BTS’ Anpanman rises to top of Billboard chart 7 years after release

Few would have expected a B-side released in 2018 to resurface at the top of a Billboard chart in late 2025. Yet BTS’ Anpanman, long familiar ...

GEPS seeks brokerage firms for global equities, bonds trading in H1, 2026

South Korea’s Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS) is seeking brokerage firms to handle overseas asset trading for the first half of 20...

K-beauty poised for next global growth push, into Middle East, Latin America

South Korea’s cosmetics makers are accelerating their expansion into the Middle East and Latin America, regions rapidly emerging as powerful n...

After stellar 2025 performance, Kospi’s bull run likely to hit 5,000 in 2026: EpicAI

South Korea’s brokerages are growing increasingly confident that the country’s benchmark Kospi stock index will surge toward 5,000 next ...

Sale of chicken chain Norang Tongdak restarts on renewed foreign interest

Interest from several foreign investors, including firms in Taiwan and Hong Kong, has revived the stalled sale of Korean chicken chain Norang Tongda...

GM Korea’s vehicle sales collapse to record low as Chinese EV maker BYD pulls ahead

The South Korean affiliate of US auto giant General Motors Co. saw its vehicle sales in November fall below 1,000 units – the lowest figure si...

SK Hynix mulls treasury-share-backed ADR listing on NYSE in fresh value-up initiative

SK Hynix Inc., one of the world’s top memory chipmakers, is looking into a plan to list American depositary receipts (ADRs) backed by its trea...

Korean films No Other Choice and KPop Demon Hunters each earn 3 Golden Globe nominations

Two Korean titles — Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice and Netflix’s animated feature KPop Demon Hunters — have each captured ...

Morgan Stanley PE Korea head Michael Hwey Hoon Chung steps down after 2 decades

Michael Hwey Hoon Chung, managing director at Morgan Stanley and head of Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia's (MSPEA) South Korean operations, is ...

KPop Demon Hunters OST ranks No. 2 on Spotify’s most-streamed albums of 2025

It began as a passionate project tied to a cult-favorite animated film — and now has become one of the world’s most-streamed bodies of m...

Transcend warns of surging costs as NAND supply from Samsung, SanDisk in dire shortage

Transcend Information Inc., a Taiwan-based memory module maker, has warned customers that soaring component shortages have doubled its manufacturing...

Johns Hopkins University, IFEZ to host global biotech innovation summit in Korea

Johns Hopkins University will bring prominent figures from the US and South Korea’s life-science communities together in Songdo on Thursday fo...

Korea's culture‑tech wave begins with KPop Demon Hunters: LB Investment

Netflix’s mega-hit animated film KPop Demon Hunters has become a model of South Korea's cultural and technology innovation success as K-conten...

Doosan Bobcat seeks to acquire Germany’s Wacker Neuson valued at $2.3 billion

Doosan Bobcat Co., a global construction machinery maker owned by South Korea’s Doosan Group, is seeking to acquire Wacker Neuson SE, a German...

Korean department stores recast themselves as global content platforms

South Korea’s largest department stores are quietly dismantling the old formula for going global. Rather than staking out pricey real estate o...

Seoul pushes exporters to convert dollars; NPS extends FX swap with BOK

South Korea's financial authorities said on Monday it will begin regularly monitoring the dollar conversion of export-oriented companies and tighten...

Domestic stock surge puts NPS on pace for 3rd consecutive record year

The National Pension Service (NPS) is on pace for a third straight year of record returns, powered by a surge in semiconductor and artificial intell...

Google-Nvidia AI showdown sets up Samsung, SK Hynix as big winners

As Google Inc. steps up its challenge to Nvidia Corp.’s grip on the artificial intelligence accelerator market, the ripple effects are positio...

S.Korea’s top shipyards ride container ship boom as China stumbles

South Korea’s shipbuilder giants are enjoying their strongest container ship cycle in nearly two decades, with this year’s order tally a...

KIC picks IMM Investment, Dominus in 1st Korean PEF mandate for global M&As

Korea Investment Corp. has selected IMM Investment Corp. and Dominus Investment LLC. for its first-ever commitment to homegrown private equity manag...

Korean regulator moves to discipline MBK amid Homeplus investment dispute

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) on Nov. 21 issued MBK Partners a prior notice of disciplinary action, including a potential ...

Europe’s loan market gains momentum on revival in deals: M&G Investments

Following a slowdown between late 2022 and the end of 2023, Europe’s broadly syndicated loan (BSL) market has regained powerful momentum. Tota...

Samsung Display prevails in OLED patent battle with China’s BOE

Samsung Display Co., the panel-making arm of Samsung Electronics Co., has won a years-long patent fight with China’s BOE Technology Group, cle...

CHA Bio Group acquires Kakao Healthcare to advance into AI-based digital health segment

CHA Bio Group, the parent of CHA Biotech Co., South Korea’s leading stem cell therapeutics developer, has agreed to acquire control of Kakao H...

G-Dragon ranks among 21st century’s best dressers, only Asian artist on list

G-Dragon has again reaffirmed his status as a global fashion icon. The South Korean superstar was the only Asian artist to appear on Complex Network...

Hyundai, Samsung, SK, LG vow massive domestic investment

South Korea’s top four conglomerates — Samsung, Hyundai Motor, SK and LG — are cranking up domestic investment as Asia’s No....

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...

Taekwang, TPG team up to bid for K Shipbuilding in high-stakes sale

Taekwang Group has joined forces with TPG to acquire K Shipbuilding Co., marking the South Korean conglomerate’s boldest return to major dea...

Private credit defies volatility; mid-market lending still the sweet spot: Monroe Capital

Deglobalization, driven by trade protectionism, deregulation and reshoring, is reshaping the investment landscape, with the US undergoing its most s...

In Korea, it’s time to go public; IPOs roaring back as big names line up to list

South Korea’s moribund initial public offering (IPO) market is springing back to life with a wave of high-profile companies set to go public, ...