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Beauty & Cosmetics Korea’s beauty retailer CJ Olive Young to open first US offline outlet

CJ Olive Young Corp., South Korea’s top beauty store chain, said on Tuesday it has set up a US business entity in Los Angeles to enhance its p...

Beauty & Cosmetics Korean cosmetics fly off shelves on Amazon, other e-commerce platforms

South Korean cosmetics are top picks among beauty products on Amazon.com and other global e-commerce platforms amid the growing popularity of K-beau...

Food & Beverage South Korea's hy to export Helicobacter Project Will to China

South Korea's hy, formerly known as Korea Yakult and a leader in dairy products, said on Monday that it started exporting its fermented milk product...

Beauty & Cosmetics CJ Olive Young, Musinsa rivalry heats up in Brooklyn of Seoul

South Korea’s top beauty chain CJ Olive Young Corp. is turning up the heat against Musinsa to contain the rise of the country’s No. 1 on...

Retail MBK puts Homeplus’ supermarket chain unit up for sale

MBK Partners, the North Asia-focused private equity firm, has put the supermarket chain unit of South Korea’s hypermarket operator Homeplus up...

Tech, Media & Telecom SK Broadband's Filmotalk surpasses 6.6 mn cumulative views

South Korea’s internet service provider SK Broadband Co. announced on Wednesday that the cumulative viewership of its offline film talk concer...

Beauty & Cosmetics CJ Olive Young opens Hongdae Town for K-beauty experience

CJ Olive Young Corp., South Korea’s top beauty store chain, announced on Thursday that it will open Olive Young Hongdae Town, a specialty stor...

Banking & Finance JPMorgan Chase’s growth driver: offline community branches

NEW YORK -- Global banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been expanding brick-and-mortar branches across the US with investments of billions of...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor to expand into secondhand EV market

Hyundai Motor Co. will expand its certified secondhand car business into electric vehicles (EVs) to increase the range of used vehicles it deals wit...

Beauty & Cosmetics LG H&H to boost marketing of makeup brands in Japan

South Korea's LG H&H Co. announced on Tuesday that it will boost marketing of its premium makeup brands "Glint by VDIVOV" (Glint) and "freshian"...

Entertainment TikTok to host offline concert in S.Korea

TikTok announced on Friday that it will hold its first-ever offline live concert, "TikTok Stage The Shout," in South Korea on the 9th of next month....

Retail MZers fuel Disney Store's boom in S.Korea's offline market

The Disney Store has become one of the hottest spots within Hyundai Department Store branches since the department store operator has opened three o...

Tech, Media & Telecom Naver integrates points program with Samsung Pay

The online money and points of South Korea's Naver Pay, an affiliate of the country's largest web portal Naver Corp., can now be used at offline sto...

Culture & Trends Are virtual idols the next big thing in K-content?

South Korea's booming virtual idol sector, which combines K-pop content and technology, is fueling interest on the enter-tech (entertainment and tec...

Earnings Brokerages cut E-Mart’s share price target after disappointing Q2

South Korea’s largest hypermarket chain E-Mart Inc., a unit of domestic retail giant Shinsegae Group, on Wednesday posted disappointing second...

Fashion S.Korea’s men’s fashion platform Deps launches offline store

Deps, a men’s fashion platform launched by South Korean fashion brand incubator Hago L&F, is accelerating its market offensive through the...

Metaverse LG Uplus to enter fashion metaverse

South Korea‘s LG Uplus Corp. has launched a fashion metaverse business, starting this month the clothing store Meta Slap, a digital service fo...

Blockchain BOK, Samsung to develop offline CBDCs using Galaxy devices

South Korea’s central bank and Samsung Electronics Co. have joined hands to further advance the country’s offline central bank digital c...

Beauty & Cosmetics LabGenomics, Amorepacific sign gene testing service supply deal

South Korea's molecular diagnostics company LabGenomics Co. announced on Monday that it has signed a gene testing service supply contract with Amore...

Korean food Korea Ginseng Corporation opens new R&D center in California

Korea Ginseng Corporation (KGC), a leading producer of Korean ginseng products, said on Wednesday that it has opened a new research and development ...

Blockchain BC Card applies for patent for offline asset authentication via NFT

South Korea's BC Card on Sunday said it applied for a domestic patent for a non-fungible token (NFT) that can verify a user's asset details using bl...

Food & Beverage S.Korea's KGC to spur ginseng sales in China with state-run CR Group

Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC), wholly owned by South Korean tobacco giant KT&G Corp., is set to accelerate sales of its ginseng products across Chin...

Beauty & Cosmetics S.Korea's Shinsegae Int'l secures domestic sales rights of Laura Mercier

South Korea's major retailer Shinsegae International said on Monday that it would acquire the exclusive domestic sales rights of Laura Mercier, a Fr...

Fintech Kakao to challenge Naver, Apple for offline payment services

South Korea’s largest mobile payment app KakaoPay has bought a stake in the country’s No. 1 electronic payment system provider, accordin...

Korean games South Korean gamers mobilize offline to make their voices heard 

Angered by what they deem to be an unfair rewards system and poor customer service, South Korean players of Kakao Games Corp.’s Japan-created ...

Retail Korea electronics retailers face headwind from e-commerce, dept. stores

South Korea’s major electronics retailers such as Lotte Himart are facing a headwind as more customers are buying home appliances online and d...

Entertainment K-pop shares rebound on return to offline concerts

Shares of major South Korean entertainment companies are on an upward trend this month. The rebound is thanks to eased COVID-19 restrictions leading...

Industrial devices Korea’s Point Mobile expands supply deal with Amazon to offline units

Point Mobile Co., South Korea’s top enterprise handheld devices maker, expanded a supply deal with Amazon.com Inc. to offline units of the wor...

Retail Shinsegae’s omnichannel strategy drives up share prices of key affiliates

South Korean retail conglomerate Shinsegae Group’s key affiliates are enjoying upward revaluation of share prices. Not only the market is faci...