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L'Oréal, the world's largest cosmetics group, announced on Wednesday that it is recruiting digital and innovative technology companies to p...

Asian private equity firm MBK Partners has dropped out of a plan to back 300 billion won ($217.9 million) for South Korean budget airline Air Premia...

Hanwha Systems Co., a South Korean aerospace and defense contractor, has been picked as a preferred developer by the state-run Korea Institute for D...

Shinhan Financial Group Co. is upping the ante in the Vietnamese financial market to further widen the gap with rivals as the country’s leadin...

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest carmaker after its sibling Hyundai Motor Co., has upped the stakes in China and the US to bolster its ...

South Korea's micro-satellite startup Nara Space Technology Inc. announced on Friday that it was selected as one of the top-100 climate tech startup...

SAN DIEGO – Samsung Biologics Co. is enjoying a stream of contract development and manufacturing order inquiries from big pharmaceutical compa...

South Korea outstripped Japan in terms of per capita gross national income (GNI) for the first time in 2023, central bank data showed, with the Japa...

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries announced on Wednesday that it obtained Approval in Principle (AIP) from Lloyd's Register for the design of a...

Perpetual bond offerings by non-financial firms in South Korea are poised to hit new records this year as many companies have flocked to the hybrid ...

NASHVILLE – Some 60 km south of Nashville, the capital of Tennessee, lies a huge plant churning out battery cells that will eventually land in...

Deloitte Korea, which operates accounting firm Deloitte Anjin LLC and consulting service provider Deloitte Consulting LLC, announced a reshuffle wit...

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C) has broken ground on South Korea’s first hydrogen production plant using water el...

South Korean biotech Bertis Inc. will deliver presentations at the BIO International Convention, one of the world’s largest bio and healthcare...

South Korean non-performing loan (NPL) managers are increasing fundraising through corporate debt issuance given an outbreak of bad loans amid highe...

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Wednesday that it launched its AI-based pet diagnostic assistance service X Caliber in Australia and has b...

South Korea will strengthen regulations on the conversion prices of convertible bonds (CBs) to protect stakeholders from excessive share dilution, t...

South Korea's Hancom Inc. announced on Monday that Facephi, a Spain-based AI biometric recognition company in which Hancom had recently acquired equ...

SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, plans to introduce customized services to connect major large language models (LLMs) and cor...

ULSAN, South Gyeongsang Province – At a petrochemical plant run by SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s largest oil refiner, Spot, a robot d...

Samsung Electronics Co. and Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) announced on Friday that they signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, plans to unveil a new high-capacity NAND memory chip in the second half to lead...

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, will speed up its private equity (PE) investments ...

South Korea's Korean Air Lines Co. announced on Monday that it will build an artificial intelligence (AI) contact center (AICC) platform in collabor...

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group on Monday unveiled detailed plans for its 4.6 trillion won ($3.4 billion) new headquarters, or...

South Korean conversational artificial intelligence (AI) startup Rapeech announced on Sunday that it attracted an investment of 6 billion won ($4....

South Korea's KB Kookmin Bank announced on Friday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the National Bank of Cambodia to establish...

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE), the parent of the world’s No. 1 shipbuilder, is accelerating its offshore wind po...

Meritz Financial Group Inc., boasting the fourth-biggest market capitalization among South Korean financial holding companies, will look into an acq...

South Korea’s Taeyoung Group, which is undergoing a debt workout of its construction unit, is considering selling a four-star hotel and releva...