Now, slim is in – and Samsung aims to be No. 1 with Galaxy S25 Edge

Now, slim is in – and Samsung aims to be No. 1 with Galaxy S25 Edge

With the advent of mobile AI, the performance arms race among smartphone makers is reaching diminishing returns, as some market analysts put it.The ...

Celltrion wins Australian approval for eye, bone disease biosimilars

Celltrion wins Australian approval for eye, bone disease biosimilars

Celltrion Inc. said Wednesday it has received regulatory approval from Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) for three biosimilar...

Mirae Asset prepares bitcoin covered call ETF launch: chairman

Mirae Asset prepares bitcoin covered call ETF launch: chairman

Mirae Asset Financial Group is preparing to launch a bitcoin covered call exchange traded fund (ETF) for global investors to foray into the cryptocu...

Real estate debt outshines corporate credit: Savills IM

Real estate debt outshines corporate credit: Savills IM

Private credit has been among the top picks for alternative investors over the past few years. During the period of high interest rates, corporate l...

SPC Samlip to export ggultteok in H1 2025

SPC Samlip to export ggultteok in H1 2025

SPC Samlip Corp., a subsidiary of South Korea’s food and bakery giant SPC Group, said on Monday that its rice cake franchise Bizeun developed ...

Samyang Foods Buldak Topokki enters Walmart in US

Samyang Foods Buldak Topokki enters Walmart in US

South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. said on Monday its Buldak Topokki entered Walmart stores in the US.Available in Original and Carbo (carbonara) fla...

Hana Financial’s Hana The Next: New financial services tailored for seniors

Hana Financial’s Hana The Next: New financial services tailored for seniors

As South Korea’s baby boomers, the demographic cohort born between 1955 and 1963, are reaching retirement age, financial institutions are reac...

KB Kookmin Bank issues €500 mn in covered bonds

KB Kookmin Bank issues €500 mn in covered bonds

South Korea's KB Kookmin Bank said on Tuesday that it issued €500 million ($545 million) in global covered bonds the previous day.Covered bonds...

Celltrion's Zymfentra joins US insurance-covered drug lists

Celltrion's Zymfentra joins US insurance-covered drug lists

South Korean biosimilar maker Celltrion Inc. said on Monday that its subcutaneous injection formulation for autoimmune diseases, Zymfentra (inflixim...

Struggling Korean retail stores lick Dubai chocolate, Dippin' Dots

Struggling Korean retail stores lick Dubai chocolate, Dippin' Dots

Back in 2022 when the COVID-19 pandemic was rampant, South Korea’s convenience stores (CVs) saw their sales fly high as people dropped by smal...

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...

Mirae Asset's US dividend premium fund surpasses $72 mn in net assets

Mirae Asset's US dividend premium fund surpasses $72 mn in net assets

South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. announced on Tuesday that the net assets of its Mirae Asset US Dividend Premium Fund, which invests...

Samsung gains upper hand vs Netlist in $303 million patent dispute

Samsung gains upper hand vs Netlist in $303 million patent dispute

Samsung Electronics Co. has taken the upper hand in its ongoing legal battle against Netlist Inc. over memory chip module patent infringement allega...

Korean banking groups see record-high loan losses in 2023

Korean banking groups see record-high loan losses in 2023

South Korea’s top four financial services groups – KB, Shinhan, Hana and Woori -- booked 1.97 trillion won ($1.5 billion) of loans as lo...

Innocean establishes social marketing subsidiary

Innocean establishes social marketing subsidiary

Innocean Worldwide Inc., the global marketing communications arm of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Wednesday that it has established its social m...

CJ CheilJedang introduces K-Food in EzyMart across Australia

CJ CheilJedang introduces K-Food in EzyMart across Australia

South Korean food company CJ CheilJedang Corp. on Thursday announced its foray into Australia's convenience store sector by introducing its popular ...

POSCO Int'l, NongHyup to team up for feed supply chain

POSCO Int'l, NongHyup to team up for feed supply chain

South Korea's POSCO International Corp. announced on Tuesday that it will collaborate with the largest domestic feed company NongHyup Feed to stabil...

Lotte Wellfood promotes Pepero Day in New York

Lotte Wellfood promotes Pepero Day in New York

South Korea's Lotte Wellfood Co. announced on Thursday it has started the global campaign for Pepero in the US, the company's iconic chocolate-cover...

S.Korean vaccine developer Quratis eyes Iraqi market

S.Korean vaccine developer Quratis eyes Iraqi market

South Korean vaccine developer Quratis Inc. on Wednesday announced its signing of a term sheet on the direction and major transaction terms of coope...

LG Chem to supply cathode materials to Toyota's N.American plant

LG Chem to supply cathode materials to Toyota's N.American plant

LG Chem Ltd. will supply cathode materials to Toyota Motor's North American battery plant, with the South Korean company concluding its second long-...

Daesang holds kimchi pop-up event in Seoul

Daesang holds kimchi pop-up event in Seoul

South Korean food company Daesang Corp. on Friday said it is holding through Oct. 15 the country’s first kimchi pop-up store “Kimchi Bla...

Doosan Enerbility, KWP to advance power generation tech

Doosan Enerbility, KWP to advance power generation tech

South Korea's heavy industrial company Doosan Enerbility Co. and the government-owned Korea Western Power Co. (KWP) will jointly streamline domestic...

Daesang's spicy rice cake project launches two products

Daesang's spicy rice cake project launches two products

With tteokbokki (spicy rice cake) drawing attention at home and abroad amid a South Korean food craze worldwide, domestic food company Daesang Corp....

Celltrion applies for approval in US for eye treatment biosimilar

Celltrion applies for approval in US for eye treatment biosimilar

South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. on Friday said it applied for approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for CT-P...

Hyundai Motor releases IONIQ 5 N's final teaser

Hyundai Motor releases IONIQ 5 N's final teaser

South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co. released its third and final IONIQ 5 N teaser on Friday.The car is the N brand's first high-performance, ...

CJ CGV seeks more fund from parent, stocks at 15-yr low

CJ CGV seeks more fund from parent, stocks at 15-yr low

Shares of CJ CGV Co., South Korea’s top multiplex cinema chain, hit the lowest level since the 2008-09 global financial crisis on Wednesday as...

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Sumit

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Tierone Corp.

Tierone Corp.

Key facts Industry Injection molding & product development consultancy Mainstay products/services Injection molding with QDM, family...

MBK Partners to buy Belgian chocolate brand Pierre Marcolini

MBK Partners to buy Belgian chocolate brand Pierre Marcolini

Private equity firm MBK Partners is set to acquire Pierre Marcolini, a Belgian chocolate brand called "Hermes of Chocolate."MBK bought the South Kor...

POSCO, Honda to cooperate in EV material business

POSCO, Honda to cooperate in EV material business

South Korea's POSCO Group and Japan's Honda Motor signed a comprehensive memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Tuesday to expand cooperation in the e...

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