Mercedes opens world’s 1st Maybach flagship center in Seoul
Mercedes-Benz Group on Monday opened the world’s first Maybach Brand Center in Seoul, its largest-ever dealership dedicated to the ultra-luxur...
Rap icon Cardi B joins K-beauty’s celebrity fan club with BB cream
Cardi B, the Grammy-winning rapper, has joined the growing list of celebrities spotlighting Korean beauty products, fueling a new wave of global ent...
Allianz-backed Koh Young’s brain surgery robot set for US debut by end-August
Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean developer of 3D optical inspection devices used in electronics manufacturing, is set to install its brain ...
Netmarble to debut new games with fresh IPs, platforms in second half
Netmarble Corp. is gearing up for a strong year-end with plans to launch at least six more new games, powered by original intellectual properties, a...
Mirae Asset debuts AI-recommended ETF on NYSE to invest in US bonds
Mirae Asset Financial Group, one of the largest asset managers in South Korea, has launched its first exchange-traded fund (ETF) investing in high-q...
Genesis targets broader European presence with EV trio
Genesis, Hyundai Motor Co.'s premium brand, is expanding its European footprint to four additional countries –France, Spain, Italy and the Net...
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, ...
UK chip testing device maker TeraView seeks Kosdaq debut
TeraView Ltd., a UK semiconductor inspection device maker, is aiming to list on South Korea’s Kosdaq market in the second half of this year, i...
Hong Kong to list world’s 1st Samsung single-stock leveraged ETF
A pair of leveraged exchange-traded funds tracking only Samsung Electronics Co. will make a debut on the stock exchange in Hong Kong next week, whic...
LG Electronics set for early-May Indian stock market debut
LG Electronics Inc. is set to list its wholly owned subsidiary in India on the country's stock exchange in early May, aiming to raise up to $1.5 bil...
Netmarble gets tailwind from new titles, BTS comeback
Netmarble Corp., a leading South Korean gaming company, expects to gain new growth momentum from the launch of nine new titles and the anticipated f...
MicroDigital's Disco Pang Pang-inspired bioreactors debut in US
MicroDigital Co., a bio-instrument and diagnostic kit manufacturer, is set to launch single-use bioreactors in the US, marking the first shipment of...
Korea’s Nextrade stock exchange debuts; YG Entertainment tops 1st day
South Korea’s first alternative stock exchange Nextrade (NXT) started trading on Tuesday, challenging the Korea Exchange’s (KRX) long-st...
S.Korea’s Hanwha eyes L-SAM exports with UAE’s EDGE
Hanwha Group’s Vice Chairman and heir apparent Kim Dong-kwan is on the front line to export South Korea's latest homegrown air defense system ...
South Korean IPO market headed into winter after pitiful LG CNS debut
Companies in South Korea are expected to refrain from seeking initial public offerings for a while after the country’s much-anticipated new bl...
Celltrion seeks large-scale M&A in Q4, eyes 2027 Nasdaq debut
SAN FRANCISCO – South Korea’s leading biosimilar drug developer Celltrion Inc. seeks to acquire a domestic health food maker as early as...
Korean entertainment powerhouse K Wave Media to debut on Nasdaq in Feb
K Wave Media Ltd., an umbrella entity of South Korean entertainment companies, is set to go public on the Nasdaq next month in a bid to raise money ...
SM's UK K-pop group Dear Alice to debut with Gamma
South Korea's SM Entertainment Co. partnered with the US-based music label "Gamma." to globally debut its first British K-Pop boy group Dear Alice.A...
BYD to debut passenger EVs in South Korea in 2025
China’s electric vehicle giant BYD Co. will debut in the South Korean passenger car market next year with premium models in hopes of becoming ...
South Korea’s Viva Republica drops Korean IPO plan, seeks US debut
Viva Republica Inc., a leading South Korean fintech unicorn and operator of mobile financial super app Toss, has dropped its plan to go public in th...
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...
Blackpink Rosé’s APT. debuts at No. 8 on Billboard Hot 100
Blackpink Rosé's single APT. has debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, according to the music magazine Billboard on Tuesday.With the tit...
Hyundai Motor debuts on Indian bourses in its 1st offshore IPO
MUMBAI -- Hyundai Motor Co.'s Indian unit debuted on India's stock market on Tuesday as the South Korean carmaker bets big on the South Asian countr...
NCSoft’s MMORPG Throne and Liberty makes global debut
NCSoft Corp., a South Korean gaming company, launched the global version of its new massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) 'Throne ...
Yuhan’s lung cancer drug clears FDA hurdle for global debut
A new lung cancer treatment developed by South Korea’s Yuhan Corp. has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a co...
Hyundai eyes Japan’s commercial EV market in e-bus deal with Iwasaki
South Korean top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said on Tuesday it is supplying its all-electric Elec City Town buses to Iwasaki Group, effectively ent...
Lotte Home Shopping's Bellygom debuts in Taiwan, Japan
South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Wednesday that its character Bellygom will enter the Taiwanese and Japanese content market,following ...
NPS overweight in beauty, food; chases APR, Samwha higher
The National Pension Service (NPS) has raised its bets on South Korean beauty and food companies in the second quarter of this year on expectations ...
Korean IPO boom sets record; bubbles burst post debut
South Korea’s initial public offerings in the first half of this year were oversubscribed 1,610 times, the highest-ever rate for a half-year p...
PhyxUp closes in on pre-seed round with US advance
PhyxUp Health Inc., an early stage South Korean digital healthcare startup, will soon close a pre-seed funding round, said its founder and chief, wh...
