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...
Samsung to buy US health tech firm Xealth in digital health push
Samsung Electronics Co. will acquire Xealth, a US-based healthcare platform provider, as it steps up efforts to foster non-semiconductor businesses ...
Samsung’s Q2 operating profit halves amid sluggish chip sales
Samsung Electronics Co.'s operating profit in the second quarter missed market expectations, with a 56% on-year fall, as its mainstay semiconductor ...
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...
Samsung on hiring spree to bolster US foundry sales
Samsung Electronics Co. is on a hiring spree for senior sales managers in its foundry business, offering generous compensation packages, as it goes ...
Is chip winter over? Doomsayers gone as Korea’s DRAM exports surge
Global memory chip markets, long weighed down by excess inventories and sagging demand, are showing early signs of a thaw.South Korea’s export...
SK Hynix leads Samsung in customized HBM; lands Nvidia, Microsoft deals
SK Hynix Inc. has secured Nvidia Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Broadcom Inc. as key clients of its customized high-bandwidth memory (HBM), positioning ...
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...
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), ...
Micron set to supply SOCAMM chips to Nvidia ahead of Samsung, SK Hynix
In a move that could reshape the global memory industry’s competitive dynamics, Nvidia Corp. has chosen US chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. as...
Ex-TSMC executive joins Samsung Foundry to lead US expansion
Samsung Electronics Co. has brought a former Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) executive on board to lead its North American fo...
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...
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...
South Korea asks US for tailored approach to chip tariffs
South Korea has officially requested that the US take a distinct approach in its ongoing probe into foreign semiconductor technology and related dow...
SK Hynix’s Q1 profit soars on HBM chips, beats Samsung’s overall earnings
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, reported a dramatic surge in first-quarter profits on Thursday, delivering the sec...
SK Hynix bets on 3D HBM as next game-changer in AI chip race
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s top DRAM memory chipmaker, aims to redefine the competitive landscape in artificial intelligence memory chips with ...
NPS pours $3.9 bn to buttress Korean stock market
South Korea’s National Pension Service, the country’s largest institutional investor, has come to the rescue of the domestic stock marke...
SK chairman in Taiwan to deepen ties with TSMC
Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group, the parent of SK Hynix Inc., is visiting Taiwan amid the threat of escalating US tariff threats, suggesting the ...
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...
DB GlobalChip forays into mobile phone OLED driver chip market
DB GlobalChip Co., the chip design subsidiary of South Korea’s chip foundry company DB HiTek Co., has begun mass-producing organic light-emitt...
SK Hynix ships world’s first 12-layer HBM4 samples early
South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix Inc. has begun delivering samples of the world’s most advanced, next-generation high bandwidth memory ...
Samsung in 'do or die' situation'; Lee sounds crisis alarm
Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong has warned the company's executives that the South Korean tech giant has lost its characteristic "rele...
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...
S.Korea logs current account surplus in Jan; Growth slows
South Korea reported a current account surplus for 21 straight months in January but with a moderated gain largely due to a contraction in the goods...
