S.Korean gov't to support domestic startups in Saudi Arabia entry

S.Korean gov't to support domestic startups in Saudi Arabia entry

South Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups held on Wednesday the "K-Deep Tech Startup Meetup" event at Startup Alliance & Space in Gangnam dist...

S.Korea’s five major companies form data network alliance

S.Korea’s five major companies form data network alliance

South Korea's five major companies have joined forces to make a combined data product that consolidates their respective information, ranging from c...

Korean battery players LG, Samsung, SK sweep US EV tax credits

Korean battery players LG, Samsung, SK sweep US EV tax credits

It has long been talked about and finally confirmed: South Korean battery companies are well-placed to benefit from the strengthened requirements of...

Innocean to cooperate domestic EV charging company for marketing

Innocean to cooperate domestic EV charging company for marketing

Innocean, a Hyundai Motor Group-affiliated advertising agency, announced on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with EV...

Curexo, Kyocera to enter Japan’s artificial joint surgery robot market

Curexo, Kyocera to enter Japan’s artificial joint surgery robot market

South Korea's medical robot company Curexo partnered with Kyocera Corporation to enter the Japanese market for artificial joint surgery robots.Curex...

HD Hyundai develops S.Korea's first offshore supply base for ammonia

HD Hyundai develops S.Korea's first offshore supply base for ammonia

HD Hyundai Co., the largest shipbuilding conglomerate in South Korea on Wednesday said it developed for the first time in the country a vessel for s...

AbClon shows promising results in clinical tests of leukemia treatment

AbClon shows promising results in clinical tests of leukemia treatment

South Korean companies are standing out in the global competition to develop chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) treatments, dubbed "dream" a...

China, India: Korean investors’ next stock investment targets

China, India: Korean investors’ next stock investment targets

The US stock market has long been the prime investment destination for South Korean investors, lured by the dynamics of the global top economy.With ...

GeneOne Life Science gets patent for coated microneedle tech in China

GeneOne Life Science gets patent for coated microneedle tech in China

South Korea’s biopharmaceutical company GeneOne Life Science Inc. on Tuesday said it received a patent from the China National Intellectual Pr...

Samsung SDI unveils super-gap battery tech aimed at Chinese market

Samsung SDI unveils super-gap battery tech aimed at Chinese market

South Korea's leading secondary battery maker Samsung SDI Co. is setting its sights on China's battery market with its super-gap solid-state battery...

Seoul Semiconductor's Sunlike LED is installed in Volvo's new EV

Seoul Semiconductor's Sunlike LED is installed in Volvo's new EV

Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd., a South Korean LED light manufacturer, announced on Tuesday that Volvo's new electric sports utility vehicle (SUV) EX9...

Daewoong Pharma, UK firm to jointly develop autoimmune disease drug

Daewoong Pharma, UK firm to jointly develop autoimmune disease drug

South Korean drugmaker Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. said on Tuesday that it has signed a cooperation agreement with Sygnature Discovery, a British ne...

SK Telecom enters next-generation broadcasting platform market in US

SK Telecom enters next-generation broadcasting platform market in US

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. said on Tuesday that it will sell a next-generation broadcast platform, utilizing mobile edge computing (MEC) technolog...

MBK Partners co-founder tops 50 richest S.Koreans: Forbes

MBK Partners co-founder tops 50 richest S.Koreans: Forbes

Michael ByungJu Kim, co-founder and partner at private equity firm MBK Partners, has topped the ranking of the 50 richest South Koreans by net worth...

LG Electronics supports ESG certification for overseas suppliers

LG Electronics supports ESG certification for overseas suppliers

LG Electronics Inc. is accelerating its support for enhancing the environmental, social and governance (ESG) capabilities of domestic and overseas p...

High- and low-income S.Koreans alike reluctant to have babies: Survey

High- and low-income S.Koreans alike reluctant to have babies: Survey

South Koreans in low- and high-income brackets alike are unwilling to have children due to either insufficient time or money, found a recent survey ...

Korean banks’ profits hamstrung by tighter rules, consumer behavior

Korean banks’ profits hamstrung by tighter rules, consumer behavior

South Korea’s commercial banks usually post decent earnings driven by high interest income when the country’s policy interest rates are ...

S.Korean fashion company LF relaunches 1990s-popular line Tipicosi

S.Korean fashion company LF relaunches 1990s-popular line Tipicosi

Tipicosi, a South Korean fashion brand popular in the 1990s, has seen a resurrection thanks to the domestic craze for "newtro," a trend combining th...

S.Korea’s character Baby Shark stars with Sesame Street’s Elmo

S.Korea’s character Baby Shark stars with Sesame Street’s Elmo

Baby Shark, the popular children’s character from South Korea’s family entertainment company Pinkfong, and Elmo, the famous red monster ...

Orion’s Turtle Chips launches in Vietnam, India

Orion’s Turtle Chips launches in Vietnam, India

South Korea's confectionary giant Orion Corp. is launching its popular snack "Kkobuk Chip" in Vietnam and India. Orion announced on Monday that it h...

Krafton, Naver Z to establish metaverse joint company

Krafton, Naver Z to establish metaverse joint company

Krafton Inc., a leading game developer in South Korea, is establishing a joint company for a metaverse platform business with Naver Z Corp., a metav...

Korail wins $13 million consulting project for Philippines' railway

Korail wins $13 million consulting project for Philippines' railway

South Korea's state-run railway company Korea Railroad Corporation (Korail), announced on Monday that it has secured a consulting contract to manage...

SK Telecom, Singaporean company collaborate on virtual production

SK Telecom, Singaporean company collaborate on virtual production

SK Telecom Co. announced on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Xon Studios and Singapore's virtual production specia...

Chairman of Polish defense company PGZ visits S.Korea

Chairman of Polish defense company PGZ visits S.Korea

Sebastian Chwalek, the chairman of Poland's state-owned defense industry company PGZ, is reportedly meeting with domestic Korean companies regarding...

POSTECH hits jackpot with stakes in POSCO companies on battery boom

POSTECH hits jackpot with stakes in POSCO companies on battery boom

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), set up by South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Group in 1986 as a research university in the...

S.Korea's Celltrion Healthcare launches Vegzelma in US

S.Korea's Celltrion Healthcare launches Vegzelma in US

South Korea's Celltrion Healthcare Co. on Monday said it launched on the US market Vegzelma, a biosimilar of Bevacizumab, a medication for colorecta...

S.Korea to dispatch key minerals investigation teams to Chile, Argentina

S.Korea to dispatch key minerals investigation teams to Chile, Argentina

South Korean government will dispatch a public-private partnership key minerals business survey team to Chile and Argentina to revitalize overseas r...

LS Electric to display smart energy solutions in Germany

LS Electric to display smart energy solutions in Germany

LS Electric Co., South Korean manufacturer of power and industrial automation equipment, announced on Monday that it will participate in the Hannove...

Hyundai, Kia surpass 100,000 global EV sales in Q1

Hyundai, Kia surpass 100,000 global EV sales in Q1

Hyundai Motor Group's electric vehicle (EV) sales have exceeded 100,000 units in the first quarter of this year, driven by the strong sales of its f...

Korea’s homegrown OTT Watcha at crossroads amid dearth of cash

Korea’s homegrown OTT Watcha at crossroads amid dearth of cash

South Korea’s homegrown over-the-top (OTT) platform Watcha Inc. is struggling to raise funds as it faces an uphill battle to win over customer...

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