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Air Busan Co., a South Korean low-cost carrier, targets record earnings with more international flights, especially to neighboring China and Japan, ...

South Korea’s semiconductor industry is more vulnerable to economic and industrial shifts in its key export markets than those of its rivals T...

Lotte Group, a South Korean retail-to-chemical conglomerate, is set to launch a corporate venture capital (CVC) business in Silicon Valley, the glob...

South Korea is embroiled in a heated debate on a program to recruit domestic helpers from Southeast Asia at lower rates than those paid to their Kor...

Foreigners reported a record purchase of South Korean shares despite a global economic slowdown, as money moved from the US and Europe into emerging...

Sartorius AG, a global pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment supplier, plans to spend $600 million on its first facilities in South Korea, about s...

Seoul has again grabbed the attention of global fashionistas as Italian fashion house Gucci on Tuesday night finally staged its belated Korean fashi...

Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC), wholly owned by South Korean tobacco giant KT&G Corp. , announced on Thursday its participation in the "2023 TFWA Wor...

South Korea's leading low-cost carrier (LCC) Jeju Air Co. posted record-high performance in the first quarter. Industry analysts say domestic LCCs w...

Seoul is slated to welcome domestic helpers from Southeast Asia later this year to ease the burden of childcare and address issues surrounding Korea...

SINGAPORE - Southeast Asia with a youth population constituting about one-third of the region’s total population and surging internet penetrat...

Hanyang Corporation Ltd., a South Korean construction firm, will join forces with German industrial gases and engineering company Linde AG to create...

South Korea’s major cable manufacturer LS Cable & System Ltd. has completed the construction of Asia's largest high-voltage direct curre...

South Korean generative AI startup Wrtn Technologies unveiled Wrtn Japan, its Japanese version generative AI platform, during the "Generative AI Asi...

Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers, the South Korean member firm of global accounting industry leader PwC, aims to focus on overseas acquisition deals of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday that South Korea is still among its top candidates to build another ...

Indonesia-based food tech startup, Green Rebel Foods, made public its official entry into the Korean plant-based protein food market. Bryan Toh, Glo...

Major chemical companies in South Korea, such as SK Geo Centric (formerly SK Global Chemical), Lotte Chemical Corp. and Lotte Fine Chemical, are par...

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. is expected to enhance its presence in Indonesia, which has drastically reduced its value-added ...

South Korea's Lotte Department Store seeks to attract foreign tourists amid Golden Week holidays in Southeast Asia.Tourists from the region are expe...

South Korean English education company, Yoon's English School, has signed a business agreement with Thai education firm, EduPark, to expand its pres...

Nudge Healthcare, a startup that runs the South Korean health management app Cashwork, on Wednesday said it secured its first investment of 30 billi...

South Korea's state-run Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS) has joined hands with JERA, a Japan-based global liquefied natural gas (LNG) corporation, in the wak...

South Korean low-cost airlines have started expanding their flight routes. It is based on the expectation that there will be a significant incre...

South Korea's NongHyup, or the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, announced on Wednesday that it has opened an office in Vietnam with pla...

KG Mobility, previously known as Ssangyong Motor Co., announced on Friday its alliance with Vietnam's Kim Long Motor, a subsidiary of the Futa Group...

JAKARTA – On a hot spring day in March, Lotte Mart’s Gandaria City Mall hypermarket was as bustling with shopping Indonesians as usual.I...

Hanwha Vision (formerly known as Hanwha Techwin) announced on Thursday its participation in SECON 2023, the largest integrated security exhibition i...

South Korean pharmaceutical company Kwangdong Pharmaceutical announced on Monday that it has signed a contract with Hong Kong-based Zhaoke Ophthalmo...

South Korea is expected to log another year of record defense exports in 2023 thanks to growing military budgets across the world as local major arm...