One of 57 dogs rescued from a South Korean dog meat farm earlier this year now lives with the family of Nam Sung-ran, who moved to the U.S. from South Korea. Read More »

Unless you live in India or Bangladesh, you can’t actually get your hands on a smartphone running Tizen, Samsung Electronics Co.’s homegrown alternative to the Android mobile operating system.

But starting this week, Samsung is throwing the doors of the Tizen app store open to most countries around the world. Read More »

There’s nothing LG executives hate more than being overshadowed by rival Samsung. Unfortunately for LG, Samsung has successfully garnered mostly positive attention around its new curved-screen Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone.

LG has countered by stepping up its marketing spend — a move that risks straining the company’s already-thin margins, analysts say. Read More »

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s speech to U.S. Congress did little to address issues that roil South Korea-Japan relations. But his deft diplomacy with the U.S. will now increase pressure on South Korean President Park Geun-hye to improve strained ties, writes Karl Friedhoff. Read More »

Efforts by South Korea’s sovereign-wealth fund to buy a minority stake in the Los Angeles Dodgers have helped put the Major League Baseball team’s ownership in play, said people with knowledge of the situation.

“A number of organizations have expressed an interest in investing,” said a person close to the Dodgers, adding that “as of this point, none have gone beyond the point of discussion.” Read More »

When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes a historic speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, all eyes will be on whether he will address Japan’s acts of aggression before and during World War II and, if so, how.

Here’s a quick recap on what Japan has said already, what China and South Korea are demanding, and what Mr. Abe himself has said earlier on this issue. Read More »

SEOUL—LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday its first-quarter net profit plunged 58%, as an uptick in smartphone profits wasn’t enough to make up for slumping television sales.

Net profit for the first three months of the year slid to 38 billion won ($36 million) from 93 billion won last year, as the company’s TV unit swung to its first operating loss in more than four years. TV sales suffered lackluster demand, despite the company’s aggressive push into super-thin TV sets sporting next-generation displays. Read More »

After years of favoring Asia’s faster-growing countries, investors are returning to South Korea to scoop up the region’s cheapest stocks.

They’ve sent the market close to a record. The benchmark Kospi Composite Index is up 12% this year, and earlier this month hit its highest level in nearly four years. As of Tuesday’s close, it was 2% from the record high set in May 2011. Foreign buyers have helped fuel the gain, buying a net $6.8 billion in Korean stocks so far this year, more than in all of 2013 or 2014. Read More »

Samsung Electronics reported a net profit of 4.63 trillion Korean won ($4.3 billion) in the first three months of the year, down 39% from a year earlier. Five takeaways from the tech giant’s latest quarter of profit pain. Read More »

Samsung Electronics Co. continued to struggle in the first three months of the year, raising the stakes for the success of its new flagship Galaxy S6 smartphone.

Samsung said Wednesday its net profit for the three months ended March 31 was 4.63 trillion Korean won ($4.3 billion), down 39% from a year earlier. The result was worse than market expectations for a 30% decline, according to the average forecast of a Dow Jones survey of eight analysts. Read More »