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...

Meritz leaps to No. 2 financial holding firm in South Korea

Meritz leaps to No. 2 financial holding firm in South Korea

Meritz Financial Group Inc., once a medium-sized financial service firm in South Korea, has become the second-most valuable publicly traded financia...

Bering Lab eyes 7-fold jump in revenue in 5 years

Bering Lab eyes 7-fold jump in revenue in 5 years

Bering Lab Inc., a South Korea-based artificial intelligence technology-powered translation startup with specialties in legal, financial and intelle...

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition: slimmest, lightest of its kind

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition: slimmest, lightest of its kind

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Monday it is unveiling the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition (SE) — the thinnest and lightest among the company&rs...

Samsung, Trek Bicycle launch Ultra Riding Challenge

Samsung, Trek Bicycle launch Ultra Riding Challenge

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday that it launched the Ultra Riding Challenge in collaboration with global bicycle brand Trek Bicycle, offerin...

Samsung Galaxy Z foldable's pre-sales soars 40% rise in India

Samsung Galaxy Z foldable's pre-sales soars 40% rise in India

Samsung Electronics Co.'s latest foldable phones showed strong sales potential in India, the world's most populous country, with pre-sales for the G...

The Nature Holdings goes after green fashion with Brompton

The Nature Holdings goes after green fashion with Brompton

Brompton Bicycle will pursue a greener world with sustainable clothing that is stylish but durable alongside its Korean partner The Nature Holdings ...

CJ CheilJedang’s frozen rice sales surpass $74 mn in US

CJ CheilJedang’s frozen rice sales surpass $74 mn in US

South Korean food company CJ CheilJedang Corp. announced on Monday the cumulative sales of its frozen rice products produced and sold in the United ...

SK Telecom rolls out super-fast 400 Gbps 5G wired network

SK Telecom rolls out super-fast 400 Gbps 5G wired network

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. on Tuesday announced a national first through its 400 gigabit per second (Gbps) high-capacity wired network used ...

Samsung to develop Galaxy Fold, Flip-customized games

Samsung to develop Galaxy Fold, Flip-customized games

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker by volume, is developing mobile games customized to its Galaxy Fold and Flip series ...

POSCO Future M aims to raise profit 20-fold by 2030

POSCO Future M aims to raise profit 20-fold by 2030

POSCO Future M Co., South Korea’s electric vehicle battery materials maker, aims to raise its profit by about 20 times and sales over tenfold ...

Preorders for new Galaxy foldable smartphones exceed 1 million

Preorders for new Galaxy foldable smartphones exceed 1 million

The Samsung Electronics Co. foldable Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5 could be the next big thing on the smartphone market.The company on Tuesday said it ...

Bullet maker Poongsan chief Ryu’s new role: Korea’s top business lobbyist

Bullet maker Poongsan chief Ryu’s new role: Korea’s top business lobbyist

  Jin Roy Ryu, chairman of South Korea’s leading copper smelter and defense equipment maker Poongsan Corp., has been chosen to lead the ...

Super-large screens account for one third of Samsung’s TV sales

Super-large screens account for one third of Samsung’s TV sales

Samsung Electronics Co. announced that one out of every three of its Neo QLED and QLED TVs sold in South Korea between January and July this year fe...

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5: Don’t bother to open it!

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5: Don’t bother to open it!

The Galaxy Z Flip 5, the fifth generation of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip smartphones, makes a clear distinction from its predecessors: enabling users ...

Samsung unpacks Galaxy Z Flip 5, Fold 5 foldables

Samsung unpacks Galaxy Z Flip 5, Fold 5 foldables

Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday unveiled the newest edition to its Galaxy Z foldable series – Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Fold 5 – designed...

Samsung improves 4 nm foundry yields, on par with TSMC: analyst

Samsung improves 4 nm foundry yields, on par with TSMC: analyst

Samsung Electronics Co. has improved its chip foundry manufacturing yield for the 4-nanometer node to the level shown by its archrival Taiwan Semico...

S.Korean firms' rights issues swell 10-fold in June

S.Korean firms' rights issues swell 10-fold in June

An increasing number of South Korean companies are bumping up new share sales in search of cheaper funds. A total of 10 companies listed on the Kosp...

Samsung Electronics makes 17-fold gains from investment in ASML

Samsung Electronics makes 17-fold gains from investment in ASML

Slightly more than a decade ago, ASML Holding N.V. had to reach out to its customers such as Samsung Electronics Co., Intel Corp. and Taiwan Semicon...

LG Electronics to release monitor that folds neatly in bag

LG Electronics to release monitor that folds neatly in bag

LG Electronics Inc. on Wednesday will release the portable screen and stand StanbyME Go, which targets the growing ranks of South Korea's campers as...

Samsung to unveil new foldables in July to boost Q3 profit

Samsung to unveil new foldables in July to boost Q3 profit

Samsung Electronics Co. is set to unveil fifth-generation of its foldable smartphones at the end of July, about two weeks earlier than it had showca...

Number of travelers on S.Korea's LCCs jumped 104-fold in Q1

Number of travelers on S.Korea's LCCs jumped 104-fold in Q1

Demand for overseas flights in South Korea has exploded since the resumption of air travel operations amid the substantial easing of COVID-19 restri...

Mirae Asset sees 100-fold jump in deposits 15 years after entering India

Mirae Asset sees 100-fold jump in deposits 15 years after entering India

South Korea's Mirae Asset Global Investments on Wednesday marked the 15th anniversary of its incorporated company in India that now has 21 trillion ...

Vietnam emerges as South Korea's No. 3 trading partner

Vietnam emerges as South Korea's No. 3 trading partner

Vietnam will finish this year as South Korea's No. 3 trading partner and the country with which the latter has the largest trade surplus, a study ha...

Samsung Elec's green heat pump takes energy-starved Europe by storm

Samsung Elec's green heat pump takes energy-starved Europe by storm

Samsung Electronics on Monday said its heat pump Eco Heating System (EHS), a green heating and cooling system, has seen explosive sales growth on th...

S.Korea in for longest monthly trade deficit spell in 25 yrs

S.Korea in for longest monthly trade deficit spell in 25 yrs

South Korea is poised to report a trade deficit for a sixth straight month in September, which would mark its longest period of trade shortfalls in ...

Korean micromobility startup Swing launches biz in Japan

Korean micromobility startup Swing launches biz in Japan

South Korea’s shared micromobility startup The Swing Co. is making inroads in Japan, becoming the first domestic service provider in the secto...

Korean biotech firms fold COVID-19 therapeutics development businesses

Korean biotech firms fold COVID-19 therapeutics development businesses

A string of South Korean pharmaceutical and biotech companies are waving the white flag when it comes to developing COVID-19 treatments. As the...

Foreigners’ Korean stockholdings soar 180-fold in 30 years

Foreigners’ Korean stockholdings soar 180-fold in 30 years

Foreign investors ramped up their holdings of South Korean stocks 180 times in 30 years, increasing influence in the local financial markets and dom...

SK Biopharm releases epilepsy treatment in UK

SK Biopharm releases epilepsy treatment in UK

South Korean SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. launched its epilepsy treatment Cenobamate in the UK, rapidly expanding the company’s presence in Europ...

Kakao Pay backs out of acquisition deal for SSG Pay, Smile Pay Hanwha in talks to buy five-star hotel Paraspara Seoul Kia's Lego-like PV5 with 16 variants to hit market in July Stray Kids make K-pop history with landmark stadium show in Germany S.Korea’s most prominent business leader returns with all charges cleared