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Automobiles Kia releases 2025 model year of Carnival

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, said on Monday it will release The 2025 Carnival, a model year of its large recreational ve...

Leadership & Management Hanwha’s heir apparent to unearth new drivers, tighten grip

Hanwha Group has appointed the eldest son of Chairman Kim Seung-youn to lead the investment division of the group’s eco-friendly energy unit i...

Economy Korea’s food prices highest among OECD nations; utility bills at bottom

South Korea’s food prices were found to be the highest among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries last y...

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...

Economy Burger, chicken franchises raise prices after elections

Fried chicken and hamburger franchises in South Korea have sharply bumped up their food prices following the parliamentary elections last week as th...

Leadership & Management Samsung’s Lee cleared of charges over Samsung C&T merger

The Seoul Central District Court on Monday acquitted Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee of charges of being involved in illegal activities ...

Automobiles Hankook Tire unveils all-season tire Kinergy XP in N.America

South Korea's Hankook Tire & Technology announced on Wednesday that it will launch its all-season grand touring tire Kinergy XP in the North Ame...

Shipping & Shipbuilding Korean shipbuilders tighten grip on ammonia carrier market

South Korean shipbuilders continued to win very large ammonia carrier (VLAC) orders, expanding their shares in the global eco-friendly vessel market...

Corporate restructuring Kakao to tighten grip over units, rethink horizontal culture

Kim Beom-soo, founder and chairman of South Korea’s largest mobile platform Kakao Corp., said on Monday it will abandon its autonomous managem...

E-commerce Live commerce app Grip aims to expand into Japan, US in 2024

Imagine you're using a shopping app. You talk to the seller, ask questions and receive answers in real-time on a livestream video. Now and then, the...

Supply chain Korea’s heavy dependence on China for raw materials deepens

While the urea crisis in 2021 laid bare South Korea’s heavy dependence on China for basic raw materials, concerns are growing that Korea&rsquo...

Economy Treasury yield falls signal BOK's looser grip on inflation

The yield on South Korea’s benchmark three-year treasury bonds has stayed below the base rate for a month, out of sync with monetary policies ...

Banking & Finance Kookmin Card acquires Cambodian leasing firm at $5.2 mn

KB Kookmin Card, a credit card unit of KB Financial Group, and its Cambodian local subsidiary KB Daehan Specialized Bank, acquired the Southeast Asi...

Korean chipmakers Samsung cuts H2 chip sales outlook by a third, gripped by sense of crisis

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has slashed its outlook for second-half semiconductor sales revenue by a third ...

Corporate restructuring Hyundai Mobis to spin off parts, module units amid revamp talk

South Korea’s largest auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co. is poised to spin off two of its major units that make car parts and modules into sep...

Mergers & Acquisitions Voice Caddie, Daol PE acquire US golf grip brand SuperStroke

Voice Caddie, a South Korean maker of golf course rangefinders and related golf products, and Daol Private Equity are jointly acquiring SuperStroke,...

Batteries China’s tighter grip on minerals boosts costs for Korean battery makers

South Korea’s major battery makers and materials suppliers are suffering from soaring battery raw materials prices as China is tightening its ...

Mergers & Acquisitions Korean PE firm in exclusive talks to buy golf grip brand SuperStroke

South Korea's Daol Private Equity, formerly known as KTB Private Equity, is in exclusive talks to buy the entirety of SuperStroke, a US golf grips m...

Venture capital Live commerce platforms like Grip to keep growing in Asia Pacific: Google

In April 2021, there were some 200 unicorns in the Asia Pacific region, second only to the United States which had 290 startups each valued at $1 bi...

Batteries China’s tighter grip on supply chain hurts Korean battery makers

While the recent urea crisis laid bare South Korea’s heavy dependence on China for the basic raw material, concerns are growing that the count...

Mergers & Acquisitions Kakao buys startup Grip, fueling e-commerce push

South Korea's Kakao Corp. has acquired a live streaming e-commerce app Grip Co. to beef up its online shopping business, considered the weakest spot...

Corporate restructuring SK Group’s holding firm to absorb SK Materials in corporate restructuring

SK Inc., the investment and holding company of SK Group, will absorb SK Materials Co., the group’s industrial gas manufacturing affiliate, in ...

Samsung Group Jay Y. Lee tightens grip on Samsung with increased stake in key affiliate

Jay Y. Lee, the heir of Samsung Group, has bolstered his grip on South Korea’s largest conglomerate by inheriting half his late father’s...

E-commerce Live commerce app Grip aims to take over the world via shopping

There's an app where users can shop as if they're video chatting with their friends. How does this work? A seller will introduce products via livest...

Korean startups Live commerce app Grip posts over $22 mn in transactions

South Korea-based live commerce app Grip saw its cumulative transaction amount surpass 24 billion won ($22.2 million), just two years after its ince...

Alternative investments Korea to tighten grip on brokerages’ alternative investments

South Korean brokerage firms' alternative investments worth over $50 billion will come under tight control, after reckless investment in overseas real...