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Beauty & Cosmetics Korea launches $27 mn fund to invest in K-beauty startups

South Korea’s Ministry of SMEs and Startups on Thursday announced the launch of a 40 billion won ($27 million) fund to invest in Korean beauty...

Electronics Hanmi Semiconductor to retire $90 mn treasury shares in May

Hanmi Semiconductor Co. on Thursday announced a plan to retire 130.0 billion won ($90 million) worth of treasury shares in May, marking its largest-...

Airlines Korean Air resumes Incheon-Kumamoto flights after 27 years

Korean Air Lines Co. said on Monday that it relaunched the Incheon–Kumamoto route on November 24, offering seven weekly services.The route, la...

Electric vehicles Hyundai unveils Initium hydrogen FCEV concept, set to arrive in 2025

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday unveiled a new hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) concept, previewing its ne...

Airlines Jeju Air launches new Batam, Bali routes

Jeju Air Co., South Korea's leading low-cost carrier (LCC), said on Tuesday that it will launch the routes to Batam and Bali, Indonesia. It's t...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor releases Casper Electric teaser images

Hyundai Motor Co. on Tuesday released a teaser image of the electrified model of its first city sports utility vehicle (SUV) The Casper Electric.T...

Airlines Jeju Air, Lion Air codeshare Incheon-Bali route

South Korea’s budget carrier Jeju Air Co. announced on Tuesday that it signed a codeshare agreement with Indonesia's largest low-cost airline,...

Travel & Leisure Hanatour makes turnaround through restructuring, premium packages

When IMM Private Equity Inc. acquired a 16.68% stake in South Korea’s top travel agency Hanatour Service Inc. for 128.9 billion won ($95.7 mil...

Korean innovators at CES 2024 LG Display to premiere 480Hz gaming OLED at CES 2024

LG Display Co., the world’s leading organic light-emitting display (OLED) maker in South Korea, will showcase its premium OLED gaming panel se...

Korean food CJ CheilJedang to boost K-Street Food exports

Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. is seeing major success with its "K-Street Food" line, a selection of iconic Korean street snacks with global...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor reveals facelift of G80 sedan

Hyundai Motor Co.'s premium brand Genesis released a facelift of its signature large sedan G80 on Tuesday. This car is the revamped third-generatio...

Automobiles Hyundai, Kia’s car exports to top 2 mn units for 1st time in 7 years

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., South Korea’s two largest automakers, are set to export more than 2 million cars in 2023 for the first time i...

Food & Beverage Unwavering whiskey fad in Korea, held up by mass-market spirits

The whiskey hype, which started during the COVID-19 pandemic, shows no sign of receding in South Korea, and the latest craze, mainly driven by affor...

Korean chipmakers DRAM contract prices rebound after 27 months on rising demand

DRAM contract prices rebounded for the first time in more than two years last month amid the recovery in the consumer electronics market.The price g...

Tech, Media & Telecom Korea’s LG telecom unit to launch logistics platform service

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, is poised to launch a platform service that will digitally transform the local logistics s...

Electronics LG Electronics unveils new gaming monitor tailored for LoL

LG Electronics Inc. 's new LG UltraGear gaming monitor is optimized for both performance and design and customized for the world-famous multiplayer ...

Tech, Media & Telecom Naver raises S.Korean market lead thanks to LLM HyperCLOVA X

South Korea’s leading web portal Naver Corp. has raised its domestic market share, which plummeted to the mid-50% range in May, thanks to Hype...

Tech, Media & Telecom LG Group seeks new partners in Silicon Valley’s startup scene

South Korea’s LG Group seeks new partnerships with global ventures to strengthen its new growth engines, such as batteries, biopharmaceuticals...

Automobiles S.Korea's new hybrid car registrations in May exceed diesel's for first time

The number of newly registered hybrid cars in South Korea overtook that of diesel cars for the first time thanks to consumer focus on such models,...

Bio & Pharma S.Korea's i-Sens buys US glucose-measuring device maker for $27 mn

South Korean maker of diabetes-related devices i-Sens Inc. on Wednesday announced its planned acquisition of AgaMatrix, an American manufacturer of ...

Artificial intelligence Samsung Galaxy may use Bing as default search engine, not Google

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-largest smartphone maker, is considering switching the default search engine for its Galaxy mobile...

K-pop HD Hyundai moves K-pop gala to Busan for World Expo bid

South Korea’s HD Hyundai Co. will move an annual K-pop concert to Busan this year to support the city’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo....

Aerospace & Defense Hanwha Systems begins developing active protection system for combat vehicles

South Korea's defense and IT service company Hanwha Systems Co. will develop core technology for an active protection system (APS), or state-of-the-...

Bio & Pharma Celltrion's Truxima shows safety, efficacy in post-marketing study

South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. reported on Wednesday that its biosimilar drug Truxima (rituximab), a generic version of Roche...

ESG HMM joins UNGC to strengthen ESG management

HMM Co., a South Korean container shipping company formerly known as Hyundai Merchant Marine, said on Monday that it has joined the United Nations G...

Korean startups Medical platform operator Integration raises $8 mn in Series B funding

Integration Inc., which operates specialized platforms for medical personnel such as Traditional Korean Medicine doctors and dentists, has raised 10...

Korean startups KT Investment injects $27.8 million in 20 startups this year

KT Investment said on Thursday that it invested 35 billion won ($27.8 million) in 20 startups this past year, and that six invested companies succee...

Korean food Kimchi exports to US reach record high of $27 million so far this year 

Exports of kimchi to the United States increased steadily to reach a record high of $26.7 million worth of the fermented dish between January and No...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor Co. to ship 27 hydrogen Xcient trucks to 7 firms in Germany

Hyundai Motor Co. is poised to ship 27 of its Xcient Fuel Cell hydrogen trucks to seven German companies by the year’s end, following a simila...

Real estate Commercial real estate market in Seoul shrinks in H1 2022

The commercial real estate market in Seoul slowed this year, according to a report by South Korean online property platform RSquare. The sum of the ...