S.Korea's Woowa Brothers launches professional service robot affiliate

S.Korea's Woowa Brothers launches professional service robot affiliate

Woowa Brothers, the parent company of South Korea's food delivery app Baedal Minjok, on Wednesday spun off its professional service robot unit into ...

S.Korea's Samkang M&T undergoes relaunch with new name SK oceanplant

S.Korea's Samkang M&T undergoes relaunch with new name SK oceanplant

South Korea's Samkang M&T Co., a specialist in offshore wind plants and shipbuilding, has been renamed SK oceanplant under a strategy to raise t...

S.Korea's MGRV attracts $10mn Series B bridge investment

S.Korea's MGRV attracts $10mn Series B bridge investment

MGRV Community & Space, a South Korean startup that operates co-living facilities under the brand "Mangrove," announced on Wednesday it has attr...

Korea's InCerebro to leverage AI to identify drug candidates

Korea's InCerebro to leverage AI to identify drug candidates

South Korean AI-based drug developer InCerebro aims to identify potential drug candidates using molecular modeling technology, according to its CEO ...

S.Korea likely to suffer recession as Jan exports tumble

S.Korea likely to suffer recession as Jan exports tumble

South Korea is likely to head for a recession for the first time in three years as exports of Asia’s fourth-largest economy in January dropped...

S.Korea's fisheries ministry to transfer tech on Napoleon fish to SE Asia

S.Korea's fisheries ministry to transfer tech on Napoleon fish to SE Asia

South Korea's Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries will transfer technology to Indonesia on farming the tropical Napoleon fish and reduce sea pollution ...

S.Korea's top sci-tech school creates cutting-edge anti-drone technology

S.Korea's top sci-tech school creates cutting-edge anti-drone technology

A research team at South Korea's top science and technology university has developed an anti-drone technology that can remotely neutralize a city-in...

S.Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical to export tech to British company

S.Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical to export tech to British company

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical has licensed a new drug candidate for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) to CS Pharmaceuticals (CSP) of the U...

Korea's credit card approval volume hit all-time high last year

Korea's credit card approval volume hit all-time high last year

The annual card approval amount in South Korea exceeded 1,000 trillion won ($811.4 billion) for the first time ever. This is largely because of "ret...

SGC Solutions expands overseas sales channels for its brand Glasslock

SGC Solutions expands overseas sales channels for its brand Glasslock

South Korea's glassware maker SGC Solutions said Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea Small & Medium Bu...

Samsung Display enjoys record profit on Apple iPhone 14

Samsung Display enjoys record profit on Apple iPhone 14

Samsung Display Co., South Korea’s top display maker, said its profit soared by a third to a record high as it supplied high-end products to A...

South Korea's Jeju Air to open up Indonesian skies

South Korea's Jeju Air to open up Indonesian skies

Jeju Air Co. and Indonesia's largest airline corporation will work together to develop flight routes and discover new tourism business opportunities...

Korea’s Hyundai Electric wins $86 mn transformer deal in US

Korea’s Hyundai Electric wins $86 mn transformer deal in US

Hyundai Electric & Energy Systems Co., a power equipment and energy solution affiliate of the world’s largest shipbuilding group holding c...

Korea Exchange seeks to extend derivatives trading hours

Korea Exchange seeks to extend derivatives trading hours

South Korea’s bourse operator is seeking to extend derivatives trading hours by opening the market 15 minutes earlier at 8:45 am and allow for...

Korea boosts energy cooperation with natural resource-rich W.Australia

Korea boosts energy cooperation with natural resource-rich W.Australia

South Korea has boosted its energy cooperation with Western Australia, the biggest of Australia's six states and packed with natural resources.Minis...

Companies prioritize sense of responsibility over skills when hiring staff: study

Companies prioritize sense of responsibility over skills when hiring staff: study

Two-thirds of South Korea's top 100 companies are looking for talented employees with a spirit of challenge and sense of responsibility, mainly beca...

Mobile Living Space: Hyundai’s new future mobility concept

Mobile Living Space: Hyundai’s new future mobility concept

A self-driving vehicle taking a passenger home and then docking into the building so that they can enter the house without being exposed to the outs...

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 nuclear power: Ample export opportunities ahead

Korea’s nuclear power: Ample export opportunities ahead

The recent energy crisis dealt a particularly hard blow to Europe given its heavy dependency on Russian gas. The world was once again awakened to th...

Korea's venture capital investment falls 12% last year amid downturn

Korea's venture capital investment falls 12% last year amid downturn

South Korea's venture capital investment last year fell more than 10% from a year ago due to the economic downturn caused by a series of global rate...

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...

Rice consumption in S.Korea hits record low in 2022

Rice consumption in S.Korea hits record low in 2022

Last year, per-person annual rice consumption in South Korea fell by half from 30 years ago, marking a record low.According to the results of the 20...

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...

KT&G refuses activist funds' call for ginseng biz spinoff

KT&G refuses activist funds' call for ginseng biz spinoff

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, on Thursday refused activist funds' requests to spin off and list its ginseng unit wh...

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...

S.Korea's Bespin Global launches all-in-one AIoT

S.Korea's Bespin Global launches all-in-one AIoT

South Korea's cloud solution provider Bespin Global said on Thursday that it would launch "IoTOps," a software as a service (SaaS)-based artificial ...

South Korea’s economic contraction deepens recession woes

South Korea’s economic contraction deepens recession woes

South Korea suffered its first economic contraction in two and half years due to sluggish exports and weak domestic demand during the fourth quarter...

S.Korea's BSI hits 30-month low amid poor business sentiment

S.Korea's BSI hits 30-month low amid poor business sentiment

The economic outlook by companies is worsening given lingering global uncertainty, with the business outlook for February at its lowest level in two...

Air Busan to offer 4 daily flights on Busan-Osaka route

Air Busan to offer 4 daily flights on  Busan-Osaka route

Starting Feb. 1, South Korea's budget carrier Air Busan Co. will add a daily flight to its route linking the nation's biggest port city of Busan to ...

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