Stray Kids make K-pop history with landmark stadium show in Germany
Stray Kids set a new milestone in K-pop history with a solo performance at one of the largest stadiums in Germany, highlighting the unwavering globa...
Hanwha-owned burger chain Five Guys Korea up for sale two years after launch
South Korea’s Hanwha Group is seeking to sell the Korean operations of US premium burger chain Five Guys, two years after the brand’s hi...
HYBE sparks summer vibes with BTS live album, TXT comeback, new boy band launch
HYBE Co., a South Korean music powerhouse, is turning up the heat this summer with a wave of major releases, including a live album from its flagshi...
LG Energy, GM’s JV Ultium Cells to retrofit Tennessee plant to produce LFP batteries
Ultium Cells LLC, a battery joint venture between South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. and General Motors Co., will upgrade its battery cell ...
K-beauty craze sends Olive Young online sales to new heights
CJ Olive Young Corp., South Korea’s top beauty store chain, is another beneficiary of the global K-beauty surge, with its online cosmetics sal...
Blackpink's new single Jump tops Spotify daily chart
Blackpink's new single Jump has rocketed to No. 1 on the Spotify Daily Top Songs Global chart, YG Entertainment Inc., the company behind the girl gr...
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...
Korea’s game studios rebrand as AI tech firms, move into fashion, robotics, media
What was once a world of elves, dragons and power-ups is now giving rise to one of South Korea’s most unexpected tech revolutions, with game s...
Return of the K-pop queens: Blackpink, Twice power up YG, JYP
Blackpink and Twice, two of South Korea’s most prominent K-pop female acts, made high-profile returns on Friday with new releases, heightening...
Samsung to launch AI health coach beta in US by end-2025
NEW YORK – Samsung Electronics Co. will roll out a beta version of AI-powered health coach within the Samsung Health application in the US by ...
K Shipbuilding up for sale as Korean shipyards ride new boom
K Shipbuilding Co., a mid-tier South Korean shipbuilder, will be put on the market this month after a strong turnaround. The deal, estimated at 500 ...
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 ...
S.Korea to elevate science minister to deputy prime minister to lead in AI race
South Korea will elevate its new science minister to a deputy ministerial post, giving him authority to serve as the top coordinator of the governme...
Kia to make, sell China-launched EV5 in Korea to keep top spot
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, plans to manufacture and sell the EV5, its first China-made all-electric vehicle, at home t...
Yonsei University: Unlikely yet adroit dealmaker in S.Korea’s M&A market
For decades, or probably for centuries, Yonsei University has been seen as an ivory tower – a place for academics – in South Korea.One o...
The wait is over: BTS are back with new album, global tour in spring 2026
Now the wait is over.BTS are back – as a full-member group after a four-year hiatus.The seven-member boy band is returning with a new album in...
Korea Investment & Securities, Capital Group eye product launch in Korea
Korea Investment & Securities Co. (KIS), a unit of Korea Investment Holdings Co., is exploring new offshore funds for individual investors in co...
Netmarble to debut new games with fresh IPs, platforms in second half
Netmarble Corp. is gearing up for a strong year-end with plans to launch at least six more new games, powered by original intellectual properties, a...
GEPS taps former KB Asset chief risk officer as new CIO
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) on Wednesday appointed Sohn Young-jin, former head of risk management at KB Asset Ma...
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...
Hana Asset launches ultra-low-fee Nasdaq 100 ETF
Hana Asset Management Co. will list the “1Q US Nasdaq 100 ETF” on Tuesday, an exchange-traded fund that tracks the Nasdaq 100 index with...
LG Energy Solution, Toyota Tsusho launch battery recycling JV in US
LG Energy Solution Ltd. has set up a battery recycling joint venture with Toyota Tsusho Corp. in the US, deepening the South Korean battery giant&rs...
Calls grow for stronger LP oversight in national strategic asset M&As
MBK Partners’ takeover attempt of Korea Zinc Inc. has exposed the vulnerability of national strategic assets to private equity ownership, posi...
Samsung to thrash out strategy amid Trump, Middle East crisis
Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s most valuable company, is convening its most senior executives this week to plot its path back to the t...
EQT taps ex-DHK Management CEO to lead S.Korea's real estate push
Swedish asset manager EQT Partners, also the largest private equity firm in Europe, has named David Kim, chief executive of South Korean real estate...
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...
SK, AWS to build South Korea’s largest, multibillion-dollar AI data center
South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK and Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), the world's largest cloud platform provider, will build a 103...
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...
Samsung supplies HBM3E to AMD’s new accelerators
Samsung Electronics Co. has delivered the fifth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to a major AI chip maker, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), ...
Nexon Games shares rally on Tencent’s possible Nexon acquisition
Shares of Nexon Games Co., the game-developing studio under Nexon Co., surged on Friday morning after Bloomberg reported on Chinese IT giant Tencent...
