The 32nd Seoul Music Awards will be held on Jan. 19, 2023, at the Olympic Park’s Olympic Gymnastics Arena located in Seoul, according to an industry insider. The Seoul Music Awards is one of the biggest annual music awards in the K-pop industry and has been hosted by the local newspaper Sports Seoul since 1990. The annual ceremony honors artists of diverse genres including ballad, hip-hop, R&B ...

South Korea’s second-largest steelmaker Hyundai Steel said Sunday that its submerged arc welding A671/A672 had been recognized as a World Class Korean Product. With the new addition, Hyundai Steel now boasts a total of 12 World Class Korean Products. The number is the largest among its peers in the steel-making industry, a feat that the company has maintained for 18 consecutive years. The World...

Hyundai Motor will re-create the Pony Coupe Concept with the model’s original designer Giorgetto Giugiaro and unveil it in the coming spring, the carmaker announced Thursday at a design talk in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. The Pony Coupe Concept is a car lost to history, as despite being unveiled at the 1974 Turin Motor Show with its prototype ready for mass production, the carmaker could not star...

US smartphone giant Apple said Tuesday it will voluntarily correct its unfair policy of charging greater commission fees to Korean app developers than in other markets by January next year. The decision comes after South Korea’s antitrust watchdog began a probe into the iPhone maker over its Korea-exclusive charging system that is based on consumer prices, including value-added tax. This means ...

South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering said Tuesday it has successfully completed the trial of its autonomous navigating system for ships. DSME conducted a two-day test of its testing ship, called DAN-V, equipped with its own autonomous navigating system last week near Jebu Island in Hwaseong City, Gyeonggi Province. The shipbuilder has been preparing for the future m...

SsangYong Motor unveiled its wireless charging platform for electric vehicles under development on Monday at Coex, Seoul during an event hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT. The carmaker displayed its first all-electric sports utility vehicle Korando e-motion equipped with a 61.6 kWh lithium-ion polymer battery and with a 22kW wireless charging system that can fully charge the electric veh...

The number of flights landing and departing from Incheon International Airport will exceed pre-pandemic levels by next year. Incheon Airport was allotted 263,004 slots for the next summer season from late March to late October, during the International Air Transport Association Slot Conference held last week, according to Incheon International Airport Corp. on Monday. The Slot Conference is a w...

South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said Suday it will come up with effective measures to restrict delinquent online sellers using popular customer-to-customer platforms such as Karrot and Joonggonara. The Fair Trade Commission will guide platform operators to voluntarily enhance their user protection system and regulate business-driven sellers who are business owners rather than ordinary individua...

South Korea saw its number of eco-friendly vehicles exceed 1.5 million in October, data showed Sunday. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, a total of 1,515,000 units of eco-friendly vehicles, including full electric vehicles and hybrids, were registered by the end of October -- a 38.3 percent surge on-year. This comes just one year and three months after the country...

South Korean oil refiner S-Oil, owned by Saudi Arabia’s Aramco, on Thursday confirmed its $7 billion massive project of building a large-scale petrochemical plant in the nation’s southeastern city of Ulsan. The so-called “Shaheen Project” is the largest investment made in Korea by Aramco that holds 63.4 percent shares in the refiner. The announcement comes as Saudi Arabian Crown prince Mohammed...

(From left) Former Swiss professional soccer player Pascal Zuberbühler, former Italian professional soccer player Gianluca Zambrotta, former Uruguayan professional soccer player Diego Forlan, Director of the FIFA World Football Museum Marco Fazzone, Hyundai Motor India, M.East & Africa Strategic Region Executive Vice President Kim Un-soo, and former Korean professional soccer player Park Ji-sung ...

Volkswagen Korea debuted the new Golf GTI, the eighth-generation of the German carmaker’s gasoline-powered hot hatch, in Seoul on Tuesday before its official launch next month. Since its debut in 1976, the Golf GTI has been recognized as a reasonably priced sports car that popularizes the new car segment “hot hatch.” The upcoming Golf GTI is equipped with the EA888 2.0-liter inline 4-cylinder t...

South Korea’s largest air carrier Korean Air’s buyout of Asiana Airlines faced yet another hurdle, as the US antitrust regulator decided to conduct a more thorough investigation before granting approval of the merger. The US Federal Trade Commission was expected to announce its decision this week, but informed Korean Air on Wednesday it would need more time for a thorough evaluation, according t...

Porsche Korea aims to strengthen its brand presence in esports as part of its marketing strategy to reach out to younger customers and let them experience the brand in a new way, according to the carmaker. In response, Porsche Korea signed a partnership agreement with the South Korean esports team DRX last year to support them for three years and host various esports activities. Team DRX, spons...

South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission chief hinted Monday at tighter scrutiny of local platform operators like Kakao that enjoy an almost monopoly status. Referring to the recent nationwide meltdown of Kakao services following a fire at its main data center, FTC Chairman Han Ki-jeong said there is a need to effectively correct the adverse effects of monopoly power. “We will be revising regulation...