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Korean food China under spell of Korean spicy instant noodles; Samyang leads  

South Korea’s spicy instant noodles are poised to captivate China, the world’s largest ramen market, with their shipments to the neighbo...

Corporate restructuring SK Ecoplant seeks to sell waste treatment business for $1.4 billion

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company under SK Group, is seeking to dispose of its waste treatment b...

Batteries SK Ecoplant, BMW team up for battery recycling

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company under SK Group, partnered with German luxury carmaker BMW to...

Food & Beverage Samyang Foods to establish overseas plant in China

South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. said on Monday it will build its first overseas plant in China. The company plans to invest 64.7 billion won ($...

Food & Beverage Samyang Foods releases export-only ramyun brand in Thailand

South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. said on Wednesday it launched the new export-only ramyun brand Mep in Thailand. Mep is the second brand for the...

Food & Beverage Samyang Foods Buldak Topokki enters Walmart in US

South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. said on Monday its Buldak Topokki entered Walmart stores in the US.Available in Original and Carbo (carbonara) fla...

Food & Beverage Samyang enters Australia, New Zealand with allulose approval

South Korean chemical and food ingredient manufacturer Samyang Corp. said on Wednesday that it has become the first allulose producer to secure appr...

Logistics Kakao Mobility, Samyang Logistics partner on fulfillment services

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s most popular ride-hailing app operator, said on Monday that it partnered with logistics firm Samyang Logis...

Food & Beverage Samyang Foods' Buldak Ramen gets K-food Safety certification

South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. said on Thursday its Buldak Ramen (hot chicken flavor ramyun) received the domestic production certification K-food ...

Chemical Industry HD Hyundai OCI supplies recycled tire materials to Hankook Tire

HD Hyundai OCI, the petrochemical affiliate of HD Hyundai Oilbank, said on Tuesday it started to supply Hankook Tire & Technology with recycled ...

Chemical Industry LG Chem opens Europe Innovation Center in Germany

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd., the world’s fourth-largest chemicals manufacturer, said on Sunday the opening of its Europe Innovation Center in F...

Electronics Samsung Display gets quantum dot ink recycling tech

South Korea's Samsung Display said on Monday it developed technology to recycle quantum dot (QD) ink, aiming to improve cost competitiveness in its ...

Automobiles Kia unveils car accessory made from ocean plastic waste

Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, said on Tuesday it introduced a trunk liner (mat) for the EV3, made from ocean plastic wast...

Travel & Leisure Lotte Hotels & Resorts to upcycle used PET bottles

South Korea's Lotte Hotels & Resorts said on Friday that it will collaborate with Lotte Chilsung Beverage and Lotte Chemical Corp. to establish ...

Petrochemicals Sambark LFT rebranded as Lotte Engineering Plastics

Sambark LFT Co., a plastic materials producing unit of Lotte Chemical Corp., has changed its name to Lotte Engineering Plastics Co., the company sai...

Food & Beverage Samyang to cement lead in South Korean allulose market

Samyang Corp., a 100-year-old South Korean chemical and food ingredient-manufacturer, is poised to cement its leadership in the Korean allulose mark...

Companies Samyang Roundsquare to recruit foreign interns

Samyang Roundsquare, the holding company of South Korea's Samyang Group, said on Friday that it recruits foreign interns with the potential for full...

Korean food Samyang Roundsquare holds 'Buldak Ferry Party' in Denmark

Samyang Roundsquare, formerly known as Samyang Foods Group in South Korea, announced on Friday that it held a consumer event called the "Buldak Spic...

Batteries Hyundai Glovis, Huayou join hands for EV battery recycling

Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, has teamed up with a unit of China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt...

Companies SK Chemicals, Kooksoondang to develop CR-PET container

South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. and South Korean traditional rice-based wine brewery Kooksoondang Co. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on T...

Batteries Korea to keep track of EV battery life cycles for recycling

The South Korean government will monitor electric vehicle (EV) battery life cycles to share information on the lifespan, performance and accident hi...

Food & Beverage Lotte Chilsung to reduce plastic usage by 20% by 2030

South Korea’s Lotte Chilsung Beverage announced on Thursday that it plans to reduce plastic usage by 20% by 2030 by decreasing the weight of p...

Construction LX Hausys Benif receives EPD certification

South Korea's LX Hausys Co. announced on Thursday that its interior film product Benif obtained the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certific...

Batteries Hyundai Glovis, EcoPro team up for EV battery recycling business

Hyundai Glovis Co., the logistics unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, and EcoPro Co., the country’s leading electric vehicle batt...

Corporate restructuring SK embarks on business overhaul to focus on mainstays

South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group has embarked on a reshuffling process to focus on core units such as semiconductors and bat...

Korean stock market Samyang tops Korean ramen makers by market cap, beating Nongshim

South Korean food maker Samyang Foods Co., globally renowned for its Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen, saw its stock hit a record high on Friday after it de...

Batteries Hyundai Glovis to build waste battery management in Jeju

South Korea's Hyundai Glovis Co. will establish a management system for used electric vehicle (EV) batteries in Jeju Island. The company anno...

Chemical Industry SKC to build world's top biodegradable plastic plant in Vietnam

SKC Ltd., a chemicals arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group, said on Sunday its biodegradable material unit has broken g...

Waste management SK Geo reconsiders extent of $1.3 bn plastic recycling plant project

South Korea’s SK Geo Centric Co. is reconsidering how much it will invest in a planned $1.3 billion waste plastic recycling complex project in...

Healthcare Korea’s booming medical tourism: Skin care, plastic surgery in demand

The number of foreign patients visiting South Korea for medical tourism hit a record high last year, driven by those who traveled to Korea for skin ...