Starbucks Coffee Korea said Monday that more than 10 million users are now using its mobile order system “Siren Order” since the system was first launched here in May 2014. Available at Starbucks outlets nationwide, customers can order and pay for their drinks via the Starbucks Coffee Korea app. Korea was the first country in the world to adopt the “Siren Order” system. (Starbucks Coffee Korea)

FOR EMERGING ASIA -- Korea Development Bank Chairman Lee Dong-geol (right) shakes hands with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim at the Word Bank headquarters in Washington D.C. on Friday, after signing on the Korean state-run bank’s investment to the International Finance Corporation Emerging Asia Fund. The fund managed under the IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, pools capital from sovereign funds, pension funds and state-run policy banks to invest in infrastructure and manufacturing in Asia

Korean network carrier SK Telecom on Thursday began receiving preorders for the Luna S smartphone, a mid-tier smartphone jointly developed by local electronics maker TG&Co. and SK Telecom. The Luna S, priced at 568,700 won ($511), is an upgraded handset based on its predecessor Luna, promoted to success here by Seolhyun of K-pop girl group AOA last year. It will begin official sales Wednesday. (SK Telecom)

Jeong Chan-woo, the fifth CEO of Korea Exchange, attends an inaugural ceremony held at the KRX headquarters in Busan on Wednesday. During his speech, Jeong pledged to make all-out efforts to push for restructuring of the KRX governance and boost global competitiveness of the country’s stock trading boards. Members of the KRX trade union boycotted the ceremony in protest against what they claim was a politically-motivated appointment of Jeong, a former vice chairman of the Financial Services Comm

ALMOST COMPLETED -- This Sept. 14 photo shows an aerial view of the 555-meter Lotte World Tower in Jamsil, southern Seoul, which had the last piece of glass window attached Sunday six years after the company broke ground for construction. The 123-floor skyscraper has about 42,000 pieces of glass and 21,000 sets of curtain walls that entirely cover the building. (Lotte Corp.)

Michael Cole, chief operating officer at Kia Motors Europe, attends a news conference on the media day at auto show Mondial de l‘Automobile in Paris, France, Thursday. (Reuters-Yonhap)

South Korean President Park Geun-hye (right) meets Masayoshi Son, the chairman of Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank Corp., to discuss bilateral cooperation on investments and new industries at Cheong Wa Dae on Friday. (Yonhap)

People look at car parts made of magnesium displayed by Posco at a fair of industrial steel products at Kintex in Goyang, west of Seoul, Tuesday. (Yonhap)

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won (left) meets with Chongqing party secretary Sun Zhengcai in the Chinese city on Saturday to discuss business cooperation between the city and the South Korean conglomerate. (SK Group)

Foreign students who attended the 2016 Global Friendship Tour hosted by Hyundai Motor pose at the auditorium of Inha University on Friday. Hyundai Motor provided 400 foreign students studying in Korea with opportunities to experience Korean culture through the tour. (Hyundai Motor)

A jobseeker wearing a virtual reality headset searches for recruitment plans by financial institutions on a screen at the first financial industry-level job fair held at Coex in Samseong-dong, southern Seoul on Wednesday. (Yonhap)

Models promote Priv smartphones, Blackberry‘s first smartphone running on Google’s Android operating system, at a launch in Seoul on Tuesday. The smartphone-maker is back in Korea after pulling out of the domestic market in 2012. (Yonhap)

RECALL BEGINS -- A customer visits a SK Telecom retailer in Seoul to exchange his Galaxy Note 7 smartphone on Monday. Samsung Electronics initiated its replacement program for Galaxy Note 7 large-sized smartphones in Korea with local mobile carriers as part of its global recall of the new smartphones Monday. (Yonhap)

TEAVANNA TAKES OFF IN KOREA -- Starbucks Korea employees celebrate the local launch of the company’s flagship tea brand Teavanna at a Starbucks outlet inside the Starfield Hanam shopping complex in Hanam, Gyeonggi Province on Sept. 6. Since its official launch, more than 1 million Teavanna drinks have been sold at Starbucks outlets nationwide as of last Friday, according to Starbucks Korea. (Starbucks Korea) TEAVANNA TAKES OFF IN KOREA -- Starbucks Korea employees celebrate the local launch of t

Asiana Airlines Vice President Cho Young-seok (third from left, back row), Korean Consul General to Almaty Jeon Seung-min (fifth from left, back row) and related officials pose with a group of students learning Korean at a school in Almaty, Kazakhstan, after delivering 3,737 Korean books donated by the company and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education. (Asiana Airlines)