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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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

North Korea North Korea dismisses South Korea’s move to improve ties as ‘absurd dream’

SEOUL—South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol sought to shake up frothy inter-Korean ties on Monday with what he called an “audacious plan....

Batteries Samsung SDI to run all-solid-state battery pilot line

Samsung SDI Co. is poised to become one of the few electric vehicle battery manufacturers in the world to run a pilot production line of all-solid-s...

Entertainment BTS, TWICE to lead restart of K-pop global live concerts

K-pop artists such as BTS and TWICE are set to resume global live concerts – suspended by the global pandemic for about two years – as c...