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...
Blackstone in talks to acquire Korea’s top salon chain Juno Hair in $590 mn deal
US private equity firm Blackstone Inc. is pursuing the acquisition of Juno Hair, South Korea’s largest premium hair salon chain, in a deal tha...
China bans export of Korean goods containing its rare earth metals to US
The Chinese government has warned South Korean companies of retributions for exporting any product containing its critical metals to US military con...
SK Ecoplant, BMW team up for battery recycling
SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company under SK Group, partnered with German luxury carmaker BMW to...
A North Korean Diplomat Managed a Rare Defection: A Flight Out of Cuba
SEOUL—A North Korean diplomat posted in Cuba defected to South Korea with his family late last year, officials said this week, a rare esc...
Korea Eximbank to provide $150 mn PF to Australia
The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) announced on Tuesday that it will provide $150 million in project financing (PF) for developing a rare ea...
Hyundai Motor, Kia to develop alternative to rare earth materials
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. have partnered with South Korea's universities to secure materials for vehicle electrification components.Hyundai Mo...
SoftBank to buy part of Naver's Line stake by July: CEO Miyakawa
TOKYO – SoftBank Corp., which runs LY Corp., the operator of the popular mobile messenger app Line in Japan, said on Thursday it is in talks w...
Samsung begins new drug development for rare diseases
Samsung Bioepis Co., a biosimilar development unit of South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung Group, has begun its new drug development busines...
POSCO to foster rare gas business with Zhongtai Cryogenic
POSCO Holdings Inc. will build a highly purified rare gas-producing joint venture in South Korea with Zhongtai Cryogenic Technology Corp. from China...
KAIST discloses Earth images from Next-Gen Small Sat 2
The main payload satellite Next-Generation Small Satellite 2" of the Nuri, launched on May 25, has been confirmed to be operating perfectly, as anno...
Handok to import treatment for rare autoimmune disorder
South Korean pharmaceutical company Handok Inc. on Wednesday said it signed a deal with Dutch immunology specialist Argenx to sell the latter's Vyvg...
S.Korea is far more reliant on China for rare earth metal than Japan: report
South Korea is far more dependent than Japan on neodymium permanent magnets from China at 88%, while the rate for Japan, a land devoid of rare earth...
Kwangdong to sell exclusively three global rare disease drugs
South Korean pharmaceutical company Kwangdong Pharmaceutical announced on Monday that it signed an agreement for securing exclusive sales and distri...
Kia opens e-sports pop-up store Earth 6A3
Kia Corp. said on Thursday that it has officially launched its pop-up store of e-sports "Earth 6A3" in Seongsu-dong, Seoul. With a primar...
Busan Equity Partners launches core minerals business in Philippines
Busan Equity Partners (BEP), a South Korean private equity firm, is partnering with Philippine mineral development company PGMPI to develop overseas...
Samsung Bioepis gets approval to sell biosimilar in Europe
South Korea's Samsung Bioepis has received approval in Europe to sell a biosimilar of Soliris, a drug for the treatment of adult and children patien...
S.Korea’s character Baby Shark stars with Sesame Street’s Elmo
Baby Shark, the popular children’s character from South Korea’s family entertainment company Pinkfong, and Elmo, the famous red monster ...
POSCO conducts pilot release of rare metal ferrochrome
South Korea's steelmaker POSCO and the government-run Korea Mine Rehabilitation and Mineral Resources Corp. (KOMIR) on Friday announced the first pi...
S.Korea sets Nuri space rocket’s third launch on May 24
South Korea will conduct a third attempt to launch its first domestically designed and developed space rocket Nuri on May 24. The Ministry of Scien...
LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo sued over inheritance in family feud
Koo Kwang-mo, chairman of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG, has been sued over the distribution of inherited wealth, including a s...
GC Biopharma introduces candidates for treating blood coagulation disease
South Korea's GC Biopharma Corp. announced on Tuesday that it had entered into an agreement to transfer assets with Catalyst Biosciences, a US-based...
KT to collaborate with Mongolia's Monnis Group in rare earth mining area
South Korea's telecom operator KT Corp. said on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mongolia's Monnis Group for co...
South Korea to double stockpiles of rare-earth minerals
South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Friday it will double the government's stockpiles of rare-earth minerals and halve thei...
SK Materials, Arencibia ink MOU on noble gas recycling
SK Materials Airplus Co. announced on Monday that it signed an MOU with US-based Arencibia to prepare to enter the noble gas recycling business.&n...
S.Korean lunar orbiter sends 'Dynamite' BTS video to Earth
South Korea's unmanned space vehicle Danuri has sent texts and images from space to Earth, the Ministry of Science and ICT announced Monday. Da...
Samsung to use rare gas produced by POSCO for chip manufacturing
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, will significantly raise the use of locally produced xenon, a critical gas for ...
Nonferrous metals conglomerate Poongsan to invest $236 mn
South Korean nonferrous metals conglomerate Poongsan Corp. announced it will invest 313 billion won ($238 million) in facilities to manufacture rech...
Samsung Bioepis’ SB12 shows same clinical effects as Alexion’s Soliris
Samsung Bioepis Co., a biopharmaceutical unit of Samsung Group, said its SB12, a proposed biosimilar to Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s rare bl...
Dongwon to adjust merger ratio under pressure from retail investors
Dongwon Group, South Korea’s leading seafood and logistics conglomerate, is changing the merger ratio of its two major affiliates, accepting a...
