(Photo=Paris Baguette) Paris Baguette is taking its U.S. expansion into a new kind of neighborhood, with the South Korean bakery chain preparing to open its third Hawaii store near the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The company, operated by South Korea’s SPC Group, has grown from a dominant bakery brand at home into a rapidly expanding North American franchise. It

Photo=Baemin For U.S. investors and mobility companies, Uber Technologies’ $14.8 billion acquisition of Delivery Hero is more than a food-delivery deal. It is part of a broader consolidation of global delivery platforms that could allow Uber to bundle ride-hailing, food delivery, memberships and merchant advertising across more markets. In South Korea, however, the transaction faces an early regulatory test because

Photo=Motionelements For U.S. investors looking beyond South Korea’s headline technology cycle, the country’s corporate earnings data point to a less visible source of resilience: a broad group of companies that have managed to stay profitable through multiple economic and industry cycles. About one-third of major South Korean companies have posted operating profits for at least five consecutive years, according to

Photo=Tzuyang YouTube South Korea’s booming creator economy is confronting a new platform-policy risk as YouTube tightens restrictions on content linked to eating disorders, a shift that could affect advertising revenue and audience strategies for food creators. For U.S. advertisers, streaming platforms and investors watching Asia’s digital-media market, the changes offer a glimpse of how platform safety rules can quickly reshape

Photo=Motionelements South Korea’s growing reliance on foreign workers is creating a larger role for overseas labor in the country’s employment-insurance system, a shift with implications for U.S. companies operating in Korea and investors watching its labor-market costs. Unemployment benefits paid to foreign workers reached a record level in 2025 even as the number of foreign workers covered by employment insurance