Hanwha Q Cells captures 35% of US solar module market

Hanwha Q Cells captures 35% of US solar module market

Hanwha Q Cells Co., a unit of South Korea’s chemicals-to-construction conglomerate Hanwha Group, retained its leading position in the US resid...

POSCO Int'l to cut carbon emissions 37% by 2030

POSCO Int'l to cut carbon emissions 37% by 2030

South Korea's largest trading company POSCO International on Sunday said it officially declared its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 to b...

LG Chem seeks to sell 2nd NCC facility in Korea in face of China’s ascent

LG Chem seeks to sell 2nd NCC facility in Korea in face of China’s ascent

LG Chem Ltd. has embarked on a process to sell its core naphtha cracking center (NCC) in South Korea, estimated at about 3 trillion won ($2.3 billio...

Hyundai Motor’s IONIQ 6 shows off 3rd-longest driving range in US  

Hyundai Motor’s IONIQ 6 shows off 3rd-longest driving range in US  

The IONIQ 6, the first fully electric sedan by Hyundai Motor Co., has been named one of the top three distance champions in the US based on tests by...

NPS taps Macquarie, IMM, Hahn & Co. as private equity managers

NPS taps Macquarie, IMM, Hahn & Co. as private equity managers

The National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea, the world’s third-largest pension fund, said on Friday it has hired Macquarie Asset Managem...

Hyundai Rotem wins $917 mn Australian electric train project

Hyundai Rotem wins $917 mn Australian electric train project

Hyundai Rotem, a South Korean railway system maker under Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday that it had won a major contract in Australia alongside...

Lotte Rental drops plan to enter Korea’s secondhand car sales market

Lotte Rental drops plan to enter Korea’s secondhand car sales market

Lotte Rental Co., South Korea’s largest car rental firm, has dropped its plan to enter the domestic used car sales market. Instead, it will st...

Dongwon F&B selects virtual human family as brand model

Dongwon F&B selects virtual human family as brand model

South Korea's food and beverage company Dongwon F&B Co. announced on Friday that it has selected a virtual human family as the model for its pre...

Celltrion applies for approval in US for eye treatment biosimilar

Celltrion applies for approval in US for eye treatment biosimilar

South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. on Friday said it applied for approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for CT-P...

S.Korea's beauty platform Hwahae opens flagship store on TikTok

S.Korea's beauty platform Hwahae opens flagship store on TikTok

South Korea's mobile beauty platform Hwahae has opened a flagship store on TikTok (Chinese name Douyin). Hwahae's operator Birdview announced t...

SK Telecom invests $100 mn in American UAM developer

SK Telecom invests $100 mn in American UAM developer

South Korea's SK Telecom.Co has invested $100 million (131.6 billion won) in Joby Aviation, a Santa Cruz, California-based developer of urban air ...

Doosan vice chairman visits robotics trade show Automatica

Doosan vice chairman visits robotics trade show Automatica

South Korea’s Doosan Group Vice Chairman Park Ji-won visited Automatica 2023 on Wednesday, a leading trade fair for smart automation held in M...

CJ Olive Young to develop inner beauty as new growth engine

CJ Olive Young to develop inner beauty as new growth engine

South Korea's top beauty chain CJ Olive Young said on Thursday that it plans to capitalize on the growing market for inner beauty, positioning it as...

Samsung Display to dump entire stake in LCD equipment maker

Samsung Display to dump entire stake in LCD equipment maker

South Korea’s Samsung Display Co. is set to sell its stake in a domestic liquid crystal display equipment maker as the unit of global tech gia...

JW Pharma unveils S.Korea's first homegrown hybrid incubator

JW Pharma unveils S.Korea's first homegrown hybrid incubator

South Korea's JW Pharmaceutical on Wednesday released three products from its new incubator brand Hi-Mammi.The company's rollout of hybrid and high-...

Noroo Paint unveils biodegradable plastic container

Noroo Paint unveils biodegradable plastic container

South Korea’s Noroo Paint on Wednesday said it developed an eco-friendly plastic container capable of oxidative biodegradation for its main pr...

Hyundai’s IONIQ 6 named Best EV of 2023 in US

Hyundai’s IONIQ 6 named Best EV of 2023 in US

Hyundai Motor Co.'s electric vehicle IONIQ 6 has been named Car and Driver's 2023 EV of the Year on Thursday. According to Hyundai Motor, IONIQ...

Hanwha TotalEnergies completes building POE pilot plant

Hanwha TotalEnergies completes building POE pilot plant

Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical Co., a South Korean joint venture between Hanwha Group and TotalEnergies, announced on Thursday that it has compl...

Kakao Healthcare to build metaverse healthcare platform

Kakao Healthcare to build metaverse healthcare platform

Kakao Healthcare, a digital healthcare platform unit of South Korea's Kakao, announced on Wednesday that it has been selected as the final operato...

Arkema buys S.Korea's PI Advanced for about $800 mn

Arkema buys S.Korea's PI Advanced for about $800 mn

Arkema, a French specialty materials producer, on Wednesday signed an agreement to purchase a 54.07% stake in South Korea’s PI Advanced Materi...

Innocean opens K-ramen pop-up store in Bangkok

Innocean opens K-ramen pop-up store in Bangkok

Innocean, a Hyundai Motor Group-affiliated advertising agency, announced on Wednesday that it has opened a South Korean ramen pop-up store in Bangko...

HMM opens Indian-Mediterranean container route

HMM opens Indian-Mediterranean container route

South Korea’s HMM Co. has opened a container route to India and the Mediterranean.  In addition to serving the US and Europe, the conta...

Hancom, POSCO DX pursue robotic process automation solutions

Hancom, POSCO DX pursue robotic process automation solutions

South Korea’s office suite software maker Hancom and engineering and information and communications technology service provider POSCO DX will ...

LG CNS develops AI coding solution based on ChatGPT

LG CNS develops AI coding solution based on ChatGPT

LG CNS, the information technology service arm of LG Group, announced on Wednesday that it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based code ...

Hyundai, Kia invest extra $1.5 mn in automotive chip startup

Hyundai, Kia invest extra $1.5 mn in automotive chip startup

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. announced on Wednesday that they have invested extra 2 billion won ($1.54 million) in BOS Semiconductors, a vehicle ...

Hyundai bets big on futuristic displays, eyes roll-up screen in 3 years

Hyundai bets big on futuristic displays, eyes roll-up screen in 3 years

South Korea’s top auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co. said on Tuesday it expects to begin mass production of its rollable vehicle display &ndas...

Kakao Mobility to develop mobility platform with Vietnam’s Phenikaa

Kakao Mobility to develop mobility platform with Vietnam’s Phenikaa

South Korea's Kakao Mobility and Vietnam's Phenikaa Group have entered into a business agreement to foster technology collaboration within the mobil...

LG Electronics targets EdTech market in US

LG Electronics targets EdTech market in US

LG Electronics Inc. is showcasing a lineup of acclaimed products designed for the education sector at the International Society for Technology in Ed...

Hyundai Mobis overtakes Japan's Aisin on global auto parts market

Hyundai Mobis overtakes Japan's Aisin on global auto parts market

South Korea's Hyundai Mobis has surpassed Japan's Aisin, its biggest competitor in auto parts excluding batteries, to break into the top five on the...

S.Korea's Naver Webtoon to expand IP-based operations

S.Korea's Naver Webtoon to expand IP-based operations

South Korea's Naver Webtoon is selling its online intellectual property (IP)-based webtoon products on the offline market to expand its webtoon IP o...

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