Photo=Hyundai Hyundai Motor’s labor dispute is emerging as a new risk for investors betting on the Korean automaker’s global expansion, with a full-day strike Friday threatening to deepen production losses and add pressure to labor costs as the company competes for market share in the U.S. and other major markets. Workers at Hyundai Motor walked off the job for eight

(Photo=SK hynix) SK hynix is preparing to change how it pays employees at a time when the artificial intelligence boom is producing unusually large profits across the memory chip industry. The South Korean semiconductor company has reached a tentative labor agreement that would raise wages by 6.3% and pay 60% of its profit sharing bonuses in company stock rather than

Photo=Motionelements South Korea’s prolonged consumer slowdown is exposing a growing vulnerability for companies and investors: the financial and mental strain on the small-business owners who underpin domestic spending. For U.S. consumer companies and investors, the trend offers another gauge of the depth of South Korea’s demand weakness, with mounting business failures threatening to weigh on consumption even as policymakers seek

Photo=Motionelements South Korea’s low-cost coffee chains are closing in on Starbucks, turning the country’s saturated cafe market into an increasingly difficult battleground for premium coffee brands. Mega MGC Coffee, one of South Korea’s fastest-growing budget chains, generated an estimated payment volume equivalent to 94.9% of Starbucks’ level in July, according to data released Aug. 19 by WiseApp Retail. A year

Photo=Motionelements The artificial-intelligence boom is generating a new wave of cash for memory-chip makers, giving investors an increasingly direct way to benefit from surging demand for AI data centers. SK Hynix plans to return $27.6 billion to shareholders through a massive stock buyback and cancellation, a move that highlights the growing financial strength of the global AI-memory supply chain for