general subscription

Aerospace & Defense Hanwha Aerospace, General Atomics to build unmanned aerial vehicles

Hanwha Aerospace Co., a leading South Korean defense company, has joined forces with US-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) to ...

Batteries Lotte to supply advanced copper foil to Doosan for Nvidia’s Blackwell

Lotte Energy Materials Corp., a leading South Korean battery materials maker, said on Tuesday it will supply advanced copper foil to Doosan Corp.'s&...

Korean chipmakers SK Hynix to produce HBM4 on 3 nm foundry process in 2025

SK Hynix Inc. will adopt the 3-nanometer process, the most advanced foundry technology available, to produce customized HBM4 chips in the second hal...

Automobiles Hyundai launches EV charging subscription in Indonesia

Hyundai Motor Co. said on Wednesday its launch of an electric vehicle (EV) charging subscription service for vehicle owners in IndonesiaSubscribers ...

North Korea North Korea Sent a Mystery Man to Lead Its Troops Fighting Ukraine

.video-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; } .video-container ifr...

Electronics LG to expand appliance subscriptions to India to speed up leasing business

LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, is considering expanding its subscription service into new overseas markets, such as I...

ASK 2024 Korean LPs tighten due diligence on general partners

In the wake of COVID-19, South Korean pension funds and insurance companies have placed a greater focus on asset managers' capabilities for post-inv...

Earnings LG Electronics logs highest-ever Q3 revenue

LG Electronics Inc. posted its highest-ever sales in the third quarter this year because of the updated home appliances business portfolio, which fo...

Automobiles Hyundai Transys tops JD Power's car seat quality evaluation

South Korea's Hyundai Transys Inc., an auto parts affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, said on Wednesday that it ranked first for the first time in the...

Regulations Korea tightens rules on Netflix, Spotify subscription billing

South Korea’s antitrust body is slated to tighten the leash on subscription businesses of streaming service providers such as Netflix Inc. and...

Robotics LG Elec launches CLOi robot subscription service

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Monday that it launched its Robot as a Service (RaaS) with CLOi robots starting this month.Business-to-business (B2...

Robotics Everybot buys AI mobility company hycore

South Korea's service robot company Everybot Inc. acquired AI robot mobility specialist hyCore to expand into the personal mobility sector. Everybo...

Artificial intelligence Conversational AI startup Rapeech attracts $4.4 mn investment

South Korean conversational artificial intelligence (AI) startup Rapeech announced on Sunday that it attracted an investment of 6 billion won ($4....

Economy In Korean food prices, everything’s up: Now it’s dried seaweed's turn

First, it was groceries. Then came fried chicken and hamburgers. Now, it’s seasoned seaweed products, chocolate and ice creams.As in other cou...

Corporate bonds Korean firms' bond sales hit record in Q1 amid rate cut signal

Corporate bond issuance in South Korea hit a record in the first quarter of this year amid growing expectations of the Federal Reserve’s rate ...

Earnings LG Electronics logs record-high revenue in Q1 on B2B push

LG Electronics Inc. raked in its largest-ever quarterly revenue in the first quarter of this year, maintaining upward momentum after a stellar 2023,...

North Korea Top US general sees changing nuclear threat from North Korea

COMMAND POST TANGO, South Korea—The top U.S. military official in South Korea said his thinking has changed on deterring North Korea’s n...

Petrochemicals LG Chem to close base chemical styrene monomer business

LG Chem Ltd., South Korea's No. 1 petrochemical company, will shut down its styrene monomer (SM) production line this month and is mulling closing a...

Investment banking Korea's NH Investment shortlists 3 CEO candidates

South Korean brokerage house NH Investment & Securities Co. has shortlisted three candidates for its next chief executive as the current CEO Jeo...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor mulls India unit IPO to raise $3 bn

Hyundai Motor India is in the early stages of talks to go public later this year to raise at least $3 billion, Reuters reported on Monday, as Hyunda...

Infrastructure STX to develop Gargoub port in Egypt with grain silos

STX Corp., a South Korean general trading company, is expected to develop a Mediterranean port in Egypt and build grain silos at the port, a move ex...

The KED View Beware political risk, No.1 factor in Korea Discount

Corporate governance and management transparency have long been the big issues influencing the so-called Korea Discount, alongside labor strife and ...

Steel POSCO Group chief: steel desperately needs corporate solidarity

South Korea’s POSCO Group on Tuesday said its Chairman Choi Jeong-woo presided over the regular meeting of the World Steel Association on Su...

IPOs Doosan Robotics attracts $24.8 billion from retail investors in IPO deposits

Doosan Robotics Inc., a unit of South Korea’s Doosan Group, has attracted billions of dollars from retail investors in subscription deposits f...

Robotics Doosan Robotics aims to draw $256 mn in IPO subscriptions

South Korea’s Doosan Robotics Inc. aims to attract an estimated 340.2 billion won ($255.8 million) in the initial public offering bookbuilding...

Automobiles Hyundai Transys' car seats rank in top 3 by US market survey

A leading US consumer satisfaction survey has ranked car seats made by South Korea’s Hyundai Transys in the top three for the fourth consecuti...

Electronics Samsung's Bespoke Qooker surpasses 200,000 units in sales

Samsung Electronics Co.'s Bespoke Qooker has exceeded cumulative sales of 200,000 units within two years since its launch.Bespoke Qooker is a vers...

Robotics LG Uplus announces expansion of robot business from serving to logistics

South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, LG Uplus Corp., said on Monday that it will expand its robot business from the existing serving se...

Batteries Kia to begin EV battery subscription service pilot project

South Korea's Kia Corp. said on Tuesday it has partnered with Hyundai Capital Services, Shinhan EZ General Insurance, the Seoul Taxi Association, Ha...

Korean chipmakers SK Hynix launches portable SSD Beetle X31

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, unveiled its latest product, the Beetle X31, a portable Solid State Drive (SSD) ...