Nvidia invests in Korean generative AI startup Twelve Labs

Nvidia invests in Korean generative AI startup Twelve Labs

Nvidia Corp., a global chip designer, made its first investment in a South Korean generative artificial intelligence startup as Big Tech companies G...

HD Hyundai President Chung to deliver keynote at CES 2024

HD Hyundai President Chung to deliver keynote at CES 2024

South Korea's No. 1 shipbuilding group’s heir apparent Chung Ki-sun will deliver a keynote speech at the world’s biggest consumer techno...

LG Innotek detects design flaws using AI tech

LG Innotek detects design flaws using AI tech

South Korean electronic parts manufacturer LG Innotek announced on Tuesday it has implemented an artificial intelligence (AI) analysis system to qui...

Samsung Biologics partners with Europe's largest VC

Samsung Biologics partners with Europe's largest VC

Samsung Biologics Co., the world's largest contract drug manufacturer, announced on Tuesday it has teamed up with global biotech venture capitalist ...

Mobile carrier LG Uplus makes inroads into EV charger market

Mobile carrier LG Uplus makes inroads into EV charger market

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s mobile and broadband service provider, has released the prototype of its first electric vehicle charger to make ...

KG Mobility to develop Level 3 autonomous driving system

KG Mobility to develop Level 3 autonomous driving system

South Korea's KG Mobility Corp. announced on Tuesday it partnered with domestic autonomous self-driving software firm Autonomous a2z. The two c...

VaxCell-Bio applies for approval of anti-cancer drug for dogs

VaxCell-Bio applies for approval of anti-cancer drug for dogs

South Korea’s VaxCell Biotherapeutics Co. (VaxCell-Bio) on Tuesday announced its application for approval for Vaxleukin-15, an anti-cancer dru...

LG CNS starts corporate knowledge management service

LG CNS starts corporate knowledge management service

South Korean information and communications technology service provider LG CNS has launched a service for finding useful knowledge and data within a...

Tous Les Jours opens first store in Canada

Tous Les Jours opens first store in Canada

CJ Foodville, the food subsidiary of South Korea's CJ Group, announced on Tuesday its bakery chain brand Tous Les Jours has opened its first store i...

Naver secures $100 mn digital twin project in Saudi Arabia

Naver secures $100 mn digital twin project in Saudi Arabia

South Korea's dominant web portal giant Naver Corp. has won a contract to develop a Digital Twin platform for Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Municipal a...

Hanmi Pharma’s Phase 3 trials for anti-obesity medicine approved

Hanmi Pharma’s Phase 3 trials for anti-obesity medicine approved

South Korea’s Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. on Monday said the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety approved Phase 3 clinical trials for the company&...

SK Telecom, Mars Auto to advance self-driving large trucks

SK Telecom, Mars Auto to advance self-driving large trucks

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Monday with the autonomous driving startup Mars Auto for cooperation in t...

Celltrion gets FDA approval for Remsima SC

Celltrion gets FDA approval for Remsima SC

South Korea's Celltrion Inc. announced on Monday it received a new drug approval for an autoimmune disease treatment Remsima SC (active ingredient i...

Paris Baguette to enter Middle Eastern halal market

Paris Baguette to enter Middle Eastern halal market

Paris Baguette, the bakery franchise owned by South Korea's SPC Group, said on Monday it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with UAE-b...

Lotte, two SK Group units to join hands for carbon capture

Lotte, two SK Group units to join hands for carbon capture

Lotte Chemical Corp., SK Innovation Co. and SK IE Technology Co. (SK IET) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to make their joint push i...

Curocell to localize blood cancer drug by 2025

Curocell to localize blood cancer drug by 2025

South Korean biotech company Curocell Inc. on Sunday said it will apply for approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in September next yea...

SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom to design LLM

SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom to design LLM

SK Telecom Co. on Sunday said it will develop a large language model (LLM) specifically for the communications sector with Deutsche Telekom of Germa...

S.Korean game developer Smilegate, angel of local startups

S.Korean game developer Smilegate, angel of local startups

Smilegate, South Korean developer of the world’s top first-person shooter game Crossfire, is raising investments in domestic startups despite ...

Samsung showcases HBM3E DRAM, automotive chips

Samsung showcases HBM3E DRAM, automotive chips

SILICON VALLEY -- Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday showcased a number of new-concept, next-generation DRAM chips, including the industry’s mo...

China’s graphite export curbs deal blow to Korean battery sector

China’s graphite export curbs deal blow to Korean battery sector

South Korean electric vehicle battery and battery component makers are fretting over the Chinese government’s impending restrictions on export...

Samyang Foods launches TomYum Buldak Ramen in US

Samyang Foods launches TomYum Buldak Ramen in US

South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. announced on Friday it began to release the new export-exclusive product of Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen, or Buldak Rame...

Hyundai partners with University of London for African market strategy

Hyundai partners with University of London for African market strategy

Hyundai Motor Group announced on Friday its plan to establish two research centers in conjunction with the University of London (UoL) to delve int...

Koreans work longer hours than OECD average? Not in some sectors

Koreans work longer hours than OECD average? Not in some sectors

South Korea has had notoriously long working hours for decades.Long hours – alongside high levels of education and an increase of women in the...

Lotte Duty Free focuses energy on stores in Seoul

Lotte Duty Free focuses energy on stores in Seoul

South Korea’s Lotte Duty Free, which removed its stores from Incheon International Airport in late June, is channeling its energy toward boost...

Samsung Lee's urges to keep ‘super gap’ in semiconductor technology

Samsung Lee's urges to keep ‘super gap’ in semiconductor technology

Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee on Thursday visited the construction site of the global memory chip giant’s new semiconductor rese...

SK Chemicals develops recycled plastic LP records

SK Chemicals develops recycled plastic LP records

South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. unveils recycled plastic LP records.The company announced on Thursday it has jointly developed the EcoRecord, an LP r...

HD Hyundai Infracore to develop truck battery packs

HD Hyundai Infracore to develop truck battery packs

South Korea's HD Hyundai Infracore Co. plans to enter the electric commercial vehicle market through the development of truck batteries.The company ...

S.Korean VCs go global for breakthrough

S.Korean VCs go global for breakthrough

South Korean venture capitalists are actively discovering attractive investment assets overseas to find a breakthrough amid a prolonged local VC dro...

POSCO completes automotive steel plates plant in China

POSCO completes automotive steel plates plant in China

South Korea’s POSCO announced on Thursday it completed the new plant for automotive steel plates in Tangshan, Hebei province, China.As a joi...

Hyundai Motor muscles into online used car market

Hyundai Motor muscles into online used car market

Hyundai Motor Co. is slated to start selling certified used cars online from Oct. 24, three years after its announcement to enter the 30 trillion wo...

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