Krafton, Naver and Mirae Asset to launch up to $740 million Asia tech fund in India push

Krafton, Naver and Mirae Asset to launch up to $740 million Asia tech fund in India push

Krafton Inc., South Korea’s leading game developer, said on Friday it will join forces with Naver Corp., the country’s dominant internet...

HD Hyundai seeks to build India shipyard to diversify production footprint

HD Hyundai seeks to build India shipyard to diversify production footprint

HD Hyundai Co. is seeking to build a new shipyard in India’s Tamil Nadu state as South Korea’s largest shipbuilding group moves to diver...

Seoul taps Mirae Asset's Park, Celltrion's Seo to co-lead $102 bn National Growth Fund

Seoul taps Mirae Asset's Park, Celltrion's Seo to co-lead $102 bn National Growth Fund

South Korea has asked two of its most prominent billionaire entrepreneurs – Mirae Asset Group Chairman Park Hyeon-joo and Celltrion founder Se...

Korea's culture‑tech wave begins with KPop Demon Hunters: LB Investment

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...

North Korean hacking group Lazarus blamed for $30 million crypto exchange Upbit heist

North Korean hacking group Lazarus blamed for $30 million crypto exchange Upbit heist

South Korean authorities have pinned responsibility for a 44.5 billion won ($30 million) hack on Upbit, the country’s largest cryptocurrency e...

SK Hynix turns HBM chips into snack chips in playful tie-up with 7-Eleven

SK Hynix turns HBM chips into snack chips in playful tie-up with 7-Eleven

If you’ve ever wondered what cutting-edge memory tastes like, SK hynix now has an answer — honey-banana. The chipmaker has teamed up wit...

Samsung bolsters technology leadership with engineer-heavy executive reshuffle

Samsung bolsters technology leadership with engineer-heavy executive reshuffle

Samsung Electronics Co. has placed two of its most seasoned engineers, TM Roh and Jun Young-hyun, at the top of the company in dual leadership, unde...

S.Korea’s biosimilar giant Celltrion pledges $2.7 billion investment at home

S.Korea’s biosimilar giant Celltrion pledges $2.7 billion investment at home

South Korea’s Celltrion Inc. plans to invest 4 trillion won ($2.7 billion) in its domestic biopharmaceutical operations over the next three ye...

NPS targets North America, Europe, India for real estate expansion

NPS targets North America, Europe, India for real estate expansion

The National Pension Service (NPS) will continue to expand its real estate portfolio in North America, Europe and India, targeting residential, logi...

KIC on track for record year as US tech rally boosts returns

KIC on track for record year as US tech rally boosts returns

The Korea Investment Corp. (KIC) posted an 11.73% return on investments as of the end of September, buoyed by a sustained rally in US technology sto...

Samsung’s new Exynos AP chip to power half of Galaxy S26 series

Samsung’s new Exynos AP chip to power half of Galaxy S26 series

Samsung Electronics Co. will equip about half of its upcoming Galaxy S26 flagship smartphones with its latest Exynos 2600 application processor (AP)...

Samsung to invest $110 mn in Grail to bring early-cancer test to Asia

Samsung to invest $110 mn in Grail to bring early-cancer test to Asia

Samsung Electronics Co. and Samsung C&T Corp. will invest $110 million in US biotech firm Grail Inc., marking one of the South Korean conglomera...

S.Korea’s beauty devices on a roll on record foreign medical spending

S.Korea’s beauty devices on a roll on record foreign medical spending

Shares of South Korea’s beauty device makers are soaring as foreign visitors flock to Seoul’s upscale Gangnam district, where luxury ski...

Samsung’s Android-powered XR headset to debut in October

Samsung’s Android-powered XR headset to debut in October

Samsung Electronics Co. will finally launch its long-awaited extended reality (XR) device next week, upping the ante in a global XR race led by larg...

US data analytics giant Palantir CEO meets with Korean tech chiefs behind curtain

US data analytics giant Palantir CEO meets with Korean tech chiefs behind curtain

Alex Karp, chief executive of US data analytics giant Palantir Technologies Inc. on Tuesday held a string of tightly guarded meetings with the chief...

Korean investors splurge $1.24 bn on US tech, crypto in holiday risk frenzy

Korean investors splurge $1.24 bn on US tech, crypto in holiday risk frenzy

South Korean investors spent their weeklong Chuseok holiday Oct. 3-9 chasing risk rather than rest, splurging $1.24 billion on US tech and crypto as...

South Korean banks turn to India as post-China growth frontier

South Korean banks turn to India as post-China growth frontier

South Korea’s top commercial banks are stepping up their presence in India, betting on the world’s most populous nation as global invest...

Korea Exchange to cut trading fees for 1st time in 2 decades as Kospi soars past 3500 to record high

Korea Exchange to cut trading fees for 1st time in 2 decades as Kospi soars past 3500 to record high

The Korea Exchange (KRX) will slash stock trading fees by up to 40% in December, marking the first overhaul of its pricing structure since the bours...

LG Electronics eyes completion of Indian unit’s IPO process by October

LG Electronics eyes completion of Indian unit’s IPO process by October

LG Electronics Inc. has moved ahead with the long-delayed initial public offering of its wholly owned Indian subsidiary, aiming to complete the proc...

OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 integrated into Korea’s top mobile chat app KakaoTalk

OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 integrated into Korea’s top mobile chat app KakaoTalk

US artificial intelligence firm OpenAI Inc.’s latest generative AI platform GPT-5 will be available on KakaoTalk, South Korea’s No. 1 mo...

HYBE sets up 5th overseas unit in India to expand K-pop idol system 

HYBE sets up 5th overseas unit in India to expand K-pop idol system 

HYBE Co., South Korea's entertainment powerhouse behind the global sensation BTS, has established its fifth overseas unit in Mumbai, India as part o...

Samsung leads conglomerates in entry-level hiring for future growth

Samsung leads conglomerates in entry-level hiring for future growth

South Korea's business titan, Samsung, and its peers are stepping up recruitment of fresh graduates, wagering on a new generation of workers to driv...

S.Korea to scale up National Growth Fund to $110 bn with high-tech focus

S.Korea to scale up National Growth Fund to $110 bn with high-tech focus

South Korea will scale up the National Growth Fund to 150 trillion won ($110 billion) from the originally planned 100 trillion won to accelerate inv...

Google to blur South Korean security sites on mapping services

Google to blur South Korean security sites on mapping services

Google Inc. will remove geographic coordinates of South Korea’s security locations and blur sensitive sites on its maps and Google Earth to ad...

CJ ENM to enter India's OTT market via Amazon’s free streaming platform

CJ ENM to enter India's OTT market via Amazon’s free streaming platform

CJ ENM Co., South Korea’s entertainment powerhouse, is set to release its hit drama series on Amazon MX Player, an ad-based free over-the-top ...

Car sharing: appealing option among Korean MZers as young drivers shun ownership

Car sharing: appealing option among Korean MZers as young drivers shun ownership

Owning a decent car was long a status symbol in South Korea, particularly among young people.Such days are gone. Now, those in their 20s and 30s, mo...

Shinhan Financial bets on stablecoins, AI in digital overhaul  

Shinhan Financial bets on stablecoins, AI in digital overhaul  

Shinhan Financial Group Co., South Korea’s largest financial firm, is stepping up efforts to integrate stablecoins and artificial intelligence...

Harman sells system integration unit to Wipro to sharpen audio focus

Harman sells system integration unit to Wipro to sharpen audio focus

Harman International Industries Inc., wholly owned by Samsung Electronics Co., has sold its digital transformation solutions (DTS) unit to India&rsq...

POSCO, JSW to build 6 million-ton steel plant in India

POSCO, JSW to build 6 million-ton steel plant in India

South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO Group has agreed with JSW Steel Ltd. to build an integrated steel mill with an annual capacity of 6 mil...

Korean retail investors pile up Hong Kong shares on China tech surge

Korean retail investors pile up Hong Kong shares on China tech surge

South Korean mom-and-pop investors are pouring into the Hong Kong stock market this year, chasing a rally in blue-chip Chinese tech names, with thei...

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