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643 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…
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…
Russian woman at plague research institute dies; cause disputed
A woman in her 20s who worked at a plague control research institute in Russia's Irkutsk region died on October 2. Russian health authorities said on October 4 the cause was “pneumonia of unknown origin,” while speculation of plague infecti…
Russia quarantines hospital as lab worker’s death puts nearly 200 under observation
A female employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East died last week of pneumonia of unknown cause, Russian authorities said, and a hospital in the town of Shelekhov was placed under quarantine. Officia…
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…
Pennsylvania measles cases pass 1,000, largest state outbreak in decades
Pennsylvania has reported 1,004 measles cases in 2026, the state Department of Health said Monday, including at least 198 hospitalizations and five deaths. State health officials say it is the largest outbreak in any U.S. state in more than…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Apple reported to develop smart doorbell, lock and thermostat with LG
Apple is reported to be developing a set of smart home accessories with LG Electronics, including a video doorbell, a smart lock and a thermostat, with the finished products to carry the LG brand. Apple plans to launch the new devices on Oc…
Russian anti-plague lab researcher dies; US and EU say they are monitoring
A 28-year-old female researcher at the Irkutsk anti-plague research institute in Shelekhov, Russia, died after being diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown cause, the state agency Rospotrebnadzor said. About 200 people who may have had contact…
Japan antitrust watchdog raids Asahi, Kirin, Suntory, Sapporo over beer price cartel
Japan's Fair Trade Commission began a forced investigation on Oct 7 into Asahi Beer, Kirin Beer, Suntory and Sapporo Beer on suspicion of an Antimonopoly Act violation over beer prices. The four are suspected of coordinating wholesale price…
Times Car data leak class action sign-ups top 40,000
Registrations on a website set up to prepare a class action over the Times Car personal data leak passed 40,000 by 2 pm on Oct 5, Livedoor News reported. Lawyer Hiroki Makino opened the site on Sept 30 to seek damages over the handling of p…
Samsung Biologics union seeks direct bargaining with Samsung Electronics
The Samsung Biologics Sangsaeng labor union said it sent Samsung Electronics a formal request for collective bargaining over personnel and compensation systems, arguing the larger company is a de facto employer. It asked Samsung Electronics…
Nuri rocket completes fifth launch, placing satellites in orbit
South Korea’s Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. local time on Oct 7 from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, carrying 15 satellites, the most in its history, and placed the five main ultra-small cluster satellites in their target orbit. Ne…
Kenya confirms first Ebola death after patient arrives from Congo via Uganda
Kenya’s Health Ministry confirmed the country’s first imported Ebola case on Tuesday, after a Kenyan man who arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo via Uganda was treated at Nairobi Hospital and died late Monday. Authorities placed K…
WHO says risk low as US presses Russia for transparency on plague lab death
The U.S. State Department is monitoring reports of a fatal case of suspected pneumonic plague in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has publicly called on Moscow to be more transparent about the death of a 28-year-ol…