Samsung to advance solid-state battery output after record sales

Samsung to advance solid-state battery output after record sales

South Korea’s Samsung SDI Co. reported its largest-ever profit and revenue last year, which will drive its efforts to produce solid-state batt...

Tmap, Shinsegae I&C sign agreement for EV charging collaboration

Tmap, Shinsegae I&C sign agreement for EV charging collaboration

Tmap Mobility said on Monday that it has signed an agreement for the electric vehicle charging business with Shinsegae I&C, an IT service affili...

POSCO Chem, Samsung SDI ink $33 bn EV battery material deal

POSCO Chem, Samsung SDI ink $33 bn EV battery material deal

POSCO Chemical Co., a battery material unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., and Samsung SDI Co., the world’s No. 6 ele...

LG Innotek gears up for FC-BGA substrate mass production

LG Innotek gears up for FC-BGA substrate mass production

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. is preparing to mass produce flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) substrates from the fourth quarter of this year, ...

Hyundai, Kia cars selected Best Imported Cars in Germany

Hyundai, Kia cars selected Best Imported Cars in Germany

Hyundai Motor Group was recognized for its overwhelming quality in Germany, which is widely considered the home of automobiles.Hyundai Motor Group s...

GM Korea to launch Trax, Cadillac EV; likely turn to profit this year

GM Korea to launch Trax, Cadillac EV; likely turn to profit this year

GM Korea Co. expects to turn to profit this year after years of losses as the South Korean subsidiary of the US auto giant plans to bring six new an...

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...

LG Energy to raise capex by 50% in bet on strong EV growth

LG Energy to raise capex by 50% in bet on strong EV growth

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, plans to ramp up capital expenditure by more than half thi...

Samsung seeks to sell more smartphones in Southeast Asia

Samsung seeks to sell more smartphones in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is an attractive smartphone market for both heavyweights and mass-market players given the relatively large number of young people wh...

Nibec gets approval for its bone graft biomaterials in Colombia, Mexico

Nibec gets approval for its bone graft biomaterials in Colombia, Mexico

South Korea's bioactive peptide technology company Nibec Co. said on Friday that it has obtained product approval for the sale of two types of denta...

Korea Exchange acquires market operator license in Singapore

Korea Exchange acquires market operator license in Singapore

Korea Exchange (KRX) on Thursday said it has received a "Recognized Market Operator" (RMO) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), a...

S.Korea, Japan compete in gastroesophageal reflux drug market

S.Korea, Japan compete in gastroesophageal reflux drug market

South Korea is battling Japan again, this time on the global market to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). South Korea's pharmaceutical pr...

South Korea fines US brokerage $9.6 million for high-frequency trading

South Korea fines US brokerage $9.6 million for high-frequency trading

South Korea has fined Citadel Securities over 10 billion won ($8.1 million) for disrupting market order through high-frequency trading in the countr...

DongKoo Bio signs MOU to move into SE Asian healthcare market

DongKoo Bio signs MOU to move into SE Asian healthcare market

DongKoo Bio & Pharma Co. has built a bridgehead for expansion toward the world, including Southeast Asia by joining hands with LVMC Holdings, th...

LG Elec targets indoor golf market with its ProBeam projector

LG Elec targets indoor golf market with its ProBeam projector

LG Electronics Inc. is targeting the overseas indoor golf market with its premium commercial projector LG ProBeam.The company said on Thursday that ...

S.Korean companies in renewed push for Kosdaq listings

S.Korean companies in renewed push for Kosdaq listings

South Korean companies are making renewed pushes to go public this year even at the expense of reduced IPO values.Zaram Technology Inc., a chip desi...

Silicon Valley, Korean startups’ choice for global business

Silicon Valley, Korean startups’ choice for global business

Silicon Valley was the favorite place for South Korean startups for their global business as more of them were established in other countries for th...

Kolmar Korea to establish new cosmetics production base in Sejong City

Kolmar Korea to establish new cosmetics production base in Sejong City

South Korea's cosmetic original design manufacturer Kolmar Korea said Wednesday that it would establish a cosmetics production base equipped with ar...

SK Hynix unveils industry’s fastest mobile DRAM chip LPDDR5T

SK Hynix unveils industry’s fastest mobile DRAM chip LPDDR5T

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it has developed the world’s fastest mobile DRAM chip and ...

Hyundai Motor sells 1 mn electric vehicles worldwide

Hyundai Motor sells 1 mn electric vehicles worldwide

In 11 years since Hyundai Motor Group started selling electric vehicles (EVs), the cumulative sales volume of EVs in the global market has finally s...

S.Korean stock issuance volume declines 24% in 2022

S.Korean stock issuance volume declines 24% in 2022

The volume of stock issuance in South Korea declined sharply last year due to the softening stock market. Amid rising interest rates, the amount of ...

Hyundai, Kia vow to crack Japan-dominated SE Asian market with EVs

Hyundai, Kia vow to crack Japan-dominated SE Asian market with EVs

For more than four decades, Japanese automakers, led by Toyota Motor Corp., have reigned as undisputed champions in the Southeast Asian auto marke...

Kakao Pay and Hanwha Aerospace likely to be added to MSCI Korea Index

Kakao Pay and Hanwha Aerospace likely to be added to MSCI Korea Index

South Korea's Kakao Pay Corp. and Hanwha Aerospace Co. next month are expected to get newly incorporated into the MSCI Korean Index, which measures ...

HK inno.N's K-CAB to get insurance benefits in China

HK inno.N's K-CAB to get insurance benefits in China

South Korea’s 30th novel medicine K-CAB Tab (active ingredient: tegoprazan), a gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) treatment of HK inno.N, ...

S.Korea's Paris Baguette opens first outlet in Malaysia

S.Korea's Paris Baguette opens first outlet in Malaysia

To SPC Group, which hopes to tide over difficulties in the domestic market facing sagging growth potential and troubles caused by a series of safety...

Samsung Heavy, MISC to jointly develop floating CO2 storage units

Samsung Heavy, MISC to jointly develop floating CO2 storage units

South Korea's major shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries said on Thursday that it has signed an agreement with MISC Berhad, a Malaysian offshore ene...

SK On, graphite processor Urbix to jointly produce anode materials

SK On, graphite processor Urbix to jointly produce anode materials

South Korea's SK On Co. and US graphite processor Urbix Inc. have signed an agreement to jointly develop high-performance anode materials, Korea's l...

KAI signs agreement with Northrop Grumman to develop UAVs

KAI signs agreement with Northrop Grumman to develop UAVs

Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) said on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) in relation to "technical cooperation on verti...

Cosmax to make inroads into Japanese market in earnest

Cosmax to make inroads into Japanese market in earnest

Cosmax Inc., South Korea's cosmetics original design manufacturing (ODM) company, said on Thursday that it would start targeting the Japanese market...

SK E&S moves into EV charging market

SK E&S moves into EV charging market

South Korea's liquefied petroleum gas supplier SK E&S said on Wednesday that its subsidiary Parking Cloud will begin electric vehicle charging s...

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