Photo=Motionelements Samsung Electronics is tightening controls over employee communications as South Korea steps up efforts to hold platforms and users accountable for defamatory and manipulated information—a shift that could add pressure on large companies to strengthen internal monitoring and reshape how employees communicate online. The world’s biggest memory-chip maker will require employees to use their real names on NOW Talk,

(Photo=Hyundai motor group) The United States has spent years making it difficult for Chinese electric vehicles to gain a meaningful foothold in its auto market. South Korea has taken a much less aggressive approach, and the difference is becoming visible. Chinese made EVs accounted for 35% of new electric vehicle registrations in South Korea in the first half of this

(Photo=MotionElements) South Korea is home to Samsung Electronics, the country’s largest company and one of the world’s biggest semiconductor and consumer electronics manufacturers, and SK hynix, a major memory chipmaker that supplies high bandwidth memory used in artificial intelligence systems. Yet Korean retail investors are beginning to pull money out of their own stock market and send more of it

(Photo=ARIH) A Korean food brand built with BTS is using early momentum in the U.S. to expand into Japan, testing whether the global reach of K-pop can help turn a fan-driven product launch into a lasting consumer business. ARIH, a food and beverage brand developed by South Korean food companies Paldo and hy in collaboration with BTS from the planning

Photo=LG Energy Solution A recovery in battery-factory utilization could offer a modest sign of stabilization for U.S. automakers and investors after a sharp slowdown in electric-vehicle demand forced manufacturers to idle plants and rethink where battery capacity should be deployed. LG Energy Solution’s average utilization rate across its global production facilities rose to 52.8% in the first half of 2026,