Korea Investment & Securities, UBP seek private banking partnership

Korea Investment & Securities, UBP seek private banking partnership

Korea Investment & Securities Co. (KIS), a unit of Korea Investment Holdings Co., said on Thursday it has discussed a strategic partnership with...

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...

LG Group executives to meet with Honda CEO to explore partnership

LG Group executives to meet with Honda CEO to explore partnership

LG Group is accelerating its efforts to build a partnership with Honda Motor Co. as South Korea's fourth-largest conglomerate beefs up its automotiv...

NPS, Scape acquire Aussie senior living operator Aveo from Brookfield

NPS, Scape acquire Aussie senior living operator Aveo from Brookfield

South Korea’s state-run pension fund, the National Pension Service (NPS), has partnered with Australia’s student housing specialist Scap...

Lockheed Martin, KAI to expand partnership to future defense, aerospace tech

Lockheed Martin, KAI to expand partnership to future defense, aerospace tech

Global defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp. and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) on Tuesday agreed to expand their collaboration into futur...

LG CNS forms strategic partnership with robotics startup Skild AI

LG CNS forms strategic partnership with robotics startup Skild AI

LG CNS Co., the information technology service arm of LG Group, said on Tuesday it has formed a strategic partnership with Skild AI to develop AI-dr...

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...

Korea’s KT signs $95 million AI partnership with Vietnam’s Viettel Group

Korea’s KT signs $95 million AI partnership with Vietnam’s Viettel Group

South Korea’s leading telecommunications service provider KT Corp. said on Tuesday it has signed a 130 billion won ($95 million) strategic par...

OpenAI sets up entity in Korea with most paid ChatGPT users outside US

OpenAI sets up entity in Korea with most paid ChatGPT users outside US

OpenAI Inc., the creator of generative AI ChatGPT, has established a legal entity in South Korea, which has the largest number of paying ChatGPT sub...

UK chip testing device maker TeraView seeks Kosdaq debut

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...

Lotte to retake $269 mn stake in logistics arm after flopped IPO

Lotte to retake $269 mn stake in logistics arm after flopped IPO

Lotte Group, South Korea’s fifth-largest conglomerate by assets, will buy back a stake in Lotte Global Logistics Co. from the latter’s f...

JD.com opens Korean logistics centers, preluding C-commerce invasion

JD.com opens Korean logistics centers, preluding C-commerce invasion

JD.com, often dubbed China’s answer to Amazon.com, has opened its own logistics centers in South Korea, becoming the first Chinese e-commerce ...

Dongwon Industries to delist wholly owned Dongwon F&B

Dongwon Industries to delist wholly owned Dongwon F&B

Dongwon Industries Co., the holding company of South Korea’s seafood-to-logistics Dongwon Group, will delist its canned tuna-manufacturing sub...

Mirae, Koramco, Hana shortlisted for Korea Post’s core real estate fund

Mirae, Koramco, Hana shortlisted for Korea Post’s core real estate fund

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., Koramco REITs Management and Trust Co. and Hana Alternative Asset Management Co. were shortlisted for the mandat...

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 ...

HD Hyundai Heavy, HII team up for naval shipbuilding

HD Hyundai Heavy, HII team up for naval shipbuilding

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. (HD HHI) and US naval shipbuilding leader Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) have agreed to join hands to buil...

Korea’s KG Mobility teams up with Chery to develop mid to large SUVs

Korea’s KG Mobility teams up with Chery to develop mid to large SUVs

KG Mobility Corp., a South Korean automaker specializing in sport utility vehicles, said on Wednesday it joined hands with China’s fourth-larg...

Warburg Pincus-Wide Creek Asset JV picks up 2nd Korean logistics asset

Warburg Pincus-Wide Creek Asset JV picks up 2nd Korean logistics asset

US private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC and South Korean real estate manager Wide Creek Asset Management Co. are building a logistics center for l...

Samsung Chairman Lee meets with Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun for partnership

Samsung Chairman Lee meets with Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun for partnership

BEIJING – Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong has met with Xiaomi Inc. Chief Executive Lei Jun in the Chinese capital, raising specu...

LX Pantos acquires logistics center near Atlanta for $120 mn

LX Pantos acquires logistics center near Atlanta for $120 mn

LX Pantos Co., a logistics arm of LX International Corp., announced on Tuesday it has acquired a logistics center near Atlanta in Dalton, Georgia fo...

Lotte aims to take Lotte Global Logistics public by end-June

Lotte aims to take Lotte Global Logistics public by end-June

Lotte Group, grappling with a prolonged downturn in the petrochemical industry, plans to take Lotte Global Logistics Co. public by the end of June a...

SK Telecom to secure stake in IonQ, forges quantum partnership

SK Telecom to secure stake in IonQ, forges quantum partnership

South Korea’s largest telecom company SK Telecom Co. will acquire about a 3% stake in IonQ Inc., the world’s first publicly traded quant...

Korea Investment & Securities aims to be Asia's top securities firm

Korea Investment & Securities aims to be Asia's top securities firm

Korea Investment & Securities Co. will step up its asset management business by launching innovative global investment products, aiming to surpa...

Korean tractor maker Daedong ends two-decade partnership with Deere

Korean tractor maker Daedong ends two-decade partnership with Deere

Daedong Corp., South Korea’s leading tractor and farm machinery maker, has ended its two-decade-long partnership with Deere & Co., the wor...

LG, SNU team up to develop AI modeling for protein structure predictions

LG, SNU team up to develop AI modeling for protein structure predictions

LG AI Research Institute, the artificial intelligence think-tank of LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-biggest conglomerate, on Thursday signed a ...

LX Pantos enters US intermodal logistics market with Japan’s ONE

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...

Korea’s beauty retailer CJ Olive Young to open first US offline outlet

Korea’s beauty retailer CJ Olive Young to open first US offline outlet

CJ Olive Young Corp., South Korea’s top beauty store chain, said on Tuesday it has set up a US business entity in Los Angeles to enhance its p...

Kakao set to announce AI partnership with OpenAI

Kakao set to announce AI partnership with OpenAI

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s dominant mobile platform, is expected to unveil a business partnership with OpenAI to incorporate the technology of...

Allsale, K-beauty's leading ambassador to the US

Allsale, K-beauty's leading ambassador to the US

Allsale Corporation, a South Korean startup operating an influencer marketing platform, is in talks with investors to further support Korean cosmeti...

LG CNS, Bear Robotics to co-develop autonomous robots

LG CNS, Bear Robotics to co-develop autonomous robots

LG CNS Co., a South Korean information technology service company, said on Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Bear Robotics...

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