Korean Air, Asiana to increase award seats ahead of merger
Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc. are set to increase award seats while revising their membership terms and conditions to help customers...
Seoul zeroes in on high tech for US business alliance
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is off to a smooth start on his six-day state visit to the US this week, which is expected to pave the way for ...
In South Korea, innovation is subject to regulatory approval
In a country like South Korea with few natural resources to run its economy, innovations or brilliant business ideas are crucial to its survival.It ...
SocGen dumps Korean stocks, likely due to client margin calls
Société Générale S.A. (SocGen) on Monday dumped South Korean shares sending their prices to daily limit lows, which loca...
Korean E-Land unites fast fashion units for China biz growth
South Korea’s major retailer E-Land Group has consolidated one of its fast fashion brand's operations at home and in China to accelerate growt...
Samsung Display to use waste glass in cement to erect new HQ
South Korea's Samsung Display will use recycled cement using waste glass from the display production process to build a new headquarters.The company...
Celltrion Healthcare enters top 10 in hospital prescriptions in Turkey
South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Healthcare Co. on Thursday said it ranked in the top 10 out of 400 companies last year on the Turki...
Indonesia's Green Rebel enters S.Korean alternative meat market
Indonesia-based food tech startup, Green Rebel Foods, made public its official entry into the Korean plant-based protein food market. Bryan Toh, Glo...
Nexon Games’ Blue Archive surpasses 1 million pre-registrants in China
South Korea’s Nexon Games Co. on Wednesday said the number of pre-registrants for its strategy role-playing game Blue Archive exceeded one mil...
K-pop group Astro's Moonbin found dead in his apartment
Moonbin, a member of K-pop group Astro, has died, South Korean police said on Thursday.According to the police and the music industry, his manager f...
South Korea to Probe Circumstances Around Reported Leak of Classified U.S. Documents
SEOUL—A South Korean official said the government was investigating the circumstances around a leak of highly classified U.S. documents that a...
South Korea’s MSCI campaign has time problem
It’s that time of year again, when South Korea turns on the charm offensive to impress the gang at MSCI to win developed market status.And Presi...
Korean game sector looks to cute girls to lure new users
South Korea’s game makers rushed to launch games with cute girl characters to allure fans of Japanese animation as cartoons for the subculture...
Singapore-based Qoo10 acquires South Korean e-tailer WeMakePrice
The Singapore-based e-commerce platform Qoo10 has acquired South Korea's online shopping site WeMakePrice, making Qoo10 fourth in domestic online co...
SK C&C partners with Storm Ventures to discover promising B2B startups
South Korean IT services company SK C&C announced on Wednesday a partnership with American venture capital firm Storm Ventures to discover and c...
South Korea's Kosdaq Global Index set to add more stocks
Financial investment sources on Wednesday said Korea Exchange on March 31 conducted a regular review on listing more companies on the Kosdaq Global ...
SeAH rolls out S.Korea's first 24-inch STS steel pipe production line
South Korea's SeAH Steel Corp. through an expansion has the nation's largest plant for stainless steel (STS) welded steel pipe measuring 60.9 cm (24...
South Korea groans under snowballing national liabilities
South Korea’s liabilities ballooned last year following heavy fiscal spending related to the COVID-19 pandemic to buttress growth in Asia...
Time for South Korea's answer to the US battery subsidy act
The latest guidelines on US subsidies for electric vehicles under the Inflation Reduction Act come as a relief in every sense to South Korean batter...
U.S., South Korea Vie Over Extradition of Crypto Fugitive Do Kwon
The U.S. and South Korea are both seeking to extradite captured crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon from Montenegro, authorities in the tiny European nation...
Budget Galaxy A34 5G to be released in domestic market
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will release the budget smartphone Galaxy A34 5G in the domestic market starting tomorrow.The ...
LINE, Mizuho call off plan to set up mobile-only bank in Japan
LINE Corp. and Mizuho Financial Group’s plan to introduce an internet-only bank in Japan has fallen through about five years after they unveil...
CJ undertakes educational programs for ethnic minorities in Vietnam
South Korea's CJ Group announced on Wednesday that it will undertake a "Second Girls Education Project" for the Vietnamese ethnic minority.The proje...
South Korean beef poised for export to Malaysia by end-April
South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on Tuesday the successful conclusion of negotiations with Malaysia, allowing...
S.Korean crypto fugitive Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro
The fugitive South Korean cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon, responsible for the more-than-$40 billion crash in the global virtual currency market last y...
SK On, EcoPro, China’s GEM to jointly build precursor factory
South Korea’s electric vehicle (EV) battery major SK On Co. will build a precursor plant at home with a Korean partner, EcoPro Co., and China'...
South Korea’s births fall to record low in January
South Korea’s births fell to a fresh low in January, while the number of deaths reached its record high, statistics data shows, signaling an a...
Wave Lifestyle Tech signs MOU with Saudi gov't to expand robot business
Wave Lifestyle Tech, a South Korean foodtech robot company, said on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia’...
ISS, Glass Lewis urge shareholders to veto activist fund's requests on JB
Proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. are urging shareholders of JB Financial Group Co., a South Ko...
Naver D2SF invests in 3D avatar-based communication startup
Naver's startup-nurturing organization, D2 Startup Factory (D2SF), announced on Wednesday its investment in Goodgang Labs, a company focused on de...
