Nürburgring 24 Hours

Earnings KB Financial logs 61% profit growth, rebounding from ELS fiasco

KB Financial Group Inc. on Thursday reported a 61% jump in first-quarter profit, led by a nearly threefold rise in earnings at its flagship unit Koo...

Real estate Korea’s top property asset manager IGIS Asset’s controlling stake up for sale

South Korea’s top real estate asset management firm IGIS Asset Management Co. plans to sell a controlling stake owned by the heirs of the comp...

Business & Politics South Korea’s president apologizes for martial law

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol apologized to the public for causing “discomfort and anxiety” with his martial law declaration on ...

Electric vehicles Gensis launches motorsport team to race in high-performance segment

Hyundai Motor Co.'s premium brand Genesis on Wednesday launched a racing team and unveiled a motorsports prototype to raise its presence in the glob...

K-pop K-Pop group ATEEZ tops Billboard 200 for 2nd Time

K-pop group ATEEZ  has claimed their second No. 1 spot on Billboard's main album chart, the Billboard 200, with their latest mini-album, Golden...

Logistics CJ Logistics opens cold-chain logistics center in Georgia

South Korea's CJ Logistics said on Thursday that it completed the construction of a large-scale cold-chain logistics center in the US and has begu...

K-pop Rose’s music video ‘APT.’ surpasses 300 mn views on YouTube

The music video for “APT.”, featuring girl group Blackpink's Rose in a duet with pop star Bruno Mars, has surpassed 300 million views on...

Korean chipmakers Samsung primed for graphics chip leadership with 24 Gb GDDR7

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has unveiled the industry’s first 24 gigabit (Gb) graphics DRAM chip, opt...

Robotics HL to acquire French parking robot firm Stanley Robotics for $24 million

HL Group, the construction-to-auto parts conglomerate in South Korea, will acquire the world’s sole outdoor self-driving parking robot-produci...

Tech, Media & Telecom S.Koreans log most hours on YouTube worldwide

YouTube was the most popular app among South Korean smartphone users, a study found, logging the most hours on the video streaming platform worldwid...

Electronics LG Elec to unveil AI home hub ThinQ ON at IFA

LG Electronics Inc. said on Thursday that it will unveil LG ThinQ ON, the home appliance industry's first AI home hub equipped with generative artif...

Electric vehicles Lamborghini unveils 1st plug-in hybrid SUV Urus SE in Korea

Italian sports car maker Lamborghini S.p.A. on Tuesday unveiled the Urus SE, its first plug-in hybrid super sport utility vehicle, in South Korea, t...

Food & Beverage Bibigo releases 3D ad in New York Times Square

CJ CheilJedang Corp.'s Korean food brand Bibigo announced on Thursday that it launched a large-scale outdoor 3D advertisement for the Bibigo brand i...

Foreign exchange Korean won hits 15-year low in Q2 amid FX, economic uncertainty  

The South Korean currency fell to its lowest level against the US dollar in 15 years in the second quarter amid growing uncertainties surrounding gl...

Energy Doosan Enerbility to supply SMR parts to NuScale Power

Doosan Enerbility Co., a leading South Korean power plant engineering company, is slated to supply nuclear reactor equipment to Nuscale Power Corp.,...

Automobiles Hankook Competition to participate in Nürburgring 24 Hours

Hankook & Company Co., Hankook & Company Group's business holding company, announced on Wednesday that its sponsored motorsport team Hankook...

Shipping & Shipbuilding HD Hyundai Marine Solution builds ship smartcare center in Busan

South Korea's HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co. established an HD SmartCare Busan Center for ship lifecycle management services and begun full-scale op...

Banking & Finance Korean banks broaden horizons to Mexico, Poland, Africa

South Korean banks are broadening their horizons beyond Asia into Mexico, Poland and Africa in step with Korean manufacturing companies’ globa...

Shipping & Shipbuilding Samsung SDS taps generative AI to counter logistics risks

Samsung SDS Co., the information technology service unit under Samsung Group, actively incorporates generative artificial intelligence and machine...

Earnings Korea Investment sees record quarterly net profit

Korea Investment & Securities Co. enjoyed a record quarterly net profit on the course to become the country's most profitable brokerage house ...

Electric vehicles EVs in S.Korea exceed 500,000

The cumulative number of electric vehicles (EVs) registered in South Korea exceeded 500,000 last year.The number of EV chargers supplied domesticall...

Korean startups Money pours in for technology to reshape Korean restaurants

Investors are betting big on food service technology startups in South Korea as the adoption of self-service systems in the country’s food and...

Korean games Netmarble Arthdal Chronicles pre-registration surpasses 1 mn

South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp. said on Tuesday that the pre-registration of its upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing ga...

Bio & Pharma Drug maker Boryung targets its highest-ever sales in 2024

Boryung Corp., formerly Boryung Pharmaceutical Co., aims to join the 1 trillion won ($748 million) sales club this year, driven by new chronic disea...

Electronics LG releases StanbyME speaker in global market

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday that it released its portable StanbyME speaker in the global market. The StanbyME speaker is dedicated to ...

Tech, Media & Telecom S.Koreans watch YouTube over 40 hours a month

South Koreans spend more than 40 hours per month on YouTube, according to the study on Monday.Wiseapp·Retail·Goods, the domestic appli...

Electronics Samsung’s mobile AI journey ‘just getting started’: TM Roh

For Samsung Electronics Co., the Galaxy S24 series is not just an upgrade to its previous flagship models. It’s an evolution that opens a new ...

Electronics Samsung foldable panel gets US military certification

Samsung Display announced on Monday that its 7-inch foldable panel, used in the latest generation of foldable phones, completed the demanding MIL-ST...

Banking & Finance Shinhan Card Kazakhstan arm attracts $24 mn investment

Shinhan Finance, a subsidiary of South Korea's Shinhan Card in Kazakhstan, has attracted a 31 billion won ($24 million) investment from local car de...

Korean startups Korea’s 1st institutionalized fractional art offering a smash hit

South Korea’s first institutionalized fractional investing in a work of art proffered by Yeolmae Company, operator of South Korea’s frac...