LS Cable inks $159 mn Taiwan submarine cable supply contract

LS Cable inks $159 mn Taiwan submarine cable supply contract

LS Cable & System Ltd., South Korea’s top wire and cable producer, signed a formal contract worth 150 million euros ($159 million) to supp...

Hotel Shilla CEO Lee ranks 85th on Forbes' 100 most powerful women

Hotel Shilla CEO Lee ranks 85th on Forbes' 100 most powerful women

Samsung heiress and Hotel Shilla CEO Lee Boo-jin ranked 85th on The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women selected by Forbes. Lee, who leads Samsung Group's...

Hyundai Motor sells hydrogen-powered truck Xcient in S.Korea

Hyundai Motor sells hydrogen-powered truck Xcient in S.Korea

Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday said it launched sales of its hydrogen-powered fuel cell truck Xcient Fuel Cell in South Korea.The model is the worl...

Iljin Electric moves into DC power transmission device market

Iljin Electric moves into DC power transmission device market

Iljin Electric, an integrated heavy electric device unit of South Korea's Iljin Group, will participate in the domestic MVDC (medium-voltage direct ...

Private equity juggernauts bid for $758 million worth of KT Cloud shares

Private equity juggernauts bid for $758 million worth of KT Cloud shares

A number of private equity giants in South Korea and beyond are bidding for shares worth up to 1 trillion won ($758.2 million) in KT Cloud, a subsid...

Twelve Labs secures $12 mn for AI-powered video analysis platform

Twelve Labs secures $12 mn for AI-powered video analysis platform

Twelve Labs Inc., a South Korean artificial intelligence-powered video search platform developer, closed its seed extension round with an additional...

Samsung, Naver agree to partner in developing next-gen AI semiconductor solutions

Samsung, Naver agree to partner in developing next-gen AI semiconductor solutions

Samsung Electronics Co. and Naver Corp. have agreed to cooperate in developing next-generation AI semiconductor solutions optimized for artificial i...

Taihan earns certification for extra-high voltage transmission cable

Taihan earns certification for extra-high voltage transmission cable

Taihan Cable & Solution said on Monday that it had completed the development of a 500-kV current cross-linked polyethylene extra-high voltage DC...

KT&G completes elementary school in Laos with employee donations

KT&G completes elementary school in Laos with employee donations

KT&G, South Korea's dominant tobacco company,  announced on Monday that along with South Korea's non-profit organization Sharing Culture &a...

LS Cable & System Asia expands cable production capacity in Vietnam

LS Cable & System Asia expands cable production capacity in Vietnam

LS Cable & System Asia said on Thursday that it has invested 6.8 billion won in its Vietnamese subsidiary LS Cable & System Vietnam to compl...

Doosan Enerbility develops amonia cracking technology for hydrogen power generation

Doosan Enerbility develops amonia cracking technology for hydrogen power generation

South Korea's plant builder Doosan Enerbility plans to secure ammonia cracking technology which can be utilized for hydrogen co-fired power plants. ...

Hyundai Mobis rolls out self-developed hydrogen-powered forklift

Hyundai Mobis rolls out self-developed hydrogen-powered forklift

Hyundai Mobis has demonstrated a forklift powered by the company's self-developed hydrogen fuel cells, heightening prospects of the hydrogen mobilit...

LIG Nex1 wins order to develop super-compact sensors for submarines

LIG Nex1 wins order to develop super-compact sensors for submarines

South Korean company LIG Nex1 will develop technology for ultra-miniature sensors that can be mounted on unmanned submarines.The company announced o...

KT conducts reshuffle ahead of launching South Korea's top OTT service

KT conducts reshuffle ahead of launching South Korea's top OTT service

Korea's telecom giant KT Corp. has reshuffled its media business units ahead of the pending absorption of its over-the-top (OTT) video platform Se...

Cento Ventures: High ROI of Korean startups still uncommon knowledge 

Cento Ventures: High ROI of Korean startups still uncommon knowledge 

When it comes to the global startup ecosystem, South Korean cities, including the capital Seoul, often do not come to investors’ minds before ...

Korea adopts USB-C as unified connector for phone charging cable

Korea adopts USB-C as unified connector for phone charging cable

The Korean government has released guidelines on its designation of USB-C as the unified national standard for charging and data transfer connectors...

Vuno's AI-powered fundus reading solution approved for sale in Taiwan

Vuno's AI-powered fundus reading solution approved for sale in Taiwan

Vuno Inc., a South Korean artificial intelligence-powered medical solutions provider, said on Tuesday that Vuno Med-Fundus AI has received marketing...

LG HelloVision, S-1 to jointly enter home security market

LG HelloVision, S-1 to jointly enter home security market

South Korea's cable TV provider LG HelloVision and security company S-1 Corp.  announced they will jointly develop a home-based platform using ...

S.Korea to cut coal's share of energy usage to under 20% by 2030

S.Korea to cut coal's share of energy usage to under 20% by 2030

The draft of the Korean government's 10th Basic Plan for Electricity Supply and Demand contains a clause on reducing coal generation's share of nati...

Korea's SK Inc. revs up power semiconductor value chains via M&As

Korea's SK Inc. revs up power semiconductor value chains via M&As

SK Inc., the investment arm of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group, is ramping up its value chain of third-generation semicondu...

SK, Doosan to launch hybrid EV fuel cell charging stations

SK, Doosan to launch hybrid EV fuel cell charging stations

South Korea’s SK Energy Co., refiner giant SK Innovation Co.’s petroleum production subsidiary, said on Tuesday it will join forces with...

Hyundai Genesis to unveil electric-powered convertible concept car

Hyundai Genesis to unveil electric-powered convertible concept car

Genesis, the luxury car brand of Hyundai Motor, has unveiled a convertible concept model in Southern California.In Malibu Tuesday, Genesis introduce...

Taihan Cable wins $24 million deal to build power grid in California

Taihan Cable wins $24 million deal to build power grid in California

Taihan Cable & Solution Co., a South Korean electric wire maker, said on Wednesday it has won a $24 million deal to build a power grid in the US...

KT unveils AI strategy, including hyperscale AI commercialization 

KT unveils AI strategy, including hyperscale AI commercialization 

South Korea’s second-largest wireless carrier KT Corp. unveiled a set of steps it will take to commercialize the internally developed Hypersca...

KT&G enlists Goldman Sachs to cope with shareholder activism

KT&G enlists Goldman Sachs to cope with shareholder activism

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, appointed Goldman Sachs as an advisor to improve corporate governance after a Singapo...

KEPCO to see record loss 2022 on slower power tariff hikes

KEPCO to see record loss 2022 on slower power tariff hikes

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), the state-run utility, is set to suffer a record operating loss this year with a shortfall mounting to the secon...

Hyundai Mobis to build $69 mn integrated logistics center in Korea

Hyundai Mobis to build $69 mn integrated logistics center in Korea

South Korea’s largest auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis Co. said on Thursday it will spend 94.8 billion won ($69 million) to build an integrated ...

KT to invest $2 million in US voice biomarker developer

KT to invest $2 million in US voice biomarker developer

KT Corp., a South Korean telecommunications giant, plans to invest $2 million in Sonde Health Inc., a US voice biomarker developer, to enhance the c...

Samsung Heavy develops liquefied hydrogen fuel cell system

Samsung Heavy develops liquefied hydrogen fuel cell system

Samsung Heavy Industries has succeeded in developing a liquefied hydrogen fuel cell system for use in marine propulsion. The electric power is ...

LG, Altair build AI-powered validation platform for automotive parts

LG, Altair build AI-powered validation platform for automotive parts

LG Electronics Inc., an industry frontrunner in applying artificial intelligence to home appliances, said on Wednesday it has joined forces with Alt...

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