Chinese automakers are turning Europe from an export market into a manufacturing foothold, building factories and joining forces with established rivals to overcome trade barriers and challenge the region's automotive giants. Facing fierce competition and overcapacity at home, companies including BYD, Chery and Geely are moving production closer to European customers. Their strategy goes beyond avoiding EU tariffs: By taking advantage of underused factories and local partnerships, they are posit

In China, Musinsa's overseas aspirations take their most vivid form. Not only does Korea’s leading fashion platform run more stores there than anywhere abroad, but it also brings Chinese designers home to Korean shoppers. Through Musinsa Empty, its high-end select shop with three outlets in Seoul, Musinsa introduces Chinese designers to Korean shoppers. Its latest guest, footwear label Daphne.Lab, is holding its first Korean pop-up at the Seongsu branch, Musinsa announced Monday. Earlier, Musins

China is touting a breakthrough in one of the semiconductor industry's toughest technologies: extreme ultraviolet lithography. But how close is it really to challenging global chipmaking leaders? Chinese startup Langdao Silex recently unveiled a prototype EUV light source built with what it claims are 90 percent domestically made components, promising commercialization within three to five years. Yet its reported performance falls far short of commercial requirements, and experts doubt China can

Nearly half of the artificial intelligence models released by South Korean developers this year were built on Chinese technology, led overwhelmingly by Alibaba's Qwen, according to a new study that raises questions about the country's efforts to develop its own AI models. The report, released Friday by private think tank Rockbridge Network Korea and authored by Hanyang University business professor Choi Seong-jin, examined how Chinese AI is being used in Korea through developer activity, app usa

China's largest DRAM maker, ChangXin Memory Technologies, is planning to introduce a new generation of server memory by year-end, but its expanding production capacity and growing customer base may pose a bigger threat to Korean chipmakers than its latest technological breakthrough. CXMT President Cao Kanyu said at a semiconductor conference in Shanghai on Oct. 10 that the company plans to introduce a DDR5 registered dual in-line memory module, or RDIMM, built on a 4F-squared cell architecture b

South Korean battery materials makers challenge China’s near-monopoly with a fresh push into lithium iron phosphate cathodes as US restrictions and energy storage demand create an opening for Korean suppliers. Posco Future M and L&F, long focused on nickel-rich cathodes for electric vehicles, are converting production lines, building dedicated LFP plants, and locking in multitrillion-won supply deals with Korea’s major battery makers. Behind the shift is a rapid expansion of energy storage syste

China’s widening lead in humanoid robot patents is raising the stakes for South Korea’s push to compete in the fast-growing industry. Across the world’s five major intellectual property offices, known as IP5, China accounted for 60.8 percent of humanoid robot patents as of the first half of 2026, according to Intellectual Property Office data obtained by Rep. Lee Jeong-heon’s office. The US held 21.8 percent and Korea 4.6 percent. China’s share rose from 51.8 percent in 2024, while Korea’s fell

China’s rise is reshaping the global power structure, economic order and technological landscape as Beijing seeks a larger global role under President Xi Jinping, bringing it into deeper strategic competition with the US, according to experts. Kim Heung-kyu, president of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, made the assessment in a keynote speech titled “South Korea’s Choice in an Era of US-China Strategic Competition” at a seminar hosted by the China Capital Market Society at the Korea Financ

China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies has begun mass production of its fifth-generation DRAM platform, strengthening its position in a market dominated by Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and Micron, while separately preparing a research line for a possible move into NAND flash. CXMT said Sunday that its G5 platform had entered mass production, along with two 24-gigabit LPDDR5X products for smartphones and other portable devices. DRAM is the working memory processors use to handle data in real time,

South Korean battery material makers are accelerating efforts to build traceable, non-Chinese supply chains as tighter US rules threaten federal clean energy incentives for products linked to China. LS-L&F Battery Solution, a joint venture between LS Group and L&F, has begun qualification tests to make precursor materials — blends of metals used in cathodes —using metal sulfates produced by LS Group affiliate LS MnM, according to reports Thursday. If testing is completed as planned, LLBS could b