Samsung’s Q4 earnings tipped at all-time high of over $14 bn; shares hit record high

Samsung’s Q4 earnings tipped at all-time high of over $14 bn; shares hit record high

Samsung Electronics Co. is on track to post its largest quarterly operating profit on record, underscoring the scale of the global memory semiconduc...

Lotte buys land beneath Lotte New York Palace building for $490 mn

Lotte buys land beneath Lotte New York Palace building for $490 mn

Lotte Hotels & Resorts, a South Korean luxury hotel chain, said on Monday that it had completed the purchase of the land beneath the Lotte New Y...

KPop Demon Hunters OST hits No. 3 on the Billboard 200; Stray Kids’ Do It lands at No. 4

KPop Demon Hunters OST hits No. 3 on the Billboard 200; Stray Kids’ Do It lands at No. 4

It was another milestone week for Korean music on the global stage, as the soundtrack to KPop Demon Hunters and Stray Kids’ newest album Do ...

KPop Demon Hunters Golden holds No. 2 on Hot 100; OST lands at No. 5 on Billboard 200

KPop Demon Hunters Golden holds No. 2 on Hot 100; OST lands at No. 5 on Billboard 200

In a year crowded with pop heavyweights and blockbuster releases, one unlikely contender keeps hanging on near the top of the charts — a ficti...

Samsung Heavy lands nearly $1.4 bn box-ship deal, boosting shares

Samsung Heavy lands nearly $1.4 bn box-ship deal, boosting shares

Samsung Heavy Industries Co., one of South Korea’s top three shipbuilders, has secured a landmark order for seven container carriers worth nea...

Golden from KPop Demon Hunters slips to No. 2 on UK Singles Chart

Golden from KPop Demon Hunters slips to No. 2 on UK Singles Chart

As the year-end chart race intensifies, Golden from Netflix’s animated film KPop Demon Hunters continued to resonate with UK listeners, landin...

ABL Bio lands $2.6 bn Eli Lilly deal, capping record year for S.Korean biotech exports

ABL Bio lands $2.6 bn Eli Lilly deal, capping record year for S.Korean biotech exports

ABL Bio Inc., a South Korean biotechnology company, has signed a $2.6 billion licensing and joint research agreement with Eli Lilly and Co. for its ...

Golden from KPop Demon Hunters rebounds to No. 3 on UK Singles Chart

Golden from KPop Demon Hunters rebounds to No. 3 on UK Singles Chart

Netflix’s animated blockbuster KPop Demon Hunters continues to shine on the UK’s Official Singles Chart — even as Taylor Swift's l...

POSCO Future M lands $470 mn anode deal with US carmaker

POSCO Future M lands $470 mn anode deal with US carmaker

POSCO Future M Co., South Korea’s leading battery materials maker, has bagged a 671 billion won ($470 million) deal to supply anodes to a US a...

K-beauty conquers Tokyo as Japan’s MZ generation falls under its spell

K-beauty conquers Tokyo as Japan’s MZ generation falls under its spell

TOKYO – Eri Takagi was one of the thousands who packed the Ariake Gymnastics Stadium in Tokyo last Saturday for Mega Cosme Land 2025, a K-beau...

KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack lands at No. 2 on Billboard 200, extends 13-week streak

KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack lands at No. 2 on Billboard 200, extends 13-week streak

The soundtrack to Netflix’s animated feature KPop Demon Hunters continues to show strong commercial momentum in the US music market, climbing ...

Hyundai E&C lands $3 bn seawater treatment plant deal in Iraq

Hyundai E&C lands $3 bn seawater treatment plant deal in Iraq

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. (Hyundai E&C), the construction company under South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, has bagged a $...

Korea’s retail giant E-Land mulls sale of some F&B brands

Korea’s retail giant E-Land mulls sale of some F&B brands

South Korea’s retail giant E-Land Group is considering restructuring its food and beverage (F&B) business by selling struggling dining and...

KPop Demon Hunters OST lands at No.6 on Billboard Hot 100

KPop Demon Hunters OST lands at No.6 on Billboard Hot 100

The original soundtrack Golden from Netflix’s hit animated movie KPop Demon Hunters has made chart history, becoming the first track by a virt...

South Korea’s Lee completes cabinet lineup with IT executive, lawmaker

South Korea’s Lee completes cabinet lineup with IT executive, lawmaker

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has tapped an information technology firm executive as culture minister and a ruling party lawmaker as land min...

SK Hynix leads Samsung in customized HBM; lands Nvidia, Microsoft deals

SK Hynix leads Samsung in customized HBM; lands Nvidia, Microsoft deals

SK Hynix Inc. has secured Nvidia Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Broadcom Inc. as key clients of its customized high-bandwidth memory (HBM), positioning ...

SpaceX’s Starlink, Eutelsat’s OneWeb land in Korea for LEO satellite services

SpaceX’s Starlink, Eutelsat’s OneWeb land in Korea for LEO satellite services

South Korea has officially cleared the way for low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet services, granting regulatory approval for SpaceX’s St...

Hyundai Rotem lands $301 mn Taiwan driverless train deal

Hyundai Rotem lands $301 mn Taiwan driverless train deal

Hyundai Rotem Co. has won a 420 billion won ($301 million) order to build autonomous electric trains for Taiwan’s Taichung Metro, adding to a ...

RedotPay lands in Seoul with crypto cards

RedotPay lands in Seoul with crypto cards

RedotPay, a Hong Kong-based blockchain fintech company, has arrived in South Korea with its cryptocurrency-based payment cards and is poised to disr...

ABL Bio lands $2.8 billion license-out deal with GSK

ABL Bio lands $2.8 billion license-out deal with GSK

ABL Bio Inc., a South Korean biotech company, will license out its proprietary blood-brain barrier shuttle platform, called the Grabody-B, to UK-bas...

Middle East: New land of opportunity for Korean medical devices

Middle East: New land of opportunity for Korean medical devices

South Korea is making inroads into the Middle East's medical device market dominated by the US and Europe, aiming to leverage the region’s str...

E-Land manages New Balance’s record $689 mn in Korean sales

E-Land manages New Balance’s record $689 mn in Korean sales

South Korea’s retail giant E-Land Group has achieved 1 trillion won ($689 million) in Korean sales of the global sports footwear and apparel b...

E-Land sets sights on Vietnam as its next China, to open 10 outlets by 2025

E-Land sets sights on Vietnam as its next China, to open 10 outlets by 2025

South Korea’s retail giant E-Land Group has set its sights on Vietnam as its next target market after China, planning to open 10 outlets there...

Korea Investment manages Vista Land $50 mn global bond issuance

Korea Investment manages Vista Land $50 mn global bond issuance

Korea Investment & Securities Co. announced on Thursday that its Hong Kong subsidiary KIS Asia managed the issuance of $50 million in global bon...

NCSOFT invests in Swedish game startup Moon Rover Games

NCSOFT invests in Swedish game startup Moon Rover Games

NCSOFT Corp., a South Korean game developer, said on Tuesday it has made an early stage investment of $3.5 million in Swedish game startup Moon Rove...

Korea’s taxi app i.M ties up with MK Group to land in Japan

Korea’s taxi app i.M ties up with MK Group to land in Japan

South Korea’s premium ride-hailing app i.M joined hands with Japan’s taxi operator MK Group to allow each platform's customers to use bo...

E-Land Retail to enter convenience store market

E-Land Retail to enter convenience store market

South Korea's E-Land Retail, the operator of Kim's Club, NC Department Store, and New Core Outlet operator, plans to enter the convenience store mar...

Middle East, land of dreams for South Korean IT firms

Middle East, land of dreams for South Korean IT firms

South Korea’s information technology and game companies are rushing to the Middle East to seek global growth drivers as the oil-rich countries...

Breezm lands in US with plan to open 100 stores in 5 years

Breezm lands in US with plan to open 100 stores in 5 years

Breezm, a South Korean startup making customized eyeglasses with artificial intelligence and 3D technologies, has opened its first offshore store in...

LF’s fashion brand Dunst teams up with E-Land for China push

LF’s fashion brand Dunst teams up with E-Land for China push

South Korean clothing company LF Corp. said on Monday that its street fashion brand Dunst will build an offline presence in China in partnership wit...

Woori Financial CEO Yim Jong-yong set for 2nd term after non-bank expansion Coupang’s $1.2 bn compensation package for data breach fuels backlash Samsung’s Q4 earnings tipped at all-time high of over $14 bn; shares hit record high Seoul to issue FX stabilization bonds from late January, taps 20 global banks NPS logs 20% return in 2025, extending record run on domestic equities