Kia to build North America-targeted electric pickup model

Kia to build North America-targeted electric pickup model

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest carmaker, will build an electric pickup model tailored for North America to enter the world’s la...

Doosan Enerbility wins $1.5 bn in orders from Saudi Arabia

Doosan Enerbility wins $1.5 bn in orders from Saudi Arabia

Doosan Enerbility Co., South Korea’s leading gas turbine maunfacturer for power plants, said on Thursday that it has secured a combined $1.5 b...

European student housing is top of the class: Savills IM

European student housing is top of the class: Savills IM

The appeal of European purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) to real estate investors is growing rapidly. In the recent 2025 INREV Investor Int...

LG renames premium built-in appliance brand; Moody’s outlook up

LG renames premium built-in appliance brand; Moody’s outlook up

LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s top appliance maker, has rebranded its 10-year-old premium built-in kitchen appliance business to double do...

Lotte to supply advanced copper foil to Doosan for Nvidia’s Blackwell

Lotte to supply advanced copper foil to Doosan for Nvidia’s Blackwell

Lotte Energy Materials Corp., a leading South Korean battery materials maker, said on Tuesday it will supply advanced copper foil to Doosan Corp.'s&...

Kia to supply PV5 to DHL Korea from 2026

Kia to supply PV5 to DHL Korea from 2026

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, said on Thursday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to supply its purpose-built ...

With Samsung Bespoke AI kitchen, anyone can be a Michelin-star chef

With Samsung Bespoke AI kitchen, anyone can be a Michelin-star chef

Lim Hee-won, a celebrity chef who appeared on Netflix’s cooking competition show Culinary Class War, made a special trip to a studio in Seoul ...

Activist Palliser Pushes for Change at AI Chip Investor SK Square

Activist Palliser Pushes for Change at AI Chip Investor SK Square

Activist investor Palliser Capital has built a stake in the holding company of highflying artificial-intelligence chip maker SK Hynix Inc. and is pu...

Kia to enter Japanese purpose-built vehicles market

Kia to enter Japanese purpose-built vehicles market

Kia Corp. said on Tuesday that it signed a local sales agreement for purpose-built vehicles (PBVs) with Japan's trading company Sojitz Corp. Under ...

HD Hyundai Electric expands power transformer facility in Alabama

HD Hyundai Electric expands power transformer facility in Alabama

HD Hyundai Electric Co., an energy solution provider under South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai, said on Sunday it completed a 12,690-square-meter st...

Hyundai Mobis unveils airbags for purpose-built vehicles

Hyundai Mobis unveils airbags for purpose-built vehicles

Hyundai Mobis Co., the world’s sixth-largest auto parts maker, on Thursday unveiled the industry’s first airbags for purpose-built vehic...

Hanwha Foodtech opens R&D center in Seongnam

Hanwha Foodtech opens R&D center in Seongnam

Hanwha Foodtech, a subsidiary of Hanwha Hotels & Resorts specializing in food and beverages, announced on Wednesday that it opened a research an...

SeAH to invest $155.3 mn to build special alloy plant in US

SeAH to invest $155.3 mn to build special alloy plant in US

SeAH Group, South Korea’s major steel group said to be a steel supplier to SpaceX, is set to foray deeper into the US, the world’s bigge...

Hyundai’s first full-size electric Genesis GV90 to roll out in late 2025

Hyundai’s first full-size electric Genesis GV90 to roll out in late 2025

The Genesis, Hyundai Motor Co.'s standalone premium brand, will launch its first full-size electric sport utility vehicle, the GV90, late next ...

Samsung wins multi-year built-in kitchen suite orders from Clayton

Samsung wins multi-year built-in kitchen suite orders from Clayton

Samsung Electronics Co. is upping the ante to widen the lead in the US home appliance market with a long-term contract to provide its hyper-connecte...

LG to double global built-in appliance sales to $722 mn

LG to double global built-in appliance sales to $722 mn

MILAN, ITALY – LG Electronics Inc. eyes 1 trillion won ($722 million) in global built-in appliance sales in three years by winning the hearts ...

Samsung, LG look to Europe with AI-powered built-in kitchen appliances

Samsung, LG look to Europe with AI-powered built-in kitchen appliances

MILAN, ITALY – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are big names in the US home appliances market. The two South Korean electronic...

SK Hynix earmarks $91 bn to construct world's largest chip fab

SK Hynix earmarks $91 bn to construct world's largest chip fab

SK Hynix Inc., the global No. 2 memory chipmaker, is slated to invest more than 120 trillion won ($90.7 billion) by 2046 to build the world’s ...

Kia’s volume model EV3 to spearhead its electrification push: CEO

Kia’s volume model EV3 to spearhead its electrification push: CEO

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, said on Friday its upcoming volume electric model EV3 will spearhead the company’s el...

While the World Was Looking Elsewhere, North Korea Became a Bigger Threat

While the World Was Looking Elsewhere, North Korea Became a Bigger Threat

SEOUL—In March 2022, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walked out of a massive hangar wearing a bomber jacket and dark sunglasses. He pointed to t...

Daewoong Pharmaceutical digitizes DB of 800 mn chemical compounds

Daewoong Pharmaceutical digitizes DB of 800 mn chemical compounds

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical announced on Monday that it has established a drug development system Daewoong AI System (DAISY) which combine...

Samsung C&T develops new cooling system for data centers

Samsung C&T develops new cooling system for data centers

Samsung C&T Corp. announced on Wednesday that it collaborated with the domestic cooling system tech company DataBean to develop and commercializ...

Samsung C&T-UEM completes world's 2nd-tallest skyscraper in Malaysia

Samsung C&T-UEM completes world's 2nd-tallest skyscraper in Malaysia

South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corp. announced on Thursday that its JV with UEM Construction completed the construction of the world's second t...

Kia to launch mid-sized purpose-built vehicle PV5 in 2025

Kia to launch mid-sized purpose-built vehicle PV5 in 2025

Kia Corp., the No. 2 automaker in South Korea, is set to launch its first mid-sized purpose-built vehicle model (PBV) in 2025 and start a customized...

Korea's NPS taps Jun Ahn as real estate investment head

Korea's NPS taps Jun Ahn as real estate investment head

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, appointed Jun Ahn (Ahn Jun-sang) as its real estate inv...

SeAH Wind bags $1.1 bn wind turbine monopile order in UK

SeAH Wind bags $1.1 bn wind turbine monopile order in UK

South Korean steelmaker SeAH Steel Holdings Corp. said on Thursday its UK subsidiary SeAH Wind Ltd. has won a £900 million ($1.1 billion) orde...

POSCO completes construction of Korea’s 1st lithium hydroxide plant

POSCO completes construction of Korea’s 1st lithium hydroxide plant

POSCO Holdings Inc., the investment and holding company of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO, said on Wednesday it has completed the constructio...

Hyundai breaks ground on $1.5 bn EV plant in S.Korea

Hyundai breaks ground on $1.5 bn EV plant in S.Korea

ULSAN -- Hyundai Motor Co., the world’s third-largest automaker along with its affiliate Kia Corp., on Monday broke ground for a dedicated ele...

LG to open Kitchen Trip in 100 accommodations in S.Korea

LG to open Kitchen Trip in 100 accommodations in S.Korea

LG Electronics Inc. said on Monday it will start the LG Kitchen Trip, the event of its home appliances for customer experience in 100 tourist spor...

Polestar 4 EV to be built at Renault’s Korean plant from 2025

Polestar 4 EV to be built at Renault’s Korean plant from 2025

Swedish electric vehicle maker Polestar will build its upcoming Polestar 4 SUV coupe at Renault Group’s manufacturing plant in South Korea fro...

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