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Mergers & Acquisitions SK Group in talks with Hahn & Co. to sell SK Siltron

SK Inc., the holding company of SK Group, is in talks with Hahn & Co., a South Korean buyout firm, to sell SK Siltron Co., the country’s s...

Korean games Netmarble gets tailwind from new titles, BTS comeback

Netmarble Corp., a leading South Korean gaming company, expects to gain new growth momentum from the launch of nine new titles and the anticipated f...

Korean food BTS Jin to enter liquor business

BTS Jin plans to enter Korean traditional liquor business with Baek Jong-won, founder and CEO of The Born Korea Co., the entertainment industry sour...

Earnings HYBE Q3 profit down; foresees better 2025 after BTS’ military discharges

HYBE Co., the K-pop behemoth behind BTS, suffered a double-digit profit fall in the third quarter amid an ongoing feud with Min Hee-jin, the creativ...

K-pop BTS Jin to open pop-up for solo album release

BTS Jin will open a pop-up titled “Running Wild to Happiness” from November 19 to December 1 at The Hyundai Seoul, marking the release o...

K-pop BTS Jin previews new song ‘I’ll Be There' ahead of release of his solo album

BTS Jin released “I'll Be There,” a preview track from his first solo album, on Friday, his agency Big Hit Music announced.“I'll B...

K-pop BTS Jin reveals track list of 6 songs for solo album 'Happy'

The title track of the first solo album to be released by BTS member Jin is “Running Wild,” his agency Big Hit Music announced on Thursd...

K-pop Stray Kids to perform at 50th American Music Awards

K-Pop boy band Stray Kids will perform at the American Music Awards, a major music awards show in the United States.The American Music Awards announ...

K-pop BTS Jungkook receives platinum certification from RIAJ

Boy band BTS' Jungkook's solo song “Seven - Explicit Ver.” has been certified “Platinum” in the streaming category by the Re...

Korean games Com2us BTS Cooking On surpasses 1 mn global downloads

South Korea's Com2uS Corp. announced on Monday that its new cooking simulation game, "BTS Cooking On: TinyTAN Restaurant," reached 1 million downloa...

Aerospace & Defense Hanwha Aerospace closes in on Romania’s howitzer deal

Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s major aerospace and defense system developer, is highly expected to bag a $920 million contract to supply ...

North Korea North Korea Sent Excrement Balloons. South Korea’s Response: Blasting BTS Hits.

SEOUL—After enduring days of balloon bombardment from the Kim Jong Un regime, South Korea countered with an airwaves assault of it...

Automobiles LG Innotek's Nexlide celebrates its 10th anniversary

South Korea's LG Innotek announced on Monday that it will accelerate its global expansion into the automotive lighting market to commemorate the 10t...

K-pop Innocean, HYBE opens BTS pop-up store in Bangkok

Innocean Worldwide Inc., the global marketing communications arm of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Friday that it opened a large-scale BTS-themed...

Entertainment Netmarble sells stake in BTS label HYBE for $161 mn

South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp. is selling a stake in HYBE Co., the label behind global K-pop sensation BTS, for 219.9 billion won ($161...

Korean games S.Korean game developers to utilize idol group IPs

Kakao Games Corp., a game publishing unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., signed a licensing deal with SM Entertainment Co. to utilize idol ...

Economy BTS, Blackpink economy: Korea’s IP rights trade surplus hits record high

While the economic impact of US singer Taylor Swift is so powerful that pundits coined words like “the Taylor Swift economy,” no less st...

Electronics Samsung tops global soundbar market for 10th consecutive year

Samsung Electronics Co. has held its ground as the leader in the global soundbar market for ten consecutive years, from 2014 through 2023, according...

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...

Korean stock market Netmarble sells 6% stake in BTS label HYBE in block deal

South Korea’s leading game developer Netmarble Corp. said on Tuesday it sold a 6% stake in HYBE Co., the music label behind K-pop sensation ...

K-pop All seven BTS members to renew contracts with HYBE

All seven members of BTS are set to renew contracts with their current label HYBE Co. for the second time, allowing their fans across the world to e...

Travel & Leisure S.Korean travel guide featuring BTS published

The Korea Economic Daily (KED) on Tuesday released The Purple Road, a tourist guide of South Korea highlighting places where the seven members of ...

Batteries IS Dongseo buys EV battery recycling firm BTS Technology

IS Dongseo Co., a South Korean waste management company, has acquired Slovakia-based battery recycling company BTS Technology Ltd. for 37.5 billion ...

K-pop BTS’ ‘Boy With Luv’ surpasses 1.7 billion YouTube views

The number of YouTube views of the group BTS' "Boy With Luv" music video exceeded 1.7 billion, the agency Big Hit Music said on Tuesday.The music vi...

K-pop BTS’ Jungkook tops Billboard’s global charts for 4th consecutive week

BTS’ Jungkook’s solo debut single “Seven” topped the US Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. US charts for four consecutive...

K-pop BTS label HYBE to wholly own K-pop band Enhypen agency

HYBE Co., the agency of K-pop sensation BTS, is slated to acquire a controlling stake in music label Belift Lab Inc. as South Korean entertainment p...

Entertainment BTS Suga becomes honorary employee of Samsung

BTS member Suga (Min Yoon-gi), who used to shout "Only Galaxy," has now become a member of Samsung Electronics Co.'s marketing team. Suga posted a p...

K-pop BTS member Jungkook’s solo single ‘Seven’ tops Billboard Hot 100

BTS member Jungkook's first solo single, "Seven," has debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.This is only the second time in K-pop...

Automobiles No subsidy, no problem: Hyundai, Kia make top 10 US list for EV sales

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. in the first half of the year were among the top 10 in sales of battery electric vehicles (EVs) in the US despite re...

Culture & Trends BTS’ Beyond the Story tops NYT bestseller list

BTS' first official book "Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS", published in celebration of 10th Anniversary, topped the New York Times bestse...