Will Big Hit acquire Pledis?
Big Hit Entertainment, which manages the world’s largest boy band BTS, has reportedly agreed to acquire Pledis Entertainment, which manages such famous K-pop groups and After School, NU’EST, and Seventeen.
A Korean sports newspaper reported early...
'Idol' tops 600 million YouTube views
For so many YouTube creators across the world, it would be a great honor to have a video whose view count tops 1 million at the global video-sharing platform.
And here is a pop...
Offline retailer faces stiff competition from online stores
E-Mart, South Korea’s largest discount chain, saw its 2019 sales go down 1.7 percent from a year ago, the Seoul-headquartered company announced on January 10. The amount was 14.67 trillion won.
It...
Two global giants join hands
Samsung Electronics teams up with BMW to bring fifth-generation (5G) technology to new vehicles, which will be churned out by the latter in the coming years.
The Seoul-based outfit announced the two-way partnership during the 2020...
Tech giant bets all on artificial intelligence
Samsung Electronics took the wrap off a rolling robot, which is a litter bigger than a tennis ball and named Ballie, during the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas this...
A Singaporean photographer visits communist state 19 times
This guy has something to do with North Korea. After first visiting the Stalinist state in 2013, he went there a total of 19 times. He is Singaporean photographer Aram Pan.
He is...
Baedal Minjok founder points finger at Delivery Hero as reason of M&A deal
Woowa Brothers CEO Kim Bong-jin said that he will take charge of around half of Delivery Hero markets by selling his company to the German online food-delivery...
Korean conglomerate taps into US market
Hotel Lotte, a subsidiary of South Korea’s fifth-largest conglomerate Lotte Group, recently said that it had signed a contract to purchase a premium hotel in the United States.
Under the agreement, the Seoul-based company plans...
USFK accused of building control tower of biochemical weapons in Busan
Prof. Woo Hee-jong of Seoul National University claimed last week that the United States set up a facility to control its global biochemical weapons in South Korea.
His remarks are...
South Korea's business bellwether signs new contract
Hanwha Defense, a leading defense manufacturer in South Korea, has signed a deal to provide the Army with the fifth batch of K55 A1 self-propelled howitzers, the company said on Dec. 30.
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