Two S.Koreans selected as members of CAE

Two S.Koreans selected as members of CAE

Kinam Kim, President of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) and Sang Yup Lee, Vice President of NAEK were selected as foreign memb...

KAIST, IVI to collaborate on global vaccine research

KAIST, IVI to collaborate on global vaccine research

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) announced on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the I...

CJ Logistics’ Indian operation Darcl taps IPO with SEBI

CJ Logistics’ Indian operation Darcl taps IPO with SEBI

CJ Darcl Logistics, CJ Logistics Corp.'s Indian operation, is seeking to go public in the South Asian country to expand its footprint in the world&r...

S.Korean aerospace firms to co-work for SLV

S.Korean aerospace firms to co-work for SLV

South Korea's aerospace companies will collaborate to secure launch vehicle technology for small satellites weighing less than 500kg.  The Sou...

Samsung closer to fully connected smart home vision

Samsung closer to fully connected smart home vision

Samsung Electronics Co. is pushing forward with its goal of offering connected and customized services for 1.4 billion smartphones, TVs and home app...

ADNOC awards steel pipe order contracts to Korea’s SeAH

ADNOC awards steel pipe order contracts to Korea’s SeAH

South Korea’s SeAH Steel Holdings Corp. said on Tuesday it has signed a five-year contract to provide 200,000 tons of steel pipes to Abu Dhabi...

SM Entertainment invests in tech startup, music label

SM Entertainment invests in tech startup, music label

K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment Co. invested 1 billion won ($774,353) in a local app development startup valued at 20 billion won in June 2022 via...

Samsung Electronics to up AI chip foundry sales to 50% by 2028

Samsung Electronics to up AI chip foundry sales to 50% by 2028

Samsung Electronics Co. plans to up artificial intelligence chip foundry sales to about 50% of its total foundry sales in five years with its advanc...

Hyundai Motor Group eyes record-breaking sales in UK

Hyundai Motor Group eyes record-breaking sales in UK

Hyundai Motor Group expects to achieve record-high sales performance in the UK this year. This is even more significant because the UK is well well-...

Naver-invested Bering Lab tops at Huawei startup contest

Naver-invested Bering Lab tops at Huawei startup contest

South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) legal technology startup Bering Lab, with investment from Naver D2 Startup Factory (D2SF), receiv...

S.Korea's FNS Value to enter Malaysian fintech market

S.Korea's FNS Value to enter Malaysian fintech market

South Korea's FNS Value announced on Thursday a collaboration agreement with the Malaysian big data technology company Big Dataworks. The two compan...

Alibaba continues eyeing S.Korean e-commerce M&A

Alibaba continues eyeing S.Korean e-commerce M&A

Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group is seeking to purchase a major online retail platform in South Korea, one of the world’s largest e-commerce m...

Samsung bags $1 bn via ASML share sale for chip production

Samsung bags $1 bn via ASML share sale for chip production

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has divested a 0.3% stake in Dutch chip equipment manufacturer ASML Holdings N....

South Korea vulnerable to tech spies undeterred by soft penalties

South Korea vulnerable to tech spies undeterred by soft penalties

When a former Samsung Electronics Co. executive was arrested on industrial espionage charges by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (N...

SK Telecom verifies AI server liquid immersion cooling tech

SK Telecom verifies AI server liquid immersion cooling tech

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Tuesday that it has successfully verified the liquid immersion cooling technology, a next-generation Inter...

After a boom and bust, the chip industry Is regaining its health

After a boom and bust, the chip industry Is regaining its health

The global semiconductor industry is bottoming out, executives say, signaling a rebound in some areas of technology and providing relief for the U.S...

Hanjin to collaborates with China's AWOT in logistics

Hanjin to collaborates with China's AWOT in logistics

South Korea's Hanjin Transportation announced on Monday it pledged mutual cooperation with China's AWOT Global Corp. to enhance its logistics busine...

PUBG’s glorious comeback in India boon to Krafton

PUBG’s glorious comeback in India boon to Krafton

South Korea’s game developing and publishing giant Krafton Inc. boasted the local gaming industry’s highest operating margin, above 40%,...

Samsung to unveil 3D AI chip packaging tech SAINT to rival TSMC

Samsung to unveil 3D AI chip packaging tech SAINT to rival TSMC

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, plans to unveil an advanced three-dimensional (3D) chip packaging technology ne...

Kakao bets on AI bot for breakthrough

Kakao bets on AI bot for breakthrough

Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant chat app KakaoTalk, will seek a breakthrough with an artificial intelligence-powered bot a...

VCs give thumbs up to EV, parts/materials, travel tech

VCs give thumbs up to EV, parts/materials, travel tech

The venture capital funding crunch has continued through this year in South Korea but VCs have raised their stakes in select companies in the electr...

Goldman Sachs lists Moloco CEO among exceptional entrepreneurs

Goldman Sachs lists Moloco CEO among exceptional entrepreneurs

Moloco Inc., a Silicon Valley-based ad-tech solution startup, said Wednesday that its co-founder and Chief Executive Ikkjin Ahn was named one of the...

Doctornow signs business agreement with Spain’s Mediktor

Doctornow signs business agreement with Spain’s Mediktor

South Korea's medical care startup Doctornow Inc. announced on Wednesday it signed a strategic business agreement with global artificial intelligenc...

Samsung unveils generative AI Gauss, to be integrated in Galaxy S24

Samsung unveils generative AI Gauss, to be integrated in Galaxy S24

Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday unveiled its first generative artificial intelligence model, Samsung Gauss, to compete with the likes of ChatGP...

Coupang on track to post first-ever annual profit in 2023

Coupang on track to post first-ever annual profit in 2023

South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. on Tuesday reported $87 million in operating profit in the third quarter, its third consecutive quarterly...

Korean shipyards to beat Chinese rivals with green tankers

Korean shipyards to beat Chinese rivals with green tankers

South Korean dockyards aim to expand their presence in the global tanker market dominated by Chinese players with vessels designed to transport or s...

SK E&S, K-water to jointly develop homegrown green hydrogen facilities

SK E&S, K-water to jointly develop homegrown green hydrogen facilities

South Korea's SK E&S announced on Tuesday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Plug Power, K-water, and SK Plug Hyverse to expand ...

LS Mtron partners with global agricultural giant CNHi

LS Mtron partners with global agricultural giant CNHi

LS Mtron, the heavy machinery and advanced parts-making unit of South Korea's LS Group said on Tuesday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)...

S.Korea seeks to sell 29% in game giant Nexon's holding firm

S.Korea seeks to sell 29% in game giant Nexon's holding firm

The South Korean government is planning to sell off a 29.3% stake in Tokyo-listed game giant Nexon Co.’s holding firm NXC Corp. via a public b...

LG Elec to open heat pump research laboratory in Alaska

LG Elec to open heat pump research laboratory in Alaska

LG Electronics Inc. plans to open LG Advanced Cold Climate Heat Pump Laboratory in Alaska, the US for the development of heating, ventilation, &...

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