Vietnam’s top leader to make 1st South Korea visit in 11 years

To Lam, general secretary of Vietnam’s Communist Party and the country’s de facto ruling leader, is expected to make a state visit to So...

At home, K-convenience stores battle stagnation; abroad they're powerful K-food ambassadors

In the bustling backstreets of Ulaanbaatar, shoppers file out of a CU convenience store with instant tteokbokki, or simmered Korean rice cake, packs...

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...

KKR in control feud over Korea’s top solar power plant

Global private equity giant KKR & Co. Inc. is embroiled in a management dispute over South Korea’s top solar power plant with key individu...

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 ...

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...

Google partners with Samsung, Gentle Monster for new smart glasses

SILICON VALLEY – Google LLC is making a renewed push into the smart glasses market in partnership with South Korea’s Samsung Electronics...

Samsung unveils upgraded AI-powered OLED TVs

Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday showcased its new lineup of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs with advanced artificial intelligence features...

Hyundai premieres all-new NEXO, reinforcing hydrogen power

Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday unveiled the all-new NEXO, the first full-change model of the fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) since its launch in 20...

Doosan Enerbility wins $1.5 bn in orders from Saudi Arabia

Doosan Enerbility Co., South Korea’s leading gas turbine maunfacturer for power plants, said on Thursday that it has secured a combined $1.5 b...

Magnachip to sell display business in H1 to focus on power semiconductors

South Korean chipmaker Magnachip Semiconductor Corp. plans to sell its display business by the end of the first half as part of a strategic shift to...

HD Hyundai to invest $206 mn to develop SMR ship

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE), an intermediary shipbuilding holding company of HD Hyundai Co., will invest up to 30...

Doosan Enerbility bags $200 mn Qatar power plant EPC deal

Doosan Enerbility Co. has clinched an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a gas-fired power plant from Qatar in a consortiu...

Hyundai CEO Muñoz named MotorTrend Person of the Year

South Korea’s top carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer José Muñoz was picked as the most powerful figure in the in...

Korea’s OCI, Israel’s Arava Power to jointly build solar cell plant in Texas

OCI Energy Co., a US subsidiary of South Korea’s OCI Holdings Co., and Israel’s Arava Power will jointly build a solar cell power plant ...

AI data center with up to 3 gigawatts of power envisioned for South Korea

An investor group is planning one of the world’s largest data centers for artificial intelligence in South Korea, a sign of red-hot AI de...

HD Korea Shipbuilding premieres nuclear-powered ship design

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE), the parent of the world’s largest shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co.,...

Doosan Skoda Power eyes Czech IPO, aims to raise $111 million

Doosan Skoda Power, the Czech-based power plant equipment-making unit of South Korea’s Doosan Enerbility Co., plans to list its shares on the ...

Samsung Electronics' new Galaxy S25 smartphone: 'Perfect AI assistant'

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Last year, Samsung Electronics Co. scored a first-mover advantage with consumers by introducing the Galaxy S24 as an AI sma...

Hanwha Q Cells sells two solar power plant projects in US

Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar panel manufacturing arm of South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp., said on Wednesday that it sold its two large-scale sola...

Samsung joins humanoid robots race with larger stake in Rainbow Robotics

Samsung Electronics Co. has become the largest shareholder of Rainbow Robotics Co., a South Korean collaborative robot maker, as the tech giant spen...

Hanwha Ocean, another Korean shipbuilder win $951 million WTIV deals

Hanwha Ocean Co. and another major South Korean shipbuilder have won deals worth a combined 1.4 trillion won ($951 million) to each build a wind tur...

HD Hyundai Infracore to invest $79.6 mn in engine, battery pack

South Korea's HD Hyundai Infracore Co. said on Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with North Jeolla Special Self-Governing Provinc...

Samsung Electronics brings AI heat pump EHS to US HVAC market

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is unveiling an AI-powered home heat pump system at the upcoming CES 2025 event as it strives to boo...

TALOS dives deeper into brain aneurysm icebergs

 A single neurosurgeon dedicates his or her entire professional career to performing surgeries on an average of fewer than 10,000 patients with...

SK Telecom invests $3 mn in AI-powered video analysis startup Twelve Labs

South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said on Friday it will invest $3 million in Twelve Labs Inc., a Korean AI-powered video analys...

Samsung unveils AI-powered Galaxy Book5 Pro to take on Apple’s MacBook

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled its new Galaxy Book5 Pro, packed with various AI functions, to compete with archrival Apple Inc.’...

NXN Labs aims to be Adobe of image generation AI

South Korean tech giant Naver Corp.-backed NXN Labs Inc., the developer of an artificial intelligence-powered image generation program, aspires to b...

Samsung C&T, Hitachi Energy to team up for HVDC projects

South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. said Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Sweden's Hitachi Energy to cooperate for high-vol...

Samsung C&T, Sweden's Karnfull Next to team up for SMR

South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. said Friday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Swedish energy company Karnfull Next AB to jointl...