Hyundai’s Chung: 1st Korean awarded top UK Order from King Charles

Hyundai’s Chung: 1st Korean awarded top UK Order from King Charles

Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun has been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for promoting economic and cultural co...

SK Geo breaks ground on $1.4 bn plastic recycling cluster

SK Geo breaks ground on $1.4 bn plastic recycling cluster

South Korea’s SK Geo Centric Co. on Wednesday broke ground on a waste plastic recycling complex to transform itself into a green petrochemical...

Upstage to develop math-specific LLM with Qanda

Upstage to develop math-specific LLM with Qanda

South Korean artificial intelligence tech startup Upstage will challenge global math solver AIs such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Ph...

South Korean bio, pharma industry set to take leap

South Korean bio, pharma industry set to take leap

South Korea’s chemical maker LG Chem Ltd. is expected to reap more than 1 trillion won ($768.5 million) in sales this year from its new growth...

Samsung bags $1 bn via ASML share sale for chip production

Samsung bags $1 bn via ASML share sale for chip production

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has divested a 0.3% stake in Dutch chip equipment manufacturer ASML Holdings N....

SK Ecoplant develops core battery recycling technologies

SK Ecoplant develops core battery recycling technologies

South Korea’s SK Ecoplant Co. has developed four core battery-recycling technologies, including recovering nickel and cobalt from spent lithiu...

Korean battery makers’ broad restructuring hits US

Korean battery makers’ broad restructuring hits US

SK On Co., South Korea’s No. 3 battery maker, has decided to furlough employees at one of its US battery factories in the state of Georgia to ...

SK, Hyundai Motor's US JV, named Georgia's Deal of Year

SK, Hyundai Motor's US JV, named Georgia's Deal of Year

South Korea’s battery maker SK On and Hyundai Motor Group's joint battery project in Georgia, the US, was awarded the "Deal of the Year 2023 i...

Disgruntled investors accuse Fadu of blowing smoke

Disgruntled investors accuse Fadu of blowing smoke

Fadu Inc., the first unicorn in the South Korean semiconductor sector, which had a triumphant market debut three months ago, is facing the backlash ...

S.Korean webcomics inspire foreign screen adaptations

S.Korean webcomics inspire foreign screen adaptations

South Korea’s digital comics are reaching beyond borders with a boom of their adaptations into foreign movies and TV series thanks to glo...

P&O Chemicals completes pitch plant for cathode materials

P&O Chemicals completes pitch plant for cathode materials

South Korea's P&O Chemical, a joint venture of POSCO Future M Co. and OCI Holdings Co. completed the pitch plant in Tancheon Industrial Complex,...

PUBG’s glorious comeback in India boon to Krafton

PUBG’s glorious comeback in India boon to Krafton

South Korea’s game developing and publishing giant Krafton Inc. boasted the local gaming industry’s highest operating margin, above 40%,...

LG Energy, Ford’s battery JV in Turkey scrapped as EV uptake slows

LG Energy, Ford’s battery JV in Turkey scrapped as EV uptake slows

A planned battery manufacturing joint venture between South Korea’s top battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd., US carmaker Ford Motor Co. and ...

Mom's Touch Tokyo pop-up store visitors exceed 30,000

Mom's Touch Tokyo pop-up store visitors exceed 30,000

South Korean homegrown burger and chicken brand Mom's Touch & Co. announced on Friday its pop-up store in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan successfully con...

Polestar 4 EV to be built at Renault’s Korean plant from 2025

Polestar 4 EV to be built at Renault’s Korean plant from 2025

Swedish electric vehicle maker Polestar will build its upcoming Polestar 4 SUV coupe at Renault Group’s manufacturing plant in South Korea fro...

Hanwha Systems to develop extra-large UUV platform technology

Hanwha Systems to develop extra-large UUV platform technology

Hanwha Systems Co., the defense and air mobility unit of Hanwha Group, will develop technology that will pave the way for the development of Korea-m...

SK Biopharma’s Cenobamate US patent extended by 2032

SK Biopharma’s Cenobamate US patent extended by 2032

South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals announced on Friday an extension of its US patent for the epilepsy treatment Cenobamate, now set to expire on Oc...

Hyundai Motor's K-UAM One Team collaborates with Incheon

Hyundai Motor's K-UAM One Team collaborates with Incheon

The "K-UAM One Team," an urban air mobility (UAM) consortium consisting of five companies, including Hyundai Motor, has announced that it signed a m...

Kakao bets on AI bot for breakthrough

Kakao bets on AI bot for breakthrough

Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant chat app KakaoTalk, will seek a breakthrough with an artificial intelligence-powered bot a...

South Koreans, frugal at home, open wallets abroad

South Koreans, frugal at home, open wallets abroad

Consumer spending in South Korea has been on the decline this year amid few signs of a near-term recovery. But when it comes to overseas spending, i...

KDI cuts Korea growth forecasts, ups inflation predictions

KDI cuts Korea growth forecasts, ups inflation predictions

A South Korean government think tank has cut its growth forecast in Asia’s fourth-largest economy for this year and next but raised inflation ...

Barings taps John Park as S.Korean asset management head

Barings taps John Park as S.Korean asset management head

Barings LLC has appointed Chong Hak (John) Park as head and sole representative director of its South Korean asset management arm, effective Jan. 1,...

VCs give thumbs up to EV, parts/materials, travel tech

VCs give thumbs up to EV, parts/materials, travel tech

The venture capital funding crunch has continued through this year in South Korea but VCs have raised their stakes in select companies in the electr...

Korean AI startups Allganize, Neurophet raise over $35 mn

Korean AI startups Allganize, Neurophet raise over $35 mn

South Korea’s artificial intelligence technology startups Allganize Inc. and Neurophet Inc. raised about 47 billion won ($35 million) in total...

Hyundai's Supernal plans to build flying taxi plant in US

Hyundai's Supernal plans to build flying taxi plant in US

Hyundai Motor Group plans to build a flying electric taxi plant in the US as the South Korean automotive group aims to bring flying cars to the mark...

POSCO Holdings to secure lithium from oil-field brine in Canada

POSCO Holdings to secure lithium from oil-field brine in Canada

South Korea's POSCO Holdings Inc. announced on Wednesday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Invest Alberta Corporation (IAC) in Seou...

Coupang on track to post first-ever annual profit in 2023

Coupang on track to post first-ever annual profit in 2023

South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. on Tuesday reported $87 million in operating profit in the third quarter, its third consecutive quarterly...

Mirae Asset hit by ex-asset manager's misconduct

Mirae Asset hit by ex-asset manager's misconduct

Mirae Asset Securities Co., South Korea’s largest brokerage firm, found in June that a senior manager at its alternative investment division h...

LX International to buy Indonesia's PT AKP for nickel mining

LX International to buy Indonesia's PT AKP for nickel mining

LX International Corp., the trading unit of South Korea’s LX Group, said on Tuesday it is slated to acquire a 60% stake in Indonesian miner PT...

Korean shipyards to beat Chinese rivals with green tankers

Korean shipyards to beat Chinese rivals with green tankers

South Korean dockyards aim to expand their presence in the global tanker market dominated by Chinese players with vessels designed to transport or s...

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