SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Sunday package deliveries in South Korea have climbed sharply since CJ Logistics introduced its seven-day delivery service last year, underscoring how changing consumer habits are reshaping the country’s logistics industry. CJ Logistics said Monday that deliveries made on Sundays rose 67 percent by December compared with early 2025, following the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — General Motors has opened a new premium showroom in Seoul’s Songpa district, marking its first integrated retail space in South Korea for luxury brands Cadillac and GMC, the company said on Monday. The Songpa showroom is GM’s first premium-channel dealership in the country to sell new vehicles from both brands [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – American beef and pork products accounted for the largest share in South Korea’s imported meat market last year, the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) said Monday. In 2025, Korea imported a total of 468,122 tons of beef products, with U.S. beef taking up 220,427 tons, or 47.1 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies filed a record number of trade-remedy petitions last year, turning increasingly to anti-dumping investigations as protectionist pressures mounted worldwide and low-priced imports—largely from China—flooded the domestic market. According to data released Sunday by the Trade Commission under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Korean firms submitted [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s military has begun deploying the high-power Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile, military sources said Sunday, as Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back called for a “balance of terror” to counter North Korea’s nuclear threat. The surface-to-surface missile — dubbed a “monster” because of its size — is designed to strike underground [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor’s compact sedan Elantra has surpassed 4 million cumulative sales in the United States, a rare achievement for a passenger car in a market dominated by sport-utility vehicles and pickup trucks. The milestone, reached in December 2025, makes the Elantra the first Korean-made vehicle to exceed 4 million sales [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. captured a record share of the U.S. auto market in 2025, buoyed by expanded local manufacturing and surging hybrid sales, even as Washington’s tougher trade policies weighed on global automakers. The South Korean auto group sold a combined 1.84 million vehicles in the U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Heavy Industries on Friday launched the hull of a massive floating liquefied natural gas facility ordered by Italy’s state-run energy company ENI, underscoring South Korea’s growing role in the global offshore gas market. The vessel, named Coral North, was launched at Samsung Heavy Industries’ shipyard in Geoje, about 400 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s franchise industry is bracing for wider legal and financial fallout after the Supreme Court of Korea finalized a ruling ordering Pizza Hut Korea to refund billions of won in improperly collected fees to franchise owners—a decision that could open the door to a wave of similar lawsuits across [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest e-commerce platform, Coupang, is facing a growing backlash from civil society groups over its compensation plan for a massive personal data breach, with activists urging customers to reject the company’s offer and, in some cases, leave the platform altogether. A coalition of 135 civic and social organizations, [...]