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...

Hyundai Motor unveils new Creta at Indonesia motor show

Hyundai Motor unveils new Creta at Indonesia motor show

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s largest automaker, introduced a new version of its Creta compact SUV at the Indonesia International Motor Sho...

Hyundai Mobis ramps up patent development for future mobility tech

Hyundai Mobis ramps up patent development for future mobility tech

Hyundai Mobis, a South Korean auto parts maker and a key affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, said on Thursday that it filed more than 3,000 patents la...

KTO steps up Korean tourism promotion in Saudi Arabia

KTO steps up Korean tourism promotion in Saudi Arabia

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, along with the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), are accelerating their efforts to promote Korean touri...

Celltrion's Truxima shows safety, efficacy in post-marketing study

Celltrion's Truxima shows safety, efficacy in post-marketing study

South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. reported on Wednesday that its biosimilar drug Truxima (rituximab), a generic version of Roche...

AMCHAM head James Kim joins Hyundai Mobis as outside director

AMCHAM head James Kim joins Hyundai Mobis as outside director

James Kim, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea (AMCHAM), is joining South Korea’s largest auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co....

S.Korea's EcoPro boosts raw material plant for cathode materials

S.Korea's EcoPro boosts raw material plant for cathode materials

South Korea's EcoPro Co., a leading cathode supplier for global battery makers, is expanding its plant for raw materials used in secondary battery c...

Kakao Mobility fined $20 million over unfair taxi-hailing service

 Kakao Mobility fined $20 million over unfair taxi-hailing service

Kakao Mobility Corp., South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app operator, has been fined 25.7 billion won ($20.3 million) for discriminating agai...

LG U+, Plana jointly research data transmission tech for urban air mobility

LG U+, Plana jointly research data transmission tech for urban air mobility

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. and Plana, a domestic startup for urban air transportation (UAM) craft, have signed a business deal on joint research o...

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...

SK Telecom to launch multimodal AI to match ChatGPT

SK Telecom to launch multimodal AI to match ChatGPT

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. will adopt natural language generation and processing capabilities for its nascent artificial intelligence servic...

FKI to be more open, future-minded and international as part of reform

FKI to be more open, future-minded and international as part of reform

South Korea’s major business lobby group the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) will become a more open and future-oriented business group ...

K-pop pioneer SM engulfed in management dispute

K-pop pioneer SM engulfed in management dispute

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s mobile platform giant and operator of the country’s top messenger app Kakao Talk, is set to become the second...

Kumho Petrochem's rubber products win eco-friendly certification

Kumho Petrochem's rubber products win eco-friendly certification

Kumho Petrochemical Co. said on Tuesday that its four synthetic rubber products including SSBR, HBR, LBR, and NdBR have earned International Sustain...

Hyundai Rotem releases data on eco-friendly railway businesses

Hyundai Rotem releases data on eco-friendly railway businesses

Hyundai Rotem, the railway system subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Monday it has published information about its sales and research a...

Samsung, LG Elec target N.American air conditioner market at trade show

Samsung, LG Elec target N.American air conditioner market at trade show

Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are vying for the North American market for air conditioners with their cutting-edge solutions in th...

Extraordinary Attorney Woo drives KT Studio Genie's turnaround

Extraordinary Attorney Woo drives KT Studio Genie's turnaround

KT Studio Genie Co., an entertainment arm of South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp., posted its first annual profit last year, driven by the meg...

SKC eyes M&As in semiconductor, rechargeable battery materials

SKC eyes M&As in semiconductor, rechargeable battery materials

SKC Inc., a South Korean chemical materials company under SK Group, is seeking to buy semiconductor and rechargeable battery materials companies in ...

Aekyung commences mass production of eco-friendly plasticizers

Aekyung commences mass production of eco-friendly plasticizers

Aekyung Chemical, an affiliate of South Korea's Aekyung Group, has begun mass-producing eco-friendly plasticizers derived from recycled waste plasti...

LG Uplus narrows operating profit gap with bigger rivals in 2022

LG Uplus narrows operating profit gap with bigger rivals in 2022

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, reported more than 1 trillion won ($814.2 million) in operating profit in 2022 for...

Hyundai Motor opens Hyundai Mobility Lounge Kyoto Shijo

Hyundai Motor opens Hyundai Mobility Lounge Kyoto Shijo

Hyundai Motor Co. is establishing a permanent location in Japan's Kansai region to allow customers to experience its eco-friendly cars such as the I...

Two premium taxi apps mull tie-up to challenge Kakao

Two premium taxi apps mull tie-up to challenge Kakao

South Korea's two premium ride hailing apps TADA and i.M are considering a merger in a bid to challenge Kakao Mobility Corp., which commands about 9...

Kia launches 2024 Niro model with enhanced features

Kia launches 2024 Niro model with enhanced features

Kia Corp. announced on Wednesday the launch of the 2024 Niro, a compact crossover SUV hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) models, which will be availab...

Kakao Mobility enters Laos under biz strategy for Southeast Asia

Kakao Mobility enters Laos under biz strategy for Southeast Asia

South Korea's Kakao Mobility has entered Laos under a plan to use the country as a base for the transportation company's operations in Southeast Asi...

Kakao Mobility to pursue joint development with 4 major delivery services

Kakao Mobility to pursue joint development with 4 major delivery services

South Korea's transportation company Kakao Mobility on Monday said it concluded a "delivery service business agreement for joint development of the ...

T'way Air completes IOSA recertification process

T'way Air completes IOSA recertification process

South Korea's low-cost carrier T'way Air Co. said on Monday that it has completed the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) recertification from the ...

Mobile Living Space: Hyundai’s new future mobility concept

Mobile Living Space: Hyundai’s new future mobility concept

A self-driving vehicle taking a passenger home and then docking into the building so that they can enter the house without being exposed to the outs...

Korea’s SK E&S opens 1st US EV charging stations with Avis

Korea’s SK E&S opens 1st US EV charging stations with Avis

South Korea’s SK E&S Co. opened its first electric vehicle charging station in the US in a partnership with Avis Budget Group, a major Ame...

Woori Bank's Vietnam subsidiary reports record-high performance

Woori Bank's Vietnam subsidiary reports record-high performance

Woori Bank Vietnam, South Korean lender Woori Bank's local subsidiary in Vietnam, had heydays last year, tiding over the aftermath of the COVID-19 o...

Lotte's virtual human Lucy makes successful debut on live commerce

Lotte's virtual human Lucy makes successful debut on live commerce

Lotte Home Shopping said on Thursday that its virtual model Lucy will appear in monthly live commerce broadcasts on its official YouTube channel.Luc...

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