South Korea Business & Industry

Physical AI Emerges as Next Investment Theme

Physical AI, integrating robots with AI-driven perception and control, emerges as the next investment theme, with the global market projected to grow ...

Korean Retail Investors Snap Up 10% of U.S. DRAM ETF After 45% Rally

Korean retail investors bought 10% of inflows into the U.S.-listed Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM), which surged 45% in its first month, outpacing domesti...

Samsung Overhauls TV Business with Content, Platform Focus

Samsung Electronics replaced its TV business head in an unusual May reshuffle, appointing platform expert Lee Won-jin to lead a shift from hardware to...

Shinhan Bank's Data Security Investment Falls 9%

Shinhan Bank's data security investment fell 9.1% to 31.6 billion won last year, while its information protection staff declined to 96, according to i...

BGF Retail Delivers Emergency Relief to Sejong Fire Victims

BGF Retail, operator of CU convenience stores, delivered over 10,000 emergency relief items to residents of a 1,430-household apartment complex hit by...

Breaking News: Hanwha Group Crosses 5% Stake in KAI, Cites Management Participation

Hanwha Group's stake in Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has surpassed 5% after additional share purchases, with the conglomerate citing management pa...

Corporate Disclosures

Korean corporate disclosures on May 4 include Hanwha Ocean's 507.4 billion won ammonia carrier order, HD KSOE's 504.8 billion won gas carrier order, a...

Lotte Chilsung Q1 Operating Profit Surges 91% on Broad-Based Growth

Lotte Chilsung Beverage reported Q1 operating profit of 47.8 billion won, up 91.2% year-on-year, driven by growth in beverage, liquor, and global busi...

Pan Ocean Posts Earnings Surprise in Q1 Despite Off-Season

Pan Ocean posted Q1 operating profit of 140.9 billion won, up 24.4% year-on-year, beating market estimates as Chairman Kim Hong-kuk's long-term portfo...

Food, Retail Companies Deliver Warm Children's Day Gifts Nationwide

Raon Private Ardie in Yongin Platform City Opens First-Come-First-Served Contracts

Raon Construction has opened first-come-first-served contracts for Yongin Platform City Raon Private Ardie, priced in the mid-700 million won range fo...

Kiwoom Asset Management CEO Joins Campaign to Eradicate Youth Cyber Gambling

Kiwoom Asset Management CEO Kim Ki-hyun joined the Seoul Metropolitan Police's relay campaign to eradicate illegal cyber gambling among youth, nominat...

POSCO Holdings Jumps 10% on Earnings Surprise, Tops 500,000 Won in Two Years

POSCO Holdings shares surged 10% after first-quarter operating profit jumped 24.4% year-on-year to 700 billion won, beating consensus as subsidiaries ...

Hanmi Semiconductor to Showcase 2.5D Packaging TC Bonder at SEMICON Southeast Asia

Hanmi Semiconductor will showcase its 2.5D TC Bonder 40 and 120 at SEMICON Southeast Asia 2026 in Kuala Lumpur from May 5-7, targeting global OSAT cus...

Samsung Taps Ex-Google Executive Lee Won-jin to Lead TV Business

Samsung Electronics has appointed former Google executive Lee Won-jin as head of its Visual Display Division, aiming to shift the TV business from har...