POSCO opens first overseas venture incubating office in Silicon Valley

POSCO opens first overseas venture incubating office in Silicon Valley

POSCO Group said on Wednesday that it has opened the first overseas office of ChangeUp Ground in Silicon Valley in the US.ChangeUp Ground is a start...

SK Ecoplant looks to enter US battery recycling business: CEO

SK Ecoplant looks to enter US battery recycling business: CEO

SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering company, will enter the US battery recycling business by investing in promising startups, C...

Hyundai L&C wins GR certification for recycled PET packaging sheets

Hyundai L&C wins GR certification for recycled PET packaging sheets

Hyundai Living & Culture, Hyundai Department Store Co. Group's building materials unit, said on Wednesday that it has received Good Recycled Pro...

Dong Yang Steel Pipe signs contract with Japanese EPC company

Dong Yang Steel Pipe signs contract with Japanese EPC company

DongYangSteelPipe, a steel pipe unit of KBI Group, said on Tuesday that it had signed on the previous day an agreement with a Japanese EPC (engineer...

11 Hyundai Motor Group products receive US' Good Design Awards

11 Hyundai Motor Group products receive US' Good Design Awards

Hyundai Motor Group on Wednesday said 11 of its products won honors at this year's Good Design Awards of the US.The honors are jointly selected by t...

Katech signs self-driving R&D agreement with SwRI in US

Katech signs self-driving R&D agreement with SwRI in US

The Korea Automotive Technology Institute (Katech) said on Tuesday that it will join hands with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) of the Unite...

S.Korea posts 2nd current account deficit in 3 months due to flat exports

S.Korea posts 2nd current account deficit in 3 months due to flat exports

South Korea in November last year suffered its second current account deficit in three months due to plummeting exports of key items like semiconduc...

Korean steelmakers accuse Japanese rivals of product dumping

Korean steelmakers accuse Japanese rivals of product dumping

As Japanese hot-rolled steel plates have flooded into South Korea at even lower prices than those from China, Korean steel manufacturers are consi...

POSCO to enter palm oil refining market in Indonesia

POSCO to enter palm oil refining market in Indonesia

POSCO International Co., a trading arm of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Co., will build a palm oil refining plant in Indonesia to foray into...

Lotte Chemical conducts product risk assessment first time in Korea

Lotte Chemical conducts product risk assessment first time in Korea

Lotte Chemical Corp. said on Tuesday that it is conducting a risk assessment for its products for the first time in the domestic chemical industry...

GCCL develops Korea's first automatic clinical trial data sharing system

GCCL develops Korea's first automatic clinical trial data sharing system

Global Clinical Central Lab (GCCL), an affiliate of South Korean pharmaceutical firm Green Cross Corp., said on Monday it has jointly developed Kore...

JVM to sell fully automated drug inspection machines in US

JVM to sell fully automated drug inspection machines in US

Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. said on Monday that it had signed an agreement with Euclid Medical Products, a company specializing in manufacturing drug d...

LG Energy posts largest-ever profit led by US JV with GM

LG Energy posts largest-ever profit led by US JV with GM

South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. posted its largest-ever profit in 2022, driven by strong sales after its US joint venture with Ge...

Jeju Air ranked first in domestic routes last year

Jeju Air ranked first in domestic routes last year

Jeju Air Co. took first place with an 18.2% share of domestic routes in 2022 for the third straight year from 2020.The airline said on Monday that...

Broadcom to give Samsung warranties to avoid Korea penalties

Broadcom to give Samsung warranties to avoid Korea penalties

US chipmaker Broadcom Inc. agreed to provide three-year warranties and technical support for components equipped in products such as smart devices o...

Celltrion develops oral antibody drug with US bio company

Celltrion develops oral antibody drug with US bio company

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. on Monday said it signed an R&D contract with US-based Rani Therapeutics on RT-111, an or...

CJ CheilJedang to expand K-food production facilities overseas

CJ CheilJedang to expand K-food production facilities overseas

South Korean food giant CJ CheilJedang Corp. is slated to increase food manufacturing facilities globally and launch businesses in Australia, Canada...

LG Elec sweeps 1st place in Best Washers chosen by US consumers

LG Elec sweeps 1st place in Best Washers chosen by US consumers

LG Electronics Inc. swept this year's top spot in all major categories of best washing machines evaluated by Consumer Reports, a leading US consum...

Global VCs urge S.Korea to train lawyers on int'l contracts

Global VCs urge S.Korea to train lawyers on int'l contracts

Brad McManus, investment director of the Silicon Valley-based venture capital (VC) fund Applied Ventures LLC, said his company will discuss investme...

Korea's SK On scraps $3.2 bn Turkey EV battery factory plan

Korea's SK On scraps $3.2 bn Turkey EV battery factory plan

SK On Co., the world’s No. 5 electric vehicle battery maker, dropped a plan to build a 4 trillion won ($3.2 billion) plant in Turkey as higher...

Seoul ranks 7th in city competitiveness assessed by Japanese Institute

Seoul ranks 7th in city competitiveness assessed by Japanese Institute

Seoul's urban competitiveness rebounded after five years, ranking seventh in the world. It was due to the fact that the ranking of the economy categ...

Samsung to launch its first robot to assist with elderly care

Samsung to launch its first robot to assist with elderly care

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest memory chip and smartphone maker, is set to launch its first robot later this year to care for the elde...

Hyundai's Genesis beats rival Infiniti in US car sales

Hyundai's Genesis beats rival Infiniti in US car sales

Genesis, Hyundai Motor Group's premium sub-brand, sold more car units in the US last year than its Japanese rival Infiniti.Genesis sold a record-hig...

Point2 Technology to supply network cable solutions to Amazon

Point2 Technology to supply network cable solutions to Amazon

Point2 Technology, which specializes in high-speed communications solutions, said on Wednesday that it has signed a network cable solution supply co...

Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market

Hyundai, Kia beat Honda to rank 5th in US market

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. kept their fifth place in sales in the US market for the second consecutive year. Despite production setbacks due to...

Korea's coffee brand Ediya to open 1st overseas branch in Guam

Korea's coffee brand Ediya to open 1st overseas branch in Guam

Ediya Coffee, South Korea's home-grown low-priced coffee brand, will open a branch in Guam in the first half of this year to seek growth through exp...

Lotte Chemical to take part in CES for first time

Lotte Chemical to take part in CES for first time

South Korea's Lotte Chemical Corp. for the first time will take part this month in CES, the world's largest information technology and home applianc...

NeoImmuneTech, US think tank to develop treatment for acute radiation syndrome

NeoImmuneTech, US think tank to develop treatment for acute radiation syndrome

Biopharmaceutical company NeoImmuneTech has grabbed an opportunity to supply new drug candidates in development as strategic items to the US gover...

S.Korea Inc. ramps up cash reserves amid economic woes

S.Korea Inc. ramps up cash reserves amid economic woes

South Korean companies are rushing to raise cash from the beginning of the new year amid growing concerns over a global economic downturn and market...

Samsung Elec to invest $46 mn in S.Korean robot maker

Samsung Elec to invest $46 mn in S.Korean robot maker

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, is set to invest 59 billion won ($46.4 million) in South Korean...

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