SK Biopharmaceuticals wins Red Dot award for 2 devices

SK Biopharmaceuticals wins Red Dot award for 2 devices

South Korea’s SK Biopharmaceuticals on Tuesday said two of its self-developed wearable devices won the main prize in the health care category ...

Hanwha Solutions signs MOU with 7 companies for bio PVC biz

Hanwha Solutions signs MOU with 7 companies for bio PVC biz

Hanwha Solutions Corp., a South Korean petrochemical company, is partnering with domestic polyvinyl chloride (PVC) companies to promote the commerci...

Management dispute over S.Korea’s CTC Bio heats up

Management dispute over S.Korea’s CTC Bio heats up

A management dispute over a South Korean pharmaceutical maker CTC Bio Inc. specializing in animal drugs is intensifying as another medical company h...

ETRI’s drone communication tech is selected as international standards

ETRI’s drone communication tech is selected as international standards

South Korean researchers have developed international standards for drone communication, solving the problem of drones being unable to exchange info...

KCC acquires international info security certification

KCC acquires international info security certification

KCC Corp., South Korea's applied materials chemical company, announced on Monday that it has acquired ISO 27001, an international standard for manag...

Lotte Biologics, Excellgene to collaborate on CDO biz

Lotte Biologics, Excellgene to collaborate on CDO biz

Lotte Biologics, South Korea's biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) company, announced on Sunday that it has...

LG Group Chairman names AI, bio, clean tech as new growth engines

LG Group Chairman names AI, bio, clean tech as new growth engines

LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo has pledged to continue investing in future-oriented businesses and human resources despite the global economic slowd...

Kobiolabs, Kakao Healthcare to explore microbiome-based precision medicine solutions

Kobiolabs, Kakao Healthcare to explore microbiome-based precision medicine solutions

Kobiolabs Co., South Korea's new drug development company for microbiomes, announced on Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding for...

Aekyung Chemical's coating resin wins certification from USDA

Aekyung Chemical's coating resin wins certification from USDA

South Korean consumer goods company Aekyung Chemical Co. announced on Thursday that its plant-based oil coating resin has received certification fro...

CGBio inks export deal for hyaluronic acid fillers with Chinese distributor

CGBio inks export deal for hyaluronic acid fillers with Chinese distributor

CGBio, a South Korean bio-regenerative medical company, has signed an export deal with Shanghai Feiting Trading Co., a Chinese medical device distri...

Hyundai Doosan Infracore wins Italian innovation award

Hyundai Doosan Infracore wins Italian innovation award

Hyundai Doosan Infracore Co., a construction machinery subsidiary of HD Hyundai Group, announced on Tuesday that its 14-ton hybrid electric wheel ex...

S.Korea's Air Premia to launch Incheon-New York route in May

S.Korea's Air Premia to launch Incheon-New York route in May

Air Premia, a South Korean hybrid service carrier, announced on Friday the launch of a new air route between Incheon and New York from May 22. ...

Prestige Bio's pancreatic cancer treatment gets US FDA fast-track designation

Prestige Bio's pancreatic cancer treatment gets US FDA fast-track designation

Prestige Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company in South Korea, announced on Thursday that their pancreatic cancer antibody drug, PBP1510 (Ulenistam...

Eastar Jet to add 7 airplanes with aim to rake in $111.2 mn in 2023 sales

Eastar Jet to add 7 airplanes with aim to rake in $111.2 mn in 2023 sales

Eastar Jet Co., a South Korean low-cost airline, will expand its fleet to 10 aircraft this year to resume flight services at home and abroad about t...

CGBio opens cosmetic surgery clinic in Bali using bio-medical tech

 CGBio opens cosmetic surgery clinic in Bali using bio-medical tech

CGBio, a South Korean bio-renewable medical company, announced on Monday that it opened a medical esthetic clinic, called Nulook, in Bali, Indonesia...

Korean convention sector enjoys increase in events post-pandemic

Korean convention sector enjoys increase in events post-pandemic

Coex Convention & Exhibition Center, the largest event complex in Seoul, was crowded on Friday for a smart factory and plant automation fair.&ld...

S.Korea's Fly Gangwon kicks off international air cargo service

S.Korea's Fly Gangwon kicks off international air cargo service

Fly Gangwon, a South Korean low-cost carrier, announced on Monday the launch of its international air cargo transportation service on the Taipei rou...

CJ CheilJedang opens internal venture development space Inno Play

CJ CheilJedang opens internal venture development space Inno Play

South Korea's food and bio giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. on Sunday said it opened Inno Play, an office space for commercializing innovative ideas and d...

EastarJet to resume flights after three years of suspension

EastarJet to resume flights after three years of suspension

South Korean budget carrier EastarJet will resume flights on the domestic Gimpo-Jeju route on Mar. 26 after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 ...

CJ CheilJedang invests in Australian bio startup

CJ CheilJedang invests in Australian bio startup

South Korea's food and bio company CJ CheilJedang Corp. on Wednesday said it will invest in the Australian bio startup Provectus Algae.The former se...

Celltrion teams up with bio venture to develop new anti-cancer drug

Celltrion teams up with bio venture to develop new anti-cancer drug

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. will develop an anti-cancer drug that combines oncolytic virus technology with biosimilars un...

S.Korean firms with focus on emerging Asia to shine

S.Korean firms with focus on emerging Asia to shine

South Korean companies with a large proportion of sales to emerging Asia are expected to shine in the stock market this year as their revenue from t...

POSCO International, Pertamina win gas exploration rights off Indonesia

POSCO International, Pertamina win gas exploration rights off Indonesia

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., said on Thursday ...

Doosan Enerbility promotes technology at world's largest energy exhibition

Doosan Enerbility promotes technology at world's largest energy exhibition

Major South Korean power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. announced on Wednesday that it has started promoting its nuclear power and gas turbine ...

S.Korea's Hanwha Asset Management staff protest personnel reshuffle

S.Korea's Hanwha Asset Management staff protest personnel reshuffle

Internal conflict is growing at South Korea's Hanwha Asset Management over the company's de facto restructuring of its fund management in the wake o...

Avikus unveils self-sailing leisure vessel tech NeuBoat at US ship event

Avikus unveils self-sailing leisure vessel tech NeuBoat at US ship event

Avikus, an autonomous ship navigation affiliate of South Korea's shipbuilding, heavy equipment, machine and petroleum giant HD Hyundai Co., on Sunda...

Korea's Cha Bio Group to expand overseas real estate business

Korea's Cha Bio Group to expand overseas real estate business

Cha Bio Group, consisting of Cha Biotech and Cha Vaccine Research Institute as its subsidiaries, has announced its expansion into the real estate in...

Vaxcell-Bio, Cellid sign MOU to build cancer immunotherapy platform

Vaxcell-Bio, Cellid sign MOU to build cancer immunotherapy platform

Vaxcell-Bio Therapeutics, a South Korean company specializing in anti-cancer immunotherapy, announced on Wednesday its partnership with Cellid Co. t...

EOFlow's insulin injection pump starts to be sold in UAE

EOFlow's insulin injection pump starts to be sold in UAE

South Korea's medical device maker EOFlow Co. started selling the wearable insulin pump EOPatch in the United Arab Emirates.The company said on Tues...

GC Biopharma's Ochang facility gets WHO PQ certification

GC Biopharma's Ochang facility gets WHO PQ certification

GC Biopharma Co.'s production facility in Ochang (North Chungcheong Province) secured a pre-qualification (PQ) certification from the World Health O...

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