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...
S.Korea’s Bebesup earns China nod for baby skincare, eyes global expansion
Bebesup, a leading South Korean baby skincare and wipe brand, has secured a registration certificate from the China National Medical Products Admini...
LG links up with Chinese rivals for budget appliance supremacy
LG Electronics Inc. has turned its rivals into allies in an unlikely pact to win the budget appliance war and ward off Chinese competitors rapidly e...
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...
South Korean airlines bank on China routes for profit recovery
South Korean airlines are ramping up international routes, particularly to China, Japan and Southeast Asian countries, in a bid to boost profitabili...
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...
POSCO sets sights on lithium production in US
POSCO Holdings Inc. has teamed up with Australia’s Anson Resources Ltd. to build a direct lithium extraction (DLE) demonstration plant in the ...
Xiaomi to open first offline store in S.Korea with premium products
Xiaomi Inc., a Chinese technology giant, will open its first offline store in South Korea next week, about six months after its virtual foray into t...
Loss-making Lotte Chemical to sell water treatment unit to Synopex
Lotte Chemical Corp., South Korea’s second-largest petrochemical company grappling with mounting losses amid a prolonged industry downturn, wi...
POSCO inducted into World Steel Dynamics’ Hall of Fame
South Korea’s POSCO Group has been permanently inducted into the Hall of Fame by the World Steel Dynamics (WSD), a US steel industry research ...
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...
Hanwha Q Cells eyes tandem cell mass production in 2027
Hanwha Q Cells Co., the solar panel manufacturing unit of South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp., is expected to commercialize tandem modules by 2027,...
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...
With Ulta deal, APR steps up US beauty push
Medicube, the beauty-tech brand under South Korea’s fast-growing beauty company APR Co., will sell its products through both online and offlin...
Korean Air, Delta to buy 25% stake in Canada’s WestJet for $550 million
Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s largest full-service carrier, and its joint venture partner Delta Air Lines Inc. will acquire a 25% stake ...
Samsung steps up AR race with advanced microdisplay for smart glasses
Samsung Electronics Co. has launched a major push into next-generation microdisplays for augmented reality (AR) glasses as it aims to position itsel...
Korea Investment & Securities to sell Goldman Sachs funds
Korea Investment & Securities Co. said on Tuesday it is set to sell funds operated by Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP in South Korea, offering...
HD KSOE secures $1.8 bn in container ship orders
HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE) secured orders for 22 container ships worth a total of 2.54 trillion won ($1.8 billion) ...
Kia maintains double-digit margin in Q1 with record revenue
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, extended its double-digit profit margin streak to a 10th consecutive quarter, posting recor...
Kakao shares sink on SK Telecom’s stake sell-off news
Kakao Corp. shares underperformed its peers and the broad market on Friday after SK Telecom Co. sold off its entire stake in the South Korean platfo...
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 ...
Hyundai's nuclear-grade steel earns US quality certification
South Korean steelmaker Hyundai Steel Co. said on Wednesday it has received the Nuclear Material Supplier Quality System Certificate (QSC) from the ...
POSCO eyes investment in Hyundai Steel’s US plant
POSCO, the world’s seventh-largest steelmaker, is seeking to invest in smaller rival Hyundai Steel Co.'s first overseas plant in the US, in ex...
Colliers to lead $689 million sale of IGIS Asset-owned Signature Tower
Colliers Korea, a unit of global real estate asset management group Colliers, has been chosen as the adviser for the sale of Signature Tower in cent...
LG Electronics set for early-May Indian stock market debut
LG Electronics Inc. is set to list its wholly owned subsidiary in India on the country's stock exchange in early May, aiming to raise up to $1.5 bil...
MicroDigital's Disco Pang Pang-inspired bioreactors debut in US
MicroDigital Co., a bio-instrument and diagnostic kit manufacturer, is set to launch single-use bioreactors in the US, marking the first shipment of...
Samsung SDI launches mass production of 46 mm-diameter batteries
Samsung SDI Co. has become South Korea’s first company to mass-produce cylindrical 46-millimeter(46 mm)-diameter batteries, regarded as ...
L&F to invest $10 mn in Mitra Chem for US LFP production
L&F Co., a South Korean electric vehicle battery materials supplier, plans to invest $10 million in Mitra Chem, a US lithium-ion battery ingredi...
LG Electronics restarts home appliance plant in Russia
LG Electronics Inc. has resumed operations at its home appliance plant in Russia amid prospects of a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, signaling...
LG Energy, Doosan Bobcat tie up for construction equipment battery packs
LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s third-largest battery maker, and Doosan Bobcat Inc., a global construction machinery producer, said on We...
