Asian manufacturing activity stumbles again under weight of Trump tariffs
Factory activity slowed across much of Asia in May as uncertainty over U.S. tariffs continued to cause steep declines in new orders, purchasing ma...
HD KSOE secures $1.8 bn in container ship orders
HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE) secured orders for 22 container ships worth a total of 2.54 trillion won ($1.8 billion) ...
China bans export of Korean goods containing its rare earth metals to US
The Chinese government has warned South Korean companies of retributions for exporting any product containing its critical metals to US military con...
Ritz-Carlton to return to Seoul, tapped by IGIS Asset for landmark project
IGIS Asset Management Co., South Korea’s leading real estate investment firm, has named The Ritz-Carlton the preferred hotel brand for its amb...
Packaging rides K-beauty wave: Shares of cosmetics container makers soar
As South Korea’s independent beauty brands continue to take the global stage by storm, investors are now looking beyond the creams and serums ...
HD Hyundai on course for $1.55 bn order amid US-China trade war
HD Hyundai Co., the world’s largest shipbuilding group, is emerging as a key beneficiary of the Trump administration’s tariff policies a...
Daol PE buys Youngil Glass to ride Korean cosmetics boom
Daol Private Equity has acquired Youngil Glass Industry Co., a South Korean manufacturer of glass containers, in a 65 billion won ($44.5 million) de...
Hanwha wins $1.6 billion order to build 6 container ships for Evergreen
Hanwha Ocean Co., a leading South Korean shipbuilder, said on Monday it has won a 2.33 trillion won ($1.61 billion) order to build six eco-friendly,...
LX Pantos enters US intermodal logistics market with Japan’s ONE
LX Pantos Co., South Korea’s largest logistics company under LX International Corp., has advanced into the US intermodal logistics market join...
HD KSOE wins $2.6 bn order for 12 container ships
South Korea’s largest shipbuilder HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) said on Thursday it got 3.716 trillion won ...
Doosan Enerbility to supply TerraPower's SMR equipment
South Korea's Doosan Enerbility Co. said on Thursday it signed a contract with TerraPower to supply the equipments for small modular reactor (SMR).T...
LX Pantos IPO delayed as Mirae Asset sells stake
South Korea’s leading brokerage firm Mirae Asset Securities Co. is poised to sell its stake in LX Pantos Co., adding to expectations of more d...
Big Mobility, Hummingbirds win Chung Ju-yung Startup Competition
The Asan Nanum Foundation selected Big Mobility and Hummingbirds as the top winners of the 13th Chung Ju-yung Startup Competition demo day on Novemb...
Hyundai Motor completes mobile hydrogen charging station in Jeju
Hyundai Motor Co. said on Monday that it completed the H Jeju Moving Station, a mobile hydrogen charging facility, at the Carbon-Free Island (CFI) E...
SK Telecom upgrades 5G base stations with Samsung
South Korea's SK Telecom Co. said on Monday that it partnered with Samsung Electronics Co. to apply artificial intelligence (AI)-based quality opt...
Mirae Asset Securities introduces AI assistant platform for its employees
South Korea's Mirae Asset Securities said on Friday that it introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant platform to enhance company-wide op...
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...
CJ CheilJedang launches protein snack O-right Tempeh Chips in Thailand
CJ CheilJedang Corp. accelerates its business expansion in Thailand with a new protein snack.CJ CheilJedang announced on Monday that it has launched...
Hanwha to bag up to $2.2 bn container ship order from Maersk
Hanwha Ocean Co., South Korea’s third-largest shipbuilder, is expected to win its first container ship order from the world’s No. 2 ship...
Kookmin to tighten loan limits to cool housing market
Kookmin Bank, South Korea’s largest lender under KB Financial Group, will tighten lending to curb mortgage loan growth in line with the govern...
KOGAS executes first simultaneous LNG bunkering in Korea
South Korea's state-run Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS) said on Friday that its subsidiary, Korea LNG Bunkering, successfully carried out the country’...
Korean shipbuilders in talks for $3.3 bn Qatar LNG tanker deals
South Korean shipbuilders are in talks with Qatari state companies for an estimated $3.3 billion in deals to manufacture additional liquefied natura...
SK Chemicals, Kooksoondang to develop CR-PET container
South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. and South Korean traditional rice-based wine brewery Kooksoondang Co. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on T...
HMM opens Shanghai-Mexico container route
South Korea's HMM Co. announced on Monday that it launched a new Far East Latin America Express (FLX) container service bound for Mexico.The service...
Hyundai Motor speeds up hydrogen bus charging business in Korea
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. is set to become the largest shareholder of a local hydrogen-powered-vehicle charging station operator to boos...
HMM starts to demonstrate OCCS for vessles
South Korea's HMM Co. announced on Tuesday that it installed and initiated a demonstration of the Onboard Carbon Capture and Storage System (OCCS) f...
Hyundai Motor to restore forest ecosystem
Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Restoration Project with...
Affinity fails in Lock&Lock tender offer; eyes equity swap
Hong Kong-based Affinity Equity Partners is planning for an equity swap between its new entity and South Korean food container maker Lock&Lock...
Samsung SDS taps generative AI to counter logistics risks
Samsung SDS Co., the information technology service unit under Samsung Group, actively incorporates generative artificial intelligence and machine...
Affinity extends tender offer for food container maker Lock&Lock
Hong Kong-based Affinity Equity Partners is set to extend its tender offer for South Korean food container maker Lock&Lock Co. shares, as the pr...
