4+ hour, 32+ min ago   (619+ words) Life&Culture From Musinsa to Daiso, K-beauty is rewriting Korea’s retail playbook Published: Sept. 14, 2026 - 14:21:40 Korean retailers are finding new ways to capitalize on the booming K-beauty market, expanding beauty offerings into fashion platforms, pharmacies and discount stores. Fashion retailer Musinsa…...

4+ hour, 39+ min ago   (921+ words) Business LG takes industrial AI from answers to action Published: Sept. 14, 2026 - 14:13:49 LG AI Research unveiled a suite of industry-specific systems Monday, accelerating its push to build artificial intelligence that does more than answer questions — it predicts problems, makes decisions and…...

5+ hour, 3+ min ago   (431+ words) Business HD Hyundai E&F completes W435b LNG cogeneration plant Published: Sept. 14, 2026 - 13:50:13 HD Hyundai E&F has completed a 435 billion won ($323 million) liquefied natural gas cogeneration plant at the Daesan petrochemical complex in Seosan, South Chungcheong Province, strengthening the industrial hub’s…...

5+ hour, 18+ min ago   (543+ words) Business K-food exports hit $10b at record pace on ramyeon boom Published: Sept. 14, 2026 - 13:35:19 South Korean food exports surpassed $10 billion this year in 253 days, the fastest pace on record, powered by a ramyeon boom that has taken hold most strongly in the…...

7+ hour, 26+ min ago   (500+ words) Business Samsung, SK hynix reject Kepco’s W25tr power-bill proposal Published: Sept. 14, 2026 - 11:27:23 Inside Korea’s chaebol leadership and tech industry Samsung Electronics and SK hynix have rejected a proposal from Korea Electric Power Corp. to prepay a combined 25 trillion won ($18.4 billion) in electricity…...

7+ hour, 16+ min ago   (835+ words) Business K-coffee chains take second US shot on K-culture wave Published: Sept. 14, 2026 - 11:36:54 Carlyle-backed Twosome Place leads US push as Mega Coffee eyes entry American coffee giants, Starbucks chief among them, have long held court in South Korea's cafe scene, but…...

8+ hour, 18+ min ago   (565+ words) National S. Korea, US to hold high-level defense talks amid Hormuz deployment consideration Published: Sept. 14, 2026 - 10:35:03 South Korea and the United States plan to hold their senior-level regular defense talks this week, the defense ministry said, amid Seoul weighing military deployment to…...

9+ hour, 2+ min ago   (386+ words) Business S. Korea's 2 major chipmakers reject KEPCO's proposal to prepay 5 yrs of electricity bills Published: Sept. 14, 2026 - 09:51:00 South Korea's two major chipmakers, Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., have rejected a proposal from state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. to prepay five…...

13+ hour, 23+ min ago   (1031+ words) Opinion [Yoo Choon-sik] Can guidelines alone fix flaws in 'Yellow Envelope Act'? Published: Sept. 14, 2026 - 05:30:00 The Ministry of Employment and Labor earlier in September issued guidelines stating that labor union demands for companies to pay a preset percentage of corporate profits…...

1+ day, 11+ min ago   (176+ words) Seoul’s Jung-gu, home to Myeong-dong, captured nearly a quarter of foreign-card spending for shopping in Korea in the second quarter of 2026, increasing its sha...