Lotte Shopping Hits 52-Week High as Korea's Department Stores Post Up to 13% Single-Day Gains on Tourist Boom and Semiconductor-Belt Wealth Effect
Lotte Shopping surged 13.3% to a 52-week high and Shinsegae gained 8.7% on June 16 as record foreign tourism and semiconductor bonus spending push Korea's big-three department store operators toward f
SK Telecom Denies China-Link Behind US Anthropic AI Ban
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Labor Panel Orders Hyundai Motor Into Direct Talks With Subcontractor Unions in Korea's First Yellow Envelope Ruling
South Korea's Ulsan labor commission ruled Hyundai Motor must bargain directly with 1,675 subcontracted workers — the first test of the March 2026 Yellow Envelope law, with manufacturing-wide implications.
Hanwha Lifts KAI Stake to 9.04%, Locks In No. 2 Spot With a USD 332 Million Purchase
Hanwha Group combined holdings in Korea Aerospace Industries reached 9.04% on Monday, making it the second-largest shareholder as the group declared management-participation intent and approved another USD 332 million tranche.
Kakao Embeds ChatGPT in KakaoTalk Chats for 49 Million Korean Users
Kakao has launched a ChatGPT chatbot inside KakaoTalk chat rooms, letting 49 million South Korean users access OpenAI AI without leaving the app.
Samsung-Boston Dynamics Stake Talk Is a Brokerage Scenario, Not a Deal — and Samsung Calls It 'Groundless'
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Lee Dong-chul Leads Korea's Card Lobby on Stablecoin Push
Lee Dong-chul, the former vice chairman of KB Financial Group — one of South Korea's largest financial holding companies, listed in Seoul as 105560.KS
Hanmi's Peptide Obesity Drugs Target GLP-1's Muscle-Loss Gap at ADA 2026
Hanmi Pharmaceutical (128940.KS), one of South Korea's most R&D-intensive drugmakers — which spent 14.8% of 2025 revenue on R&D and has led domestic outpatient prescription sales for eight con
Genesem Jumps 15% on Second SK hynix Back-End Equipment Order in Two Months
Shares of Genesem (제너셈; KOSDAQ: 217190), a Korean special-purpose machinery maker that builds semiconductor back-end (packaging and test) equipment, surged as much as roughly 15% on June 16 after d...
Samsung Biologics Returns to BIO USA for 14th Straight Year, Backed by Record Revenue and a $21 Billion Order Book
Samsung Biologics (207940.KS), the Songdo-based contract drug manufacturer that ranks as the world's largest biopharmaceutical producer by installed c
Samsung Securities, Hyundai, and LG Electronics Backed Tenstorrent — Now Qualcomm Is Circling at Up to $10 Billion
Qualcomm is in talks to acquire AI chip startup Tenstorrent at $8-10B. Three Korean firms — Samsung Securities, Hyundai Motor, LG Electronics — led its $693M Series D at a $2.6B valuation and stand to earn a 3-4x return.
Samsung Opens 9th C-Lab Outside Cohort for AI, Robotics
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), Korea's largest company and the world's biggest memory-chip and smartphone maker, on June 15 opened applications for the ninth