Korea’s SPC Samlip, Siam Makro to tie up for Thai bakery business

Korea’s SPC Samlip, Siam Makro to tie up for Thai bakery business

SPC Samlip Corp., a unit of South Korea’s food and bakery giant SPC Group, said on Monday it has forged a business partnership with Siam Makro...

LG Electronics wins US air conditioning award for 7th year

LG Electronics wins US air conditioning award for 7th year

LG Electronics Inc. said on Monday that it has won a performance award from the Air-Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration Institute (AHRI), a US...

Samsung launches new TV ad campaign in London ahead of global release

Samsung launches new TV ad campaign in London ahead of global release

Samsung Electronics Co. is ramping up its marketing efforts for its latest line of high-end TVs, including the 2023 Neo QLED 8K model, with a giant ...

Celltrion ex-Chairman Seo set to return to management; group stocks rally

Celltrion ex-Chairman Seo set to return to management; group stocks rally

South Korea’s biosimilar giant Celltrion Group’s founder and Honorary Chairman Seo Jung-jin is readying to return to management just two...

Samsung SDI, GM to build $3.8 bn EV battery plant in US

Samsung SDI, GM to build $3.8 bn EV battery plant in US

Samsung SDI Co., the world’s No. 6 electric vehicle battery maker, is set to build a plant in the US with General Motors Co., spending about 5...

Hanwha Systems begins developing active protection system for combat vehicles

Hanwha Systems begins developing active protection system for combat vehicles

South Korea's defense and IT service company Hanwha Systems Co. will develop core technology for an active protection system (APS), or state-of-the-...

S.Korea's Igaworks inks deal with Thai ad agency for data solutions

S.Korea's Igaworks inks deal with Thai ad agency for data solutions

Igaworks, a big data platform company from South Korea, announced on Thursday a strategic partnership and solution supply deal with YDM Thailand, th...

Korea's Innogrid wins contract for open cloud platform project

Korea's Innogrid wins contract for open cloud platform project

Innogrid Co., a South Korean company specializing in cloud computing and digital transformation, said on Thursday that it secured a three-year deal ...

S.Korea ranks fifth in global auto output for third straight year

S.Korea ranks fifth in global auto output for third straight year

South Korea’s auto production last year ranked fifth worldwide for the third year in a row.A report on world automotive output from the Korea ...

S.Korea's K Bank posts highest net profit in 2022

S.Korea's K Bank posts highest net profit in 2022

K Bank, a South Korean Internet-only bank, reported a net profit of 83.6 billion won ($63.6 million) in 2022, which nearly quadrupled compared to th...

Samsung Biologics bags $183 million CMO order from Pfizer

Samsung Biologics bags $183 million CMO order from Pfizer

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s No. 1 contract drug maker in terms of production capacity, has won a $182.7 million contract manufacturing ...

S.Korea’s exports drop for 5th straight month in Feb on plunging chip sales

S.Korea’s exports drop for 5th straight month in Feb on plunging chip sales

South Korea’s exports shrank 7.5% year over year in February on a plunge in shipments of its mainstay export item semiconductors amid the glob...

S.Korean EV charger maker lands $770 mn export deal in North America

S.Korean EV charger maker lands $770 mn export deal in North America

South Korea's Moderntec, an electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions company, on Wednesday said it signed a three-year export contract with a partne...

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 ...

Korean e-commerce Coupang logs profits in Q3-Q4 2022

Korean e-commerce Coupang logs profits in Q3-Q4 2022

South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. achieved record-high yearly revenue and operating profits for two consecutive quarters between July to De...

HYBE loses 1st battle against Kakao for SM Entertainment

HYBE loses 1st battle against Kakao for SM Entertainment

South Korea’s HYBE Co. lost its first battle against dominant local mobile platform Kakao Corp. over SM Entertainment Co. as the label behind ...

S.Korea's KAI signs $105 mn deal to supply parts for Boeing aircraft

S.Korea's KAI signs $105 mn deal to supply parts for Boeing aircraft

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), the country’s military aircraft manufacturer, said on Tuesday it has signed a deal to produce and suppl...

S.Korea's Huons gets approval to supply anesthetics to Canada

S.Korea's Huons gets approval to supply anesthetics to Canada

Huons Co., a South Korean pharmaceutical company, has announced plans to expand its presence in the North American market by offering two anesthetic...

Korea’s L&F in $2.9 billion deal to supply battery material to Tesla

 Korea’s L&F in $2.9 billion deal to supply battery material to Tesla

South Korea’s leading battery materials maker L&F Co. said on Tuesday it has signed a $2.91 billion deal to supply cathode, a key electric...

Hanwha Solutions receives green certification for recycled plastic materials

Hanwha Solutions receives green certification for recycled plastic materials

South Korean chemical and renewable energy firm Hanwha Solutions Corp. announced on Tuesday that it has received a global certification for its recy...

Iljin Materials to change its name to Lotte Energy Materials

Iljin Materials to change its name to Lotte Energy Materials

Lotte Chemical Corp., a South Korean petrochemical giant, will rename Iljin Materials Co., the country’s second-largest copper foil maker, as ...

Boryung signs deal with Stendhal to launch hypertension drug in Mexico

Boryung signs deal with Stendhal to launch hypertension drug in Mexico

Boryung, a South Korean pharmaceutical company, said on Monday it had signed a deal with Stendhal SA de CV, a Mexican medical specialty company, to ...

Korea's Kumho Tire sponsors Touring Car Championship

Korea's Kumho Tire sponsors Touring Car Championship

Kumho Tire Co. announced on Monday its title sponsorship of the Touring Car Championship (TCR), a global touring car competition, with the organizer...

Novel medicines poised to be Korea’s next mainstay export

Novel medicines poised to be Korea’s next mainstay export

South Korea, a major global generic and biosimilar medicine producer with leading names such as Samsung Biologics Co. and Celltrion Inc., has rapidl...

Jetema applies to test its botulinum toxin in US from July

Jetema applies to test its botulinum toxin in US from July

South Korea's bio-esthetic pharmaceutical company Jetema Co. will hold clinical trials in the US to advance to the American market, the world's bigg...

LG Elec honored with BPW Gold Award for advancing gender equality

LG Elec honored with BPW Gold Award for advancing gender equality

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Sunday that it has been honored with the 28th BPW Gold Award from the Korea Federation of Business & Profession...

Hyundai Steel's sustainability report wins gold prize in US

Hyundai Steel's sustainability report wins gold prize in US

South Korea's steelmaker Hyundai Steel announced Sunday that its integrated report 2022 Beyond Steel has been recognized for its excellence by a wor...

Four Hyundai, Kia models win US IIHS top safety awards

Four Hyundai, Kia models win US IIHS top safety awards

Hyundai Motor Group’s four models earned the safest vehicle awards even with a tougher crash test by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safet...

Korean firms scurry to expand nickel, lithium supply chains

Korean firms scurry to expand nickel, lithium supply chains

South Korea’s leading companies such as SK, POSCO, LG and LX are scurrying to expand their supply chains for lithium and nickel, key raw mater...

Korea's Daewoong to export diabetes drug Envlo to Brazil, Mexico

Korea's Daewoong to export diabetes drug Envlo to Brazil, Mexico

South Korea’s Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. said on Feb. 24 it is set to embark on global sales of Envlo, a new drug for diabetes, by exportin...

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