East Asia

SK geo centric, a chemical unit of the SK Group, is investing 400 billion won ($308.4 million) to add a fourth plant that will produce high value-added chemical material ethylene acrylic acid (EAA) in China....

Korea will materialize supply chain cooperation with Japan for chips and seek joint investment as part of the country's plans to restore bilateral relations hurt by export restrictions and the domestic market....

Korean prosecutors will seek the extradition of Do Kwon, 32, the Terraform Labs co-founder behind a $40 billion implosion, after he was arrested in Montenegro on Thursday....

Samsung Display and its labor union failed to reach an agreement over pay and working hours on Thursday, according to industry sources....

LG Energy Solution will invest 7.2 trillion won ($5.57 billion) in building battery plants in Arizona, the company announced Friday. The battery maker will spend 4.2 trillion won to build a 27-gigawatt-hour production facility for cylindrical batt......

Saudi Arabia's Aramco signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Samsung Electronics to localize industrial 5G communication networks and facilitate digital transformation....

Lotte is reestablishing its brand identity and is unprecedentedly hiring a CEO from outside the group, while simultaneously pushing the group chairman's son into the business. Lotte Confectionery, which was named by late founder Shin Kyuk-ho......

Jimin from boy band BTS showed his true...

The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has essentially given its partners in the region room to make choices, said a top Indonesian official visiting Seoul on Friday. "The IRA is likely [about] protecting their own country, we leave it to them......

The U.S. military made public a set of photos of Sunday's training, hours after the North's state media reported the country had carried out drills involving an underwater nuclear attack drone and cruise missile launches earlier this week....

Singer and actor Park Ji-hoon is set to release his seventh album "Blank or Black" on April 12, announced his agency Maroo Entertainment on Friday. The first teaser image released on Friday showed the singer posing ......

Amorepacific will open a metaverse space dubbed "New Beauty Land" in line with the platform Decentraland's 2023 Metaverse Fashion Week from March 28 to 31. New Beauty Land's exterior motif lies in Amorepacific's headquarters in Yongsan...

The new Netflix crime action film starring award-winning actor Jeon Do-yeon, "Kill Boksoon," is a black comedy delivered with Korean sensibilities. Jeon, whose career spans three decades and who has won a long list of accolades including Best......

Seven Japanese members, trained and based in Korea, singing in English. Girl group XG has been turning heads with this never-before-seen concept. The group — consisting of members Jurin, Chisa, Cocona, Hinata, Maya, Juria, Harvey — debuted in ...

A zebra that escaped from the Seoul Children's Grand Park zoo at around 2:40 p.m. on Thursday was captured in the streets of Seoul after roaming around the city for three hours....

Kim Si-woo is gaining a reputation as a match play specialist after cruising to a second straight win at the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play on Thursday....

Former Moon Jae-in intlligence officials appeared at court where they defended themselves against allegations that they had tampered with and manipulated documents to make it look like a South Korean official was attempting to defect to North Korea....

Girl group Twice added six more performances to its fifth world tour, "Ready to Be," in North America and Australia, agency JYP Entertainment announced on Friday. Twice will now perform an extra day each in Sydney on ......

President Yoon Suk Yeol stressed that Pyongyang will...

Girl group Blackpink will perform at the Stade de France on July 15, YG Entertainment announced Friday Blackpink will be the first female K-pop act to perform at Stade de France, the largest stadium in France. Stade de France ......

Girl group IVE will make its debut in the U.S. and start its global activities with Columbia Records. KKkao Entertainment announced on Friday that the company's North American subsidiary Kakao Entertainment America has signed a partnership with ......

Kakao Mobility acquired Splyt, a London-based software company, in a bid to accelerate its global expansion, the company said Wednesday....

With regulators worldwide coming up with new rules for smart home device security, Google's security director emphasized that governments and the industry need to look for "a harmonized way" when establishing unified global standards....

Savings banks are facing the risk of loan defaults, as the collapse of global banks could further rattle the property market....

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix will be able to maintain and upgrade their manufacturing facilities in China — albeit marginally — even after the implementation of Washington's proposed rules....

Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin was reappointed an internal director of Lotte Chilsung Beverage at a general shareholder meeting on Wednesday. Shin was appointed as an internal director in 2017 but withdrew from the position in 2019 after......

A person enters the Korea Inclusive Finance Agency building in Jung District, central Seoul, on Wednesday, the first day the agency began receiving registrations for special loans for living expenses. The online registration site crashed when......

The Penthouse Cheongdam, located in Gangnam District, southern Seoul, is currently the most expensive apartment building in the country, according to the Land Ministry on Wednesday. The luxury apartments cost 16.24 billion won ($12.43 million)......

Hyundai Heavy Industries' exceeded 200 million brake horsepower (BHP) in cumulative marine engine production for the first time in the world, the company announced Wednesday....

Former President Lee Myung-bak, center, pays respects at the graveyard of 46 sailors killed aboard the South Korean warship Cheonan in an attack by North Korea on March 26, 2010, at the national cemetery in Daejeon, Wednesday....

Confusion continues over Korea's plan for an extended workweek, after President Yoon Suk Yeol proposed to keep weekly working hours below 60 — taking a step back from the original plan of allowing a maximum 69-hour workweek....

Nmixx's lead track for its first EP "exprgo...

Lotte Confectionery signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the American Institute of Baking (AIB) International to better the quality of its food products. Lotte Confectionery plans to inspect a total of 150 food plants worldwide......

Using ChatGPT and similar systems as the back end, Korea start-ups are creating their own derivative services. They are leveraging off the power of artificial intelligence (AI) language models created by U.S.-based OpenAI and made available by......

Religious cult Baby Garden dropped its request for an injunction against Netflix to ban the broadcast of documentary "In the Name of God" on Monday. However, its injunction request against broadcaster MBC and the ......

South Korea levied unilateral sanctions on the North to target individuals and organizations tied to its weapons programs and satellite industry on Tuesday in response to its latest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch......

Korea and Japan will swiftly restore consultative bodies discussing common interests between the two countries, President Yoon Suk Yeol said in a televised Cabinet meeting Tuesday....

A Korean start-up launched the country's first private-developed test rocket in a suborbital test....

Most people want just one thing from a concert — to get their money's worth of entertainment. That was what British musician Harry Styles came to Seoul to deliver, and deliver he did. During his first solo concert held in Korea at the KSPO Dome ...

Posco Future M will invest 392 billion won ($300 million) to build a high-nickel cathode plant in Pohang, to seize the opportunity that is the growing demand for the high-density battery....

Apple Pay was made available to users in Korea from Tuesday, years after rumors of its entrance into the local market first began circulating....

Is Yeon-jin, the main antagonist in Netflix's hit drama series "The Glory," forgivable? Though her masterminding of indescribable crimes and violence against her schoolmates was certainly evil, she may have earned some sympathy from soft-heart...

Just park your electric car, and a robot will automatically find the charge port and start charging the battery....

Blackpink's Jennie became the first solo female K-pop artist to have a music video surpass 900 million views on YouTube as of Monday, her agency YG Entertainment announced the same day. "Solo," released in November 2018 as the ......

Asia's best golfers will be ready to pull off some giant-killing feats when the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play begins Wednesday, with Korea's rising star Tom Kim grouped with World No. 1 and defending champion Scottie Scheff...

Korea's antitrust regulators are focusing on tech-sector abuses as the volume of digital transactions increases....

Napoli enter the international break with a 19-point lead at the top of Serie A, beating Torino 4-0 on the road on Sunday with another brace from Victor Osimhen....

Upstage, a local software start-up, introduced a test version of a corporate artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot service based on OpenAI's GPT-4 language model....

Kakao Entertainment took down over 15,600 pieces of pirated content from Indonesian websites and platforms last year, it reported Monday. The entertainment company formed a task force team in November 2021 to protect its licensed content globally....

Actors Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin will take legal measures against YouTubers spreading fake news on the internet, the two stars' agencies said Monday. Last week, a YouTuber uploaded a video titled...