S.Korea lags Taiwan in GNI per capita for first time since 2002

S.Korea lags Taiwan in GNI per capita for first time since 2002

South Korea’s gross national income (GNI) per capita dropped 7.7% on-year last year, coming in below that of its smaller rival Taiwan for the ...

Kakao Brain launches web service to turn imagination into images

Kakao Brain launches web service to turn imagination into images

Kakao Brain, a South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) company owned by Kakao Corp., launched an open beta version of "B^ EDIT," a web service tha...

Line Games launches global service for Uncharted Waters Origin

Line Games launches global service for Uncharted Waters Origin

Line Games Corporation, an affiliate of South Korea’s internet giant Naver Corp., announced on Tuesday the launch of Uncharted Waters Origin, ...

CJ Logistics launches integrated delivery brand O-NE

CJ Logistics launches integrated delivery brand O-NE

CJ Logistics, a South Korean logistics company, unveiled on Monday a new delivery brand called "O-NE" that aims to connect online sellers and buyers...

LG Elec-SM Ent JV to unveil beta home fitness app in March

LG Elec-SM Ent JV to unveil beta home fitness app in March

Fitness Candy, a joint creation by LG Electronics Inc. and SM Entertainment Co. to rival Apple Fitness Plus, is expected to unveil its beta service ...

HYBE barely ups SM stake in tender offer amid tensions with Kakao

HYBE barely ups SM stake in tender offer amid tensions with Kakao

HYBE Co. has raised its stake in the K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co. by merely 0.98% in a tender offer, after just one institution and minority i...

S.Korea's Fly Gangwon kicks off international air cargo service

S.Korea's Fly Gangwon kicks off international air cargo service

Fly Gangwon, a South Korean low-cost carrier, announced on Monday the launch of its international air cargo transportation service on the Taipei rou...

Mirae Asset, music profit-sharing startup take on security token offerings

Mirae Asset, music profit-sharing startup take on security token offerings

South Korea's Fingo Company, which runs the music revenue sharing platform Fingo, on Friday said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ...

S.Korea-Indonesia central banks renew currency swap agreement

S.Korea-Indonesia central banks renew currency swap agreement

Central banks of South Korea and Indonesia renewed a bilateral local currency swap arrangement to keep supporting trade and financial cooperation fo...

Samsung launches new TV ad campaign in London ahead of global release

Samsung launches new TV ad campaign in London ahead of global release

Samsung Electronics Co. is ramping up its marketing efforts for its latest line of high-end TVs, including the 2023 Neo QLED 8K model, with a giant ...

KT&G’s hidden saviors in activist fight: In-house funds

KT&G’s hidden saviors in activist fight: In-house funds

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, will likely get support from in-house shareholders in a battle against activist funds...

Hanwha Systems begins developing active protection system for combat vehicles

Hanwha Systems begins developing active protection system for combat vehicles

South Korea's defense and IT service company Hanwha Systems Co. will develop core technology for an active protection system (APS), or state-of-the-...

Kakao Healthcare to launch diabetes monitoring app

Kakao Healthcare to launch diabetes monitoring app

South Korea’s dominant mobile platform Kakao Corp. will kick off its healthcare services this year with the launch of a diabetes monitoring ap...

S.Korea ranks fifth in global auto output for third straight year

S.Korea ranks fifth in global auto output for third straight year

South Korea’s auto production last year ranked fifth worldwide for the third year in a row.A report on world automotive output from the Korea ...

S.Korea's GEPS logs 10.2% return on alternative assets in 2022

S.Korea's GEPS logs 10.2% return on alternative assets in 2022

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) had a 4.4% loss on investment last year, seeing its assets under management (AUM) dr...

DB Insurance acquires Vietnam's 10th largest insurer VNI

DB Insurance acquires Vietnam's 10th largest insurer VNI

DB Insurance has acquired Vietnam National Aviation Insurance (VNI), Vietnam's 10th-largest property and casualty(P&C) insurance company. With a...

S.Korea’s hy buys Mesh for Vroong delivery service

S.Korea’s hy buys Mesh for Vroong delivery service

South Korea’s hy, formerly Korea Yakult, has acquired Mesh Korea, the operator of the delivery service Vroong that uses two-wheeled vehicles. ...

S.Korea's ETRI creates software for faster 5G using small cells

S.Korea's ETRI creates software for faster 5G using small cells

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), a non-profit government-funded research institute in South Korea, said on Tuesday ...

S.Korea sees first decline in household loans in 20 years

S.Korea sees first decline in household loans in 20 years

Household loans in South Korea last year fell from 2021 for the first time in 20 years because of high interest rates, but credit card debt hit a re...

LG Uplus to provide infotainment service for Toyota's RAV4 PHEV

LG Uplus to provide infotainment service for Toyota's RAV4 PHEV

South Korean mobile telecom carrier LG Uplus Corp. has announced on Tuesday its plans to install its integrated infotainment (IVI) platform, the Upl...

Samsung Electronics, Naver partner to create simple payment service

Samsung Electronics, Naver partner to create simple payment service

Samsung Electronics Co. and South Korea's Naver Financial have formed a simple payment service alliance in which users of Samsung Pay can make simpl...

SK Signet lands first order in UK worth $7.7 million

SK Signet lands first order in UK worth $7.7 million

South Korea's SK Signet Inc., which produces ultra-fast chargers for electric vehicles (EVs), on Monday said its European branch SK Signet Europe in...

Blind revamps job matching service to rival LinkedIn

Blind revamps job matching service to rival LinkedIn

Teamblind Inc., the developer of South Korea’s homegrown anonymous professional community app Blind, will reach out to a broader job-seeking p...

Lexus, Volvo: Koreans' top picks among foreign brands in after-sales service

Lexus, Volvo: Koreans' top picks among foreign brands in after-sales service

Lexus, the premium brand of Japanese carmaker Toyota Corp., offers the best after-sales service among imported cars in South Korea, followed by Swed...

Three provincial airports in S.Korea offer direct flights to Mongolia

Three provincial airports in S.Korea offer direct flights to Mongolia

South Korea is expanding its number of flight connections with Mongolia.The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Sunday said it agreed ...

S.Korea's KT CS reports record sales in 2022

S.Korea's KT CS reports record sales in 2022

On Friday, KT Corp.'s customer service unit, KT CS, announced that its sales revenue for the previous year reached a record high of 591.6 billion wo...

SK Shieldus introduces EDR-specialized control, analysis services

SK Shieldus introduces EDR-specialized control, analysis services

South Korea's IT security service firm SK Shieldus made an announcement on Thursday that they will be providing control and operation, investigation...

Korea's Yoon presses banking, telecom sectors over inflation

Korea's Yoon presses banking, telecom sectors over inflation

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday called for measures to stabilize mounting price pressure caused by "oligopolies" in the banking an...

AMCHAM head James Kim joins Hyundai Mobis as outside director

AMCHAM head James Kim joins Hyundai Mobis as outside director

James Kim, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea (AMCHAM), is joining South Korea’s largest auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co....

NHN Cloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation's KCSP program

NHN Cloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation's KCSP program

South Korea's NHN Cloud announced on Wednesday that it had become a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP), which is a partner program created...

Bulgari, Tiffany sales soar at Korean department stores as weak won draws big spenders home Korea’s senior presidential secretary says won’s slide excessive, govt won’t stand idly by Samsung Biologics to buy its first US drug factory from GSK for $280 mn Samsung halts ultra-slim Galaxy Edge2 as iPhone Air stumbles Samsung, SK Hynix to beat TSMC in gross profit margin for memory business