Samsung ranks No. 1 in US high-end projector market

　Samsung Electronics said on Nov. 28 that it ranked No. 1 in the premium home cinema projector market in the United States, a year after the electronics giant entered the market with its flagship The Premiere lineup. 　Samsung Electronics’ high-end projectors priced at $3,000 or more accounted for 27.8 percent of the US market by sales from January to October, the company said, citing an estimate from US market intelligence firm NPD Group. 　In particular, Samsung’s focus on ultras

LG Energy Solution lays out new funding plan for Michigan plant

　LG Energy Solution, the batteries unit of LG Group, has laid out a new $1.36 billion funding plan to drastically ramp up the capacity of its plant in the US state of Michigan in the next three years. 　In a regulatory filing on Nov. 26 parent company LG Chem said LG Energy Solution will raise $681 million in fresh capital without rights to add new production facilities to the Michigan plant, while securing the remaining $681 million from local borrowing. 　The new funding aims to cope with gr

Hyundai Motor reclaims No. 2 spot in Australian car sales

　Hyundai Motor has reclaimed the No. 2 spot in Australian car sales, with its October car sales outpacing those of American rival Ford and Japanese rival Mazda, according to the latest data compiled by the market tracker BestSellingCarsBlog.com on Nov. 28. 　Hyundai sold around 6,200 vehicles in Australia in October, a 3 percent increase from a year prior. For the January-October period this year, its cumulative car sales reached 61,000 vehicles, up almost 10,000 vehicles from the same period l

Korea to greenlight self-service hydrogen charging stations, replace coal with ammonia

　South Korea on Nov. 26 unveiled a pangovernmental hydrogen blueprint that laid out detailed plans to realize the nation’s hydrogen economy, from authorizing self-service hydrogen fueling stations to replacing coal with ammonia at power plants. 　The blueprint aims to address the key weaknesses of Korea’s hydrogen ambition -- heavy reliance on foreign-made hydrogen, concerns over safety, lack of demand and price competitiveness in the hydrogen mobility sector and infrastructure, the

Sewing fantasy on to fashion

Designer Seo Seung-yeon’s wedding dresses become inspiration for K-pop stage outfits

Korean startup turns leather scraps into yarn

ATKO Planning is the world’s first company to reuse leather for textiles

'Hellbound' portrays my views about Korean society and humanity: Yeon Sang-ho

“Hellbound,” Netflix’s latest Korean original series directed from Yeon Sang-ho, presents a concrete observation on humans in a dystopian world, where moral principles and beliefs give way to religious zealotry. Yeon, who has been issuing his social criticism by depicting worlds in chaos, does not seem to limit himself in a single profession. The 43-year-old director’s love for fantasy horror has been presented in animation and as a film director, illustrator and scree

Yoo Teo shares his most personal stories in ‘Log in Belgium’

For director and actor Yoo Teo, releasing “Log in Belgium” as his debut film was never part of the plan. “Shooting a video was a way for me to endure the self-quarantine period in an unfamiliar city of Antwerp, Belgium, shortly after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, when countries closed their borders and locked themselves down,” Yoo said in a press conference Tuesday at CGV Yongsan in central Seoul. He was in Antwerp working on the joint German-Japanese drama prod

Fans paint LA purple and orange ahead of BTS concert

LOS ANGELES – With locals having flushed out of the city for the Thanksgiving holiday, the streets of downtown Los Angeles were empty in the days leading up to K-pop sensation BTS’ “Permission to Dance On Stage” concert series, which kicked off on Saturday. But sure enough, a flush of purple, the group’s signature color, flooded into the city as it geared up to welcome the world‘s biggest boy band and their global fandom, Army. The hashtags “Armys have

D-100: Pundits’ take on outlook, impact and fallout

Experts weigh in on key facts, analyses of ongoing race

Undoing Moon’s policies, or going beyond them?

Though two main contenders dominate the race, four party-backed candidates are gunning for the presidency

Pay gap for regular, nonregular workers widening

Pay-raise records 17% vs. 12% since 2016