Samsung, SK Hynix to beat TSMC in gross profit margin for memory business
Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, are expected to surpass global foundry leader Taiwan Sem...
Korea’s Hanwha wins first US defense deal with Boeing for F-15 parts
Hanwha Systems Co., a leading South Korean defense manufacturer, has won its first US Air Force contract to supply Boeing Co. with cockpit displays ...
Seoul to rewrite Kosdaq with tax breaks, listing reforms
South Korea is moving to revamp its Kosdaq market, pairing tax incentives aimed at institutional investors with listing reforms designed to revive t...
Korea Post seeks offshore real estate secondary funds for $150 mn mandate
Korea Post is seeking one or two offshore real estate secondary fund managers for a commitment of up to $150 million, or €150 million in total....
South Korea bets on AI, power, financials to carry Kospi toward 5,000 in 2026
South Korean stocks are heading into 2026 with strategists betting that leadership will broaden beyond semiconductors to power, financial and infras...
BTS’ Anpanman rises to top of Billboard chart 7 years after release
Few would have expected a B-side released in 2018 to resurface at the top of a Billboard chart in late 2025. Yet BTS’ Anpanman, long familiar ...
South Korea’s year-end IPO market defies seasonal lull
South Korea’s initial public offering market, typically subdued at the end of the year, is showing unusual exuberance as newly listed companie...
S.Korea, UK strike upgraded trade deal, expanding market access on both sides
South Korea and the UK have agreed to upgrade their bilateral free trade agreement, a move Seoul expects will unlock fresh export momentum in automo...
GEPS seeks brokerage firms for global equities, bonds trading in H1, 2026
South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) is seeking brokerage firms to handle overseas asset trading for the first half of 20...
Seoul weighs Kosdaq split from Kospi to invigorate lagging junior market
South Korean policymakers are weighing a far-reaching reform of the country’s stock market structure that would separate the Kosdaq from its l...
S.Korea’s steel exports set to slide to 5-year low as Chinese supply floods markets
South Korea’s steel industry is heading toward its weakest export performance in five years, as a prolonged global construction slump collides...
SK On to build LFP battery plant in Korea for ESS output, targeting $13.5 billion govt projects
SK On Co., a major South Korean battery maker, has decided to build the country’s largest domestic production line for lithium iron phosphate ...
K-beauty poised for next global growth push, into Middle East, Latin America
South Korea’s cosmetics makers are accelerating their expansion into the Middle East and Latin America, regions rapidly emerging as powerful n...
After stellar 2025 performance, Kospi’s bull run likely to hit 5,000 in 2026: EpicAI
South Korea’s brokerages are growing increasingly confident that the country’s benchmark Kospi stock index will surge toward 5,000 next ...
Real AI bubble is market concentration, not technology: Amundi CIO
The artificial intelligence revolution is real, but the way investors are betting on it has become dangerous, said Vincent Mortier, group chief inve...
Sale of chicken chain Norang Tongdak restarts on renewed foreign interest
Interest from several foreign investors, including firms in Taiwan and Hong Kong, has revived the stalled sale of Korean chicken chain Norang Tongda...
GM Korea’s vehicle sales collapse to record low as Chinese EV maker BYD pulls ahead
The South Korean affiliate of US auto giant General Motors Co. saw its vehicle sales in November fall below 1,000 units – the lowest figure si...
SK Hynix mulls treasury-share-backed ADR listing on NYSE in fresh value-up initiative
SK Hynix Inc., one of the world’s top memory chipmakers, is looking into a plan to list American depositary receipts (ADRs) backed by its trea...
Korean films No Other Choice and KPop Demon Hunters each earn 3 Golden Globe nominations
Two Korean titles — Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice and Netflix’s animated feature KPop Demon Hunters — have each captured ...
Korea seeks to overhaul listed firms’ M&A rules to use fair value instead of market prices
South Korea is seeking one of its most far-reaching capital-markets overhauls in decades, with plans to rewrite merger-valuation rules, tighten disc...
Musinsa, Shinsegae V shine in K-fashion platform war; Ably, Zigzag struggle
Musinsa, South Korea’s fashion unicorn backed by KKR Co., and Shinsegae V, the online luxury item marketplace of retail giant Shinsegae Intern...
South Korea’s short-selling firepower swells, signaling market turn
A surge in securities lending across South Korea’s stock market is emerging as a powerful new drag on the nation’s top technology names,...
KPop Demon Hunters OST ranks No. 2 on Spotify’s most-streamed albums of 2025
It began as a passionate project tied to a cult-favorite animated film — and now has become one of the world’s most-streamed bodies of m...
Transcend warns of surging costs as NAND supply from Samsung, SanDisk in dire shortage
Transcend Information Inc., a Taiwan-based memory module maker, has warned customers that soaring component shortages have doubled its manufacturing...
Samsung to supply half of memory for Nvidia's 2nd-generation SOCAMM in 2026
Samsung Electronics Co. will supply half of the memory used for Nvidia Corp.’s second-generation SOCAMM in 2026, positioning itself as the lar...
Korean bond yields break above 3%, shutting issuers out of market
South Korea’s government bond market has entered a fresh bout of volatility, with yields climbing above 3% even as global peers' yields remain...
Johns Hopkins University, IFEZ to host global biotech innovation summit in Korea
Johns Hopkins University will bring prominent figures from the US and South Korea’s life-science communities together in Songdo on Thursday fo...
Korea's culture‑tech wave begins with KPop Demon Hunters: LB Investment
Netflix’s mega-hit animated film KPop Demon Hunters has become a model of South Korea's cultural and technology innovation success as K-conten...
Doosan Bobcat seeks to acquire Germany’s Wacker Neuson valued at $2.3 billion
Doosan Bobcat Co., a global construction machinery maker owned by South Korea’s Doosan Group, is seeking to acquire Wacker Neuson SE, a German...
Zeekr joins Chinese peers BYD, XPeng to push into South Korea's EV market
China’s Zeekr, the premium electric vehicle brand under Geely Automobile, on Tuesday signed its first dealer agreements with Korean companies,...
