US market
Scope
Date
~
-
Electric vehicles
Hyundai to raise Tucson Hybrid output in Korea for exports
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, plans to ramp up production of the sport utility vehicle Tucson’s hybrid version in the ...
19 HOURS AGO
-
Food & Beverage
Lotte Chilsung Krush beer enters Mongolian market
South Korea's Lotte Chilsung Beverage announced on Friday that its beer brand Krush entered the Mongolian market. The company sponsored Davaida...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Fashion
Korean shopping mecca Dongdaemun Market's vacancy rates soar
Store vacancy rates in South Korea’s largest shopping mecca Dongdaemun Market have soared to as high as 86%, with Chinese e-commerce platfor...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Pension funds
NPS logs 5.8% return in Q1 led by US tech stock rally
National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, posted a 5.82% investment return for the first quarter ...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Food & Beverage
Lotte's sugar-free soju Saero to enter European market
South Korea's Lotte Chilsung Beverage Co. is poised to introduce its zero-sugar soju Saero to the European market next month, aiming to expand its g...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Energy
Hanwha Q Cells builds US solar farm for power supply to Meta
Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar panel manufacturing arm of South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp., said on Thursday it has completed a solar power complex...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Logistics
LX Pantos to enter Indonesian resource logistics market
South Korea's LX Pantos said on Thursday that it signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with KSA, Indonesia's largest bulk carrier, to tap into the S...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Corporate restructuring
SK embarks on business overhaul to focus on mainstays
South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group has embarked on a reshuffling process to focus on core units such as semiconductors and bat...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Electric vehicles
Kia EV9 poised to hit 50,000 unit mark in a year on strong exports
Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, is poised to sell 50,000 units of its flagship all-electric sport utility vehicle EV9 within one yea...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Fashion
Korea's golf apparel market shrinks as golf boom fizzles
The heyday of South Korea’s golf apparel market seems to be over with the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Millennials and Generation Z, who had ...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Chemical Industry
Ineos, Hanwha mull joint US low-carbon ammonia project
Global chemical company Ineos Group Ltd. and South Korea’s Hanwha Group have teamed up to assess building a low-carbon ammonia facility in the...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean food
Mega Coffee to open first store in Mongolia
South Korea's low-price coffee chain, Mega MGC Coffee, announced on Tuesday that it will open its first overseas store in Mongolia on May 30. This...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Electronics
Samsung to deepen foray in US HVAC market with Lennox
Samsung Electronics Co. will set up a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) joint venture with Lennox International Inc., a major US HVAC...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Batteries
SK On invests in Yuilrobotics for its US battery plants
SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery producer, is slated to invest in South Korean robot automation system developer ...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Batteries
L&F, CNGR to collaborate to respond to US IRA
L&F Co., South Korea’s major cathode supplier announced Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Chinese precu...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
E-commerce
Qoo10 launches K-Avenue for S.Korean products
Southeast Asia-based e-commerce platform Qoo10 Pte. announced on Tuesday that it launched K-Avenue, a sales channel for Korean products, on the newl...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean stock market
SK Hynix: More room for share price rise after bull run
SK Hynix Inc.'s market value broke through the roof to top 150 trillion won ($110 billion) on Monday, becoming the second stock in South Korea to re...
May 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Shipping & Shipbuilding
Hyundai Glovis adopts system to meet US' green policies on car carriers
Hyundai Glovis Co., the world’s third-largest car shipping company, is set to introduce an emission reduction system for its vehicle carriers ...
May 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Bio & Pharma
Samsung Bioepis leads in Soliris biosimilar market in Europe
STOCKHOLM – Samsung Bioepis Co.'s biosimilar to Soliris for the treatment of patients with rare, life-threatening disease paroxysmal nocturnal...
May 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Retail
GS25 opens 300th store in Vietnam
South Korean convenience store chain GS25 said on Sunday that it opened its 300th store in Vietnam. This is the milestone since it entered th...
May 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Bio & Pharma
Handok gets Biocon's obesity drug exclusive distribution in S.Korea
South Korean pharmaceutical company Handok Inc. announced on Friday that it signed an exclusive domestic sales and distribution agreement with India...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Electronics
US court dismisses suit against Samsung by ex-patent chief
A US court rejected a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. by a former intellectual property chief of the company and banned ...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Shipping & Shipbuilding
HD Hyundai, Shell to develop liquefied hydrogen carrier
HD Hyundai Co., a South Korean shipbuilding and machinery conglomerate, announced on Friday that it will collaborate with global energy compa...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix mulls HBM production in Japan, US
SK Hynix Inc. is investigating the possibility of building a plant for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), vital for generative artificial intelligence, in...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Beauty & Cosmetics
US cosmetics brand Bath & Body Works enters S.Korea
The US-based cosmetics brand Bath & Body Works, renowned for its diverse lineup of over 250 fragrances, enters the South Korean market. Shi...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Electric vehicles
Kia premieres EV3 to boost global electrification push
Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, on Thursday premiered the EV3, its low-cost electric sport utility vehicle (SUV), to reboot...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Machinery
Hyundai Infracore, Doosan Bobcat agree to product cross-selling in US
South Korea’s two leading construction machinery makers HD Hyundai Infracore Co. and Doosan Bobcat Inc. on Thursday agreed to the cross-sellin...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Electronics
LG targets India’s edtech market with interactive whiteboards
LG Electronics Inc. is acclerating its foray into India’s business-to-business (B2B) market, zooming in on the country’s rapidly-growing...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
IPOs
World’s No.1 magnet wire maker SPSX mulls Korean IPO
Superior Essex Inc. (SPSX), the world’s top magnet wire provider under South Korea’s LS Group, is mulling an initial public offering in ...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Tech, Media & Telecom
LG CNS' marketing platform MOP surpasses 800 corporate customers
South Korea’s LG CNS Co., a cloud computing services arm of LG Corp., announced on Thursday that its Marketing Optimization Platform (MOP), la...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)