KPop Demon Hunters OST lands at No.6 on Billboard Hot 100

KPop Demon Hunters OST lands at No.6 on Billboard Hot 100

The original soundtrack Golden from Netflix’s hit animated movie KPop Demon Hunters has made chart history, becoming the first track by a virt...

BOK stands pat; rate cut likely within 3 months as economic growth slows

BOK stands pat; rate cut likely within 3 months as economic growth slows

The Bank of Korea (BOK) left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 2.75% on Thursday, with Governor Rhee Chang-yong warning that a surge in globa...

South Korea’s pension fund NPS risks massive loss from Homeplus fiasco

South Korea’s pension fund NPS risks massive loss from Homeplus fiasco

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the nation’s biggest institutional investor, could lose more than 1 trillion won ($692 mil...

Doosan Bobcat unveils massive corporate value-up plans

Doosan Bobcat unveils massive corporate value-up plans

Doosan Bobcat Inc., a global construction machinery maker owned by South Korea’s Doosan Group, has unveiled massive corporate value-up measure...

K-Pop group ATEEZ tops Billboard 200 for 2nd Time

K-Pop group ATEEZ tops Billboard 200 for 2nd Time

K-pop group ATEEZ  has claimed their second No. 1 spot on Billboard's main album chart, the Billboard 200, with their latest mini-album, Golden...

Blackpink Rosé’s APT. debuts at No. 8 on Billboard Hot 100

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...

LG Electronics releases World Food Day campaign

LG Electronics releases World Food Day campaign

LG Electronics Inc. said on Tuesday that it will display World Food Day on outdoor billboards in Times Square, New York, and Piccadilly Circus, Lond...

Korea’s MeatBox to go public despite other failed grocery platform IPOs

Korea’s MeatBox to go public despite other failed grocery platform IPOs

MeatBox Global Inc., South Korea’s online livestock product sales platform operator, aims for an initial public offering valued at up to 28.5 ...

LG screens World Environment Day campaign in New York, London

LG screens World Environment Day campaign in New York, London

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Monday that it has screend the World Environment Day (June 5) campaign video on its outdoor billboards in New York'...

South Korea finds massive crude oil, gas prospects in East Sea: Yoon

South Korea finds massive crude oil, gas prospects in East Sea: Yoon

South Korea, which heavily relies on imports for its energy use, has found a potentially massive reserve of oil and gas offshore close to its southe...

Kakao Entertainment, Billboard to collaborate for K-pop

Kakao Entertainment, Billboard to collaborate for K-pop

South Korea's Kakao Entertainment Corp., a unit of mobile platform giant Kakao Corp., partnered with the renowned US music magazine Billboard on W...

Billboard to establish subsidiary in S.Korea in June 2024

Billboard to establish subsidiary in S.Korea in June 2024

The globally recognized American music entertainment media brand Billboard, known for its music charts, has announced the launch of its South Korean...

HYBE ranks fifth in global tour revenue in 2023

HYBE ranks fifth in global tour revenue in 2023

The global tour revenue of HYBE Co., home to BTS and Seventeen, reached 250 billion won ($190 million) over the year.According to Hybe on Tuesday, t...

Kakao completes first in-house data center

Kakao completes first in-house data center

South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp. has completed construction of its first in-house data center that can store 120,000 computer servers, with its l...

BTS’ Jungkook tops Billboard’s global charts for 4th consecutive week

BTS’ Jungkook tops Billboard’s global charts for 4th consecutive week

BTS’ Jungkook’s solo debut single “Seven” topped the US Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. US charts for four consecutive...

S.Korea's Twelve Labs ranks among world's top 50 generative AI startups

S.Korea's Twelve Labs ranks among world's top 50 generative AI startups

South Korea’s Twelve Labs was included as the only Korean company in CB Insights’ first annual GenAI 50 ranking, a list of the world&rsq...

K-pop girl group NewJeans tops US Billboard 200

K-pop girl group NewJeans tops US Billboard 200

South Korean K-pop girl group NewJeans topped the US Billboard 200 chart with their second mini-album "Get Up," since its debut a year ago. Acc...

BTS member Jungkook’s solo single ‘Seven’ tops Billboard Hot 100

BTS member Jungkook’s solo single ‘Seven’ tops Billboard Hot 100

BTS member Jungkook's first solo single, "Seven," has debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.This is only the second time in K-pop...

LG releases world's first connection cable-free OLED TV

LG releases world's first connection cable-free OLED TV

LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday announced its release of the world's first wireless OLED TV, LG Signature OLED M.As the world's first OLED TV to hav...

CJ dreams to build new kingdom in US with massive investment

CJ dreams to build new kingdom in US with massive investment

CJ Group, a major South Korean conglomerate with a wide range of businesses spanning everything from food to bio, livestock feed, logistics, enterta...

Fifty Fifty longest K-pop girl group to stay on Billboard Hot 100

Fifty Fifty longest K-pop girl group to stay on Billboard Hot 100

Fifty Fifty has stayed on the US Billboard Hot 100 for nine consecutive weeks, setting a new record for the longest stay by a K-pop girl group.Accor...

LG Electronics delivers LED outdoor billboard to Peru

LG Electronics delivers LED outdoor billboard to Peru

South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday its successful delivery of a massive billboard to Lima, the capital city of Peru. The LED disp...

KEPCO vows to save $19 bn in 5 yrs; CEO offers to resign over swelling losses

KEPCO vows to save $19 bn in 5 yrs; CEO offers to resign over swelling losses

South Korea’s state-run utility monopoly Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) on Friday vowed to save nearly 26 trillion won ($19.5 billion) ove...

Samsung installs massive MicroLED screen at luxury hotel in UAE

Samsung installs massive MicroLED screen at luxury hotel in UAE

Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday said it has supplied a large number of smart signage and TV screens to Atlantis the Royal, a luxury hotel and r...

BTS' Jimin tops US Billboard singles chart with 1st solo release

BTS' Jimin tops US Billboard singles chart with 1st solo release

Jimin of K-pop sensation BTS is the first South Korean solo act to hit No. 1 on Billboard's main singles chart Hot 100.The American music and entert...

Samsung, SK Hynix look to China exit plans as growth stunted

Samsung, SK Hynix look to China exit plans as growth stunted

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, are in quandary over their growth strategies in China fo...

Daewoo E&C wins massive $790 million public project in Libya

Daewoo E&C wins massive $790 million public project in Libya

South Korea's Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. has landed a massive order from the General Electricity Company of Libya.Daewoo E&C on F...

Korea boosts energy cooperation with natural resource-rich W.Australia

Korea boosts energy cooperation with natural resource-rich W.Australia

South Korea has boosted its energy cooperation with Western Australia, the biggest of Australia's six states and packed with natural resources.Minis...

About 1,000 attend Upbit Developer Conference preliminary events

About 1,000 attend Upbit Developer Conference preliminary events

South Korea’s unicorn startup Dunamu Inc. hosted two preliminary events for the Upbit Developer Conference (UDC) scheduled for later this mont...

LG Electronics to operate two lounges for OLED R monitor at Frieze Seoul

LG Electronics to operate two lounges for OLED R monitor at Frieze Seoul

South Korean electronics giant LG Electronics Inc. will operate two lounges at the world-renowned Frieze Art Fair’s inaugural event in Seoul.&...

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