Samsung to unveil 1st triple-folding smartphone by year’s end to rival Huawei’s Mate X2 Tri-Fold

Samsung to unveil 1st triple-folding smartphone by year’s end to rival Huawei’s Mate X2 Tri-Fold

NEW YORK – Samsung Electronics Co. plans to release its first triple-folding smartphone by the end of this year to fend off growing competitio...

Hyundai Steel to displace Baoshan as GM Korea's supplier

Hyundai Steel to displace Baoshan as GM Korea's supplier

Hyundai Steel Co. is poised to displace Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. as a key supplier to GM Korea Co., a unit of General Motors Co., as the US carm...

Google partners with Samsung, Gentle Monster for new smart glasses

Google partners with Samsung, Gentle Monster for new smart glasses

SILICON VALLEY – Google LLC is making a renewed push into the smart glasses market in partnership with South Korea’s Samsung Electronics...

LG Electronics poised to extend OLED TV market lead into 2025  

LG Electronics poised to extend OLED TV market lead into 2025  

LG Electronics Inc. is on track to retain its lead in the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV market for the 13th consecutive year, bolstered by ...

Celltrion expands footprint in Latin America with flagship oncology drugs

Celltrion expands footprint in Latin America with flagship oncology drugs

South Korea’s biopharmaceutical giant Celltrion Inc. has solidified its presence in South America after winning supply contracts for its flags...

Samsung, Google to unveil smart glasses next year in deeper AI alliance

Samsung, Google to unveil smart glasses next year in deeper AI alliance

Samsung Electronics Co. and Google LLC are strengthening their long-standing alliance as the artificial intelligence (AI) era redefines the balance ...

Yoon becomes first S.Korean sitting president to be formally arrested

Yoon becomes first S.Korean sitting president to be formally arrested

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has become the country's first sitting president to be arrested on rebellion charges as part of a probe into hi...

Google unveils Android XR platform to launch on Samsung headset

Google unveils Android XR platform to launch on Samsung headset

SILICON VALLEY/SEOUL -- Global tech giant Google LLC on Thursday introduced a new operating system for extended reality (XR) devices to be installed...

LG Energy set to acquire GM’s $1 bn stake in Ultium JV plant in Michigan

LG Energy set to acquire GM’s $1 bn stake in Ultium JV plant in Michigan

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. plans to acquire General Motors Co.’s stake in their battery joint venture plant in Lansing, Michi...

Team Naver unveils digital twin platform in Saudi Arabia

Team Naver unveils digital twin platform in Saudi Arabia

Naver Cloud, the cloud subsidiary of South Korean online giant Naver Corp., said on Friday that Team Naver participated in the Cityscape Global 2024...

Korea’s financial exposure to real estate nearly doubles in 10 years

Korea’s financial exposure to real estate nearly doubles in 10 years

South Korea’s financial exposure to real estate has nearly doubled over the past decade, with lending to households making up about half. The ...

Hyundai Motor cuts 2030 sales goals as EV chasm likely protracted

Hyundai Motor cuts 2030 sales goals as EV chasm likely protracted

South Korean top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has slashed its long-term vehicle sales targets by 6% as it prepares for aggressive marketing by Chines...

HYBE shares fall after NewJeans demand Min's reinstatement

HYBE shares fall after NewJeans demand Min's reinstatement

HYBE Co. has suffered a fall of its share price for two consecutive days after its popular girl group NewJeans demanded their former creative direct...

South Korea to extend export missile range from 300 km to 500 km

South Korea to extend export missile range from 300 km to 500 km

South Korea has decided to extend the range of missiles for export to 500 kilometers from the current 300 km after accepting requests to do so from ...

S.Korean stocks log largest daily loss since pandemic

S.Korean stocks log largest daily loss since pandemic

The South Korean stock market dropped more than 3% on Friday to breach the psychologically important barrier of 2,700 in almost two months, after we...

Naver launches Saudi digital twin project for smart cities

Naver launches Saudi digital twin project for smart cities

South Korean internet giant Naver Corp. and the Saudi Arabian government have started a five-year project to build digital twin platforms for Riyadh...

HD Hyundai Samho expands berthing facilities

HD Hyundai Samho expands berthing facilities

South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Samho Co. has expanded its berthing facilities to meet the growing number of orders for eco-friendly ships.The s...

LG Elec, Tennessee Titans renew sponsorship

LG Elec, Tennessee Titans renew sponsorship

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Tuesday that it renewed a three-year expansion to its official partnership with the Tennessee Titans, an NFL team b...

S.Korea’s consumer goods exports to top $100 bn in 2024: KOTRA

S.Korea’s consumer goods exports to top $100 bn in 2024: KOTRA

South Korea is projected to reap more than $100 billion from selling the country’s consumer goods overseas this year. Exports of such products...

Hankook Tire extends sponsorship of Europa League for 3 years

Hankook Tire extends sponsorship of Europa League for 3 years

Hankook Tire & Technology announced on Tuesday that it extended its official sponsorship contracts with the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa C...

Netmarble leverages existing IPs, M&As to keep growth

Netmarble leverages existing IPs, M&As to keep growth

Expectations are growing high that Netmarble Corp., South Korea’s second-largest game developer and publisher, will extend its growth streak t...

Korean banks broaden horizons to Mexico, Poland, Africa

Korean banks broaden horizons to Mexico, Poland, Africa

South Korean banks are broadening their horizons beyond Asia into Mexico, Poland and Africa in step with Korean manufacturing companies’ globa...

LG ends XR partnership with Meta; Amazon emerges as new partner

LG ends XR partnership with Meta; Amazon emerges as new partner

South Korean tech giant LG Electronics Inc. has ended its extended reality (XR) partnership with Meta Platforms Inc. three months after they agreed ...

Affinity extends tender offer for food container maker Lock&Lock

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...

LG to showcase Google AI-enabled home robots in June

LG to showcase Google AI-enabled home robots in June

LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s top home appliances maker, will unveil home robots featuring Google’s generative artificial intellige...

Korean banking group's Q1 profits drop on ELS sales

Korean banking group's Q1 profits drop on ELS sales

The combined net profit at South Korea’s four largest financial services firms, including KB Financial Group, are estimated to have dropped ne...

Korea’s LG telecom unit unveils AI agent with own technology

Korea’s LG telecom unit unveils AI agent with own technology

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, has introduced an artificial intelligence agent platform based on its own ixi AI technolog...

Meta’s AI, XR push to gain speed with Korea’s support

Meta’s AI, XR push to gain speed with Korea’s support

South Korea is backing Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., in the Facebook operator’s artificial inte...

Zuckerberg to meet LG CEO for XR headset development

Zuckerberg to meet LG CEO for XR headset development

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of US tech giant Meta Platforms Inc., will meet LG Electronics Inc. CEO Cho Joo-wan in Seoul around Feb. 28 to disc...

Samsung spurs XR device business as new cash cow

Samsung spurs XR device business as new cash cow

Samsung Electronics Co. is accelerating extended reality (XR) device development amid intensifying competition with tech behemoths such as Google LL...

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