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Automobiles Hyundai CEO Muñoz named MotorTrend Person of the Year

South Korea’s top carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer José Muñoz was picked as the most powerful figure in the in...

Energy Power transformer sales explode on AI boom: HD Hyundai Electric CEO

Cho Seok, chief executive of HD Hyundai Electric Co., is an outsider at Korea Inc.When he was named CEO of the power equipment maker in December 201...

Tech, Media & Telecom Zuck’s Threads losing battle against Musk’s X in South Korea

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is losing a fight against Tesla CEO Elon Musk in the South Korean short-form social media platform sector.Threads, Meta&rsq...

Korean chipmakers Samsung to make Tesla’s fifth-generation HW 5.0 auto chip

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, will make Tesla Inc.’s next-generation Full Self-Driving (FSD) chips to b...

Business & Politics Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee, Tesla’s Elon Musk discuss tech alliance

Samsung Group leader Lee Jay-yong has met with Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk to discuss a tech alliance between the two companies in a variet...

Business & Politics Elon Musk reaffirms Korea among top candidates for Asia Gigafactory

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday that South Korea is still among its top candidates to build another ...

Aerospace & Defense Elon Musk’s SpaceX set for tie-up with KT SAT for Starlink service in Korea

  SpaceX, the rocket and spacecraft manufacturer founded by Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk, will likely join forces with KT Corp. to lau...

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...

Perspectives Elon Musk’s vision for Korean innovation isn’t crazy

For a “genius,” Elon Musk sure does say lots of mindless things. Yet on any list of the least crazy ideas from the Tesla founder, his take...

Electric vehicles Koreans buy $2.7 billion Tesla shares this year, favorite foreign stock

Tesla, Inc. was the investors’ choice in South Korea this year, ahead of other overseas stocks.According to the Korea Securities Depository he...

Business & Politics Tesla’s Musk names Korea among top candidate sites for Gigafactory

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday that South Korea is among its top candidates to build in Asia another Gigafactory, the US ele...

Mergers & Acquisitions Korea's Mirae Asset to invest $200 mn in Musk’s Twitter deal

Mirae Asset Financial Group is set to chip in some $200 million toward Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. in acquisiti...

Aerospace & Defense South Korea’s Mirae Asset Group bets $100 million on SpaceX

Mirae Asset Securities Co. is poised to invest $100 million in US spacecraft and satellite communication corporation SpaceX. The South Korean f...

Electric vehicles Kia Sportage speeds up Hyundai’s eco-friendly push

Kia Corp.'s Sportage plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) was recently recognized as the best model in the segment by two influential German auto ...

Healthcare Elon Musk’s mother Maye named Ceragem's global ambassador

Maye Musk, the mother of Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk, has been named the global ambassador for South Korea’s Ceragem Co., a manufacturer of therm...

M&As Edison CEO aspires to be Korea’s Elon Musk with Ssangyong takeover

Kang Young-kwon, chairman and chief executive of South Korea’s Edison Motors Co., was virtually unheard of in the country’s automobile i...

Aerospace & Defense S.Korean game behemoth invests $16 mn in Elon Musk's SpaceX

The founder of South Korea's leading game company Nexon Co. has invested $16 million in SpaceX, the aerospace company headed by Elon Musk, chief e...