Dream Concert

K-pop K-pop stocks surge as China set to loosen cultural ban after 9 years

Shares in South Korea’s leading entertainment companies are rallying amid growing signs that China will likely lift its longstanding ban on Ko...

Automobiles Hyundai’s new American dream comes with new plant, more spending

ELLABELL, Georgia – When Hyundai Motor Group Honorary Chairman Chung Mong-koo opened the South Korean automaker’s first US plant in Alab...

Korean startups Everyone deserves a good night’s sleep: Munice CEO

Insomnia is a common clinical phenomenon in modern societies profoundly affecting many people’s health and well-being, and South Korean startu...

Korean startups Hudson AI dreams of a world without language barriers  

South Korean startup Hudson AI is striving to break language barriers with its artificial intelligence-powered voice dubbing technology, enabling gl...

Economy Vietnamese lead influx of foreign workers with Korean dream

On Aug. 31, 2004, 92 Filipinos, wearing T-shirts and white caps, entered Incheon International Airport determined to make money in South Korea and r...

Retail E-Mart’s No Brand success story: A Korean snack chain goes global

When South Korean convenience store operator E-Mart Inc. launched its low-budget house label No Brand in 2015, few thought it would last long.Under ...

Food & Beverage Lotte Chilsung Krush beer enters Mongolian market

South Korea's Lotte Chilsung Beverage announced on Friday that its beer brand Krush entered the Mongolian market. The company sponsored Davaida...

Travel & Leisure Lotte Tour's Jeju Island casino triples revenue

Jeju Dream Tower Casino, located on South Korea's top tourist island of Jeju and run by Lotte Tour Development Co., surpassed $6 million in cumula...

Tech, Media & Telecom Middle East, land of dreams for South Korean IT firms

South Korea’s information technology and game companies are rushing to the Middle East to seek global growth drivers as the oil-rich countries...

K-pop BTS agency HYBE logs record sales backed by albums, concerts

HYBE Co., the agency behind K-pop sensation BTS, last year logged the highest-ever annual revenue for a South Korean entertainment company, backed b...

Culture & Trends Anushka Sen, global celebs to ring in New Year in Seoul

Thousands of global celebrity infuencers, including Indian TV actress and model Anushka Sen, are set to ring in the New Year at a content festival i...

Entertainment TikTok to host offline concert in S.Korea

TikTok announced on Friday that it will hold its first-ever offline live concert, "TikTok Stage The Shout," in South Korea on the 9th of next month....

Mergers & Acquisitions Dongwon founder vows to acquire Korea’s top container line HMM

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

K-pop Samsung Elec denies rumor of Galaxy ads with Fifty Fifty

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-largest smartphone maker, has denied market rumors that K-pop rookie sensation Fifty Fifty will ap...

K-pop Blackpink to perform solo concert in Vietnam in July

K-pop Girl group Blackpink will hold additional performances of their world tour "BORN PINK" at My Dihn National Stadium in Vietnam on July 29-30, t...

Travel & Leisure S.Korea's Jeju Dream Tower Casino exceeds $7.6 mn in net monthly sales

Jeju Dream Tower Casino, located on South Korea's top tourist island of Jeju and run by Lotte Tour Development Co., broke the 10 billion won ($7.6 m...

Korean startups Korean AI startup ActionPower poised to outdo OpenAI, Google: CEO

ActionPower Corp. founded in 2016 is small and young compared to Big Tech companies or heavily funded startups like OpenAI but it is mighty enough t...

Corporate investment CJ dreams to build new kingdom in US with massive investment

CJ Group, a major South Korean conglomerate with a wide range of businesses spanning everything from food to bio, livestock feed, logistics, enterta...

Future mobility S.Korea's UAM group to develop tourism transportation on southern coast

Urban air transportation (UAM) in South Korea will open a tourism road on the country's southern coast, which is dubbed "the nation's Mediterranean ...

K-pop CJ’s K-culture event draws record-high numbers in Japan

CHIBA, JAPAN – A global K-pop concert hosted by CJ ENM Co., a South Korean entertainment powerhouse, heated up the venue in Japan with an audi...

ESG LS Group opens LS Dream Center in Hanoi for Korean-Vietnamese families

South Korea's LS Group said on Thursday that it has partnered with a domestic non-government organization (NGO) Cooperation and Participation in Ove...

Korean startups Asleep dreams big to help sleepless people worldwide find right treatment

Armed with artificial intelligence and big data technologies, Asleep hopes to find the best treatment for sleep-deprived people around the world wit...

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....

Companies HD Hyundai opens free in-house daycare center for up to 300 children

HD Hyundai Co., the owner of South Korea’s biggest shipbuilding group, opened an in-house daycare center at its new headquarters building in K...

Automobiles Hyundai autoworker: Dream job for many South Koreans

In South Korea, blue-collar work has for decades been shunned by job seekers because of the hard manual labor as well as the widely held perception ...

Carbon neutrality Hyundai Dream Tour partners with Air France-KLM for eco-friendly fuel

On Monday, Hyundai Dream Tour, a travel company affiliated with Hyundai Department Store Group, announced a partnership with Air France-KLM to promo...

Korean startups For the Korean 'Crazyones' who dream to beat Steve Jobs, Elon Musk

Many young entrepreneurs around the world dream to become the next Steve Jobs or Elon Musk -- industry legends who dramatically changed our daily li...

Entertainment Aespa's first VR concert unveiles at the US music festival

AmazeVR, a virtual reality (VR) concert production and distribution platform company, said on Friday that "Aespa VR Concert at Kwangya" was official...

Korean startups Samsung to unveil C-Lab startups, projects at CES 2023

Samsung Electronics Co. will showcase four projects and eight startups developed through its venture program C-Lab at CES 2023, the world's largest ...

Future mobility SK Telecom-led consortium to commercialize air taxis on Jeju Island

Come 2025, visitors to South Korea’s resort island of Jeju will be able to hail air taxis while there – thanks to special air routes ded...