Kia Corp. on Aug 20 launched production of the compact electric sedan EV4 at its plant in Žilina, Slovakia. The EV4 represents Kia's first Europe-built model on the group’s EV-only Electric Global ...

Samsung Electronics Co. has recently notified major clients of an increase in DRAM prices by 15-30% for the fourth quarter, alongside a 5-10% hike in NAND flash prices, according to semiconductor ...

The US will make it harder for Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. to manufacture chips in China and upgrade production facilities there, threatening the two global memory chip leaders’ ...

Global asset manager BlackRock has bought a 30% stake in South Korea’s industrial gas supplier AirFirst Co. for 1.11 trillion won ($860 million) via its fourth infrastructure fund, according to people ...

Air Liquide SA, a French multinational industrial gas and services company, has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire South Korea’s DIG Airgas Co. from Macquarie Asset Management, in a deal ...

Hyundai Motor Group will invest 9 trillion won ($6.3 billion) to build an artificial-intelligence data center, robot manufacturing complex and hydrogen production base in South Korea, accelerating its ...

Affinity Equity Partners and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC have sold their entire stake in Kyobo Life Insurance Co., exiting from their investment in South Korea’s third-largest life insurer ...

LG H&H Co., South Korea’s second-largest cosmetics firm after Amorepacific Corp., has put its prized Coca-Cola bottling subsidiary and other beverage assets up for sale as part of sweeping ...

Samsung Heavy Industries Co., a major Korean shipbuilder, has made a breakthrough in its liquefaction technology for floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) production facilities, challenging ...

South Korea’s equities market is undergoing what investors dub a “renaissance,” as global investment banks steadily upgrade their outlooks on the Kospi benchmark stock index, while predicting a ...

South Korea’s biggest business group Samsung has sweetened the pot to win the technology talent war by lowering the bar for new hires of foreign students with Korean college diplomas. Samsung Group ...

Kyobo Life Insurance Co. is in the final stages of negotiation with Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc. to buy about a 50% stake in SBI Savings Bank, the largest savings bank in South Korea, ...