rare earth metals

The Chinese government has warned South Korean companies of retributions for exporting any product containing its critical metals to US military con...

With South Korean retail investors joining the global gold rush in ‘fear of missing out’, or FOMO, the country’s gold price has ...

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company under SK Group, partnered with German luxury carmaker BMW to...

South Korea's Samhwa Paint Industrial said on Wednesday that it has introduced a new water-based primer, Knok-Stop, designed to convert rust on meta...

SEOUL—A North Korean diplomat posted in Cuba defected to South Korea with his family late last year, officials said this week, a rare esc...

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) announced on Tuesday that it will provide $150 million in project financing (PF) for developing a rare ea...

South Korea’s largest zinc smelter Korea Zinc Co. is accelerating its efforts to terminate its decades-long business relations with parent You...

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. have partnered with South Korea's universities to secure materials for vehicle electrification components.Hyundai Mo...

Korea Zinc Inc., South Korea’s and the world’s No. 1 lead and zinc smelter, will build its second research and development center, which...

TOKYO – SoftBank Corp., which runs LY Corp., the operator of the popular mobile messenger app Line in Japan, said on Thursday it is in talks w...

Korea Zinc Inc., the world’s largest lead and zinc smelter, acquired Kataman Metals LLC, a US-based scrap metal trading company, at $55 millio...

Samsung Bioepis Co., a biosimilar development unit of South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung Group, has begun its new drug development busines...

South Korea’s Doosan Enerbility Co. said on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Pelagus 3D, a Singapore-based p...

SK Hynix Inc., the world's second-largest memory chip producer, announced on Tuesday that it has established a medium- to long-term plan to utilize ...

Global lithium-ion battery major LG Energy Solution Ltd. will invest in Sion Power Corp., a US startup holding core patents in lithium-metal battery...

POSCO Holdings Inc. will build a highly purified rare gas-producing joint venture in South Korea with Zhongtai Cryogenic Technology Corp. from China...

SES AI Corp., a high-performance battery maker backed by several global automakers such as GM and Hyundai Motor Co., has moved one step closer to co...

Korea Zinc Inc., South Korea’s and the world’s largest lead and zinc smelter, will accelerate its drive to foster its new growth engines...

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) have developed a lithium-metal batt...

South Korea’s non-ferrous metal company Young Poong Co. has teamed up with AJ Networks to establish a secondary batteries resource circulation...

The main payload satellite Next-Generation Small Satellite 2" of the Nuri, launched on May 25, has been confirmed to be operating perfectly, as anno...

South Korean pharmaceutical company Handok Inc. on Wednesday said it signed a deal with Dutch immunology specialist Argenx to sell the latter's Vyvg...

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will unveil the lifestyle TV "The Frame Disney 100th Anniversary Edition." This edition, comme...

South Korea is far more dependent than Japan on neodymium permanent magnets from China at 88%, while the rate for Japan, a land devoid of rare earth...

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s No. 2 battery maker, and Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co., the global refined cobalt leader, have launched a ce...

South Korean pharmaceutical company Kwangdong Pharmaceutical announced on Monday that it signed an agreement for securing exclusive sales and distri...

Kia Corp. said on Thursday that it has officially launched its pop-up store of e-sports "Earth 6A3" in Seongsu-dong, Seoul.  With a primar...

Busan Equity Partners (BEP), a South Korean private equity firm, is partnering with Philippine mineral development company PGMPI to develop overseas...

South Korea's Samsung Bioepis has received approval in Europe to sell a biosimilar of Soliris, a drug for the treatment of adult and children patien...

South Korea’s POSCO Group and SKC will jointly develop a dream lithium metal cathode material for commercialization by 2026 under a strategy t...