(Photo=Twosome) South Korea has spent years turning its music, television, beauty products and food into global businesses. Twosome Place is now testing whether that cultural momentum can support something more difficult to export, a large network of physical cafes serving American customers every day. The South Korean coffee and dessert chain, which operates 1,750 stores at home and is owned

Photo=Motionelements South Korea is opening a major government satellite program to private industry, creating potential opportunities for aerospace companies and investors as demand grows for commercial Earth-imaging data used in infrastructure, agriculture, disaster response and environmental monitoring. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said September 4 that a 312.9 billion won, or about $230 million, program to develop two

Photo=TVING South Korean streaming service TVING is sharply increasing cybersecurity spending after a breach exposed information tied to 39.5 million accounts, underscoring the growing costs and regulatory risks facing entertainment platforms as they compete for subscribers and rely on increasingly valuable consumer data. The company plans to spend roughly four times as much on information security through 2030 as it

(Photo= HanwhaM&S) South Korea’s birth crisis is no longer only a problem for the government. High housing and education costs, career losses associated with motherhood and a work culture that makes caregiving difficult have left many workers struggling to combine employment with raising children. Hanwha Group, one of South Korea’s major industrial conglomerates, is responding by turning childbirth support into

Photo=Chipotle Chipotle Mexican Grill opened its first restaurant in South Korea on September 2, bringing the U.S. fast-casual chain to Asia for the first time as it looks to tap growing demand for customizable and healthier dining options. The new restaurant in Seoul’s Gangnam district is Chipotle’s first location in Asia and its first in South Korea. The chain is