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LG Household & Health Care turns to 'external DNA' to overcome crisis: can it recreate Cha Seok-yong success story?
LG Household & Health Care returns to 'external CEO' system after three years. Industry attention focuses on whether the company will recreate the success story of former CEO Cha Seok-yong, an externa...
2025-10-20 월요일 | 박슬기 기자
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Soaring Korea Zinc share price: Choi Yun-beom's prescient vision on rare metals
As US-China trade war intensifies, prescient foresight of Korea Zinc Chairman Choi Yun-beom (photo), who bet early on rare metals, is drawing renewed attention.Korea Zinc's share price stood at KRW 1....
2025-10-17 금요일 | 곽호룡 기자
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Hanwha caught in crossfire of US-China trade conflict... Are HD Hyundai and Samsung Heavy safe?
As the U.S.–China trade conflict intensifies, Hanwha Ocean has been caught in the crossfire after being added to China’s sanctions list. Meanwhile, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering and S...
2025-10-16 목요일 | 신혜주 기자
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Hyundai Motor Group 'Chung Eui-sun era' 5 years ②: 'Bold strategist' Chung Eui-sun to break through with KRW 112 trillion investment over next 5 years
"While the situation we face is difficult in many ways, there has never been a time when we faced crisis before. Just as in the past, we can do better." (From Chung Eui-sun's 2025 New Year's address a...
2025-10-15 수요일 | 김재훈 기자
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Hyundai Motor Group 'Chung Eui-sun era' 5 years ①: 'Disruptive innovation leadership' powers global Big3
"In our journey to open a future of dreams we share together, there will be difficulties, but based on the group spirit of 'making it happen if it must be done,' with positive mindset, mutual encourag...
2025-10-14 화요일 | 김재훈 기자
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Why did Hanwha Aerospace outperform KAI by 13-fold in shareholder returns?
Defense companies are heating up the stock market. Share price competition among defense firms including Hanwha Aerospace, LIG Nex1, Hyundai Rotem, and Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) is fierce.Howev...
2025-10-13 월요일 | 신혜주 기자
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Hanmi Pharm pursues performance rebound through technology transfer and indication expansion
Hanmi Pharmaceutical is raising expectations for a performance rebound as it simultaneously pursues technology exports and new drug pipeline expansion. Following the technology transfer of oral absorp...
2025-10-02 목요일 | 양현우 기자
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SK Innovation targets 2nd-half turnaround under Jang Yong-ho leadership
SK Innovation, which suffered a credit rating downgrade in the first half of 2025, is expected to gain breathing room through a second-half performance rebound.According to financial information compa...
2025-10-01 수요일 | 곽호룡 기자
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'Octogenarian beauty challenger' Amorepacific's global sprint under Suh Kyung-bae and Kim Seung-hwan
For Amorepacific Group, celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, the key keyword moving forward is 'global'. The strategy is to accelerate overseas market penetration based on accumulated know-how ...
2025-09-30 화요일 | 박슬기 기자
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'Specialty expert' Lee Young-jun seeks to rescue LOTTE CHEMICAL from quagmire
Lotte Chemical faces its fourth consecutive year of losses. The company recorded KRW 377.1 billion in operating losses in the first half of this year alone. Compared to last year, the loss widened by ...
2025-09-29 월요일 | 곽호룡 기자
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KCC avoids full treasury stock cancellation with controversial allocation plan
KCC (CEO Chung Mong-jin) has announced plans to cancel 23 percent of its treasury shares. The controversy stems from the company's policy to retain the remaining 77 percent through indirect methods.KC...
2025-09-26 금요일 | 신혜주 기자
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"US next after India" — HK inno.N eyes 'KRW 1 trillion club' as global expansion accelerates
HK inno.N is on the verge of breaking through KRW 1 trillion in sales, driven by the global market expansion of its gastroesophageal reflux disease treatment K-CAB Tab. The launch of K-CAB Tab. in Ind...
2025-09-25 목요일 | 양현우 기자
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Low valuation lures investors as KT grapples with hack
Interest is growing over whether the 'Korea Discount' can be resolved under the Lee Jae-myung administration. This is because policies including commercial law amendments strengthening directors' fidu...
2025-09-24 수요일 | 정채윤 기자
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Hyundai Glovis · AutoEver rally boosts Chung succession bid
As the government accelerates corporate governance advancement, expectations are growing that Chung Eui-sun, Chairman of Hyundai Motor Group's stable succession and the process of resolving circular s...
2025-09-23 화요일 | 김재훈 기자
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LIG Nex1 Accelerates Global Expansion Amid Surging Defense Exports
LIG Nex1 is aggressively accelerating its global expansion, including establishing its first European base in 21 years since joining the LIG Group. Notably, CEO Shin Ick-hyun has delivered significant...
2025-09-22 월요일 | 신혜주 기자
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Naver Strikes Disney Deal as Kakao Entertainment Stalls
Kakao Entertainment is in urgent need of a breakthrough. Its competitor, Webtoon Entertainment, the holding company of Naver Webtoon, recently expanded its content partnership and secured equity inves...
2025-09-19 금요일 | 정채윤 기자
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Samsung, LG Launch Streamlining Initiatives for TV Divisions Amid Fierce Chinese Competition
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have embarked on organizational restructuring within the global TV market. This strategic move comes as their market share and overall performance are simultaneo...
2025-09-18 목요일 | 곽호룡 기자
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Tit-for-Tat in US ESS Market: LG EnSol Debuts Prismatic Cells as Samsung SDI Unveils First LFP Batteries
LG Energy Solution (CEO Kim Dong-myung) and Samsung SDI (CEO Choi Joo-sun) are fiercely competing in the U.S., which has emerged as the largest market for Energy Storage Systems (ESS), by showcasing n...
2025-09-12 금요일 | 김재훈 기자
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“Not Just Hanwha and Samsung?" HD Hyundai Heavy to Shake Up Icebreaker Market with Mipo Merger
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HD HHI), the only one among Korea’s “Big Three” shipbuilders with no icebreaker construction record, is seeking its first icebreaker order through a merger with HD Hyun...
2025-09-11 목요일 | 신혜주 기자
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From LOTTE and SK to LG and EcoPro… Battery and Petrochemical Firms Turn to Price Return Swap (PRS) for Fundraising
Recently, companies, particularly in the petrochemical and battery sectors, are successively pursuing Price Return Swap (PRS) agreements. As corporate bond issuance becomes burdensome, equity-backed f...
2025-09-10 수요일 | 곽호룡 기자
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A New Game in E-commerce: Will the 'Kurly & Naver' Alliance Shake Coupang?
The alliance between Kurly and Naver has officially commenced. This comes five months after signing a strategic partnership and forming a joint task force in April. The joint venture, named 'KurlyN Ma...
2025-09-09 화요일 | 박슬기 기자
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SK, LG, LOTTE: 'Secure Cash!' — Restructuring, Liquidity Drive 'All-In'
Major South Korean conglomerates are rapidly engaging in a 'cash preservation battle'. Amidst a global economic slowdown and increasing uncertainty, they are focusing on management strategies geared t...
2025-09-08 월요일 | 곽호룡 기자
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K-Defense Gets an AI Boost as HD Hyundai and LIG Nex1 Join Forces with Palantir
While the South Korean defense industry wields significant influence in the global market, its artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem remains in a nascent stage. HD Hyundai and LIG Nex1 aim to secure ...
2025-09-05 금요일 | 정채윤 기자
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Which Korean Companies Are Partnering with Palantir, co‑founded by PayPal alumni?
According to industry sources on the 3rd, Palantir Technologies (hereinafter Palantir), a U.S. big-data processing company, has ranked among the most favored stocks by Korean retail investors who trad...
2025-09-04 목요일 | 정채윤 기자
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Netmarble Tightens Its Belt Even After Returning to Profit
Netmarble is emerging from a prolonged downturn on the back of successive hits among new releases. Still, the company believes it is too early to celebrate, as the aftereffects of large-scale mergers ...
2025-09-03 수요일 | 김재훈 기자
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Samsung Electronics’ Jun Young-hyun Bets on HBM4 — Decision Expected in Q1 Next Year
Vice Chairman Jun Young-hyun has been at the helm of Samsung Electronics' semiconductor division since May of last year . After a stint as the head of the memory business and then CEO of Samsung SDI, ...
2025-09-02 화요일 | 곽호룡 기자