Hyundai Motor’s high-stakes gambit in US: Cut vehicle prices as rivals hike theirs

Hyundai Motor’s high-stakes gambit in US: Cut vehicle prices as rivals hike theirs

As global automakers raise prices in the US market to respond to new Washington import tariffs, South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group is taking th...

Hyundai Glovis charts new waters with world’s first AI-driven self-sailing car carrier fleet

Hyundai Glovis charts new waters with world’s first AI-driven self-sailing car carrier fleet

South Korea’s Hyundai Glovis Co. is poised to become the world’s first shipping company to deploy artificial intelligence-based autonomo...

Hyundai premieres IONIQ 6 N: Latest motorsport DNA for electric age

Hyundai premieres IONIQ 6 N: Latest motorsport DNA for electric age

In a dramatic showing on the famed hill climb of West Sussex, Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday debuted the IONIQ 6 N, its second high-performance elect...

HD Hyundai, India’s Cochin Shipyard to pursue joint shipbuilding orders

HD Hyundai, India’s Cochin Shipyard to pursue joint shipbuilding orders

HD Hyundai Co., the world’s largest shipbuilding group based in South Korea, has signed a memorandum of understanding with India’s large...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ plan to build plant in Mexico shelved amid Trump tariffs

Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ plan to build plant in Mexico shelved amid Trump tariffs

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, has abandoned plans to build a new manufacturing plant in Mexico and ...

Korean commercial act revision to drive reevaluation of equities: J.P. Morgan

Korean commercial act revision to drive reevaluation of equities: J.P. Morgan

J.P. Morgan, a leading US investment bank, has thrown its weight behind South Korea’s landmark commercial act revision, saying that the new go...

Hyundai Rotem seals record $6.5 bn K2 tank deal with Poland

Hyundai Rotem seals record $6.5 bn K2 tank deal with Poland

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean defense system developer, will export its battle tanks to Poland in what would be the largest single export deal f...

Goldman Sachs acquires Mercure Ambassador: 1st stint with Korean hotels

Goldman Sachs acquires Mercure Ambassador: 1st stint with Korean hotels

Goldman Sachs, in partnership with JB Asset Management Co., has acquired Mercure Ambassador Seoul Hongdae, a prominent mixed-use commercial property...

Hyundai helps Korean economy most with $265 bn contribution

Hyundai helps Korean economy most with $265 bn contribution

Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-biggest automaker, generated the most economic value among major South Korean conglomerates last year, ...

S.Korean game developer Krafton acquires Japan’s ADK for $517 million

S.Korean game developer Krafton acquires Japan’s ADK for $517 million

Krafton Inc., a major South Korean game publisher, has acquired Japan's leading advertising and animation group ADK for 75 billion yen ($517 million...

S.Korea’s Lee, Japan’s Ishiba agree to deepen ties, resume shuttle diplomacy

S.Korea’s Lee, Japan’s Ishiba agree to deepen ties, resume shuttle diplomacy

KANANASKIS, Canada – South Korea’s newly elected President Lee Jae-myung held his first summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishi...

S.Korea’s power transformer exports soar as global supply shortage bites

S.Korea’s power transformer exports soar as global supply shortage bites

South Korean power equipment makers are riding a wave of export growth, with their transformers in high demand amid a global rush to reinforce power...

Genesis targets broader European presence with EV trio

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...

Hyundai Motor-backed Motional names AI veteran Laura Major as CEO

Hyundai Motor-backed Motional names AI veteran Laura Major as CEO

Motional Inc., the autonomous driving joint venture backed by Hyundai Motor Group, has appointed Laura Major, an artificial intelligence and robotic...

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...

Lotte Chemical, HD Hyundai seek to combine naphtha cracking facilities

Lotte Chemical, HD Hyundai seek to combine naphtha cracking facilities

Lotte Chemical Corp. and HD Hyundai Co. are in talks to consolidate their naphtha cracking operations in South Korea’s Daesan petrochemical co...

Hyundai Rotem set to finalize $6 bn K2 tank order from Poland

Hyundai Rotem set to finalize $6 bn K2 tank order from Poland

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean defense company, is set to finalize a tank supply contract with Poland, with the deal's value nearly doubling &nda...

Hyundai Motor Group dominates US Best Cars for Teens awards

Hyundai Motor Group dominates US Best Cars for Teens awards

Hyundai Motor Group has claimed seven out of 12 categories in US News & World Report’s Best Cars for Teens for 2025 awards, marking its fo...

Hanwha Ocean to team up with Polish shipyards for Navy project bid

Hanwha Ocean to team up with Polish shipyards for Navy project bid

Hanwha Ocean Co. is ramping up efforts to win Poland's highly competitive next-generation submarine project, worth around 3 trillion won ($2.2 billi...

HD Hyundai Group joins S.Korea’s 100 trillion won market cap club

HD Hyundai Group joins S.Korea’s 100 trillion won market cap club

South Korean shipbuilding conglomerate HD Hyundai Group has joined South Korea’s elite club of conglomerates with a market capitalization exce...

KKR sells 9.5% stake in HD Hyundai Marine, recoups $450 million

KKR sells 9.5% stake in HD Hyundai Marine, recoups $450 million

Global private equity firm KKR & Co. Inc., formerly known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., has sold a 9.5% stake in HD Hyundai Marine Solut...

Hyundai Rotem lands $301 mn Taiwan driverless train deal

Hyundai Rotem lands $301 mn Taiwan driverless train deal

Hyundai Rotem Co. has won a 420 billion won ($301 million) order to build autonomous electric trains for Taiwan’s Taichung Metro, adding to a ...

Hyundai Motor, PIF break ground on Saudi Arabia plant

Hyundai Motor, PIF break ground on Saudi Arabia plant

Hyundai Motor Co. has joined forces with the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, to build its first manufactur...

BYD’s Atto 3 overtakes Tesla’s Model Y as best-selling EV in South Korea

BYD’s Atto 3 overtakes Tesla’s Model Y as best-selling EV in South Korea

China’s BYD Co. has dethroned Tesla Inc. in South Korea with its compact sport utility vehicle, the BYD Atto 3, becoming the best-selling impo...

CJ CheilJedang to open $72 million dumpling plant in Japan

CJ CheilJedang to open $72 million dumpling plant in Japan

South Korea’s largest food company, CJ CheilJedang Corp., is shifting into high gear in its global expansion with a 100 billion won ($72 milli...

BMW surpasses Mercedes in Korean sales for 1st time in 10 years

BMW surpasses Mercedes in Korean sales for 1st time in 10 years

The top five imported car brands in South Korea underwent a major shake-up last year. BMW overtook Mercedes-Benz in sales for the first time in a de...

Seoul mulls joint review of Alaska LNG project with Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam

Seoul mulls joint review of Alaska LNG project with Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam

South Korea has proposed forming a consortium with Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam to jointly assess the feasibility of investing in the $45 billion Alask...

SK On seals $2.8 bn battery deal with Bezos-backed US EV start-up Slate

SK On seals $2.8 bn battery deal with Bezos-backed US EV start-up Slate

SK On Co., the battery subsidiary of South Korea’s energy conglomerate SK Group, has signed a supply agreement worth an estimated 4 trillion w...

Kyobo Life poised to buy Japan’s SBI Group-owned savings bank

Kyobo Life poised to buy Japan’s SBI Group-owned savings bank

Kyobo Life Insurance Co. is in the final stages of negotiation with Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc. to buy about a 50% stake in SBI Savin...

Hyundai Motor posts solid Q1; rough road ahead on Trump's auto tariffs

Hyundai Motor posts solid Q1; rough road ahead on Trump's auto tariffs

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. defied mounting global trade headwinds and a fresh round of US import tariffs to deliver record ...

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