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925 storiesLG Electronics Q3 revenue 23.8 trillion won, operating profit up 13.5% but below consensus
LG Electronics reported preliminary third-quarter revenue of 23.827 trillion won, up 8.9% from a year earlier, and operating profit of 781.8 billion won, up 13.5%. Both figures fell short of the average analyst consensus, and the shares dro…
KIA rally past LG 6-5 with three-run ninth, retake third; LG lose seventh in row
KIA Tigers beat LG Twins 6-5 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on October 4, scoring three runs in the ninth inning to complete the comeback. The win lifted KIA ahead of LG into third place in the KBO league and handed LG a seventh consec…
South Korea beats Japan 1-0 for fourth straight Asian Games football gold
South Korea's under-23 team beat Japan 1-0 in the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games men's football final at Toyota Stadium on 3 October, with Um Ji-sung scoring in the second half. It is South Korea's fourth consecutive title in the event, whic…
HD Hyundai names Lee Sang-kyun to lead shipbuilding in 2026 executive reshuffle
HD Hyundai announced its 2026 president-level appointments on Oct 7, naming Vice Chairman Lee Sang-kyun as head of the group's shipbuilding business and promoting Cho Min-soo to president and safety chief representative director at HD Hyund…
Kiwoom Heroes sign top pick Ha Hyeon-seung for record 1.6 billion won
The Kiwoom Heroes said they signed Ha Hyeon-seung, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2027 KBO rookie draft, to a 1.6 billion won signing bonus — the highest ever for a KBO rookie, surpassing Han Ki-joo's 1 billion won with KIA in 2006. The 18-y…
Badminton's An Se-young, professor Kim Do-hyung win Pony Chung Young Leader Award
The Pony Chung Foundation said on Oct. 7 that it has selected badminton national team player An Se-young and Kim Do-hyung, a professor of chemistry and biomolecular engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, as winners of the 7th Pony C…
KT&G starts Indonesian cigarette plant, its largest overseas production base
KT&G held an opening ceremony on Oct 6 in Pasuruan, East Java, for a new Indonesian cigarette plant that brings its annual production capacity in the country to as much as 35 billion sticks. The company said the plant completes a “global fi…
Paramount Skydance closes $110bn Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition
Paramount Skydance completed its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery for $110bn, and the combined company is named Skydance. Its shares will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SKYD, while WBD shares stopped trading on Nasd…
APR's Medicube opens first K-beauty permanent store in Mexico's Palacio de Hierro
APR's beauty brand Medicube opened a permanent store on October 7 local time at the Palacio de Hierro Satélite branch in northwestern Mexico City. APR said it is the first K-beauty brand to open a permanent store within the Palacio de Hierr…
Ronaldo says he deserves punishment for leaving Portugal camp, will not retire
Cristiano Ronaldo said he deserves punishment for leaving the Portugal national team camp and that he will not retire from the national team, in a 10-page statement posted on social media. He said responsibility for the departure was entire…
Samsung Art Store to show 30 British Museum works on its art TVs
Samsung Electronics said it will present 30 representative works from the British Museum on Samsung Art Store, its art subscription service for Samsung TVs. The collection focuses on 19th-century British landscape painting, including pieces…
Korean court suspends market-cap delisting decisions; exchange halts two more exits
Seoul Southern District Court Civil Division 51 granted injunctions on Oct 2 suspending the Korea Exchange's delisting decisions against KOSPI-listed Joo Yeon Tech and KOSDAQ-listed KM Pharma until a main ruling. The court questioned the 45…
Trump announces $6.6B Anduril-Navy shipyard in Baltimore for submarine components
President Trump announced a $6.6 billion project by Anduril Industries and the US government to build a shipyard at Sparrows Point near Baltimore for Virginia-class submarine components. Anduril is investing $3.7 billion and the Navy holds …
LS Electric signs Taiwan JV with Formosa Plastics affiliates for power projects
LS Electric signed an agreement on Oct. 6 in Seoul to set up a joint venture with Nanya Plastics and KHI, both affiliates of Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Group, to pursue power infrastructure business in Taiwan. LS Electric will hold 50%, Nany…
South Korea meet Uzbekistan in Yongin as Moreno seeks turnaround
South Korea play Uzbekistan at 8 p.m. on Oct. 6 at Yongin Mir Stadium in the last of four September-October internationals, with Chosun Ilbo calling it a prelude between Asian Cup contenders. Korean outlets describe the team as unsettled af…
India's central bank raises key rate to 5.5%, first hike in 3 years 8 months
The Reserve Bank of India decided on 7 October to raise its main policy rate by 0.25 percentage points to 5.5%, the first increase in three years and eight months. Governor Sanjay Malhotra cited a worsening Middle East situation, sharp swin…
Hoban Construction develops AI design tech to auto-apply per-unit buyer options
Hoban Construction said it developed AI-based design technology that automatically reflects apartment buyers’ option contract choices in each unit’s building information model (BIM). The technology was developed jointly with building and in…
Korea opens export booth at Frankfurt Book Fair, debuts K-Book Global 100
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Publishing Industry Promotion Agency are running an export consultation booth at the 2026 Frankfurt Book Fair, held from October 7 to 11 in Frankfurt am Main, with 15 Korean publishe…
Bank of Russia raises official dollar rate to 84.93 rubles for October 6
The Bank of Russia set the official dollar rate for October 6 at 84.93 rubles, up 1.45 rubles from 83.48 rubles on October 3, with the euro rising 1.01 rubles to 95.33 rubles and the yuan up 0.22 rubles to 12.65 rubles. RBC reported the rub…
Boston Dynamics names former Amazon AI executive Rohit Prasad as CEO
Boston Dynamics, described by Korean outlets as Hyundai Motor Group's robot affiliate, said it has appointed Rohit Prasad, a former Amazon executive who led work on the Alexa voice assistant, as its new chief executive. The company said the…