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Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of memory chips and smartphones, is creating a new division tasked with working out future ...

Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s third-largest automaker, is set to replace the heads of its auto parts and steel-making affiliates in an earl...

Moloco Inc., a Silicon Valley-based ad-tech solution startup, said Wednesday that its co-founder and Chief Executive Ikkjin Ahn was named one of the...

South Korea’s web portal giant Naver Corp. on Friday posted record sales and operating profit in the third quarter, driven by robust sales gro...

Park Chan-koo, former chairman of South Korea’s Kumho Petrochemical Group, has returned to the top position of Kumho Mitsui Chemicals Inc. as ...

Samsung Group has created the position of senior outside director, granted as much authority as the chair of a board of directors, for the first tim...

HO CHI MINH CITY – South Korean garment maker Hansae Co. expects to see decent growth in sales and profits next year despite the global clothi...

Sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corp. (KIC) is eyeing infrastructure and private debt in the era of higher-for-longer interest rates, while m...

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., will step up its efforts to outsmart ...

Back in the 1970s, the Middle East was where many South Korean companies longed to be as the region was the country's main source of foreign income....

In the semiconductor industry, it’s been quite a while since memory chips became a commodity, meaning so low an entry barrier that any chipmak...

South Korea's Hyundai Steel Co. is aiming to reduce its dependence on its affiliates Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. to become one of the world&rsqu...

When Ryu Junghoon was tapped as chief executive of Doosan Robotics Inc. two years ago, he vowed to turn the young robot-making company into an indus...

Former chief executives of South Korean firms are being recruited by their previous employers as the companies need the seasoned experience of these...

South Korea’s near-monopoly power company Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) is expected to raise electricity rates and lessen its outsized re...

South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae Inc. on Wednesday carried out one of its most drastic executive reshuffles, replacing chief executives of...

Dongwon Group, South Korea’s leading seafood and logistics conglomerate, has vowed to acquire HMM Co., the country’s top container ship ...

South Korea’s leading battery and materials makers on Monday shared their concerns about Chinese rivals’ ascent, but expressed confidenc...

Yasir Othman Al-Rumayyan, chairman of the world’s top oil company Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Aramco) and governor of the kingdom’s sovereign...

South Korea’s lubricating oil maker SK Enmove Co. is setting its sights on electric vehicle lubricants and liquid coolants for thermal managem...

MUNICH -- LG Magna e-Powertrain Co., a joint venture between South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. and Canada’s Magna International Inc., ha...

Corning Inc. has built its first integrated supply chain to produce next-generation, ultra-thin bendable glass in South Korea, where it plans to inv...

South Korea’s leading asset manager Mirae Asset Financial Group aims to enhance its presence in India by acquiring Sharekhan, the Southeast As...

South Korean pharmaceutical giant Celltrion Group has begun procedures to merge biopharmaceuticals developer and producer Celltrion Inc. with global...

South Korea’s four largest business conglomerates – Samsung, Hyundai Motor, SK and LG – will likely return as members of the count...

KT Corp., South Korea’s leading telecommunications carrier, reported better-than-expected earnings in the second quarter on strong results for...

South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals assembled its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) composed of world-renowned physicians and drug development experts...

South Korean security company SK Shieldus announced on Tuesday that it has appointed Hong Won-pyo, former president of Samsung SDS, as its new CEO a...

South Korea’s internet service provider SK Broadband Co. said on Friday it has tapped Park Jin-hyo, former chief executive at security affilia...

Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of the global luxury goods leader LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, is well known for sporting a full head of...