Philippines gov’t to recycle small launch vehicle

Perigee, Philippines gov’t to recycle small launch vehicle

South Korea's Perigee Aerospace Inc. announced on Tuesday that it has discussed collaboration with the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) for the laun...

Hyundai Motor to take over Hyundai Mobis' fuel cell business

Hyundai Motor to take over Hyundai Mobis' fuel cell business

Hyundai Motor Co. will take over its auto parts and components-producing sibling Hyundai Mobis Co.'s fuel cell business, accelerating the South Kore...

Peter Thiel-backed D&D Pharmatech gets preliminary nod for IPO

Peter Thiel-backed D&D Pharmatech gets preliminary nod for IPO

South Korean clinical-stage biotech D&D Pharmatech Inc. has won approval from the Korea Exchange’s preliminary review for listing on the j...

HD Hyundai builds VR shipyard Twin FOS

HD Hyundai builds VR shipyard Twin FOS

South Korea’s HD Hyundai Co. announced on Wednesday that it completed the building of a virtual reality shipyard, the first stage of its Futur...

Daedong wins $268 mn tractor order from Aral Group

Daedong wins $268 mn tractor order from Aral Group

South Korea’s No. 1 agricultural machinery maker Daedong Corp. announced on Tuesday that it signed a deal with Türkiye's Aral Group to ...

Gencurix gets FDA OK for breast cancer prognosis analysis device

Gencurix gets FDA OK for breast cancer prognosis analysis device

South Korean biotech company Gencurix Inc. announced on Wednesday its subsidiary GenoBio has received approval from the US Food and Drug Admini...

HD Hyundai President Chung to deliver keynote at CES 2024

HD Hyundai President Chung to deliver keynote at CES 2024

South Korea's No. 1 shipbuilding group’s heir apparent Chung Ki-sun will deliver a keynote speech at the world’s biggest consumer techno...

TikTok to host offline concert in S.Korea

TikTok to host offline concert in S.Korea

TikTok announced on Friday that it will hold its first-ever offline live concert, "TikTok Stage The Shout," in South Korea on the 9th of next month....

LG Elec’s early-stage startup investments in US fare well

LG Elec’s early-stage startup investments in US fare well

LG Electronics Inc.'s early-stage investments in US tech startups will likely generate decent returns as they have raised additional funding at high...

LG Energy barely fends off CATL in global EV battery market

LG Energy barely fends off CATL in global EV battery market

LG Energy Solution Ltd. retained the top position in the global electric vehicle battery market excluding China in the first eight months of this ye...

Hyundai Steel aims to reduce reliance on Hyundai, Kia

Hyundai Steel aims to reduce reliance on Hyundai, Kia

South Korea's Hyundai Steel Co. is aiming to reduce its dependence on its affiliates Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. to become one of the world&rsqu...

Cultivated meat, carbon capture on center stage at D.Day

Cultivated meat, carbon capture on center stage at D.Day

Simple Planet, a South Korean biotech startup developing sustainable food technologies, has won this month’s startup pitch day held jointly by...

Shinyoung Asset, Baillie Gifford launch global growth stock fund

Shinyoung Asset, Baillie Gifford launch global growth stock fund

Shinyoung Asset Management Co. has joined hands with Baillie Gifford & Co., a UK investment management firm, to launch a long-term growth stock ...

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