South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is forecast to rack up less than 6 trillion won ($5 billion) in operating profit for the first quarter of this year, following worse-than-expected earnings for the final quarter of last year, analysts said Sunday.The world's top smartphone maker is expected to post an average 5.8 trillion won in operating income for the January-March period, down 4.53 percent from an earlier estimate of 6.1 trillion won, according to a median estimate of 20 local b

The domestic market share of Hyundai Motor Co., the country’s largest carmaker, fell to a 15-year low last year amid intensifying competition with foreign and local rivals. According to market reports Friday, Hyundai sold 714,121 cars in Korea in 2015, the most in decades. The company’s market share, however, came in at 39 percent, down 2.3 percentage points from the previous year. Hyundai Motor’s sister company, Kia Motors, sold 527,500 units here last year. The combined market share of the two