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...
South Korea becomes super-aged society faster than expected
One in five South Koreans is now 65 years old or older as the Asian country grapples with the demographic challenge of a rapidly aging population an...
Naver to lead hyper-personalized shopping trends with super app
Naver Corp., South Korea's largest internet portal, will launch an AI-driven shopping app in the first half of 2025 to boost its lackluster e-commer...
KT unveils 8K resolution AI IPTV set-top box
South Korea's KT Corp. unveiled the first IPTV set-top box supporting 8K resolution (33.2 megapixels) with on-device AI capabilities on Tuesday. Ac...
LG Chem promises extra $14.4 million in aid over Indian gas leak
South Korea’s top chemicals maker LG Chem Ltd. said on Wednesday it will offer an additional 1.2 billion Indian rupees ($14.4 million) in huma...
South Korean brokerages woo super-rich to make them even richer
South Korea’s baby boomers, the demographic cohort born between 1955 and 1963, have largely built their wealth through hard work, savings and ...
Korean unicorns’ failed global expedition causes growth concern
Woowa Brothers Corp. and Viva Republica Inc., South Korea’s most valuable unicorns, have pulled the plug on some of their overseas businesses ...
LG Electronics unveils UltraGear OLED gaming monitors
LG Electronics Inc. announced on Monday that it unveiled LG UltraGear gaming monitors that can switch resolution and refresh rate according to conte...
Samsung seeks to launch new super mobile banking app with a local bank
Samsung Financial Networks, a union of Samsung Group’s four financial affiliates, is seeking to launch a super mobile banking app in partnersh...
Samsung Elec triples new TV preorders powered by AI
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top TV manufacturer, said on Sunday it is enjoying strong demand for new TVs, especially premium ultra-la...
Naver, Aramco to team up to enter Saudi Arabia
South Korea’s online giant Naver Corp. announced on Wednesday that it signed an agreement with Aramco Digital, a subsidiary of the world's lar...
Korean mining company to file around $747 mn claim against Panama
A state-run company in South Korea is set to seek an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) worth around 1 trillion won ($747.1 million) against t...
LG unveils UltraGear gaming monitor 2024
LG Electronics Inc. announced on Wednesday that it unveiled the 2024 model of the UltraGear gaming monitor, optimized for resolution and refresh r...
Myeong-dong cements status as super-prime real estate in Korea
A 170-square-meter plot of land in Myeong-dong, central Seoul, where South Korean beauty brand Nature Republic’s flagship store is located, ha...
Samsung Elec unveils new image sensors for robotics, XR
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, on Tuesday introduced new image sensors tailored for advanced content platforms...
Samsung Lee's urges to keep ‘super gap’ in semiconductor technology
Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee on Thursday visited the construction site of the global memory chip giant’s new semiconductor rese...
Samsung, LG waging fierce war in OLED screen panels
South Korea’s Samsung Display and LG Display Co. are locked in a fierce war for supremacy in manufacturing OLED panels for monitors amid boomi...
SK Telecom rolls out super-fast 400 Gbps 5G wired network
South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. on Tuesday announced a national first through its 400 gigabit per second (Gbps) high-capacity wired network used ...
KakaoBank to acquire 10% stake in Super Bank Indonesia
South Korea's KakaoBank Corp. announced on Tuesday its decision to invest in Indonesia's digital banking entity PT Super Bank Indonesia.This move ...
Kakao to release super-large AI model, superapp
Kakao Corp. on Thursday announced that it will transform South Korea’s dominant mobile messaging app KakaoTalk into an AI-powered platform com...
Super-large screens account for one third of Samsung’s TV sales
Samsung Electronics Co. announced that one out of every three of its Neo QLED and QLED TVs sold in South Korea between January and July this year fe...
Koreans maintain designer love with used items, 'quiet luxury'
South Koreans are maintaining their love for premium fashion items with purchases of used luxury items and "quiet luxury" goods amid a slowdown in A...
Starbucks to offer super-size Trenta drinks in S.Korea
Starbucks will roll out its biggest size for iced drinks, the Trenta, next week in South Korea, which was chosen as its first overseas market to int...
KT to build hyperscale AI cloud infrastructure
South Korea has paved the way to use artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors based on neural processing units (NPU) on cloud platforms to conduc...
Samsung to launch Galaxy A24 in S.Korea to target low-end market
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will release the Galaxy A24, a budget phone model in the domestic market on Friday to targetin...
LG Electronics delivers LED outdoor billboard to Peru
South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday its successful delivery of a massive billboard to Lima, the capital city of Peru. The LED disp...
Samsung SDI unveils super-gap battery tech aimed at Chinese market
South Korea's leading secondary battery maker Samsung SDI Co. is setting its sights on China's battery market with its super-gap solid-state battery...
Korean scientists publish breakthrough in high-resolution X-ray imaging
South Korean scientists led by physicist Park Yongkeun with global achievements in medical science and engineering have discovered a new X-ray imagi...
Super-rich Koreans eye return to stocks despite weaker economy
The super-rich in South Korea are eyeing stocks for investments despite a slowdown in Asia’s fourth-largest economy this year, expecting the l...
Samsung Galaxy S23 sales beat S22, enticing MZers
The Galaxy S23 series of Samsung Electronics Co. smartphones have beaten their predecessor Galaxy S22 smartphones in sales volume, less than two mon...
